Members of the Taliban Badri 313 military unit. Sun 04 June 2023: Iran expects Taliban to fulfill its promises in practice, while also wondering about stance of international community, regional actors In three questions, Mehmet Koc discusses the dispute between Iran and the Taliban with possible scenarios for the region. What is the dispute […]
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Imtiaz Sooliman, of Gift of the Givers, said conscious leadership is spiritual. It is “when the soul starts thinking of how to behave correctly”. Sun 04 June 2023: Many citizens of the global south have noticed some obvious trends in the news in the past few weeks. These highlight issues in the international system of […]
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Historic marker for Omar Ibn Said outside of a mosque named after him. Photo: Gerry Dincher. Tue 30 May 2023: The inspiring stories of scholar-slaves such as Ayyuba Suleiman Diallo and Omar Ibn Said shed light on the overlooked intellectual resilience and cultural heritage during the transatlantic trade. It could have been a perfect, […]
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Sun 28 May 2023: Ten percent of the world’s population does not have enough food, the highest number in more than a decade. Hunger levels are rising around the world. As many as 828 million people – or 10 percent of the world’s population – go to bed hungry each night, 46 million more than […]
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Sun 28 May 2023: It is unclear why 100-year-old Henry Kissinger has been elevated by Western intelligentsia to serve the role of the visionary in how the West should behave in response to the Russia-Ukraine war. But does the centenarian politician have the answers? Every major global conflict that involved the US and its NATO […]
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Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (L) with Britain’s Home Secretary Suella Braverman (Photo: Phil Noble/AFP) Fri 26 May 2023: I arrived in the United Kingdom in 2010 on a rubber dinghy. If this bill was in place then, I might not be alive today. On May 16, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak addressed a Council […]
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Tue 23 May 2023: Embraces are fleeting, and a person may move from one embrace to another for whatever reason. This is not a phrase to promote a brothel and wasn’t said by a prostitute as she went from the embrace of one to another. It was actually said in the speech by the head […]
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Wed 17 May 2023: Istanbul, Turkey – Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has promised his supporters a “bigger victory” when they return to the polls in 12 days’ time in a run-off vote for the country’s top job. Erdogan, who is seeking a third term as president and a five-year extension of his 20-year rule, has appeared in […]
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Wed 17 May 2023: At the end of a long day, you realise you’re starting to get a headache. So you buy painkillers from the street vendor, and take two. But how do you know what those pills really are? The vendor isn’t a pharmacy. There’s no package insert listing ingredients or dosage instructions. What […]
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Tue 16 May 2023: Observers surprised after results show president leading his rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu by more than 4 percentage points in the first round. Days before Turkey headed into the most consequential presidential election in its modern history, most opinion polls showed President Recep Tayyip Erdogan trailing behind opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu. However on Sunday, observers […]
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