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LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: Departures and Arrivals
Lost Coast Outpost· 5 days agoThe train from Ankara to Istanbul takes about four hours. My mother-in-law Nefise (“Anne,” or mama) and I were meeting a potential buyer for our apartment in Istanbul. The morning took on the ...
Israel's Netanyahu to address U.S. Congress soon, Johnson says
Reuters· 7 days agoRepublican U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson said on Thursday Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...
The Maillard Over-Reaction
The New Yorker· 2 days agoThis flavor comes from the Maillard reaction, a chemical process that occurs when amino acids—the building blocks of protein—and simple sugars are...
This week in history: May 27-June 2
World Socialist Web Site· 4 days agoOn May 31, 1999, the trial of PKK (Kurdish Workers Party) Chairman Abdullah Öcalan began before a State Security Court on the Turkish prison island of Imrali. There he was ...
Delivery of US weapons to Ukraine helping stabilize frontline, Blinken says
Reuters· 1 day agoThe delivery of U.S. weapons to Ukraine is helping stabilize the frontline of the battlefield, U.S....
Iran: May 2024 update
Strategy Page· 7 days agoMay 24, 2024: In May Iran held national elections and hardline pro-Islam candidates obtained 233 of the 290 parliament seats. The candidates for election must be approved by the government, ...
Caren Firouz Profile
Reuters· 6 days agoUnfortunately those images were all destroyed during the Iranian revolution. While at university, I watched television reports of the famine in Ethiopia and apartheid in South Africa and wondered ...
The World Needs Films Like ‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig’
Vanity Fair· 6 days agoThe film’s director, Mohammad Rasoulof, has fled Iran after receiving an eight-year prison sentence...
Inside secret government Rwanda training base
BBC News· 7 days agoPlans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda have already proved to be divisive. The Conservatives say flights will take off if they are re-elected but Labour...
US expressed deep concern to Israel over Rafah airstrike, State Department says
Reuters· 2 days agoThe United States expressed deep concern to Israel's government over an airstrike in Rafah and urged...
