Sun 05 May 2024: Lubombo, Eswatini – In the heart of the Jilobi Forest, a biodiversity hotspot in Eswatini’s eastern region of Lubombo, the three chiefdoms inhabiting the territory had longstanding disputes, and tensions used to run high. But recently, an urge to preserve their shared land has caused them to retire their rivalry. “There were […]
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Fri 03 May 2024: Founded by Hasan-e-Sabbah in the late 11th century, Hashshashins created fear by murdering officials throughout the Middle East and loaned a word to the English language: Assassins These three men were Nizam al-Mulk, the grand vizier of Seljuk Empire; Omar Khayyam, renowned wiseman and poet; and Hasan-e-Sabbah, founder of the Assassins […]
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Fri 03 May 2024: As the campaign targeting of Muslims becomes more direct and shrill, experts fear Modi’s words could encourage violence against the community. New Delhi, India – Speaking to a saffron-clothed crowd of supporters in his home state of Gujarat earlier this week, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi turned to an increasingly favoured electoral […]
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Sat 20 April 2024: Think your friends would be interested? Share this story! A regional war doesn’t serve the interests of either the US and global powers as well as Iran. It does however serve Israel, but Tel Aviv is extremely unlikely to succeed in this endeavour After a week of telegraphing its plan to […]
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Ramadan vibes in Oxford street Mon 15 April 2024: Experts say a new definition disproportionately targets groups that advocate for Muslims’ civil rights. The United Kingdom government’s new definition of “extremism”, touted as a bid to tackle rising Islamophobia and anti-Semitism in the aftermath of Israel’s war on Gaza, has ignited fierce debate across the political […]
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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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