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Tuesday Morning Spice
12 Mar 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
The terrifying A.I. scam that uses your loved one’s voice, Haiti’s leader resigns as gangs run rampant, Why the Springboks vs Wales clash is so important, Navigating your way through a dry spell, Eskom’s new 10-point plan, and How does the US election work?
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Controversial Foreign Policy Magazine Cover Story Sparks Debate
25 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Egyptian-American writer, Mona Eltahawy, has penned a controversial cover article for the latest Foreign Policy magazine, entitled: “Why Do They Hate Us?” In it, she argues that women must finish the revolutions started by the Arab Spring, and a semi-nude woman models a body-paint niqab.
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Photos Of Gaddafi Give Mubarak A Heart Attack
24 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Deposed Egyptian president, and former chum of the now-frozen Libyan dictator, Muammar Gaddafi, might be dead. Mubarak, who was on trial for a veritable slew of crimes against humanity, democracy, and fashion has been labouring under a pall of ill health lately. So much so that he had to be confined to a bed for the duration of his trial.
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Iranian Actress Given 90 Lashes For Being In A Mildly Subversive Film
11 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
More specifically, Iranian actress Marzieh Vafamehr was sentenced to 90 lashes for starring in “My Tehran For Sale,” a movie about how Iran mistreats its actresses. The actress was arrested for being in the film – which was never officially distributed in Iran – in July, and her sentence was handed down this weekend.
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Syrian Cartoonist Has Hands Broken As Warning To Anti-Assad Activists
26 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
You should know about this. Ali Ferzat, an immensely popular Syrian cartoonist and outspoken critic of President Bashar al-Assad’s violent crackdown on the opposition, has been beaten, burned, and had both of his hands broken by masked gunmen, as a warning to cease his anti-Assad activism.
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Wikileaks Releases New Batch Of Diplomatic Cables
24 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Wikileaks is parceling out another bunch of diplomatic cables today, in case we’d forgotten about Julian Assange amidst all the other hubbub. Expect people to largely ignore the allegations of internal corruption and the details of John McCain’s conversations with that Gadaffi chap, and focus on the whole rape trial thing.
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Former Tunisian President Sentenced To 35-Year Jail Sentence In Absentia
21 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A Tunisian court found former president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and his wife guilty of theft and the illegal possession of large quantities of money and jewelry. He sentenced them to 35 years in jail, which is great and all, except Ben Ali and his wife are in Saudi Arabia, making extradition a little unlikely.
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