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Over 3 million Iranian pilgrims enter Iraq for Arbaeen
Shafaq News
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2025-08-08T14:33:19+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Tehran Iraqi Interior Minister Abdul Amir al-Shammari announced on Friday that more than three million foreign visitors have entered the country to take part in the Arbaeen...
Deaf Republic is a celebration of life amongst war
New Statesman
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September 1, 2025
Behind the heavy wooden doors of a former 19th-century whiskey distillery in the Liberties in Dublin, rehearsals for a theatre adaption of the Ukrainian poet Ilya Kaminsky’s 2019 award-winning collection, Deaf Republic, have begun. The actors...
The History of the Demonizing Words Used Against Immigrants
TIME Magazine
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August 8, 2025
The Trump Administration’s attacks against immigrants may be unprecedented in its willingness to push legal boundaries, but the intense rhetoric used to justify its policy has a long track record. For more than a century, politicians and...
Vertical Baghdad: Towering new skyline signals progress - but at what cost?
The National News
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A quiet dawn in the Iraqi capital reveals a silhouette very unlike the one that defined the city for centuries. Once a tapestry of ornate wooden balconies, brick facades, inner courtyards and shaded alleys, the skyline of Baghdad is now punctuated...
Arbaeen pilgrimage: Iraq implements a full security and service plan
Shafaq News
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2025-08-08T16:10:17+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Najaf On Friday, Iraq’s Interior Minister Abdul Amir al-Shammari announced the launch of a comprehensive security and service plan for the Arbaeen pilgrimage, emphasizing...
A decorated veteran, a violent conviction: One man's story of immigration and potential deportation
Denver 7 - Colorado
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August 8, 2025
AURORA, Colo. — Sitting inside of the Aurora ICE Processing Center is a man who served this country, a man who served his time and a man who embodies a national debate surrounding immigration and deportation. The federal government wants to deport...
'Iran's Grand Strategy': Understanding the Islamic Republic
The New Indian Express
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Iran is an oddity – a non-Arab Muslim nation, global leader of the Shite sect, and the strategically located Eastern boundary of the Middle East. It is one of the world's oldest continuous civilizations dating back to the 5thmillennium BC which...
Weaponising Sufism and Wahhabism to Subjugate Muslims
Sabrang India
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August 8, 2025
The following is a summarised and edited version of: “Manufacturing ‘Islam Lite’: Sufism as ‘Good Islam’: How the politics of ‘Good Muslim’ vs. ‘Bad Muslim’ manufactures consent for genocide” by Farah El-Sharif. Read the original here. The Birth...
MPM Premium Nabs World Sales Rights to Locarno’s Piazza Grande Entry ‘Irkalla: Gilgamesh’s Dream,’ by Iraqui Director-Producer Mohamed Al-Daradji (EXCLUSIVE)
Variety
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August 8, 2025
Paris-based MPM Premium has acquired world sales rights to hyperrealistic drama “Irkalla: Gilgamesh’s Dream,” by Iraqi director-producer Mohamed Al-Daradji (“Son of Babylon”), ahead of the film’s world premiere at the current Locarno Film...
Stephen Miller 'absurdly' claims DC 'more violent than Baghdad' after Trump bombshell
The Mirror US
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August 8, 2025
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller reinforced unfounded statements from President Donald Trump earlier this week that Washington, D.C., suffers from more violent crime than Iraq's Baghdad. "It is more violent than Baghdad. It is more...
Sacred March: Iraq ramps up security and services for Arbaeen
Shafaq News
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2025-08-08T08:16:28+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Karbala Iraq is intensifying preparations for the Arbaeen pilgrimage, one of the world’s largest annual religious gatherings. The event, observed 40 days after Ashura,...
The best and worst countries for LGBTQIA+ tourists in 2025
QNews
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August 8, 2025
The Mediterranean nation of Malta has been named the safest destination for LGBTQIA+ tourists for the tenth year in a row by A3M Global Monitoring in publishing its 2025 LGBTQ+ Risk Map, a world map of safety for travellers from the LGBTQIA+...
Haj Bektash Vali Hill, symbol of Iran's mystical history and culture
Tehran Times
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August 6, 2025
TEHRAN--Haj Bektash Vali Hill in Neyshabur, Khorasan Razavi province, is a prominent symbol of Iran's mystical history and culture, which has the potential to attract domestic and foreign tourists, an archaeologist said. In an interview with ISNA,...
GCC Countries Demand Immediate Gaza Ceasefire, Underscore Two-State Solution
Asharq Al-Awsat
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The Ministerial Council of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) called on Monday for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza, stressing the need to protect civilians and ensure the unimpeded delivery of humanitarian aid. Holding its 165th...
Siemens, CSCEC to build power plant in Iraq
Zawya
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A consortium of Germany’s Siemens company and CSCEC of China have won a contract to build a power plant in Iraq. The gas-run plant replaces a power station that was devastated during the war against Islamic militants in Baiji city in the central...
Benjamin Fulford — September 1st, 2025
Stillness in the Storm
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September 1, 2025
It is September now, and the campaign to dismantle the deep state has definitely begun. What is happening is that the committee of 300 faction of the deep state has now aligned with the white hats to take down the Clinton/Rockefeller/Obama/Hitler...
CSUCI professor released on bail after arrest at Camarillo immigration enforcement protest
Ojai Valley News - California
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Screenshot via TheCityofCamarillo YouTube channel Jonathan Caravello speaks during a Camarillo City Council meeting on July 9. His comment can be watched in full at: https://youtu.be/90VhVob-tns California State University Channel Islands...
'Modi’s War' designed to quell India’s resistance to Trump’s diktat; will it work?
The Federal
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September 1, 2025
Even the most hardened critic of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will find it difficult to accept the Trump administration’s description of the Russia-Ukraine conflict as “Modi’s War”. Most will agree at this point in time that the accusation...
Pakistan, Iraq sign MoU for ferry service
Dawn
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August 7, 2025
ISLAMABAD: In a move aimed at enhancing religious tourism and bilateral trade, Pakistan and Iraq have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to launch a ferry service between Gwadar Port and Umm Qasr Port. The agreement was formalised during a...
Searching for the mysterious ‘Rooikop’ in the Boipatong Massacre, and did he die in Iraq?
Daily Maverick
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August 7, 2025
At about 9pm on the cold winter’s night of 17 June 1992, a petrol attendant was working late at night at the garage on the edge of the township of Boipatong in the Vaal Triangle. He saw hundreds of heavily armed IFP supporters crossing Frikkie...