Wed 07 September 2022: Russia appears to be on the defensive as Ukraine slowly but surely gains ground. Russian forces lost territory on all fronts during the 28th week of war, as a counteroffensive spread from the southern Kherson region to the eastern and northern fronts of the country, demonstrating Ukraine’s ongoing ability to seize […]
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Sun 04 September 2022: A Saudi app that lets ordinary people “play the role of a police officer” may have alerted authorities to the tweets of a student whose sentencing to 34 years in jail has drawn international condemnation. Just weeks after the verdict against Salma Al-Shehab – a doctoral candidate at Britain’s Leeds University […]
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Mausoleum of Imam al-Bukhari in Samarkand. Thu 01 September 2022: Imam Mohammed Al-Bukhari is considered as one of the most distinguished scholars of Hadith in Islamic history. His book Sahih al-Bukhari, in which the Prophet’s words, actions, or habits were collected, is one of the greatest sources of the prophetic influence in history. His full […]
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Wed 31 August 2022: Laal Singh Chaddha, the latest Aamir Khan film, has flopped at the box office amid a boycott campaign by right-wing groups. New Delhi, India – In early August, Aamir Khan, one of Bollywood’s biggest stars, made a public declaration of love for India designed to counter a virtual campaign being waged against him […]
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Sun 28 August 2022: The IMF and the World Bank nudged the relatively closed countries towards greater capital account liberalisation over the last few decades, sometimes pushing them using stern conditionality. Now, when higher interest rates in advanced economies are sucking capital out of developing economies, these influential International Financial Institutions (IFIs) have a responsibility to act. […]
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Sun 28 August 2022: Some 40,000 Rohingya refugees live in India where fears are growing as calls for deportations to Myanmar increase. New Delhi, India – On the fifth anniversary of the start of military atrocities against the Rohingya in Myanmar, those of them living in India find themselves caught in a web of uncertainty and fear as […]
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Fri 26 August 2022: Peiter Zatko’s allegations raise questions about big tech’s responsibility towards users in authoritarian countries. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – Twitter whistleblower Peiter Zatko’s claims that the social media giant has endangered users in China have raised questions about big tech’s responsibility to protect dissidents from state persecution. Zatko, Twitter’s former head of security, […]
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Tue 23 August 2022: The recent statements by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan about the need to “take further steps with Syria”, a reference to the murderous regime of Bashar Al-Assad, destroyed our last glimmer of hope. Those of us who love the Syrian people and Erdogan himself were shocked by his words, as we […]
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Mon 22 August 2022: It was perplexing to see the French Newspaper, Le Monde, publishing on 17 August 2022, an opinion piece by writer, Patrice Franceschi, and former French Foreign Minister, Bernard Kouchner. The piece, which peddles loads of misinformation and fallacies, calls upon Western nations to discourage Turkiye from launching a military operation against ‘the Kurds of […]
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Al-Aqsa Mosque burning after Denis Michael attacked the mosque started a fire in 21 August, 1969 [Wikipedia] Sun 21 August 2022: On 21 August, 1969, an extremist Australian Christian, Dennis Michael Rohan, attempted to set fire to Al-Aqsa Mosque; his action had the apparent blessing of the Israeli occupation forces. Some 48 years later, the […]
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