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Italy’s ruling party proposes nationwide ban on Islamic face veils and tighter controls on mosque funding
ROME (Realist English). Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s ruling party has introduced a draft law that would ban face coverings...
Read moreWHO warns of ‘new wave of nicotine addiction’ as 15 million children use e-cigarettes
GENEVA (Realist English). The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that the rapid spread of e-cigarettes and nicotine pouches is...
Read moreYouTube creators are reshaping Hollywood’s landscape from Burbank
BURBANK (Realist English). Inside a white house on a quiet street in this Los Angeles suburb, YouTuber Michelle Khare studies...
Read moreSarah Mullally appointed as first female Archbishop of Canterbury
CANTERBURY (Realist English). The Church of England has appointed Sarah Mullally as the next Archbishop of Canterbury — the first...
Read moreXi Jinping calls for stricter legal control over religion in China
BEIJING (Realist English). President Xi Jinping has called for stronger legislation and tighter law enforcement governing religion, underscoring the Communist...
Read moreSaudi Arabia’s top cleric dies as crown prince reshapes Islam
RIYADH (Realist English). When Sheikh Abdulaziz al-Alsheikh, Saudi Arabia’s grand mufti, was asked in 2017 about the kingdom’s plan to...
Read moreGlobal optimism declines sharply amid rising geopolitical and social tensions, Ipsos report shows
LONDON (Realist English). Public optimism has taken a marked downturn in 2025, with just 59% of citizens worldwide saying they...
Read moreUK experts warn of child-on-child sexual abuse crisis
LONDON (Realist English). Child protection experts have warned that the United Kingdom is facing a “crisis” of children sexually abusing...
Read moreManga meets politics: ‘One Piece’ emblem rallies global protests
KATHMANDU (Realist English). When Nepal’s historic Singha Durbar palace caught fire last week, protesters draped its golden gates with a...
Read moreUS researcher completes 100-day underwater mission in Florida lagoon
KEY LARGO (Realist English). U.S. biomedical researcher and former naval diver Joseph Dituri has completed a 100-day underwater stay in...
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Sheaito Moussallam: Iran is the main obstacle to Greater Israel
BEIRUT (Realist English). The Middle East today is an echo of exploding bombs, diplomatic dead ends, and dozens of contradictory interpretations...
‘Capitalism is facing a crisis of legitimacy’: Larry Fink on inequality, AI and the evolution of markets
NEW YORK (Realist English). Larry Fink, founder and CEO of BlackRock, the world's largest investment company with $14 trillion in assets...
Maria Nikiforova: Young people of the liberated territories are waiting for peace and justice
MOSCOW (Realist English). Maria Nikiforova, an expert on youth policy at the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian...
155 billionaires vs. 150 million people: Zyuganov on the social catastrophe in Russia
MOSCOW (Realist English). Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov presented the pre-election program "Victory...
UAE boosts production bypassing OPEC, but oil prices rise
MOSCOW (Realist English). Leading researcher at IMEMO RAS, Candidate of Historical Sciences Stanislav Ivanov has analysed for Realist English the possible consequences of...
Kurdish Genocide: From the Ottoman Empire to Erdoğan — a Chronicle of a Century of Terror
ISTANBUL (Realist English). Crimes against the Kurdish people have not been isolated episodes but have been carried out by successive Turkish...
Will Trump and Xi Agree on a New World Order?
BEIJING (Realist English). Relations between the United States and China in May 2026 can best be described as an “armed...
Pentagon withdraws troops from Germany: minus 5,000 soldiers in Europe and cancellation of a missile battalion
BERLIN (Realist English). On 2 May, the Pentagon officially announced the withdrawal of 5,000 US troops from Germany over the next...
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