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Win over Iraq big for confidence of Gilas Pilipinas — Cone
The Manila Times
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August 9, 2025
MANILA, Philippines — Tim Cone admitted that Gilas Pilipinas’ gut-wrenching 66-57 win against a fighting Iraq side gave the needed shot in the arm so to speak for the team as it stays in contention in the FIBA Asia Cup 2025 on Saturday in Jeddah,...
World News | Education, Livelihoods, and Press Freedom Hit as Balochistan Internet Ban Continues
Latestly
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August 9, 2025
Balochistan [Pakistan], August 9 (ANI): Internet services across Balochistan have remained suspended for several days, severely disrupting education, online businesses, and media reporting, The Balochistan Post reported. The provincial government...
Haw River Park names new superintendent
The Times-News - North Carolina
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The new park superintendent at Haw River State Park says he was drawn by the park's reputation for outdoor education about the environment. “Haw River State Park is home to the Summit Environmental Education Center, a first-class education program...
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...
Hindus need to make effort to survive : Advocate Mr Ashwini Upadhyay, Supreme Court
Sanatan Prabhat
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August 31, 2025
Adv. Ashwini Upadhyay Wardha (Maharashtra) – The ideology that led to Hindus from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Albania, Algeria, Azerbaijan, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Libya, Malaysia, Iraq, Iran, Maldives, Mali,...
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...
Iranian inventors clinch medals at IFIA 2025
Tehran Times
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September 3, 2025
TEHRAN – Iranian inventors have so far secured five gold medals and four silver medals at the fifth International Invention and Innovation Competition for the International Federation of Inventors’ Association (IFIA) IVN Members. The 5th...
'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...
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...
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...
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,...
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+...
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...
Iran Update, September 2, 2025
Critical Threats - Washington D.C.
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Information Cutoff: 2:00 PM ET The Critical Threats Project (CTP) at the American Enterprise Institute and the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) publish the Iran Update, which provides insights into Iranian and Iranian-sponsored activities that...
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...