Workers laboring in Vaca Muerta. Although oil has allowed Argentina to become a net exporter, this has not improved living conditions in the province of Neuquén, where most of it is located. Credit: Martin Álvarez Mullaly / Opsur by Daniel Gutman (buenos aires) Wednesday, March 19, 2025 Inter Press Service BUENOS AIRES, Mar 19 (IPS) – For about three years now, …
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Emboldened by Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu is intensifying the war. There’s been widespread international condemnation of Israel’s renewed bombing of Gaza, including from the United Nations. But the United States was the only country on the 15-member UN Security Council to back Israel’s air strikes at a meeting on Tuesday. Emboldened by US President Donald Trump’s support, Israeli Prime Minister …
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Getty Images US President Donald Trump has held what he described as a “very good” hour-long phone call with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky, a day after speaking to Russia’s President Vladimir Putin. Writing on his social media platform Truth Social, Trump said the call was aimed at aligning Ukraine and Russia “in terms of their requests and needs”, adding …
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In a propaganda video released by the government of El Salvador, shackled detainees are forcefully led off planes as drones film overhead. The music builds and the men are pushed into armored vehicles and taken to a large prison. Their heads are shaved and they are moved in organized lines into large cells — all while the camera rolls. The …
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The Israeli defence minister has said his country will start urging Palestinians to evacuate from Gaza combat zones soon, warning that Israel is preparing to step up its new offensive. In a statement, Israel Katz warned that if hostages held in Gaza by Hamas are not freed, “Israel will act with an intensity that you have not seen”. The comments …
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Russia and Ukraine are trading blame for continued air attacks on civilian targets in Ukrainian regions Sumy and Donetsk and on energy targets in Russia’s Krasnodar since Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to a 30-day halt on attacks on energy infrastructure targets in Ukraine following a phone call with United States President Donald Trump on Tuesday.
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An invasion by a neighbor with territorial ambitions. A wanton disregard of international law. A potential deal with Trump over critical minerals. No, this is not Ukraine—we are describing the tragic events in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In 2021, Rwanda backed a rebellion in the Congo, the fifth time it has done so in the past 30 years. …
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Republican lawmakers in Minnesota have introduced a bill that seeks to add TDS to the state’s definition of a psychiatric disorder Republican lawmakers in Minnesota have introduced a bill seeking to amend state law to classify ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ (TDS) as a mental disorder. The proposal defines TDS as a condition affecting individuals who react irrationally to US President Donald …
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Opinion by Ben Phillips (bangkok, thailand) Wednesday, March 19, 2025 Inter Press Service BANGKOK, Thailand, Mar 19 (IPS) – “The fundamental weakness is empathy,” Musk recently told radio podcast host Joe Rogan. “There is a bug, which is the empathy response.” As Musk has established himself as at least the second most powerful person in an administration seeking a wholesale remaking …
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