Sat 13 April 2024: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – In 2019, Mariana Leal de Souza, a 39-year-old Black woman living outside Brazil’s largest city, Sao Paulo, was having a hard time coping with the suicide of her teenage son when she was confronted with more difficult news: She was pregnant. “I couldn’t believe it,” the social […]
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Sat 13 April 2024: The Syrian revolution has just entered its fourteenth year. The Arab Spring revolutions swept across the Arab world and broke out in Syria on 15 March, 2011. Had it not been for Russia’s intervention, the Syrian dictator Bashar Al-Assad would have been overthrown. He preferred Syria to fall into the clutches of the Russian occupation than for […]
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Fri 12 April 2024: As the largest electorate in history goes to the polls in India from April 19 to June 1, 2024, political parties are seeking to influence voters’ decisions – through cinema. The incumbent Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, seeking a third term in office under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has deployed […]
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Tue 09 April 2024: Beyond the political dimensions to the ongoing war in Gaza, there exists a deep religious undertone on both sides, which traces back to the very establishment of the Zionist occupation state in 1948, justified on the grounds of religious scripture as a God-given right to Jews. Yet despite its religious exterior, […]
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Former South African President Jacob Zuma has endorsed the new uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party over the ruling ANC [File: MK Party X] Sat 07 April 2024: KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa – “We need change and we need change now,” said Princess Nozwe Zulu, sitting in her home in a low-income government housing project in Savannah Park, […]
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Wed 03 April 2024: Washington, DC – The White House has cancelled a Ramadan iftar meal after several Muslim Americans declined the invitation in protest of President Joe Biden’s support for Israel’s war on Gaza, according to two people familiar with the matter. The sources, who spoke to Al Jazeera on condition of anonymity, said the cancellation […]
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Rabbis from the Temple Institute meet with farmers to discuss the best way to construct a farm that will protect the red heifers from any type of blemish. (courtesy Temple Institute) Sun 31 March 2024: Radical plans to slaughter the heifers have raised concern across the Arab world – and were even linked by […]
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Fri 29 March 2024: The global halal economy is on the rise, with an increase in demand fuelling more opportunities for investment in sharia-compliant ways. The global Islamic halal economy is set to reach a market value of $7.7 trillion by 2025, more than double the $3.2 trillion it reached in 2015 and significantly higher […]
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Mon 18 March 2024: Stories have always conveyed messages to the human subconscious. From the bedtime stories children are taught, to the movies we watch and the novels we read, the art of the story is possibly the most effective tool a propagandist can use. Speeches and the spoken word may impact the mind at […]
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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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