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I’d Be Ashamed if My Kids Lost the Language — A Conversation with Tünde Tedd from Alaska
Tünde met her American husband in Budapest, Hungary. At his request, they settled in Kecskemét, but eight years ago, they moved with their three children (and Kelley’s mother) to Alaska. Only about 20–30 Hungarians live there on a permanent basis,...
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Rule of Law in Greece Slips to 48th Worldwide, Near Bottom in Europe
Greece is ranked 29th among 31 European nations. Image: Syntagma Square, Greek Parliament, Athens. Credit: Tomas Wolf / Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0 Adherence to the rule of law in Greece has deteriorated, landing it in 48th place out of 143...
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UN General Assembly again demands end to US embargo against Cuba
The United Nations General Assembly has once again issued a strong call for the United States to terminate its comprehensive economic, commercial, and financial embargo against Cuba. In Wednesday's vote among the 184-member assembly, 165...
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Georgia sets sights on becoming regional renewable energy hub
TBILISI/KUWAIT: Georgia is accelerating its renewable energy shift as it positions itself as a key player in regional energy security and Europe’s green transition, said Inga Pkhaladze, Deputy Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development of...
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from chicken-like shelters to spiky wooden huts, hello wood’s cabin fever lands in czechia
Cabin Fever 2025 explores architecture as Shared Social Act Cabin Fever 2025, organized by Hello Wood, took place in Česká Kamenice, Czech Republic, on the grounds of a former textile factory and wartime labor camp. The event combined an...
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How Lando Norris silenced Mexico boo-boys and flipped F1 title race momentum
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
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Where Was the Hate and Violence? No Kings Day Was Boring!
PROVIDENCE — Saturday’s No Kings protest at the Statehouse was a huge disappointment. I didn’t see any Hamas terrorists. There were no illegal aliens from Mars or anywhere else in outer space, unless there was an invasion of body snatchers. If...
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Why was Lando Norris booed by F1 fans at Mexico City Grand Prix?
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
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IAUP at 60: Presidents seek common ground on HE in AI era
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GLOBAL Six months before the turn of the millennium, Donald Gerth, then president of the International Association of University Presidents (IAUP), speaking at the 12th triennial meeting of the organisation founded in 1965, drew a distinction...
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What would you do if democracy was being dismantled before your eyes? Whatever you’re doing right now
How would you behave if your democracy was being dismantled? In most western countries, that used to be an academic question. Societies where this process had happened, such as Germany in the 1930s, seemed increasingly distant. The contrasting...
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For Serouj Kradjian, Mozart and Fairuz Go Hand in Hand
One thing I used to do early on — and which I continued to develop — was to improvise and play by ear. So arranging music was always there for me from the beginning. I would arrange melodies I either created or heard. And all this happened with...
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Let the Work Speak for Itself
Still from Where the Buffalo Roam. Even though I’ve been making these annual appeals for several decades now, I’m a terrible fundraiser. I was even let go as a canvasser right out of college for a Nader-raider environmental outfit working to save...
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Train vs. Plane in Europe: When Each Wins in 2025
The European travel landscape has never been more complex than it is today. Despite every promise about sustainable transport and green initiatives, the reality remains surprisingly contradictory. While environmental concerns push us toward rail...
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Would Marx approve this year’s Nobel?
Innovation won the Economic Nobel this year. Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt were honored for a simple engine: invention plus incentives plus diffusion equals growth. Karl Marx would not quarrel with the mechanism; he would go...
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CBD Punjab briefs diplomats on proposed diplomatic enclave
LAHORE: The Punjab Central Business District Development Authority (PCBDDA) hosted an exclusive diplomatic briefing session at the CBD Punjab Complex, focusing on the development of the Diplomatic Enclave situated at CBD Bab District. The session...
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Radicalisation on right and left while centre crumbles
1. Creeping fascism ratchets up a gear The forms of creeping fascism are: the continued rise of Farage’s racist Reform UK this overlaps, including in membership, with a Tommy Robison/fascist led street mobilisations a disintegrating Tory party...
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Rijeka Gateway Container Terminal Is Now Officially Open
October the 31st, 2025 – The enormous Rijeka Gateway is now (officially) open, with the 380 million euro container terminal bringing Rijeka and Croatia as a whole back to the demanding global logistics map. As Poslovni Dnevnik/Sinisa Malus writes,...
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Why Authoritarians Thrive
By Senem Aydın-Düzgit US President Donald Trump’s ferocious assault on American institutions over the last nine months is a particularly morbid symptom of the global decline of democracy. But Trump has merely capitalized on a process that was well...
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O'Donnell Abú: The scion of the famous Donegal dynasty who governed Dracula's old chomping ground in Transylvania
Did you know one of the O’Donnells once served as the Governor-General of Transylvania? Connell O’Donnell was descended from the famous fighting prince of Donegal, Red Hugh O’Donnell, who was born in Lifford and died while trying to raise troops...
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