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All the 15 Hottest Spots on Earth on Thursday were in Australia; Will it become Uninhabitable?
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All the 15 Hottest Spots on Earth on Thursday were in Australia; Will it become Uninhabitable?

Juan Cole

At a 2.7º C. increase, northern Australian areas such as Darwin, Broome and Port Hedland will become uninhabitable by the end of the century

Trump’s Iraq election threats could end up making Maliki more popular

Trump’s Iraq election threats could end up making Maliki more popular

01/30/2026 By Ibrahim Al-Marashi

Reading Obituaries: And Murdering Time in the Age of Donald Trump

Reading Obituaries: And Murdering Time in the Age of Donald Trump

01/30/2026 By Tom Engelhardt

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Kurdistan Islamic Party Will Vote

Kurdistan Islamic Party Will Vote

Kurdistan Islamic Party Will Vote Against Jaafari The USG-funded Open Source Center (formerly the Foreign Broadcast Information Service or FBIS) translates a Kurdish news article […]

Juan Cole

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Khalilzad Meets Al Hakim Reuters

Khalilzad Meets Al Hakim Reuters

Khalilzad meets al-Hakim Reuters reports several bombs and attacks in Baghdad, as well as in Baqubah, Khalis, Kirkuk and elsewhere, leaving over a dozen dead. […]

Juan Cole

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Over 20 Dead In Guerrilla Violence

Over 20 Dead In Guerrilla Violence

Over 20 Dead in Guerrilla Violence Talabani’s Bid to call Parliament Fails The Iraqi general in charge of Baghdad security was killed by a sniper […]

Juan Cole

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3 Mosques Attacked Kurdish Envoy Sees

3 Mosques Attacked Kurdish Envoy Sees

3 Mosques Attacked Kurdish Envoy Sees Sistani about Jaafari Mosque attacks continued in Iraq on Sunday, as sectarian violence refused to die down. There was […]

Juan Cole

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Kirkuk At Center Of Kurdish Shiite

Kirkuk At Center Of Kurdish Shiite

Kirkuk at the Center of Kurdish-Shiite Struggles I find most reporting on the struggle between Iraq’s Kurdish president, Jalal Talabani and the current Shiite Prime […]

Juan Cole

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Muqtada Warns Talabani On Interference

Muqtada Warns Talabani On Interference

Muqtada Warns Talabani on “interference” United Iraqi Alliance politicians continued Saturday to insist that the party would continue to back Ibrahim Jaafari as the new […]

Juan Cole

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Bush Greeted In Pakistan By

Bush Greeted In Pakistan By

Bush Greeted in Pakistan by Demonstrations, Nation-wide Strike Bush arrived in Islamabad to find it eerily quiet. The Islamic Action Council, which includes a group […]

Juan Cole

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Al Hakim Uia Back Jaafari Sectarian

Al Hakim Uia Back Jaafari Sectarian

Al-Hakim, UIA back Jaafari Sectarian Killings Raise Tension The killing, execution-style, of some 25 Shiite workers in a brick-making plant in Nahrawan by Sunni Arab […]

Juan Cole

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Friday Headlines To Make You Laugh And

Friday Headlines To Make You Laugh And

Friday Headlines to Make You Laugh and Cry at the Same Time “Rumsfeld Cautions against too Many Troops in Iraq”. I swear to God, that […]

Juan Cole

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