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Al-Azhar’s reversal on Gaza exposes a deeper moral crisis in the Muslim world Submitted by Usaama al-Azami on Thu, 07/24/2025
Quito, Ecuador CNN — Desperation is mounting in Ecuador’s capital as thousands of people remain without drinking water a week into Quito’s worst shortage in 25 years. The daily lives of some 400,000 residents have been seriously disrupted by the emergency, which happened after a landslide damaged a pipeline that supplied water to much of …
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CNN — Doctors in Gaza say they were forced to cram multiple babies into one incubator as hospitals warned that fuel shortages are forcing them to shut off vital services, putting patients’ lives at risk. The UN has warned that the fuel crisis is at a critical point, with the little supplies that are available …
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CNN — Two weeks after America’s unprecedented military strikes into Iran, the situation in the Middle East has stabilized and focus is turning to diplomacy. So, what’s on the global agenda? Over the coming weeks, I’d concentrate on a few areas. Prime Minister Netanyahu visits Washington early this week, and his top aides have been …
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CNN — Donald Trump is talking and acting like an authoritarian as he escalates a constitutional clash with California over his migration crackdown. Much now depends on whether he’s simply talking tough or if he’s ready to take an already-tense nation across a fateful line in his zeal for strongman rule. In a mind-boggling moment, …
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As the world undergoes rapid political and economic transformations with escalating conflicts shaking the Middle East, the region has witnessed over a full year of genocide in Gaza – and no clear prospect for an end. The conflict has expanded to southern Lebanon, reverberated in Yemen and Iraq, and reached Iran. The Future of the …
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CNN — The violent crisis between India and Pakistan is exactly the kind of international emergency that would once have prompted a full-on US diplomatic drive to cool tempers and head off a wider war. But this latest fighting over and beyond Kashmir, the disputed Muslim-majority region, may become a test of the Trump administration’s …
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Abdelrahman Soliman, son of the artist Soliman Eid, has announced his father’s passing following a sudden health crisis. The deceased Soliman Eid’s son added: “The funeral prayer will be held after Friday prayers at the Grand Mosque in the Islamic Complex in Sheikh Zayed, and the burial will follow immediately after the prayer.” Abdelrahman did …
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CNN — The United Nations’ emergency and disaster response agency will reduce its global workforce by 20% and scale back operations in nine countries, as it confronts a severe funding crisis and escalating global needs, it announced on Friday. In a letter to staff shared on the agency’s website, the Office for the Coordination of …
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Hong Kong CNN — As countries around the world scramble to negotiate concessions from US President Donald Trump’s escalation last week of a global trade war, China has taken a different tack. Within 48 hours of Trump’s market-hammering tariffs announcement, the world’s second-largest economy swiftly retaliated with its own punitive measures on US goods and …
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