After years of campaigning by women activists, on June 24 the ban on women driving in Saudi Arabia will be lifted. It is the most
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Donald Trump has a plan to solve America’s drug crisis: kill the drug dealers. “We have pushers and drugs dealers, they are killing hundreds and
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When US president Jimmy Carter described Iran as an ‘island of stability in one of the more troubled areas of the world’ on new year’s
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A few weeks ago I picked up the phone and called the insurance company to dispute a charge. I told the customer service representative that
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The last time I was there, I was very young. I barely remember it. Shiraz was always the city of my dreams and what fond
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I pledge that if elected to Congress I will be an unfailing advocate for their freedom. Why? “[B]ecause I believe a free Iran is in
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The ‘No’ women to study English literature, nuclear physics, computer sciences, electrical and industrial engineering, business management and Oil Industry is just not about
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Rebels in Mali have taken the historic city of Timbuktu, a place that has become shorthand in English for anywhere far away. How did this
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