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A Firing Squad on Livestream: The Pentagon's Plan to Broadcast the Execution of the Fort Hood Shooter

 World Politics  

Background

On November 5, 2009, Army psychiatrist Major Nidal Malik Hasan walked into a soldier readiness processing center at Fort Hood, Texas, and opened fire on troops preparing to deploy. Thirteen people were killed and 32 were wounded, making it the…

South Africa Retreats on Asylum Directive After Anti-Migrant Riots, Setting Court Ruling Against Election-Season Anger

PRETORIA, South Africa 

Eleven days after South Africa's Home Affairs Department told refugee reception offices to start accepting asylum applications that might previously have been turned away, the government has withdrawn the order, defended the retreat as consistent with the law and promised the…

Ethiopian Forces Sweep Across Tigray as Rift With Eritrea Raises the Specter of a Wider War

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia 

In ten days, Ethiopia's federal army and its allied militias have taken Tigray's regional capital, Mekelle, pushed north through Adigrat and entered Adwa, a town about 40 kilometers (24 miles) from the Eritrean border. The advance, which began after an armed alliance that includes the…

"We Will Not Tolerate These Threats on Our Soil": Britain Blames Iran's IRGC for the RAF Fairford Plot and Rallies 29 Nations

World Politics 

Overview

On Monday, October 12, British Prime Minister Andy Burnham told Parliament that a suspected plot against RAF Fairford, the Gloucestershire air base used by American bombers, was highly likely coordinated in Iran and almost certainly directed by the Islamic…

Kabila Launches Rebel-Allied "Refoundation Front" in Goma, Pulling Congo's Former President Into the War He Long Denied Joining

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo 

Joseph Kabila, who governed the Democratic Republic of Congo for 18 years, on Monday took the leadership of a new politico-military movement based in rebel-held Goma, an act that turns a long-running suspicion into a declared political fact. The Front pour la refondation…

One Week to Decide: Alberta Votes on Whether to Open the Road to Separation as Carney Makes a Personal Plea

World Politics 

Overview

Canada is seven days from one of the most consequential votes in its modern federal history. On October 19, 2026, Albertans will answer a ballot question, one of ten put to voters that day, asking whether the province should remain a part of Canada or whether…