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Venezuela's acting president leads her country's delegation to the UN General Assembly, meeting the IDB and Trump while President Maduro remains imprisoned in New York after the US attack on Caracas.

Pakistani police detained three sisters of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan and their children ahead of a PTI march on Islamabad demanding his release from politically motivated corruption charges.

A critical profile of US Senator Marco Rubio's anti-Cuba political career, tracing how he built influence by exploiting Cuban exile grievances and regime-change lobbying while aligning with Trumpism.

A book-launch contribution arguing that Western media systematically misrepresent China, and that contesting imperialist narratives in public opinion is a central front of the class struggle today.

A talk tracing how China's encounter with Western imperialism shaped its foreign policy, from the late 18th century through the Mao era, reform and opening, to its present role building a multipolar world.

Torkil Lauesen, contributing a chapter to "China's Foreign Policy and the Making of a Multipolar World," applies the principal contradiction globally to analyze Chinese foreign policy, arguing China is now one aspect of the contradiction between declining US hegemony and its own rise.

Jenny Clegg argues China's foreign policy, rooted in the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence and the 1955 Bandung Conference, seeks peaceful development and Global South unity rather than replacing US hegemony.

A contribution to a book launch arguing that Chinese and Western approaches to international relations rest on opposing philosophical foundations, contrasting liberal individualism and power politics with Chinese concepts of harmony, collectivism and a community of shared destiny for humankind.

Danny Haiphong argues that asking why China does not intervene militarily in Palestine, Iran and Yemen misreads its foreign policy, which advances multipolarity and self-determination through economic development rather than hard power.

Andrew Murray argues that China is not an imperialist power, framing US-China rivalry as the main contradiction and warning that Washington's drive to encircle Beijing risks wider war.

George Galloway discusses the anti-apartheid struggle, international solidarity with the ANC, Nelson Mandela's legacy, and how shifting global alignments reshape international politics today.

George Galloway reflects on the anti-apartheid struggle, Mandela's Wembley birthday, and international solidarity, linking South Africa's liberation to Palestinian and Cuban resistance amid a shifting global order.

Venezuela's government and opposition delegations agreed to create a Technical Committee on Freedom of Expression and restored access to blocked news sites, while critics note the opposition's dependence on Washington.

Venezuela's Central Bank is tightening liquidity through higher reserve requirements and interest rates to contain the bolívar's exchange-rate gap, but sustaining this depends on fiscal discipline and expanding oil output.

US Southern Command killed four people in a Caribbean speedboat strike, part of a campaign that has killed or left missing 234 people since September 2025, drawing UN condemnation as extrajudicial.

Washington's 'Cartel of the Suns' narrative against Venezuela is exposed as a political fiction, as US anti-drug certification lists prove to be tools of geopolitical leverage rather than objective measures.

Billionaire Robert Kraft pressured Ed Sheeran to drop Macklemore from his tour over pro-Palestine statements, exposing how pro-Israel donors use money to silence dissent in US politics and culture.

Brazil's government pushes to end the 6×1 work schedule, with Lula backing a 40-hour week, while the opposition allegedly obstructs the vote in Congress to avoid electoral fallout.

A briefing marking the 1973 coup against Salvador Allende, tracing how imperial coercion and digital disinformation networks now target Latin American elections, alongside reports on Palestine, labour and land struggles.

Foreign salaries, strong currencies and short-term rentals are pricing locals out of desirable African neighbourhoods, drawing parallels between colonial spatial segregation and today's parallel expat economies.

Trump's promise of $5,000 to every adult citizen if his party wins the midterms is framed as open vote-buying, exposing how US electoral conduct escapes the scrutiny applied to African states.

Pravin Sawhney argues that after Xi and Putin outlined a multipolar order in 2013, the Modi government rejected China's rise to align with Washington; this choice undermined India's strategic autonomy.

Historian Assal Rad discusses how US media manufactured consent for genocide in Gaza and war with Iran, and whether public media literacy is finally eroding that propaganda.

Historian Assal Rad discusses her book on how US media manufactured consent for genocide in Palestine, and whether public backlash against the Iran war signals collapsing media propaganda.

Venezuela and Paraguay signed a cooperation framework during President Santiago Peña's Caracas visit, opening talks to restore diplomatic ties while roughly $300 million in PDVSA oil debt remains contested.

A survey of alleged US-backed electoral fraud across Latin America, from Mexico 1988 and Honduras 2017 to recent votes in Ecuador, Peru, Colombia and Brazil, framing Washington as the region's electoral manipulator.

Julian Assange's return to public commentary is celebrated as a victory over US efforts to silence him, alongside a forceful argument that neutrality on Gaza is impossible and that Israel's actions constitute genocide.

Saudi Aramco has told European refiners they will receive no crude in October after drone strikes shut the East-West pipeline, forcing buyers to scramble for alternative cargoes as Brent spiked above $130.

A provisional UN General Assembly speakers list places Venezuela at head-of-state level, fuelling reports that Acting President Delcy Rodríguez will attend, though Caracas has not confirmed her participation.

Cuba's national power grid collapsed entirely, prompting emergency protocols to restore electricity as an energy crisis worsened by the US blockade limits fuel, spare parts and generation capacity.

The UN General Assembly adopted an African proposal for an equal-area world map, challenging the Eurocentric Mercator projection and tracing how cartography, ocean trade and naval power shaped colonial empires.

Trump administration officials refuse to disclose where billions in seized Venezuelan oil revenue went, after sales routed through a Qatar account and contracts left unpublished despite congressional demands.