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Over 600 pilgrims hospitalised due to chlorine gas leak in Iraq
Business Recorder
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August 10, 2025
KARBALA: More than 600 pilgrims in Iraq were briefly hospitalised with respiratory problems after inhaling chlorine as the result of a leak at a water treatment station, authorities said Sunday. The incident took place overnight on the route...
UK complicit in Israeli war crimes, Jeremy Corbyn's tribunal hears
Middle East Eye
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September 4, 2025
There were around 50 people packed into a room in Westminster's historic Church House to hear evidence on Britain's role in Israel's genocide in Gaza. But over 12,000 people were watching online. Thursday was the first day of former Labour leader...
It’s the Hair Color of Feminist Icons, Titans of Culture, and Me. One MAGA Figure Has Ruined It.
Slate Magazine
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August 10, 2025
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. I started to develop a gray streak in my hair, right at the point of my right-side part, just before I turned 40. Back...
Arbaeen attack foiled: Iraqi Judiciary uncovers "bloody massacre" plot
Shafaq News
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2025-08-10T10:38:18+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Karbala On Sunday, the Karbala Investigative Court unveiled new details about a terrorist network linked to ISIS that was recently dismantled while allegedly plotting attacks...
Spanish Town Bans Muslim Festivals In Public Spaces As Anti-Islamification Movement Gains Momentum
Zero Hedge
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The Islamification of the West continues unchecked. Millions of third-worlders have been funneled into Western nations, especially France, Spain, Ireland, England, and Germany. Globalist rulers in Brussels have remained silent about the...
‘I live for a chance to leave Iraq’: how I survived torture and slavery at the hands of Islamic State
The Guardian
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August 9, 2025
My childhood living in a village in northern Iraq near the city of Mosul was rich in happiness despite the lack of resources. I was fond of my school and friends and enjoyed a warm family life filled with laughter. That all vanished when Islamic...
Tabaqchali: A Tour of Baghdad, Babylon, and Ctesiphon
Iraq Business News
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August 6, 2025
By Ahmed Tabaqchali, Chief Strategist of AFC Iraq Fund. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. "A tour of Baghdad, Babylon, and Ctesiphon" The market, as measured by the...
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...
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...
Afghan earthquake death toll passes 2,000
The National News
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The death toll from Afghanistan's worst earthquake in years passed 2,000 on Thursday as rescuers continue to find bodies in the rubble of destroyed buildings. Hamdullah Fitrat, a spokesman for the Taliban authorities, said hundreds more bodies...
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...
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...
'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...
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...
Useful enemies: On anti-imperialism and Israel’s war on Iran
LINKS
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September 4, 2025
First published at Midnight Sun. The US-backed Israeli war of aggression against Iran was only the latest episode in a series of military invasions that Israel has carried out following the Hamas-led attacks of October 7, 2023. The real goal of...
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...
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...