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The US president is finding a way to turn the coronavirus into something that will rally his base. Donald Trump has somehow survived an overwhelming flood of political scandals, legal battles, accusations, the Russia investigation, impeachment, and now, it looks like he is finding a way to spin the coronavirus […]
Reduction in violence is a key prerequisite for the Afghan government and the Taliban to sit at the negotiating table On May 23, the Taliban announced a three-day ceasefire to coincide with the Eid al-Fitr holiday. The Afghan government immediately announced its intention to reciprocate. The truce brought a brief but desperately […]
George Floyd’s death demonstrates just how little America cares about Black lives at home and abroad. Seated in the unenviable squalor of my modest, sparsely furnished living room, deep in the southern end of “shithole” Africa, as American President Donald Trump casually described it in January 2018, I have come […]
One of the first photos associated with coronavirus in the Gulf featured a despondent South Asian employee of the Saudi oil giant, Aramco, forced to dress-up as a life-sized sanitiser dispenser. The photos drew fierce criticism online, forcing the company to apologise. But, long before the photos became public, the idea was […]
Between 2013 and 2019, police in the United States killed 7,666 people, according to data compiled by Mapping Police Violence, a research and advocacy group. On May 25, 2020 at 9:25pm (02:25 GMT, May 26), George Floyd, a 46-year-old resident of Minnesota, became yet another victim of police brutality as he was killed […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has led many communities in the US, especially those on the margins who are particularly vulnerable to the consequences of national politics and bear the brunt of structural state violence, to rethink political engagement. Muslim Americans, who have been politically energised in new ways since 2016, are among […]
Employers should continue to encourage remote work even after the fight against coronavirus is over.by Ifeanyi M Nsofor In the last few months, as it became clear that the rapid spread of the novel coronavirus would eventually overwhelm health services, governments around the world started to mandate social distancing in […]
Every day, we ingest harmful substances with our diet without knowing about it. These substances acutely endanger the health of our gut. This is why many people suffer from unpleasant symptoms such as constipation, irregular bowel movements, flatulence, heartburn or skin problems, all of them imposing enormous restrictions on their […]
Celebrated writer Nirmal Verma was a sophisticated, nuanced and complex thinker who undertook an exercise in civilisational discourse. Nirmal Verma was a very cultured, nice and warm person. Even in his seventies, he was always very well dressed and retained his boyish charm. Conversations with him were seldom banal and […]