"The decision by Saudi Arabia, once a key financial and political backer of Lebanon, underlines Riyadh’s efforts to help stabilise the fragile state at a critical period as the authorities struggle to rein in Hizbollah and Israel launches daily strikes on the country."
Israel has carried on with its offensive, launching a wave of strikes on southern Lebanon and has issued more forced displacement orders for suburbs in Tyre.
Al Jazeera’s Obaida Hitto reports on the strikes he witnessed in and around Tyre.
"Israel and the United States have long known, and tolerated, that each was spying on the other. But an intensified Israeli effort to learn about U.S. positions in talks with Iran has crossed a line, according to some American officials."
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Five-year ban was targeted at Hizbollah’s grip on Lebanese politics
Add eldercare, also disproportionately performed by women.
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I do think that the Biden admin’s Gaza policy was beyond just a policy dispute. It was a policy of supporting genocide. I think part of restoring accountability is making clear that the senior officials who carried out that policy should not work in government again
The elimination of shared governance at universities is directly connected to the consolidation of power and degradation of democratic institutions that we’re seeing at the national level
"As much as Egypt is keen on seeing the Syrian state continue to transcend HTS capture, the second Egyptian state official says that formalizing diplomatic relations will largely depend on “the extent of the cake that Egypt would be getting in the reconstruction.”
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"Iran will consider all of Elon Musk’s companies in the Middle East as military targets as it retaliates against the U.S., Iranian state media outlet Fars reported Thursday."
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Iran will consider all of Elon Musk's companies in the Middle East as military targets as it retaliates against the U.S., Iranian state media reported.
“The Auburn University Board of Trustees on Friday gave itself complete control over course offerings, curriculum, degree requirements and academic credentials while eliminating shared governance at the Alabama land-grant university… The policy leaves many questions unanswered”
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The policies mirror the directives laid out in HB 580, which doesn’t take effect until October and doesn’t apply to the institution.
'The career ladder in academia is of particular interest as it is a “greedy” occupation due to its lack of substitutability among workers, long hours with increasing returns to productivity, and the importance of establishing and maintaining personal contacts.'
Academia is a "greedy" occupation.
Motherhood, and the unequal childcare responsibilities that follow, explain a large share of the observed gender gap in academic employment. Sofie Cairo, Ria Ivandic, Anne Sophie Lassen and Valentina ...
