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Why the Navy’s Most Important Submarine Won’t Be Ready Until 2031
19FortyFive
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July 1, 2025
Key Points and Summary – The U.S. Navy’s Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) program, the future sea-based leg of the nuclear triad, is plagued by significant cost overruns and production delays. -The first boat, USS District of...
EU backs Western Balkans reform with €6B plan
Gazeta Tema
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July 1, 2025
EU Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos urged Western Balkan leaders to accelerate key reforms, warning that the current political momentum for EU enlargement “will not last forever,” as a high-level summit opened in Skopje. Prime ministers from...
On Sale for One Euro: Will Albania’s Forests Go Private?
Green European Journal
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June 30, 2025
Albania’s modern history is characterised by dramatic political shake-ups, but one thing has remained constant through all the turbulence: the country’s lustrous forests are overwhelmingly public. This might, however, soon no longer be the case,...
Meet Dua Lipa's VERY glamorous lookalike mother who escaped the Bosnian war and trained to be a lawyer
Daily Mail
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June 29, 2025
With her flawless complexion, chic sense of style and uncanny resemblance to her famous daughter, Dua Lipa's mother has all the makings of a popstar herself. At 52, Anesa Lipa has become something of a sensation in her own right, having racked up...
Professor Bjegović Mikanović: “It’s time to demand insight into where health funds are really going”
Serbian Monitor
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July 1, 2025
Written by: Students Protesting at the Faculty of Medicine Given the number of issues we’ve observed as students, we asked ourselves what a full professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, with a specialisation in social medicine...
Mass graves everywhere, but where are the killers?
Lanka News Web
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July 1, 2025
*This article was originally published on 30.09.2017 Dr. Lionel Bopage Introduction Sri Lanka’s armed conflicts have touched the whole Island, affecting all its ethnicities and faiths. By 2013, Sri Lanka recorded the second highest number of...
Foreign capital finds new ground in Albania
Gazeta Tema
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June 22, 2025
About 5.3% of active companies in Albania now operate with foreign or joint capital, reflecting a growing international footprint in the country’s economy. Italian investors remain the largest group, accounting for 41.8% of all foreign...
Ceasefire with Iran gives Israelis a chance to return from temporary Cyprus haven
The National News
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Police at Limassol’s port in Cyprus were nervous as Israelis who had sought a haven and were stranded by weeks of airline disruption gradually arrived on Thursday to board a cruise ship that would take them home. Many had spent weeks away from...
Popovic: Serbia working with Russia in mutual interest
Tanjug
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June 20, 2025
ST PETERSBURG - Serbia's minister without portfolio for international economic cooperation Nenad Popovic said on Friday he had discussed with Russian FM Sergey Lavrov and Minister of Economic Cooperation Maxim Reshetnikov the issue of Serbia's...
Trump’s latest Nobel peace prize effort? DRC and Rwanda truce deal
The Times
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The Nobel peace prize was back on President Trump’s mind as he hosted a truce signing between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda after lamenting how he has been overlooked for the award.Foreign ministers from the east African nations...
BALKAN BLOG: Western Balkans military build-up continues as the world looks elsewhere
BNE Intellinews
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As the world’s attention remains focused on the wars in Ukraine and, more recently, the Middle East, several countries in the Western Balkans are ramping up their military capacities. This build-up is not a sudden reaction but part of a...
Twelve Days of War: What Did Israel Achieve?
Daily Alert
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June 30, 2025
As the dust settles from 12 days of war between Israel and Iran, the ayatollahs are defiant and have proclaimed victory. In their mind, they have downed Israeli F-35 stealth jets and captured Israeli pilots. They have turned Israeli cities to...
‘I’d rather they killed us’ How rape became a weapon in war
Metro
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June 21, 2025
Drita* was a widow with two sons when Serbian forces entered her village in Kosovo. As they began separating the old men, women and children, she says her community ‘knew what was going to happen’. ‘They tore my clothes, they ripped them...
Inside Dua Lipa's struggle to rise to fame: A closer look
The News International
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Dua Lipa, the British singer and songwriter, has come a long way since her humble beginnings as a refugee from Kosovo. Born on August 22, 1995, in London, Dua's early life was marked by her parents' struggles to make ends meet. Her father,...
What Awaits Europe’s Unrecognised States
Valdai Discussion Club
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The south-eastern periphery of Europe represents the EU’s “final frontier” – a testing ground where the European project must reaffirm its appeal, both to sceptical citizens in core member states and to populations on the fringe. Brussels’...
The west sees hope in the “hopeless continent”: thanks China
Zehabesha
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“G7 aims to raise $600 billion to counter China’s Belt and Road” By Mesfin Arega “Group of Seven leaders pledged on Sunday to raise $600 billion in private and public funds over five years to finance needed infrastructure in developing countries...
North Macedonia's PM Confers with EU Commissioner for Enlargement in Skopje
Bulgarian News Agency
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North Macedonia's Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski has conferred with European Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos, who is on a two-day visit to Skopje to attend a meeting of EU and Western Balkan leaders. The sides discussed the region’s...
5 fascinating facts about FedEx founder Fred Smith
Memphis Commercial Appeal - Tennessee
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FedEx founder Fred Smith overcame childhood Legg-Calvé-Perthes syndrome to become a pilot and serve in the Marines. Smith was a close friend of John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee of 2008. Smith was a major investor in Alcon...
Marin Voice: There are perils to cutting federal funds here and abroad
Marin Independent Journal - California
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June 29, 2025
In an era where global interconnectedness is paramount, recent proposals from the Trump administration signal a troubling retreat from America’s role as a global leader. That is equally true within our own nation. The proposed budget cuts to...
Low vaccination rate in backyard flocks linked to rise in Newcastle disease
WATT Poultry - Illinois
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June 20, 2025
Animal health experts suggest that a surge in cases of ND in parts of Europe this year may be linked to low take-up of vaccine in non-commercial flocks. This may have increased the infection pressure of the virus, according to the United Kingdom...