Mon 27 February 2023: One of the most illusory phenomena in our current existence is the money we use for buying, selling and hoarding on a daily basis. It is, to put it simply, in the air, backed up by nothing and reliant on nothing, yet at the same time highly delicate and sensitive […]
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Thu 23 February 2023: As the death toll from the earthquakes which rocked Turkiye and Syria continues to rise, many are questioning whether sanctions on Syria are preventing aid from reaching the war-torn country. After 12 years of civil war, most of Syria is once again under the control of the Assad regime, but a small […]
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. Abroan Nissa holds a photo of her husband arrested during the crackdown [Md Meharban/Al Jazeera] Tue 21 February 2023: More than 3,000 people arrested this month, with the state’s BJP government accused of targeting Muslims in the ongoing drive. Assam, India – As Saidul Islam stares at rows of wilted cauliflowers and cabbages, the 33-year-old […]
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Sat 18 February 2023: Three years after Ladakh was separated from Indian-administered Kashmir, residents say they want more safeguards for land and livelihoods. On August 5, 2019, when Ladakh was separated from Indian-administered Kashmir and turned into a federally governed territory, the streets in its main city – the Buddhist-majority Leh – erupted in jubilation. […]
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Thu 16 February 2023: New law will make it easier for authorities to revoke citizenship and residency of Palestinians in Israel and occupied East Jerusalem. Occupied East Jerusalem – The Israeli parliament has passed a law making it easier for authorities to revoke citizenship and residency from Palestinians imprisoned over Israeli-designated “acts of terror” and who […]
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Wed 15 February 2023: There is no doubt that everyone who has a conscience in the Islamic world or even an iota of humanity within them lived with great sadness and heartbreak last week as we saw the tragic aftermath of the terrible earthquakes in Turkiye and Syria. Tens of thousands were killed or injured […]
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A rescue dog sniffs the debris of a ruined building while search and rescue operations continue on Feb. 9, 2023, in Elbistan, Turkey. – Mehmet Kacmaz/Getty Images Wed 15 February 2023: Trained rescue dogs are helping to find survivors buried underneath layers of concrete and otherwise undetectable. Hours after two huge earthquakes and hundreds of aftershocks struck […]
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Tue 14 February 2023: Govt efforts to ban the BBC documentary drew more attention to it and showed the inefficacy of such measures. If one were to rank the top incident that has marred Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s political career, it would be the Gujarat riots of 2002. And a year before India goes to […]
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Mon 13 February 2023: The ongoing ‘anti-encroachment’ drive in J&K against alleged ‘illegal occupation’ of state land looks like an unveiled attempt to create a land bank for ‘outsiders’ What’s wrong with the administration seeking to remove ‘encroachments’ from public land or ‘state land’? Plenty, people say in Jammu and Kashmir, where tehsildars have been […]
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Sun 12 February 2023: There are few tragedies in the world for which the responsibility can be deflected away from politics and human fault. This week’s earthquake in Turkiye and Syria was one of those, and has resulted in a flurry of devastation – over 20,000 deaths so far, destroyed homes, huge infrastructure damage and […]
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