Sat 04 December 2021: Everything in existence will be assimilated into the online world. Some things already have been. This has proven true with business, shopping, services, social life, journalism, warfare and with the recently-announced ‘metaverse’, perhaps even our lives. So it was only a matter of time before money itself was integrated into that […]
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Tue 30 November 2021: Anti-refugee rhetoric is a useful distraction from government corruption and incompetence. What would you do if you’d been exposed for corruption and making false promises, were declining in popularity, and looked utterly incompetent, arrogant, and weak? If you were the right-wing, nationalist, British Conservative government you’d fabricate a ‘crisis’ out of people doing what you’d […]
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Mon 29 November 2021: I have the right to wonder about the value of the moral, material and historical cost that the nation is still paying with the continuation of sectarian killing! For instance, we have seen what happened and is still happening in Iraq, amid an unprecedented sectarian division that our nation is experiencing […]
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Sat 27 November 2021: Although the roles of Muslim women have increased in Western films and TV series, their controversial representations are generally distorted and insulting Like the other forms of art, cinema is a reflection of reality. However, the reality on the screen is not natural, which means the seventh art presents to its […]
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Sat 20 November 2021: Fintech startups drew more than 60 percent of all venture funding that flowed into Africa last quarter. Ricky Rapa Thomson was a security guard and then a motorbike taxi driver before he became an entrepreneur. SafeBoda, the startup he co-founded, promises safe and reliable transport on Uganda’s deadly streets. It also […]
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Sun 14 November 2021: The assassination attempt on Iraqi PM Mustafa al-Kadhimi has brought the divisions within pro-Iran militias to the fore. Baghdad, Iraq – Soon after the drone attack aimed at assassinating Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, Iran joined the ranks of countries condemning the attack. Tehran, which wields considerable military influence in Iraq, […]
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Fri 05 November 2021: Alarm bells are ringing at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow over the perilous fate of the planet. The threat of a “doomsday” scenario was echoed in the speeches of world leaders taking part, warning of the “existential threat to human existence”. The message could not be clearer or starker: “We […]
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Sun 24 October 2021: Diplomatic efforts to break the ice between longtime regional rivals, Iran and Saudi Arabia, have intensified in recent months, with officials of both sides citing progress in talks brokered by Iraq. Four rounds of talks have been held in Baghdad since April to ease tensions that first sparked in January 2016 […]
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Tue 19 October 2021: On February 5, 2003, as the United States was preparing to invade Iraq, Secretary of State Colin Powell made a pivotal presentation to the United Nations Security Council claiming Saddam Hussein was developing weapons of mass destruction (WMD). The biological weapon anthrax could be delivered against Iraq’s neighbours or the US […]
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Fri 01 October 2021: Tensions have increased between Iran and Azerbaijan in the past few weeks. However, relations between the two neighbours were unstable even earlier, especially following the war between Azerbaijan and Armenia last autumn. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s recital of a poem during his visit to Azerbaijan last December was met with Iranian displeasure. […]
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