Fri 13 December 2024: Gazing out over his new domain in the capital, Damascus, Abu Muhammad Al-Jolani – otherwise known by his real identity, Ahmed Hussein Al-Sharaa – witnessed the result of a revolution that had toiled through almost 14 long years of suffering, setbacks, betrayals and complex and ever-changing power politics. It was a […]
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Thu 12 December 2024: Landlocked Chad, a West African country, announced that it is breaking off its military and security ties with its former colonial master, France. Chad’s Foreign Minister, Abderaman Koulamallah, in making the surprise announcement on 28 November, declared that France should consider that “Chad has grown up, matured and is a sovereign state” and […]
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Sat 07 December 2024: History will record that the year 2024 was a critical year with all its phases, developments and wars, inflicting severe harm to the project and status of Iran, its axis and its allies more than any year before it. Israel’s aggression continued in its war of extermination on Gaza. The number […]
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Fri 06 December 2024: United States Africa Command, or AFRICOM, is a military structure founded in 2007 with the entire African continent as, to use the military jargon, its “theatre of operations”. The idea behind establishing the Command is hegemonic in nature and interventional in practice. The Command’s mission statement says AFRICOM “counters transitional threats and malign […]
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Fri 06 December 2024: Israel hit southern Lebanon 191 times with white phosphorus, is that tied to its dreams of a buffer zone? Beirut, Lebanon – Israel has intensively used white phosphorus on a strip in southern Lebanon that matches a zone its army has marked as a red “no go” zone on maps it distributes […]
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Fri 06 December 2024: The decade of the 1980s saw a drastic downturn in the direction of peace and progress. The communal forces found a new tool to instill hate by misusing the history related to our ancient holy places. There was a Rath Yatra led by Lal Krishna Advani for building a Grand temple […]
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Wed 04 December 2024: As the peak Christmas diamond sales period approaches, the millions of people who have marched in city streets worldwide calling for an end to Israel’s genocide and apartheid should now call out the jewellery industry’s complicity in the genocide and demand reparations for its victims. Multinational corporations with operations in Israel generate revenue […]
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Sat 30 November 2024: Is Iran poised for a succession in leadership? Well, that depends on what you read. For weeks, rumors have been swirling about the health of the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as well as a possible replacement. In late October 2024, the Jerusalem Post picked up a New […]
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Fri 29 November 2024: After 53 days of intensified brutal Israeli strikes on Lebanon to destroy the military abilities of the Lebanese Hezbollah, a ceasefire brokered by the US and other countries came into effect at 4am local time (02:00 GMT) yesterday. Hezbollah has been involved in resistance action along with the Palestinian resistance in […]
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Thu 28 November 2024: Brics+ countries are exploring how they can foster greater use of local currencies in their trade, instead of relying on a handful of major currencies, primarily the US dollar and the euro. The forum for cooperation among nine leading emerging economies – Brazil, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Iran, Russian Federation, South […]
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