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Kurdistan Region set to hold long-delayed parliamentary election

Voice of America 

Washington — The semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq on Wednesday officially began a campaign phase for its parliamentary elections scheduled for October 20.  The vote, which was rescheduled five times due to political disagreements over the election system, comes at a time when the region is still suffering from a financial crisis related to disagreements with the Iraqi government.  “Everyone is free to propagate their policies and programs, to criticize, but no one must allow themselves... Читать дальше...

Dark matter could have slight interaction with regular matter, study suggests

Phys.org 

The reason we call dark matter dark isn't that it's some shadowy material. It's because dark matter doesn't interact with light. The difference is subtle, but important. Regular matter can be dark because it absorbs light. It's why, for example, we can see the shadow of molecular clouds against the scattered stars of the Milky Way. This is possible because light and matter have a way to connect.

GoodFellows: Pagers, Zelensky, and Boomers

Real Clear World 

Hoover Institution

Hot-wiring pagers and walkie-talkies to take out Hezbollah operatives: Was Israel's tactic—like something from an Ian Fleming novel—a justifiable act of national...

The Real Scale of Border Insecurity

Real Clear World 

James Agresti, Just the Facts

For more than half a century, the number of immigrants apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol at the Southwest border has served as a rough proxy for illegal...

Back to the Future: Mexico Reforms Its Constitution

Real Clear World 

Richard Sanders, TNI

AMLO's twilight rush for constitutional reforms before his successor's inauguration indicates his desire to rebuild Mexico's one-party state, even while out of...

Israel Proves UN Is a Powerless Organization

Real Clear World 

Mark Seddon, UnHerd

My old boss Ban Ki-moon, former secretary-general of the United Nations, was fond of remarking to anyone who would listen: "SG also stands for scapegoat." That's because...

Netanyahu's War to End All Wars

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Daniel Williams, Asia Times

Israel poised to open two-front war with Hezbollah that will draw in the US in a far more substantive way than Gaza