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Opinion – Reflecting on Hiroshima

  • August 9, 2024

I am back again in Japan with Japanese peace institutes, marking this most solemn of events in the global peace calendar. On 6 August 1945 Hiroshima endured a traumatic human loss of statistically seismic proportion – followed on 9 August by equally devastating mass casualties in Nagasaki. The human and...

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Iran’s West Asian Neo-Empire: Armed and Ready

  • August 9, 2024

“Death to America, death to Israel” emerged as a slogan of the 1978–1979 Islamic Revolution, then was transformed into a reason for existence of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Conventional and chemical weapons that pounded Iranian cities from Iraq during the latter nation’s US-supported war between 1980–1988 did not topple...

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Arshad Nadeem dethrones Neeraj Chopra to win Olympic gold in javelin

  • August 8, 2024

Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem throws Olympic record to defeat India’s defending champion Neeraj Chopra in javelin final. Arshad Nadeem made history in clinching Pakistan’s first Olympic medal in athletics as he claimed gold in the men’s javelin on Thursday. The 27-year-old, from Mian Channu in the Punjab province, beat defending champion Neeraj...

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Behind the scenes as Hamas chose its new leader

  • August 8, 2024

EPA Hamas chose Yahya Sinwar (R) to replace assassinated leader Ismail Haniyeh (L). The pair are seen here together in 2017 Over the past week, watched by the world’s media, the top leaders of Hamas descended on Qatar to choose a new political leader for their group. Delegates flooded in...

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