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Putin can no longer hide the war’s consequences from the Russian public

From elsewhere — Tue, 12 May 2026 01:21:14 +0000

Anne Applebaum writes: Four years ago, President Vladimir Putin offered Moscow and its business elite a de facto deal: Support my war in Ukraine, and in exchange you won’t have to think about it. In the past week, that deal was broken. Not that Moscow was ever fully immune: As long ago as May 3, 2023, the first two Ukrainian drones to reach Moscow exploded over the Kremlin, doing no damage but revealing that the capital’s air defenses weren’t as...

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UAE has been secretly carrying out attacks on Iran

From elsewhere — Tue, 12 May 2026 01:21:01 +0000

The Wall Street Journal reports: The United Arab Emirates has carried out military strikes on Iran, people familiar with the matter said, casting the Gulf monarchy as an active combatant in a war in which it has been Iran’s biggest target. Its military is well-equipped with Western-made jet fighters and surveillance networks. And the attacks suggest the country is now more willing to use them to protect its economic power and growing influence across the Middle East. The strikes, which...

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The silence that meets the rape of Palestinians by Israelis

From elsewhere — Tue, 12 May 2026 01:20:43 +0000

Nicholas Kristof writes: It’s a simple proposition: Whatever our views of the Middle East conflict, we should be able to unite in condemning rape. Supporters of Israel made that point after the brutal sexual assaults against Israeli women during the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Benjamin Netanyahu and many U.S. senators, including Marco Rubio, condemned that sexual violence, and Netanyahu rightly called on “all civilized leaders” to “speak up.” And yet in wrenching...

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Virginia officials ask Supreme Court to restore voting map drawn by Democrats

From elsewhere — Tue, 12 May 2026 01:20:29 +0000

The New York Times reports: Democratic leaders in Virginia asked the Supreme Court on Monday to allow the state to use a congressional map drawn by Democrats and approved by voters in a referendum in April. In an emergency application, the state’s attorney general and other officials urged the justices to overturn a decision by the Virginia Supreme Court, which ruled last week that the redistricting process had violated the state’s Constitution, a major setback for Democrats in a fierce...

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Starmer: More than 60 Labour MPs call for PM to resign

From elsewhere — Tue, 12 May 2026 01:20:16 +0000

Polly Toynbee writes: Calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe: the lexicon ran out of words for Labour’s plight. Keir Starmer’s career-saving “reset” needed to be monumental. It was … OK-ish. But it didn’t dispel the sense of a country with no overall control. As ever, his tacking neither right or left, as he wrote in the Guardian, sends many Labour people into paroxysms of despair, when last week it lost most votes leftwards. Britain at the heart of Europe was absolutely the...

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U.S. intelligence-gathering flights are surging off Cuba

From elsewhere — Tue, 12 May 2026 01:20:03 +0000

CNN reports: US military intelligence-gathering flights are surging off the coast of Cuba, a CNN analysis of publicly available aviation data shows. Since February 4, the US Navy and Air Force have conducted at least 25 such flights using manned aircraft and drones, most of them near the country’s two biggest cities, Havana and Santiago de Cuba, and some coming within 40 miles of the coast, according to FlightRadar24. Most of the flights were by P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft,...

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The oldest river in the world ran through Pangea

From elsewhere — Tue, 12 May 2026 01:19:49 +0000

ZME Science reports: Rivers are poor archivists of their own past. They don’t sit still like fossils, or record a single birthdate like volcanic rock. Instead, they wander across floodplains, cut into rock and often move around or even abandon their channels. A river can spend millions of years destroying the very evidence that would prove how long it’s been there. That makes the question of the world’s oldest river surprisingly difficult. When geologists ask which river is the oldest...

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Music: Purbayan Chatterjee & Mark Lettieri — ‘Soar’

From elsewhere — Tue, 12 May 2026 01:19:29 +0000

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The U.S. can’t reverse or control the consequences of losing the war against Iran

From elsewhere — Mon, 11 May 2026 00:07:47 +0000

Robert Kagan writes: It’s hard to think of a time when the United States suffered a total defeat in a conflict, a setback so decisive that the strategic loss could be neither repaired nor ignored. The calamitous losses suffered at Pearl Harbor, the Philippines, and throughout the Western Pacific in the first months of World War II were eventually reversed. The defeats in Vietnam and Afghanistan were costly but did not do lasting damage to America’s overall position in the...

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Israel built and defended a secret Iran war base in Iraq

From elsewhere — Mon, 11 May 2026 00:07:31 +0000

The Wall Street Journal reports: Israel set up a clandestine military outpost in the Iraqi desert to support its air campaign against Iran and launched airstrikes against Iraqi troops who almost discovered it early in the war, people familiar with the matter including U.S. officials said. Israel built the installation, which housed special forces and served as a logistical hub for the Israeli air force, just before the war started with the knowledge of the U.S., the people said. Search-and-rescue...

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