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Spain starts closing Franco sympathisers' foundation
Reuters via Yahoo News· 3 days agoSpain's government has begun closing down the Francisco Franco foundation, a non-profit organisation set up by sympathisers of the late dictator, Culture...
Mental health experts support warnings on social media platforms
KPBS San Diego· 3 days agoMental health experts support the U-S surgeon general's call for social media platforms to have...
Christopher Bollen’s Cairo Thriller
The Nation· 3 days agoWhen I was growing up in Cairo in the 1990s, my great-aunts frequently talked about people who had been “suicided”—murdered by security agents of the...
Aung San Suu Kyi’s son ‘concerned’ as leader marks 79th birthday in house arrest
The Independent via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThe quote was supposed to inspire people to have courage in the fight against military dictatorship,...
Iran: Friends For Sale
Strategy Page· 12 hours agoFebruary 22, 2019: Amidst all the defeats and setbacks Iran is suffering at home and overseas there is one notable victory. Iran was able to persuade the EU (European Union) to assist Iran in ...
Donald Trump’s all-powerful presidency
The Hill· 2 days agoIt’s no secret that Donald Trump wants to remake the presidency in his own image: all-powerful and answerable to no one. Trump admits he plans to remove...
Police fire tear gas, water cannon at anti-tax protesters in Kenya capital
Reuters via Yahoo News· 3 days agoNAIROBI (Reuters) -Riot police in Nairobi fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse thousands of...
'Rather desperate' – 5 key takeaways from Putin's North Korea visit
Kyiv Independent via Yahoo News· 3 days agoRussian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un cemented their growing...
Photo exhibition shows Hull's street life in the 1970s
BBC News· 2 days agoAn art exhibition is documenting the experiences of Chilean refugees who fled to Hull in the 1970s...
Israel: Plausible Paranoia And Righteous Retribution
Strategy Page· 5 days agoJune 18, 2019: Iran has, since a religious dictatorship took over in the 1980s, declared itself at war with Israel and the United States. Since 2012 Iran has been a major ...