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‘People are suffocating.’ Bedouins in Israel say Gaza war has worsened decades of marginalization

Khirbet Karkur, Israel CNN — In southern Israel’s Negev desert, residents of the Bedouin village of Khirbet Karkur live in tents and metal-clad makeshift homes. Not far from the border with Gaza, they hear the sounds of the war unfolding next door. There are some 300,000 Arab Bedouins living in the Negev. As Muslim-Arab citizens …

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Egypt Independent September 7, 2024

UK riots show how social media can fuel real-life harm. It’s only getting worse

CNN — The widespread anti-immigrant riots in the United Kingdom of the past week, and the false viral claims that fueled them, may be the clearest, most direct example yet of the way unchecked misinformation on social media can produce violence and harm in the real world. Even after authorities identified a UK national as …

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Egypt Independent August 12, 2024

A punishing heat dome in California will only worsen. Here’s when temperatures could peak

CNN — A brutal heat dome is ramping up and sending temperatures to dangerous levels in California and the West in what is the region’s first significant heat wave of the year. And heat hasn’t peaked yet. July-like high temperatures will top out at 20 to 25 degrees above normal in multiple Western states this …

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Egypt Independent June 6, 2024

Floods ravage regions of Russia and Kazakhstan, but worse is yet to come

CNN — Floods have swamped parts of Russia and Kazakhstan after Europe’s third-longest river burst its banks, forcing more than 100,000 people to evacuate and sparking protests against the authorities. The Ural River, which flows from Russia’s Ural Mountains through Kazakhstan to the Caspian Sea, was swelled this week by snow melt, causing a deluge …

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Egypt Independent April 11, 2024

The Princess of Wales controversy has only gotten worse

CNN — The public absence of Catherine, Princess of Wales, has grown from a niche royal watcher concern to an international punchline in a matter of weeks. While Kensington Palace said her January abdominal surgery was planned and indicated she would be out of the public eye through March, several unusual details — grainy photos, …

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Egypt Independent March 16, 2024