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The King’s speech to Congress: Unpacking his not-so-subtle messaging | US News

The King’s speech to Congress: Unpacking his not-so-subtle messaging | US News

Published by Sam Flores

A fascinating speech by King Charles, one full of subtle and some not-so-subtle messaging. It was delivered carefully, with respect, with spades of humour and with both history and politics threaded through it. A few immediate takeaways. As it happened: King gives pointed messages after talks with Trump Religion His references to interfaith dialogue are not a surprise – it’s an issue he feels very strongly about, not least because he is head of the Church of England. But in a society where Islamophobia and antisemitism can run deep and where general xenophobia is rife, the language feels intentional. “Mr Speaker, for many here – and for myself – the Christian faith is a firm anchor and daily inspiration that guides us not only personally, but together as members of our community. “Having devoted a large part of my life to interfaith relationships and greater understanding, it is that faith in the triumph of light over darkness which I have found confirmed countless times. “Through it, I am inspired by the profound respect that develops …

Unpacking Netanyahu’s latest claims about the war on Iran | US-Israel war on Iran

Unpacking Netanyahu’s latest claims about the war on Iran | US-Israel war on Iran

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NewsFeed “There has to be a ground component.” Addressing Israelis and foreign media, Benjamin Netanyahu claimed to have made significant progress in 20 days of war on Iran but indicated more is to come. Al Jazeera’s Rob McBride unpacks what he said. Published On 20 Mar 202620 Mar 2026 Click here to share on social media share2 Share googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Source link

Unpacking Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights: the best podcasts of the week | Television & radio

Unpacking Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights: the best podcasts of the week | Television & radio

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The Book Club The latest release from Goalhanger hears historian Dominic Sandbrook in English teacher mode, as he dissects classic novels with producer Tabitha Syrett. Luckily, it doesn’t feel like homework: their first episode, on Wuthering Heights, revels in Emily Brontë’s dark themes, confusingly-named protagonists, and the author herself – from her tragically tiny coffin to the graveyard water that may have led to her premature death. Hannah J DaviesWidely available, episodes weekly Social Moths Harriet Dyer, Amy Mason and Lindsey Santoro’s series is ostensibly about how to get out of the house when your mental health, children, or phone addiction are holding you back. Largely ludicrous and instantly endearing, it’s also an excuse for the three comics to share wry anecdotes about rude hecklers and nosy Google search results. HJDWidely available, episodes weekly Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show Charming … Mia McKenna-Bruce. Photograph: Ricky Vigil M/Justin E Palmer/GC Images This thoughtful chat show dispenses with the small talk and dives straight in. From Jason Isaacs opening up about a hypnotherapy session as research for …

Store-Bought Is Fine: Unpacking the Style of the MAGA Set at the Premiere of “Melania”

Store-Bought Is Fine: Unpacking the Style of the MAGA Set at the Premiere of “Melania”

Published by Sam Flores

Melania Trump faced a tough time to premiere her self-titled documentary. It was already a tall order, to ask audiences to tune in to a feature film about a subject who seems to have, intentionally, not participated in being a public figure at the level her station would require. Sure, there was a coffee-table memoir published in 2024, which became a New York Times bestseller, but ultimately it didn’t reveal much. So why try it again on the big screen? The official premiere hosted at the “Center formerly known as Kennedy,” as my colleague Aidan McLaughlin put it in his scene report of the would-be shindig, came after a tense, devastating week in the United States. If early reports from ticket sales online showed theaters with an embarrassingly low amount of sales, then why should anyone care now? That might be why when Trump herself took the red carpet—which was in actuality black—last night, she was not dressed for movie stardom. Instead, she wore a sober, black skirt suit of the kinds she wears often …

Unpacking Trump’s Obsession: What’s So Great About Greenland Anyway?

Unpacking Trump’s Obsession: What’s So Great About Greenland Anyway?

Published by Sam Flores

Donald Trump spent the wee hours of Tuesday morning throwing a Truth Social tantrum over Greenland, the semiautonomous territory of Denmark he’s decided the United States simply must acquire—even if most Americans, Greenlanders, and our European allies seem firmly opposed to his imperial designs on the island. In post after post, Trump raged against those allied leaders. He shared private texts, including with French president Emmanuel Macron. He posted AI slop depicting a map of the US extending not only to Greenland, but to Venezuela and Canada too. He insisted that he would not abandon his quest to control the Arctic territory: “There can be no going back,” Trump wrote. But why is Trump so hell-bent on annexing Greenland in the first place? Blame his bullying approach to geopolitics, as well as his own personal peccadillos. Where one ends and the other begins is hard to say. Trump and his administration have said repeatedly that they need the territory for national security purposes, and that the US must control it to protect that region from …

Power lines and power struggles: Unpacking Syria’s push towards unification | Syria’s War News

Power lines and power struggles: Unpacking Syria’s push towards unification | Syria’s War News

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Deir Az Zor, Syria – On the broad, windswept plains through which the Euphrates River snakes, the land remembers every war that has passed across it. The oil-rich soil of al-Omar, the turbines of the Tabqa Dam and the cautious return of families to towns long abandoned tell a story as old as Syria itself: one of power, survival and the struggle to unify a fractured country. Over the weekend, Syrian government forces seized the al-Omar oilfield, the Conoco gas complex – both in Deir Az Zor governorate – and the Tabqa Dam, in Raqqa governorate. The operation was heralded as a military achievement, but its significance reaches far beyond maps and military lines. It touches the very structure of Syria’s political economy, the social contract between state and citizen and the fragile architecture of agreements meant to reconcile formerly hostile actors. And the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which previously controlled the areas as well as all of northeastern Syria, soon realised the situation they faced. By Sunday evening, Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa announced …