Last Keffiyeh Factory in Palestine -Interesting Read

Wed 24 Apr 2019: In Hebron, one family is keeping Palestine’s keffiyeh production in check. On a quiet Hebron street, a rhythmic click-clacking of metal on metal gets louder with every step as you descend the staircase into the factory. Once inside, fluorescent lights illuminate the half-concrete, half-tiled basement floor. Mini plastic flags – in red, green, white and black […]

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Special Report: Iran’s Ahwazi Arab minority: dissent against ‘discrimination’

 Sat 13 Apr 2019: Most of Iran’s oil, gas and water resources are in the Ahwaz region, where the country’s Arab minority complain of marginalisation The plight of Iran’s Arab Ahwazi minority and their recent protests in the country’s oil-rich southwest region, is being underreported despite serious and systematic discrimination against them by Tehran.   Arabs […]

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Toxic air will shorten children’s lives by 20 months, study reveals

Global air pollution crisis is taking its greatest toll on children in south Asia The life expectancy of children born today will be shortened by 20 months on average by breathing the toxic air that is widespread across the globe, with the greatest toll in south Asia, according to a major study. Air pollution contributed to nearly one in […]

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Gaza’s women turn to cosmetics to hide the scars and stresses of war

From rashes to hair growths, the enclave’s only EU-certified clinic is helping to rid the blemishes of life under siege Nisreen Abdul Salam has few ways to treat herself these days – to feel beautiful and comfortable in who she is. The 46-year-old mother of four lost her husband and home one fateful night during […]

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Newspapers skeptical of Apple’s news subscription service

Many newspaper publishers — after suffering for a decade from job losses, shrinking ad dollars and circulation declines — are so far shunning Apple’s new “Netflix for news” subscription. For $10 a month, Apple News Plus offers articles from more than 300 magazines, but only three newspapers. Despite a potential audience of millions of iPhone […]

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Muslim world denounces US recognition of Golan Heights as Israeli territory

CAIRO (REUTERS, AFP) – Saudi Arabia led the Muslim world’s denounciation of US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Israel’s 1981 annexation of the Golan Heights on Tuesday (March 26). A statement released by the Saudi Press Agency said: “Attempts to impose fait accompli do not change the facts.” It said the Golan Heights was an […]

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