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Serena Williams’ social media presence has drawn an attentive crowd in the past two weeks as the tennis star issued a strong hint, then a confirmation that she was pregnant with she and fiancé Alexis Ohanian’s first child. Amid the congratulatory posts and post from those marveling at how she stole the Australian Open from her sister …
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California Rep. Maxine Waters has never been shy about sharing her feelings on President Donald Trump. She has been an outspoken opponent of the president’s since the day of his inauguration. Waters, who has served under five presidents and protested alongside those at the Women’s March, has already introduced a bill calling for an investigation into …
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Life in the Old City of Jerusalem. Demotix/Mahmoud illean. All rights reserved. Haftom Zarhum, a 29-year-old Eritrean, was lynched by Jewish Israelis simply because he looked different. After being shot in the legs, a mob circled him like hyenas over bleeding prey throwing a bench over his head chanting the unofficial Zionist’s anthem of hate: …
This one sounds like the premise for a horror movie. And it ended up being about as accurate. But for one young Michigan woman the incident felt terrifyingly real and created a major bit of viral news. However, according to local police, it all turned out to be a “prank” gone horribly wrong. 19-year-old Ashley Hardacre posted a harrowing account …
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On 14 December, a 23 year-old Palestinian named Abu-Sakha was returning from his family home in Jenin to his work place near Ramallah. His taxi was stopped, he was asked to step out and he was taken to a detention centre, without charge. No-one knows what happened next because no-one has had contact with him …
More than 27 years have passed since the Soviet Union pulled its forces out of Afghanistan, ending a blood-soaked intervention that left one million Afghans and fifteen thousand Soviets dead. In Tajikistan, a country that shares not only a 1300-kilometre border, but close linguistic and cultural ties with Afghanistan, the memory of the war has …
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Flickr/Teymur Madjderey. Some rights reserved.The recognition of wartime rape as a fundamental violation of international law has been a hard-fought victory. Ending rape and other forms of sexual violence in war ought to be a central aspiration of the international community. But the struggle against rape has attained a kind of moral currency, put to …
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For the first time in 130 years, people ages 18-34 are more likely to live with their parents than in any other arrangement. But when the Pew Research Center released their findings that millennials were likely to bunk with Mom and Dad, the internet seemed surprised. Op-eds ranging from “Dear adults who mooch off parents: Grow up” …
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Poor Sean Spicer. The White House Press Secretary can’t even go out to the Apple Store without someone coming up to him to express a grievance with his boss, President Trump. But the real problem is that Spicer just can’t help himself—turning an awkward confrontation into something that reeks of implied racism and xenophobia. D.C.-area …
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March in Plaza Mayor, Madrid, Spain. Flickr. Some rights reserved. It is often thought that the contribution that companies can make to peace-building is limited to their economic capacity. Accordingly, efforts to find out how they can link to peace initiatives tend to focus on their financial contribution to cover the costs of post-conflict, developing …
