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Pacific Leaders Rebuke Beijing Over Its Missile Test — and Expose the Cracks Beijing Has Opened

The 2026 Pacific Islands Forum leaders' meeting ended in Palau on Friday with something the region's diplomats had spent nearly two months trying and failing to produce: a collective statement, in the leaders' own communiqué, criticising China over a ballistic missile it fired across the Pacific in July. It was a modest paragraph in a long…
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Sjamboks on Che Guevara Road: A Durban Raid Puts South Africa's Migration Politics on the November Ballot

DURBAN

About 100 members of the anti-migrant movement March and March walked from King Dinuzulu Park to a strip of pavement outside the Department of Home Affairs refugee office on Thursday and began carrying refugees' belongings into the road. By the time police had emptied the street with stun grenades, tear…
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UN Investigators Map the Foreign Supply Chain Behind Sudan's War — and Ask the Security Council to Cut It

GENEVA/PORT SUDAN

United Nations investigators have published the most detailed account yet of how foreign money, foreign weapons and foreign fighters are keeping Sudan's war running, naming the countries whose territory and companies sit along the chain and calling on the Security Council to extend an…
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A Missing Broadcaster and a Failed Mutiny: Niger's Junta Turns Its Guns Inward

NIAMEY

Reporters Without Borders demanded an immediate investigation this week into the disappearance of Moussa Kaka, one of Niger's best-known journalists, who left his office in the capital on Monday evening and never reached home. Six days earlier, soldiers from Niger's own army had attacked the…
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Sixty Days From the Midterms, Washington Misses Its Own Deadline for an Unprecedented List of American Citizens

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Friday, 4 September, was supposed to be the day the United States federal government did something it has never done in its history: hand every state a list of the people Washington believes are American citizens old enough to vote. The deadline came from President Trump's own executive order,…
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Ruto Orders Tata Chemicals Out of Kenya, Turning a Century-Old Soda Ash Plant Into a 2027 Battleground

KAJIADO, Kenya 

President William Ruto told a rally in Kajiado County on Thursday that he has ordered Tata Chemicals Magadi, the Indian-owned soda ash producer that has worked the shores of Lake Magadi for more than a century, to leave the country, and that a replacement investor has already been lined up on…