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Who’s Children Are They Anyway: Kurds Divided Over Children Born of Islamic State Rape
Children of women raped by ISIL men will not be accepted into Yazidi community, declares the sect’s faith leaders. Kurdish leaders claim that the war with IS (Islamic State) is over, but is it? Although, IS has left the Kurdish area but has left behind a conflict for Yazidi women. The Supreme Yazidi Spiritual…
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The Formula for success: How F1 builds a billion dollar economy
If hosting a Formula 1 grand prix means a country’s arrival on the world stage, then none has done so as emphatically as the developing nations. It is the most watched annual sport show around the world, last year in 2018; this superfast sport attracted 352.3 million unique T.V viewers. The sport is…
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1980s Revisited: Early Hip Hop, Politics , Rebel Music and MTV
Originally posted on FaultLines: Music has been around for centuries: As long as people have been getting fed up with the status quo, they’ve been singing about it. And because music styles, human emotions, and social issues are so wide-ranging, 80s songs are too. It was the decade when the future began. Starbucks started selling…
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1980s Revisited: Early Hip Hop, Politics , Rebel Music and MTV
Music has been around for centuries: As long as people have been getting fed up with the status quo, they’ve been singing about it. And because music styles, human emotions, and social issues are so wide-ranging, 80s songs are too. It was the decade when the future began. Starbucks started selling coffee. The world learned…
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Bombs, Shrapnel and Books: Syria’s Secret Library
In a country totally devastated by 9 years of war, hardly anyone would want to save a library while defending last inch of their territory from Pro-Assad Forces. Syria, now into its ninth year of civil war has witnessed 191,369 deaths (Data till 2014) and 10.9 million Syrians, or almost half the population, has been…
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Battle of Rhetoric 2019 : It is Modi’s Bofors vs Rahul’s Rafale
In heat of elections, you can expect candidates calling out each other but you would not have seen Prime Minister deteriorating the image of his own office Rajiv Gandhi, the youngest Prime Minister of the country at age 40 led the biggest political victory. 28 Years after his assassination, Rajiv Gandhi has been remembered…
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From Walk In The Park To An Uphill Battle: Game Is On In Indian Elections
Largest democratic exercise in the world, fate of 1.2 Billion people and major issues at hand in 2019 Indian elections Within months’ time Indians across the length and breadth of the nation would vote for new parliament. Like last elections, these elections would be the biggest democratic exercise in the world with more than…
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Indo-Pak T20 Series: Fighter Jets, agendas and mind games.
India-Pakistan would have paid more than a cricket match victory if agendas were fulfilled and mind games were played well. India and Pakistan have been fierce rivals both on and off the cricket ground. However, the match played between the two on 26th and 27 February shows why both these countries love war as well.…
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Twitter Uproar after Khashoggi’s son meets Saudi Crown Prince
Social Media users criticize the photo showing the Saudi Crown Prince extending condolences to Khashoggi’s son. Twitter users swung into action swiftly to criticize the photo released by Saudi government showing slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s son meeting and shaking hand of Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman. King Salman and crown prince received Khashoggi’s son,…
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Trump-Kim Summit: What’s in it for stakeholders?
The much anticipated diplomatic summit took place in Singapore on June 12 between the U.S and Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Heavy words exchanged, threats issued, nuclear weapons tested and missiles test-fired, these all have built up to the Trump-Kim summit. In a major diplomacy victory for Trump, summit presents a great opportunity to denuclearize…
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