Monthly Archives: October 2021

Bahraini demonstrators demand release of political prisoners after ex-inmate martyrs

Bahrainis have once again staged nationwide demonstrations in the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom to urge the ruling Al Khalifah regime to immediately release political prisoners, after a former detainee attained martyrdom of medical complications he sustained during his time in prison. Bahrain’s main opposition group, the al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, reported …

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100 Turkish trucks loaded with military equipment, logistics enter Syria’s Idlib: Report

Turkey has dispatched truckloads of military and logistical equipment to northern Syria, only a day after hundreds of Syrians staged a demonstration to denounce the presence of Turkish forces in their country. The Lebanon-based and Arabic-language al-Mayadeen television news network reported that a convoy of 100 trucks, carrying battle tanks and artillery …

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Facebook will fuel further unrest, whistleblower says

Facebook will fuel more violent unrest around the world because of the way its algorithms are designed to promote divisive content, whistleblower Frances Haugen told the British parliament on Monday. Haugen, a former product manager on Facebook’s civic misinformation team who has turned whistleblower, appeared before a parliamentary select committee …

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Mali expels West African bloc envoy -foreign ministry

Mali’s transitional government has given the special representative from West Africa’s main regional bloc 72 hours to leave the country over “actions incompatible with his status”, the foreign ministry said on Monday. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has been pressing Mali to respect its commitment to hold …

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