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  Yemenis are being starved

  by Felicity Mulford and Kate Vigneswaran | Updated at 12:00am on September 14, 2021

  Throughout Yemen’s brutal war, parties to the conflict have deprived civilians of the food and water they need to survive, starving them to death, write...

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  Two approaches to dealing with extremism

  by Brian Berletic | Updated at 12:00am on September 14, 2021

  THE New York Times in its September 3, 2021 article, ‘New Zealand Police Kill “Extremist” Who Stabbed 6 in ISIS-Inspired Attack,’ would report that a...

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  Symptoms of a sick society

  by Debra Efroymson | Updated at 12:00am on September 14, 2021

  IMAGINE asking someone whether a person or a car is more valuable. You would certainly hope that they would say that a person is worth...

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  Taliban form govt in Afghanistan

  by M Serajul Islam | Updated at 12:00am on September 14, 2021

  THE composition of the Taliban government suggests that they are in no mood to please anyone except themselves. They are determined to act in the...

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  New opportunities in evolving Middle East

  Jeff Halper | Updated at 12:00am on September 13, 2021

  THE American withdrawal from military intervention in Afghanistan continues a broader American as well as European disengagement from the Middle East. Greater US energy independence...

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  Afghan fighters not building ‘inclusive regime’

  Vladimir Danilov | Updated at 12:00am on September 13, 2021

  TWENTY years after American troops ousted the Taliban from power in Afghanistan, militants of this group announced the formation of an interim government. Taliban spokesman...

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  20 deadly years of wasted opportunities since 9/11

  | Updated at 12:00am on September 13, 2021

  TWENTY years have now passed since 9/11. The 20 years since those terrible attacks have been marked by endless wars, harsh immigration crackdowns, and expanded...

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  Safety against Covid transmission

  Muhammad Morshed | Updated at 12:00am on September 13, 2021

  IT IS a welcome piece of news that the government has reopened schools. Students had been away from the classroom for more than 18 months....

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  From iron curtain to Afghan diaspora

  | Updated at 12:00am on September 12, 2021

  IN THE 1970s, my parents decided to go into exile, away from totalitarian Prague. Under Communism, moving to another country was unconstitutional, so they had...

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  The evil we do is the evil we get

  | Updated at 12:00am on September 12, 2021

  I WAS in Times Square in New York City shortly after the second plane banked and plowed into the South Tower. The crowd looking up...