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Worldwide Protests for Mahsa Amini: The Iran woman who died for wearing improper clothes

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Mahsa Amini was at a train station in Tehran with her brother when she got detained by the police. She died three days after the arrest for not complying with “morality” laws, which consist of extreme hijab dress code regulations.  The morality police are tasked with enforcing Iran’s strict Islamic dress codes. They regularly stop, …

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Iranian Operative On FBI most wanted list for a hire-for-murder Plot on John Bolton

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The FBI is investigating an alleged assassination plot by an Iranian operative to eliminate former Trump administration national security adviser John Bolton. The justice department believes the scheme is a retaliation for a US airstrike that killed a popular Iranian general back in 2020 in Iraq.  In response to the uncovered threat, Bolton thanked the …

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Israel’s airstrikes on Palestine today is likely leading to a full throttle war

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Israel has unleashed ongoing rounds of airstrikes in Gaza city. The health ministry of Gaza has reported 44 injuries and 9 casualties thus far, including a five year old child and Taysir al-Jabari, a Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) commander.  The Israeli military has confessed to taking out the attacks in response to alleged threats from …

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Supporters of Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr gather during a sit-in at the parliament building in Baghdad on July 31, 2022. © Saba Kareem, Reuters

Iraqi Protesters Calling for a complete overhaul of government

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Political turmoil is heightening in Iraq as protesters have stormed parliament for the second time in one week. The massive public unrest of hundreds of protesters have forced their way through a high security zone in Baghdad, the capital, and broke into Iraq’s parliament building. The incident is a dissent towards former Prime Minister Nouri …

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Slayed Palestinian-American Journalist’s Family Seeking Justice In DC

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It’s been two months since the slay of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen abu Akleh. Akleh was killed by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) at a refugee camp in the Palestinian city of Jenin in northern West Bank.  Prior to her murder, brutal attacks against both Palestinians and Israelis tallied up to around 50 dead. Most of …

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Palestinian-American Journalist’s Murder Inconclusive

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The US state department released a statement on July 4th declaring the killing of the Palestinian-American journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh as inconclusive. The department’s spokesperson Ned Price made the announcement albeit evidence levying responsibility to the Israeli forces.  Shireen Abu Akleh was shot on May 11th, 2022, near the entrance of a refugee camp in …

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War Refugees Massacred By Moroccan Police

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The death of 23 African immigrants at the Spanish-Moroccan border has sparked outrage and a series of protests in Spain. As the only land borders between Spain and Morocco, Melilla and Ceuta are Spanish territories that serve as a crossing passage for migrants escaping a multitude of humanitarian conflicts.  On Friday, June 24, an estimated …

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FILE - Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad, center right, meets with Russian lawmaker Dmitry Sablin, center left, and a Russian delegation in Damascus, Syria, June 14, 2022. Sablin visited Syria with a Russian delegation that included the foreign minister for the breakaway pro-Russian area in Ukraine, the "Donetsk People's Republic." Syria said Wednesday, June 29, 2022, that it has it has decided to recognize the “independence and sovereignty” of Ukraine’s eastern Luhansk and Donetsk regions and contacts will be underway to have diplomatic relations. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki, File)

Syria Recognizes the Independence of Donetsk and Luhansk

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The government of Syria has recognized the Eastern region of Ukraine as an independent state,  just four months after President Putin and the self-proclaimed leaders of Donetsk, Nataliya Nikoronova and Luhansk, Leonid Pasechnik signed a decree to declare the regions’ independence.  Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad met with Russian lawmaker Dmitry Sablin and a Russian …

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