Sun 20 November 2022: Soon after arriving in Oslo, my taxi zigzagged through the city’s well-organised streets and state-of-the-art infrastructure. Large billboards advertised the world’s leading brands in fashion, cars and perfumes. Amid all the expressions of wealth and plenty, an electronic sign by a bus stop flashed the images of poor looking African children […]
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Sat 19 November 2022: People began queueing before polling stations opened, despite storms and drizzle, as three main coalitions vie for power. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – Malaysians have started voting in a hotly-contested election dominated by the cost of living and the political infighting that has plagued the country for nearly three years. Prime Minister Ismail […]
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Wed 16 November 2022: Ever since Qatar was awarded the right in 2010 to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup tournament, it has faced opposition from the West, its Arab neighbours, NGOs and football teams. The whole anti-Qatar campaign has been distasteful and derogatory, focusing on alleged disrespect for human rights in the small Gulf […]
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Sun 13 November 2022: Nablus’ Old City has emerged as a hub of armed resistance in the occupied West Bank, which Israel wants to crush. Nablus, occupied West Bank – Traces of blood still stain the floor of Wadee al-Hawah’s home in the Yasmineh quarter deep inside the Old City of Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West […]
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Mon 07 November 2022: The appointment of Chandru Acharya to the DHS faith-based Security Advisory Council shows ‘ignorance’ of the US government, activists and academics say. The recent appointment of a Hindu nationalist community leader to an interfaith council under the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has raised “concern”. In September, the DHS […]
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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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