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NCCAL launches 8th Arab Children’s Theater Festival
Kuwait Times
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September 3, 2025
KUWAIT: The National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters (NCCAL) inaugurated the 8th Arab Children’s Theater Festival on Monday with a special opening show titled “Stop”, featuring glimpses of international tales and iconic stories that have...
'Photography Helps You Visualise Music': Bryan Adams On Dubai Debut Of His Iconic Portraits
MENAFN
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September 5, 2025
(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) There comes a point in a star's trajectory where the myth of the celebrity becomes bigger than the celebrity. At that point, the persona takes over the person, and the face left behind is merely the one consumed by...
Former St. Mary’s County Commissioner John O’Connor Announces Re-Filing for Position
Southern Maryland News Net
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September 5, 2025
Former County Commissioner John O’Connor released the following on September 4th, 2025. O’Connor served as Commissioner representing District 3 from December 1, 2014, until December 5, 2022, serving as Vice-President of the Board from December...
Vets Rock
Fort Worth Weekly - Texas
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September 3, 2025
If he weren’t already well-known as one of Fort Worth’s best frontmen for his work with indie-rockers Cut Throat Finches, Sean Russell might have a high profile based on his compassionate activism. Lately, Russell has shown this with efforts to...
The U.S. Rejects the Palestinian Victimhood Narrative
Daily Alert
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September 2, 2025
(Sept. 2, 2025 / JNS) U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio invited the scorn of the world with his announcement last week that Washington was barring officials from the Palestinian Authority from entering the country to attend the meeting this...
Australia's 'secret' deportation deal with Nauru to cost taxpayers $2.5billion
Daily Mail
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September 3, 2025
By AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: 11:05 EDT, 3 September 2025 | Updated: 11:05 EDT, 3 September 2025 Australian taxpayers will be slugged $2.5 billion over 30 years to deport hundreds of former immigration detainees to Nauru under a...
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From Department of War to Department of Defence and back… The history behind the name change in US
Firstpost
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September 5, 2025
Is the United States planning to change the name of the Department of Defence? President Donald Trump is set to sign an executive order (EO) changing the name back to the Department of War. “It used to be called the Department of War and it had a...
ANCA Backs FY2026 NDAA Amendments Strengthening Armenia, Returning Armenians to Artsakh, Holding Azerbaijan Accountable
Aravot
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Bipartisan Measures Seek Release of Armenian Prisoners, Azerbaijan Sanctions, and Restrictions on U.S. Military Sales to Turkey WASHINGTON, DC – The Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) is supporting a series of pro-Armenian amendments to...
Harvard Scientist Claims He Can Prove God’s Existence With Formula for the Divine
Greek Reporter
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September 1, 2025
Mosul Dam reservoir in northern Iraq. Credit: Leif Hinrichsen / Flickr / CC BY-NC 2.0 The question of God’s existence has long divided scholars, believers, and skeptics for centuries. Religion and science have often been viewed as opposing forces,...
Trump's horrific cult contains the seeds of its own destruction
AlterNet
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September 5, 2025
America is at risk of abandoning its founding principle of government, “by and for the people,” in favor of a system older than democracy itself: rule by one man. Pretty much everybody understands that the United States and the old Soviet Union...
Winners of Sheikh Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani Endowment Prize announced
The Peninsula
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September 3, 2025
Director of the Department of Research and Islamic Studies Sheikh Dr. Ahmed bin Mohammed bin Ghanem Al Thani addressing a press conference in Doha yesterday. Doha, Qatar: The Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs has announced the winners of the...
‘Interfaith imam’ gets a hearing today as Trump admin lies about him
Baptist News Global
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August 26, 2025
A coalition of Ohio justice advocates and interfaith religious leaders are pleading with Gov. Mike DeWine to prevent the deportation of Imam Ayman Soliman, the former Cincinnati Children’s Hospital chaplain currently detained by U.S. immigration...
Iran Update, September 4, 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...
Romance in stone and song: Cave Café enchants Al-Sulaymaniyah
Shafaq News
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2025-09-03T18:29:54+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Al-Sulaymaniyah Across Al-Sulaymaniyah in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, where rugged mountains cradle caves that carry centuries of memory, a new venture is turning this...
‘Preparation for the Next Life’ Filmmaker Bing Liu on His Narrative Feature Debut and Why a ‘Minding the Gap’ Sequel Is Unlikely
The Hollywood Reporter - California
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September 4, 2025
Understandably, Bing Liu is still on cloud nine over his storybook run at the end of the 2010s. His coming-of-age documentary, Minding the Gap, premiered at 2018’s Sundance Film Festival to universal acclaim, taking home the special jury prize for...
Syria Kurds say they thwarted escape bid from camp for IS families
Yahoo News
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Syrian Kurdish forces said Wednesday they thwarted an escape attempt by more than 50 inmates of Al-Hol camp, which holds people suspected of ties to the Islamic State (IS) group. Kurdish authorities in northeastern Syria have run camps hosting...
ObituaryGiorgio Armani: Groundbreaking designer who fashioned red carpet dressing
The National News
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Giorgio Armani, the famous Italian fashion designer, has died, aged 91. The news of his death has been confirmed by the brand. "With infinite sorrow, the Armani Group announces the passing of its creator, founder and tireless driving force:...
The Neighbor From Hell
The Atlantic
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September 2, 2025
Shortly after the end of the Iran-Iraq War, the United States Institute of Peace held an event in Washington, D.C., to discuss the Middle East’s delicate prospects. Panelists suggested ever more intricate ways to give regional peace a chance,...
When a CIA agent recruited a Sufi mystic to spy
The Print
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September 3, 2025
Hunkered down at a freezing mountain outpost on a wind-blasted ridge in northeastern Iraq, Tom Sylvester had recruited a Sufi sheikh and his tribe of flesh-piercing mystics to help America spy on Saddam. For once, at long last, the CIA had...
Twenty Years After Katrina: Lessons in Climate, Justice, and Solidarity
The Nonprofit Quarterly
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September 4, 2025
Credit: Arun Kuchibhotla on Unsplash Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina, its lessons for climate justice, community governance, and solidarity are more important than ever. During the last week of August 2025, local organizers and community...