In late October, Espelette, Basque Country, celebrates its red pepper harvest with a festival featuring music, markets, and communal meals, drawing up to 20,000 people.
Desh, Bidesh and Fractured Dreams: Bangladeshi Labor Migrants in the GCC
Gender, class, and race intersect to shape poor, low-skilled Bangladeshi migrants’ experience, commodifying migrant labor and in turn (re)producing global inequalities.
Funding for SDA’s next missile tracking contracts diverted to troop payments: Sources
“When the funding will be authorized, given the shutdown and all the fun there, is a question mark,” one industry source told Breaking Defense.
US claims it hit two boats ‘carrying narcotics’ in Pacific, killing six
Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth says attacks take place in international waters amid mounting criticism against US campaign.
At least eight killed after car explodes near Red Fort tourist site in New Delhi, police say
Several fire engines rushed to the scene after the blast was reported near one of the gates of the Red Fort metro station, the city’s fire services said.
Kash Patel ‘unpredictable, unreliable’, broke promise to MI5 head, attended meeting in sweatshirt
FBI Director Kash Patel faced scrutiny during a London visit, with reports detailing his unpredictable behavior and disregard for protocol. Incidents included a denied airport request, armed security issues, and an informal attire choice at a meeting. …
Trump threatens to ‘dock’ already unpaid air traffic controllers who call out sick: ‘I am NOT HAPPY WITH YOU’
President accuses the already short-staffed, vital airport workers of having failed to ‘step up to help’ against a ‘fake Democrat attack’ during shutdown
Filipinos Reel From Destruction Left by Super Typhoon Fung-wong
Super Typhoon Fung-wong made landfall in the north of the Philippines on Sunday evening, killing at least two people and destroying about a thousand houses. The authorities had preemptively evacuated 1.3 million people.
French court orders release of Sarkozy after 20 days in jail
Marc Perelman, our French politics editor, gives us his analysis.
Canada-based CoLab, which makes collaboration software for manufacturers, raised a $72M Series C led by Intrepid Growth Partners (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
Lucinda Shen / Axios:
Canada-based CoLab, which makes collaboration software for manufacturers, raised a $72M Series C led by Intrepid Growth Partners — CoLab, a maker of collaboration software for manufacturers, raised $72 million …