Fri 22 September 2023: The UK is investigating bank account closures – and British Muslim groups say their community is hit hardest. A bank account can be everything in an increasingly cashless society. In the United Kingdom, banks closed more than 343,000 accounts in the last financial year. The practice is known as “debunking”, and […]
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Sun 17 September 2023: An auto workers’ dispute in the U.S. underlines Washington’s struggle to become competitive in the global electric car market. While the EU and China clash over subsidies. Are East and West revving up for another geopolitical battle? Join Host Sami Zeidan Guests: Steven Erlanger – Chief Diplomatic Correspondent in Europe, The New […]
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Fri 11 August 2023: Downgrading the credit rating of the United States. The White House lashes out at the ‘flawed assessment’ by Fitch Ratings, but what’s worrying the financial experts? Is the world’s biggest economy in trouble? Join host Sohail Rahman. With guests: William Lee – Chief Economist, Milken Institute. Einar Tangen – Senior Fellow, […]
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Wed 09 August 2023: The Israeli military-industrial complex has turned the occupied Palestinian territory into a testing ground for advanced weaponry and surveillance technology, which it exports worldwide. From powerful tools like the Pegasus software, which was used to hack the phones of high-profile individuals such as Jeff Bezos and Jamal Khashoggi, to selling drones […]
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South African Football Association (SAFA) president Danny Jordaan. Fri 21 July 2023: The South African Football Association (SAFA) is under the spotlight. A series of articles by an investigative journalist have unravelled allegations of corruption, mismanagement, theft and infighting at the nation’s football governing body. “Over the past year, a number of whistleblowers came to me […]
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Wed 12 July 2023: Captagon, a stimulant mainly produced in Syria which has become particularly popular with users in Gulf countries, has received a lot of press. While it seems clear that its trade is now one of the Syrian government’s main sources of income, less understood are its effects on users. Ever-larger seizures by […]
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Thu 22 June 2023: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is joining the ranks of Benjamin Netanyahu, Nelson Mandela, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Winston Churchill and Yitzhak Rabin – the only other world leaders to have addressed the US Congress twice. It is part of his state visit to the United States, which is being hailed as a […]
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Thu 15 June 2023: In Iran’s Kasra Hospital, the parents of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini embraced in a hallway, grieving their daughter who died after being detained by the morality police. Journalist Niloofar Hamedi captured the moment in a photo and tweeted it out. Within the week, she was arrested. A week later, journalist Elaheh Mohammadi […]
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Mon 08 May 2023: Why did Saudi-Iranian relations fall apart and what will it mean for each country as they sew them back together? Saudi Arabia’s embassy in Iran has been abandoned for years. It was stormed by Iranian protesters back in 2016 and shut down – an extremely low point in the two countries’ […]
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Sat 25 March 2023: Former US President Donald Trump has never faced criminal charges, despite battling legal issues for most of his life. That could be about to change. Many, including the former president himself, believe he is on the verge of being indicted. The possible indictment is related to hush money paid to porn […]
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