Wed 21 September 2022: The British media want us to believe that the awful scenes of violence on the suburban streets of Leicester were triggered by a cricket match between India and Pakistan in Dubai last month. That narrative pushed by lazy journalists is much easier than confronting the real issues at play in this […]
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Sun 18 September 2022: The official and secret code for implementing the plan for events following the death of Queen Elizabeth II was “London Bridge is down”. This was the signal for “Operation Unicorn” to swing into action, which has happened since the monarch’s death was announced last Thursday. The plan covered everything from announcements […]
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Fri 16 September 2022: Removing the British monarch as head of state would complete ‘decolonisation process’, Jamaican academic says. The death of Queen Elizabeth II will accelerate the push by former UK colonies to ditch the British crown, experts and advocates have said, amid heightened anti-colonial sentiments in the remaining Commonwealth realms. Despite the collapse of the […]
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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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