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Myanmar must release all detained journalists ‘immediately’: UN

Published by Al-Araby The UN rights chief called Friday on Myanmar to immediately release all detained media workers after a US journalist was slapped with an 11-year prison sentence. “I urge the military authorities to immediately release all journalists being detained in relation to their work,” Michelle Bachelet said in a statement. Her comment came […]

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Neuroscience research: Caring and confident dads have structurally different brains

Published by PsyPost Although the COVID-19 pandemic profoundly impacted all our work and living arrangements, one thing particularly stood out for dads. During the nationwide lockdowns, fathers ditched the office and came home in their millions. The UK Fatherhood Institute, a thinktank, realised this was a unique social experiment and conducted research into “lockdown fathers”

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UAE, Bahrain, Israel and US start naval drill in Read Sea

Published by Al-Araby Forces from the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Israel and the United States Naval Forces Central Command (NAVCENT) began a multilateral maritime security operations exercise in the Red Sea on Wednesday, NAVCENT said on Thursday. This is the first publicly acknowledged naval exercise between the United States, Israel and the two Gulf countries.

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Russia and NATO weigh in as crisis mounts on Belarus-Poland border

Published by Reuters By Dmitry Antonov and Robin Emmott MOSCOW/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union accused Belarus on Wednesday of mounting a “hybrid attack” by pushing migrants across the border into Poland, paving the way for new sanctions against Minsk in a crisis that threatens to draw in Russia and NATO. Russia took the rare

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Islamic State in Afghanistan ‘under control’, say Taliban

Published by Al-Araby Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers said Wednesday that the threat posed by the Islamic State group in the country was “more or less under control” despite recent bloody attacks that have killed dozens. Spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told a news conference that IS was “not a great threat”, adding that around 600 members or sympathisers

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Photos of Palestinians facing home razing hung in Israel

Published by Al-Araby Dozens of photographs showing pictures ofPalestinians threatened by Israeli expulsion were hung in Israeli cities on Sunday night. The photographs capture some of the 1,300 residents of communities in Masafer Yatta, in the southern occupied West Bank, who face the possibility of forced transfers from their homes pending an Israeli Supreme Court

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