Pakistan vs Asia Bibi
A long running case reaches its final stage: A Pakistani court has overturned the death sentence of a Christian woman convicted of blasphemy, a case that has polarised the nation. …
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The Mysterious Case of a Missing Journalist
A Saudi journalists disappears inside a Saudi consulate in Turkey and is now presumed dead, so you know you can count on “The Huffington Post” for the take so hot …
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Corbyn’s Labour chooses side
And it’s not the side of the Middle East’s only liberal democracy, which is surrounded by hundreds of millions of people who would love to see the second Holocaust happen: …
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Not bigger than Texas
Congratulations, the United States, for the first time in 1973 the world’s biggest oil producer: The feat demonstrates how the US shale oil boom has reshaped the global energy landscape. American oil …
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Stabby in Amsterdam and bomby in Cairo
It is somewhat surreal, though sadly not unexpected, to see the spots I had walked on not that long ago becoming scenes of terrorist attacks. I swear it’s not me; …
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The world’s smallest lira
Tayyip Erdogan’s plans to Make Turkey Greater Again run into some Make America Great Again problems: Serap, a 23-year-old clerk at a clothes store in central Istanbul, is sure of who …
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Reuters Reuters on the wall, which countries are the worst for women of them all?
This is more than just stupid, it’s actually obscene: A 2018 survey… conducted by the Thomson Reuters Foundation found India to be the most dangerous country in the world for women. Afghanistan and …
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