Thu 19 January 2023: Ronaldo’s signing for Al Nassr could have a significant effect on Saudi football and the kingdom’s wider vision. Saudi Arabia made headlines in November by beating Argentina at the 2022 World Cup – the only team to defeat the eventual winners in Qatar – but there was still time in 2022 for a […]
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Sat 14 January 2023: Last week, the 25th Arabian Gulf Cup kicked off in Iraq for the first time in 44 years, with Basra serving as the host city for the regional biennial football tournament. Hosting the “Gulf Cup” as it is also known, was significant for the country, given the decades-long FIFA ban on […]
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Sun 08 January 2023: If it seems like Groundhog Day in Afghanistan, you could be right. The ruling Taliban seems to have made little change to its ideology and is even further away from the promises it made to improve women’s rights when its fighters entered Kabul unchallenged in August 2021. Girls’ schools have been […]
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Sat 31 December 2022: 2022 is coming to an end, however the events and conflicts that took place during this year are unresolved, the most important of which is the Russian-Ukrainian war that erupted in February. For me, the state of our Islamic nation breaks my heart. Indeed, every Muslim is saddened by the weakness […]
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Fri 30 December 2022: A burgeoning volunteer movement has taken on an increasingly prominent role in supplying Russian troops fighting in Ukraine. The clanking sound of sewing machines resounded through a Moscow workshop where more than a dozen women were busy assembling tactical stretchers for Russian troops fighting in Ukraine. The women were working under […]
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Fri 29 December 2022: Iran is heading into 2023 amid continuing protests and fraught relations with the West as it tries to entrench its regional influence and manage an ailing economy. The number of street demonstrations in Iran has decreased in recent weeks – but they have not gone away, defying some of the early […]
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Wed 28 December 2022: Every 30 hours, the pandemic spawned a new billionaire, while pushing a million people into poverty. Here’s why. Death and devastation are not the only calling cards COVID-19 will be remembered by. The pandemic has also drastically widened inequalities across the globe over the past three years. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires […]
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Mon 26 December 2022: The land question was at the heart of the South African national liberation struggle. The 1913 Natives Land Act restricted black people from owning and occupying parts of the country, leading to whites owning about 87% of the land. This reduced the African majority to “pariahs in the land of their birth”, […]
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Mon 26 December 2022: There is, by any standard, a terrifying phenomenon to which nobody is paying much attention; not even the media is making us aware of the potentially awful consequences. This phenomenon has appeared little by little in many countries, especially in the Arab world and the so-called Third World in general. I’m […]
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Thu 22 December 2022: Ivory Coast is the world’s top cocoa producing country but receives just four percent of the chocolate industry’s estimated annual worth of $100bn. Soubre, Ivory Coast – On a small cocoa plantation in the southwest of Ivory Coast, a group of men hack away at the yellow and red fruit used to […]
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