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Washington 26 February 2026 #1

Washington 26 February 2026 #1 nrafati Thu, 02/26/2026 – 21:52 Washington Thu, 02/26/2026 – 12:00 26 February 2026 U.S. and Iranian negotiators convened in Geneva, with Oman’s foreign minister initially reporting the exchange of “creative and positive ideas”, and later “significant progress in the negotiation”. He added that “discussions on a technical level will take […]

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Tehran 26 February 2026

Tehran 26 February 2026 nrafati Thu, 02/26/2026 – 21:54 Tehran Thu, 02/26/2026 – 12:00 26 February 2026 U.S. and Iranian negotiators convened in Geneva, with Oman’s foreign minister initially reporting the exchange of “creative and positive ideas”, and later “significant progress in the negotiation”. He added that “discussions on a technical level will take place […]

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Battery passport plan aims to clean up the industry powering clean energy

For millions of consumers, the sustainability scheme stickers found on everything from bananas to chocolate bars and wooden furniture are a way to choose products that are greener and more ethical than some of the alternatives. Inga Petersen, executive director of the Global Battery Alliance (GBA), is on a mission to create a similar scheme […]

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Trump’s Selective War on Censorship

Click to expand Image People using their cellphones while in transit, September 2023. © 2023 Francis Joseph Dean/Dean Pictures/Reuters The Trump administration is framing its new forthcoming online portal, freedom.gov, as a bold defense of free expression. According to Reuters, the goal is to help users bypass European content restrictions and “counter censorship” in Europe and […]

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Unknown Fate for Uyghurs Deported from Thailand to China

Click to expand Image Thai officials outside the immigration detention center at the Immigration Bureau in Bangkok, February 27, 2025. © 2025 Narong Sangnak/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Last February, Thai authorities in Bangkok loaded 40 Uyghur men into blacked-out trucks and forcibly returned them to China. Their fates remain unknown. The men had spent over a decade in Thai immigration […]