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Microsoft lays off 830 employees in Washington as part of broader job cuts
SEATTLE (Realist English). As part of its latest global restructuring, Microsoft has cut 830 jobs in Washington state, affecting staff...
Read moreCairo urges U.S. to block Turkey-Libya maritime deal amid rising Eastern Mediterranean tensions
CAIRO (Realist English). Egypt has asked the United States to intervene and prevent Libya’s eastern parliament from ratifying a controversial...
Read moreEU’s AI law won’t prevent catastrophe, warns top expert Stuart Russell
BRUSSELS (Realist English). The EU’s flagship AI Act falls far short of what is needed to avert existential risks posed...
Read moreBillionaires under fire: NYC primary winner reignites wealth inequality debate
NEW YORK (Realist English). Newly nominated Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani ignited controversy last week after telling NBC News he...
Read moreObama and Bush condemn USAID closure as study warns of 14 million preventable deaths
WASHINGTON (Realist English). Former U.S. presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush issued rare public criticism of the Trump administration...
Read morePolitical turmoil deepens in Thailand as PM Paetongtarn sidelined by court
BANGKOK (Realist English). Thailand’s Constitutional Court has suspended Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra from office, escalating a political crisis that now...
Read moreJapan faces renewed wave of food price hikes amid rising costs
TOKYO (Realist English). Japanese consumers are bracing for another round of food and beverage price increases in 2025, with the...
Read moreTop Sánchez ally jailed in deepening Spanish corruption scandal
MADRID (Realist English). Santos Cerdán, a former top aide to Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, was ordered into pre-trial detention...
Read moreIran demands US halt strikes before talks can resume, deputy foreign minister warns
TEHRAN (Realist English). Iran’s deputy foreign minister has said the United States must commit to ending military strikes on Iran...
Read moreProtests in Bangkok call for Thai PM Paetongtarn’s resignation over Cambodia controversy
BANGKOK (Realist English). Hundreds of protesters gathered in Bangkok on Saturday demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra, as...
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Putin speaks with Iran’s president amid escalating regional war
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russian President Vladimir Putin held a telephone conversation with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Friday, expressing condolences...
China presses Iran for safe passage through Strait of Hormuz
BEIJING (Realist English). China is negotiating with Iran to ensure safe passage for oil tankers and Qatari liquefied natural gas...
Iran’s regional strikes shake global energy markets
DUBAI (Realist English). Iran’s expanding military campaign across the Persian Gulf and beyond is putting growing pressure on global energy...
Israel planned assassination of Iran’s supreme leader months before strike, defense minister says
JERUSALEM (Realist English). Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved plans to assassinate Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei as early as...
Star Wars without fiction: how space became the next battlefield
MOSCOW (Realist English). “Star Wars” stopped being science fiction long ago. Unfortunately, over ten thousand years of civilisation, humanity has...
Dadivank: The Legacy of Christ’s Apostles in Artsakh
YEREVAN (Realist English). In Artsakh, before the ethnic cleansing and forced deportation – simply put, genocide – carried out by...
An unusual phenomenon at the Church of the Holy Savior in Shushi
YEREVAN (Realist English). In the distant year 1979, as a third-year university student, I used to visit the Church of...
War with Iran seen as inevitable, Armenia warned of looming regional storm
YEREVAN (Realist English). The war with Iran is drawing ever closer. And once again, this pulls Armenia into a zone...
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