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Pictures of rockets, rioting, chanting crowds, bleeding bodies, death, and destruction from Gaza, Lod, Jerusalem, Hebron, and Tel Aviv, have filled screens and dominated news coverage in the last seven days. International concern – sometimes outrage – at renewed conflict between Israeli and Palestinian militants, and now Jewish and Arab Israeli communities, has been broadcast […]
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On 21 January 2021, a double suicide bombing in Baghdad claimed the lives of more than thirty people. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack, their first in Baghdad since 2018 and, as such, a deliberate statement of their resurgence in the region and renewed challenge to the international order in the 21st century. 21 January […]
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Ten-years ago last December, the 26-year-old market-stall holder Mohamed Bouazizi set himself alight in Sidi Bouzid, a town in central Tunisia. It was an act of utter desperation and bitter frustration at the corruption which had wracked his country for more than half a century. Like a match to dry kindling, Bouazizi’s self-immolation triggered bushfires […]
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