Mon 11 March 2024: In the 1800s, British colonists in India set about trying to reduce the cobra population, which was making life and trade very difficult in Delhi. They began to pay a bounty for dead cobras. The strategy very quickly resulted in the widespread breeding of cobras for cash. This danger of unintended consequences […]
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Khosro/Shutterstock Sun 10 March 2024: When your parents had financial troubles or questions about planning for the future, they may have sought the help of a financial adviser, their bank, or other professional. Today, many people turn to social media. TikTok in particular has become a hub of financial advice, from money saving hacks and personal stories […]
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Babies bring joy, but these Gaza families cannot find even the basics to take care of them [Abdelhakim Abu Riash/Al Jazeera] Sat 09 March 2024: Deir el-Balah, Gaza – On a cold night three weeks ago, Aida al-Baawi rushed from the makeshift tent she had made home to the town’s nearby Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital and, […]
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The Last Caliph, Abdul Majid II (1868-1944) Deposed from the Throne by the Ankara Assembly, from Le Petit Journal, 1924 (colour litho) by French School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Le Dernier Calife Abdul Medjid dechu de son trone; abolition of Turkish caliphate by Mustapha Kemal Ataturk (1881-1938). Sun 03 March 2024: It is […]
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New technologies on display at Web Summit [Urooba Jamal/Al Jazeera] Sat 02 March 2024: Doha, Qatar – At one of the world’s largest technology conferences, whether it was on the main stage, its side panels, or at the dozens of glitzy, towering company booths, there was one term on everybody’s lips: artificial intelligence (AI). At […]
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Sat 02 March 2024: Since the latter part of 2023 hardly a week has gone by without some residents of Johannesburg, South Africa’s commercial capital, losing their water supply. Notices of planned outages from the local water authority are a common occurrence. Unplanned water shutdowns also happen regularly. The entire city has been affected – shanty towns, less affluent and more affluent […]
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Mon 26 February 2024: New Delhi, India – India averaged nearly two anti-Muslim hate speech events per day in 2023 and three in every four of those events – or 75 percent – took place in states ruled by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party, revealed a report released Monday. In 2023, the hate […]
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Sat 24 February 2024: Worldwide in 2020 a baby died every 40 seconds because of complications of prematurity. Preterm birth is the leading cause of death among children under 5 years old. The burden of preterm birth is heavier in in low- and middle-income countries, where around 80% occur. The countries with the highest recorded preterm rates in Africa are […]
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Satellite images show hundreds of trucks waiting at Rafah border crossing. Maxar Technologies/AFP Photo] Fri 23 February 2024: Over the past days, the Sinai Foundation for Human Rights has published three reports accompanied by videos and photos from the buffer zone in North Sinai, a few kilometres from the Egyptian border with the Gaza […]
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Wed 21 February 2024: In March and August 2018, up to a year before he attacked two Christchurch mosques, Brenton Tarrant posted publicly online that he planned to do so. Until now, these statements have not been identified. In fact, for four years before his attack, Tarrant had been posting anonymously but publicly on the […]
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