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The Beijing Winter Olympics: A wedding adjacent to a funeral

Published by Global Voices Boycott Xinjiang advert on New York University’s campus, New York, NY, October 7, 2020. Photo by Themomenthasarrived2020 (CC BY-SA 4.0) The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics kicked off on February 4, with the Uyghur genocide still raging in East Turkestan (“Xinjiang” to China). This is the same

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Dark days ahead for Afghanistan

Published by Al-Araby On 11 February, the Biden administration announced that it intended to divert $3.5 billion of frozen assets from Da Afghanistan Bank (Afghanistan’s central bank) to families of 9/11 victims. This amount is roughly half of Afghanistan’s foreign reserves, which Washington froze amid the Taliban’s takeover of the

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Sanaullah Ghafari, the IS leader the US has offered $10m for

Published by Al-Araby Hoping to further destabilise the so-called Islamic State group following its leader’s death, US officials have turned their focus to an architect of the insurgents’ bloody revival in Afghanistan since losing their “caliphate” in Syria. Sanaullah Ghafari, also known as Shahab Al-Muhajir, has led the Islamic State-Khorasan

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British Deputy High Commissioner hosts reception for returning Chevening and Commonwealth scholars, underlines girls’ education

Published by TDPel Media The British High Commission on Thursday organised a virtual welcome back reception for Pakistani scholars who were awarded the prestigious Chevening and Commonwealth scholarships 2020/21. British Deputy High Commissioner Alison Blackburne welcomed the Pakistani scholars who have returned from the UK after completing a fully-funded one-year

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Kashmir journalist arrested over ‘anti-national’ content

Published by Al-Araby Police in Indian-administrated Kashmir have arrested a young journalist on accusations of publishing “anti-national content”, police said, in a widening crackdown against media in the disputed region. Fahad Shah, the editor of news portal Kashmir Walla, was summoned for questioning at a police station in southern Pulwama

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