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MBS and MBZ Two Power Trajectories a Silent Recomposition of the Middle East
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The relationship between Mohammed bin Salman and Mohammed bin Zayed has quietly but decisively entered a new phase marked by real lasting tension rather than tactical disagreement. What is unfolding…
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Brigitte Bardot—the French screen legend whose early stardom helped define a new era of European cinema, and whose later life became inseparable from animal-rights campaigning—has died aged 91. She passed…
America
The United States launched a large-scale military strike against Venezuela early Saturday morning, resulting in the capture of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, according to an announcement by President…
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As Brussels expands its network of supervised drug consumption rooms—known euphemistically as "safe injection sites"—the city risks entrenching a failed policy that prioritizes harm management over true recovery, mirroring disastrous…
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Across the continent, one holiday carries many languages, calendars, and meanings. From candlelit church services to winter swims and family feasts that stretch into early January, Christmas in Europe is…
ECHR
A Rigorous Examination of How Modern Legal Systems Protect Religious Conscience in Life-or-Death Medical Decisions In a comprehensive analysis recently published in Religions, University of Seville legal scholar Mar Leal-Adorna has…
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Another 126 believers continue to serve real prison terms. Sergey Melnik, 53, a Jehovah's Witness from Volgograd, spent more than four years and nine months in prison. His sentence for his faith ended on…
Africa
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has joined a growing international campaign to free French journalist Christophe Gleizes, after an Algerian appeals court confirmed a seven-year prison…
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At a two-day conference on “Artificial Intelligence and Justice”, held at Spain’s Supreme Court and organised by the Asociación de Letrados del Tribunal Supremo (ALTS), Judge Manuel Marchena warned that…
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The European Commission’s Code of Good Administrative Behaviour legally binds EU officials to act lawfully, impartially and without discrimination. Yet religious and belief minorities report that daily administrative practices do…
