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Trump, Just The President Assad Has Been Waiting For

A pro-Assad protester in Warsaw last month
A pro-Assad protester in Warsaw last month Anna Ferensowicz/Pacific Press via ZUMA

-Analysis- BEIRUT — On the morning of Nov. 9, as the U.S. presidential votes were being counted, residents of rebel-held eastern Aleppo, which has been under total siege since July, were trying to find some consolation in dark humor. “I think Trump will win in the elections because he is the real face of American politics,” Najmaldin Khaled, an English teacher and editor at the Shahba Press Agency, said in a group conversation on WhatsApp, which residents of Eastern Aleppo use to communicate with the outside world. “Trying to look at the bright side of it, no more claims about […]

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India, A Dumping Ground For Rich World’s Toxic Electronic Waste

Sifting through e-waste in Seemapuri
Sifting through e-waste in Seemapuri Bismillah Geelani

SEEMAPURI — In this neighborhood on the outskirts of Delhi, electronic scrap keeps growing. Piles and piles of electronic waste or “e-waste” litter the narrow alleys here from old computer circuit boards and cables to discarded keyboards and phone handsets. Mohammad Salman, 25, deals with such e-waste. “We collect it from all over the country, from waste pickers and other scrap dealers and then look for items that can be fixed,” he says. Salman says he sells the precious metals that can be found in e-waste. “We give it to bigger dealers and what they do with it is their […]

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How I Kissed Goodbye To My Dream Of Becoming A Millionaire

The author contemplating Corsican mountains
The author contemplating Corsican mountains Capitaine Remi Facebook page

-Essay- I recently turned 30, so the math tells me I’ve already lived through one third of my life. That also means I still have at least 20,000 days to make all of my dreams come true. Speaking of dreams, it’s strange how they change as we grow older. When I was 25, I had […]

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Inside Indonesia’s Only Province With Sharia Law

A Sharia policewoman (second from right) in Banda Aceh
A Sharia policewoman (second from right) in Banda Aceh Fauzan Ijazah/ZUMA

BANDA ACEH — The cafe is packed with men sitting in front of their third cup of coffee. They chat and smoke kreteks — a type of local clove cigarettes. The lighthearted mood is suddenly interrupted by the sound of the café’s metal shutters being slid downward. The conversation dies, the expressions grow frightened. The […]

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Melania Trump And Me, Two Slovenians Arrive In Washington

Melania Trump in Cleveland, Ohio, in July
Melania Trump in Cleveland, Ohio, in July Future-Image/ZUMA

WASHINGTON — Melania Trump (or Melania Knavs, as she was called before she married and moved into Trump Tower) will be the only first lady since 1829 to have been born outside the United States. John Quincy Adams’ wife, Louisa Adams, was the last, having been born in England when the U.S. was still a […]

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