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Eco Buildings' Dr Etrur Albani on €420M Chile housing contract...
Eco Buildings Group PLC (AIM:ECOB) founder and executive vice-chairman Dr Etrur Albani talked with Proactive's Stephen Gunnion about a major €420 million agreement to supply 20,000 homes in Chile, part of the country's social housing program....
This is how an Army mortar works (from an 11C)
Get We Are The Mighty’s Weekly Newsletter Military culture and entertainment direct to your inbox with zero chance of a ‘Reply All’ incident Mortars aren’t glamorous. They don’t have the thunder of heavy artillery or the high-tech appeal of an...
Securing Our Critical Infrastructure
When the lights go out, it is rarely just an inconvenience. For a country, it can mean hospitals paralyzed, water systems disabled and entire communities left in the dark. Around the world, energy systems have become the frontline of cyber...
Why Gaza needs a ceasefire monitor
Trust, as they say, is built up in drops and lost in buckets. When it comes to the shaky truce in Gaza, however, there appears to be little trust to lose. The violent animus between the Israeli military and Hamas is such that a reported breach of...
TAMCC Robotics Team heads to Panama
From 29 October to 1 November 2025, over 190 countries will come together in Panama City to compete in the First Global Robotics Competition, a pioneering international event where students collaborate through science, technology, engineering, and...
Russia plans information operations to destabilize the situation in the Balkans
Russia is preparing new information operations aimed at destabilizing the situation in the Western Balkans, said research fellow Ivana Stradner from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), as reported by TVP World. According to her, the...
Paraguay seeks greater influence in divided MERCOSUR as trade with the EU gains traction
by Peter Marko Tase In 1991 the Governments of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay established MERCOSUR with the signing of the Treaty of Asuncion, making it South America’s largest multilateral agreement assigned to tackle the commercial,...
China is soaking up oil imports, and the US and Russia are reasons why
There is a mystery at the heart of the global oil market. China has soaked up a torrent of oil imports this year, filling tanks and underground caverns. Without this, prices would be much lower. But why is Beijing snapping up oil it doesn’t...
Chris Hedges: The Speech a Press Club Banned
The National Press Club of Australia in Canberra canceled an engagement with journalist Chris Hedges after it was announced on its website. Hedges delivered the banned speech on Monday in Sydney. This is the speech Chris Hedges was to have...
Erdogan’s family-linked drone exports spark tensions with Serbia
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Turkey’s sale of military drones to Kosovo has triggered one of the sharpest public disputes in years between Ankara and Belgrade, testing a relationship once driven by personal friendship between Turkish President Recep...
This is how an AK-47 works
Get We Are The Mighty’s Weekly Newsletter Military culture and entertainment direct to your inbox with zero chance of a ‘Reply All’ incident The idea wasn’t born out of a James Bond-esque research and development, or a state-of-the-art factory. It...
Tageszeitung: Is von der Leyen’s Criticism of Belgrade a Shift in EU Policy?
It remains uncertain whether the criticism expressed in Belgrade by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen signals a tougher European Union stance toward Serbia, but European integration requires the country to fulfill specific...
Keira Walsh fires Chelsea top as Arsenal return to winning ways in WSL
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Labor Shortage, Low Productivity Increase Risks
The Governor of the Bank of Albania, Gent Sejko, participated on Friday in the International Scientific Conference, on the topic "Demographic changes and labor market dynamics - challenges of sustainable economic development in Albania, Kosovo and...
10 effective things citizens can do to make change in addition to attending a protest
What happens now? That may well be the question being asked by “No Kings” protesters, who marched, rallied and danced all over the nation on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025. Pro-democracy groups had aimed to encourage large numbers of Americans to...
Pride of Britain 2025 winners in full as The Mirror honours UK's 'unsung heroes'
08:00, 20 Oct 2025Updated 08:36, 20 Oct 2025 Luke Mortimer, 11 from North Yorkshire has won a child of courage award. Tonight The Mirror will be celebrating our brilliant unsung heroes at our amazing Pride of Britain Awards. The Pride of Britain...
Carol Vorderman and Ashley Banjo praise heroes of The Mirror's Pride of Britain Awards
08:00, 20 Oct 2025Updated 08:19, 20 Oct 2025 Luke Mortimer, 11 from North Yorkshire has won a child of courage award. Hosted by Carol Vorderman and Ashley Banjo, the 26th Pride of Britain awards will be a star-studded affair. But the real stars...
Russian spies 'are helping gangs smuggle illegal migrants into Europe'
Russian spies are helping people-smuggling gangs bring migrants into Europe, the Bulgarian interior minister has claimed. Daniel Mitov, the country's home secretary, said his government had evidence of direct links between Russia's foreign...
‘Deport now, appeal later’ scheme for foreign criminals expanded to 23 countries
A hostile environment era deportation policy for criminals is being expanded by the Labour government as it continues its migration crackdown. The government wants to go further in extraditing foreign offenders before they have a chance to appeal...
Russia and left-wingers ‘trying to flood Europe with illegal migrants’
Russian spies and hard-left humanitarian groups are working with people smugglers to flood Europe with illegal migrants, a Bulgarian minister says. Daniel Mitov, the interior minister, said his government had evidence that Russia’s foreign...