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It was the latest tragedy in this part of the Mediterranean Sea. The Libyan coast is one of the main departure points for migrants from North Africa trying to reach European shores for a better life there. They are packed by smugglers into small and unsafe boats, with thousands dying during the perilous sea journey. Libya has in recent years emerged as the dominant transit point for migrants fleeing war and poverty in Africa and the Middle East, even though the country was plunged into chaos...

“For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land” (Psalm 35:20). While antisemitism has been historically documented for the last 2,000 years, we also know it existed before that time to a degree. What is antisemitism? It is defined as “hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group,” according to Webster. So, we are not dealing with something new but ancient. However, even after 7 October 2023, when...

Against the backdrop of conflict, and despite reservations among some European leaders, the EU has been quietly seeking to reopen communications with Moscow even as it doubles down on its support for Kyiv. President Vladimir Putin, meanwhile, has tried to cut out Europe and Kyiv and negotiate Ukraine’s future with Washington. “In any future scenario, the EU has specific interests that will need to be defended, therefore it is important to have established diplomatic channels with Russia. The...

Police officers move past Ikshana, a mobile surveillance van, parked at the ongoing protest site, days after thousands of the supporters of India’s Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) marched towards parliament demanding the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over National Eligibility. The surveillance controversy erupted during [the] student protest over exam paper leaks, when demonstrators posted pictures on social media of a mobile police surveillance van equipped with cameras on...

In this article, we continue our study of three major monetary conditions that the Bible indicates will typify the world order at the very end of the last days. At the end of Part 1, we were pursuing the question of whether government debt plays a prophetic role. We had been drawn to this question, given the unprecedented rise of government debt around the world in past decades. To date, we have reviewed one of these a priori conditions—a worldwide wealth skew. 2. Indebtedness is a necessary...

San Francisco-based Raffi Krikorian, the chief technology officer at Mozilla, which runs the Firefox browser, switched to Chinese AI startup Moonshot’s Kimi K3 for many of his day-to-day activities within days of the new, powerful model’s launch. Their popularity has frustrated some U.S. tech giants, but short of an outright ban, they’re likely to continue to appeal to independent software developers in the U.S. and elsewhere. The rapid rise of cutting-edge Chinese AI models this year shows...