Sun 06 November 2022: The Secretary-General of Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah stood proud following the maritime demarcation and gas extraction agreement concluded between Lebanon and the Zionist entity, describing it as a historic victory that is added to his previous victories in 2000 and 2006! Paradoxically, the Zionist entity also considers the agreement a victory, so […]
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Fri 04 November 2022: A month after a brutal massacre, protests continue in Iran’s restive region of Balochistan, home to the Baloch-Sunni ethno-religious minority. Six more people, including three children, were reported to have been killed on Friday as Iranian security forces opened fire on the demonstrators in Zahedan, the capital of the south-eastern Sistan-and-Balochistan province. Earlier, security forces […]
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Tue 01 November 2022: “There are not two Brazils. We are one country, one people, one great nation.” With these words, Brazil’s president-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, known simply as Lula, started his first speech after his victory over far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro with 50.8 per cent of the vote in the election runoff […]
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Mon 31 October 2022: South Africa’s football team offered hope to a divided nation but has struggled to make an impact internationally. In the early 1990s, South African men’s football team carried the hopes of millions, that it would bring together a divided nation at the end of apartheid. In July 1992, the team was […]
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Tue 25 October 2022: Unlike some Arab states, Qatar has staunchly refused to normalise with the Assad regime after severing ties in 2011 at the height of the Arab Spring protests. Palestine’s Hamas movement confirmed its restoration of ties with Syria’s Bashar Al-Assad regime on Wednesday, following a controversial meeting in Damascus years after severing […]
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Mon 24 October 2022: South Africa’s major cities in the Gauteng Province – the country’s economic heartland – are experiencing major water shortages. In Johannesburg and Tshwane taps have run dry, with numerous areas experiencing intermittent supply while some areas have no water at all. The province has metropolitan areas – the City of Johannesburg, Tshwane […]
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Mon 10 October 2022: If any month in 2022 succeeded in further uniting far-right extremists in Europe, Israel and India in a herd mentality, it would be September, when the English city of Leicester witnessed clashes between young Hindu and Muslim men following a series of attacks against the Muslim community by hundreds of violent […]
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Sun 09 October 2022: In November, heads of state, ministers, journalists and activists will gather in Egypt’s Red Sea Resort town of Sharm El-Sheikh for the UN climate change summit, COP27. There has been widespread concern about the role civil society will play. “When it’s hosted in a country like Egypt, where a serious human […]
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Sat 08 October 2022: While Israeli aggression against Palestinians is escalating, and the Palestinian response is to attack the occupation army, Israel is complaining about what it describes as biased media coverage by the world’s leading television networks and newspapers. Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Idan Roll has told the editors of major foreign newspapers that […]
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Fri 07 October 2022: The United States has accused OPEC oil-producing nations of siding with Russia after a decision to cut oil output. A decision by the OPEC+ alliance of oil-exporting countries to sharply cut production and boost crude prices has dealt a blow to consuming nations, prompting accusations that Gulf producers are siding with […]
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