How Iraq’s displaced Yazidis suffocate in Islam, Christianity and Zoroastrianism faith hotchpotch

How Iraq’s displaced Yazidis suffocate in Islam, Christianity and Zoroastrianism faith hotchpotch

Iraqi officials say more than 5,000 Yazidis, most of them men and older women, were killed in the initial assault in August 2014, their bodies dumped in mass graves. Some 6,400 others, mainly women and children, were captured. Sold into domestic and sexual slavery or trained as fighters and suicide bombers, they were passed from owner to owner across the group’s “caliphate,” which at its peak spanned roughly a third of Iraq and Syria.

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Russia suspends gas deliveries to Austria after Ukraine declined to renew transit agreement

Russia suspends gas deliveries to Austria after Ukraine declined to renew transit agreement

European and global gas prices spiked following a drop in Russian pipeline supplies in 2022 but some European countries found alternative sources, including liquefied natural gas from the United States. The US has become the world’s top gas producer and is expected to expand production.

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Musk’s political ascendancy gives Wall Street banks hope of offloading $13 billion of debt

Musk’s political ascendancy gives Wall Street banks hope of offloading $13 billion of debt

In recent months, one of the sources said, some banks expected X had seen increased traffic as users flocked to the platform around big events like the US elections. Trump, whose account on the platform was restored by Musk after the previous management banned him in January 2021, has been regularly posting on it.

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Trump’s health secretary pick Robert F. Kennedy sets off Big Pharma panic, triggers share plunge

Trump’s health secretary pick Robert F. Kennedy sets off Big Pharma panic, triggers share plunge

Robert F. Kennedy Jr gestures during a rally for Republican presidential nominee and former US President Donald Trump at Madison Square Garden, in New York, US, on October 27, 2024. Credit: Reuters

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Five Eyes: Nomination of Gabbard as US intelligence chief by Trump rattles spy world

Five Eyes: Nomination of Gabbard as US intelligence chief by Trump rattles spy world

A Western security source said there could be an initial slowdown in intelligence sharing when Trump takes office in January that could potentially impact the “Five Eyes,” an intelligence alliance comprising the US, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

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Farmers in Zimbabwe shun staples for more profitable vegetables, consider food aid interventions a solution to climate change

Farmers in Zimbabwe shun staples for more profitable vegetables, consider food aid interventions a solution to climate change

Experts say rich nations like the United States, which have been the biggest contributors of planet-warming emissions historically, have a responsibility to fund humanitarian aid in the countries that are experiencing its effects first and most severely.

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To Africans, Trump is just a distant leader who’s ‘is not going to save us from hunger caused by our government’s’

To Africans, Trump is just a distant leader who’s ‘is not going to save us from hunger caused by our government’s’

US foreign policy has not made Africa a priority for a long while – beyond seeing the continent through the lens of countering rivals such as Russia and China, said Charles Ray, chair of the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Africa Programme.

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Kenyan president’s key American ‘saleswoman’, Ambassador Meg Whitman, quits to signal imminent hard times for Nairobi

Kenyan president’s key American ‘saleswoman’, Ambassador Meg Whitman, quits to signal imminent hard times for Nairobi

Former US Ambassador to Kenya Smith Hempstone (1989-1993) was a darling of the opposition due to his open and strong support, both materially and politically, to the democratic movements at the time in Kenya.

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Trump names Elon Musk to head nearly created, informal Department of Government Efficiency

Trump names Elon Musk to head nearly created, informal Department of Government Efficiency

Elon Musk, ranked by Forbes as the richest person in the world, already stood to benefit from Trump’s victory, with the billionaire entrepreneur expected to wield extraordinary influence to help his companies and secure favourable government treatment.

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Allies: Trump will make slew of executive orders to arrest migrants with no criminal record on day one in White House

Allies: Trump will make slew of executive orders to arrest migrants with no criminal record on day one in White House

One of Trump’s Day One executive actions is expected to be an order on so-called interior enforcement, arresting and detaining immigrants in the US illegally, the sources said.

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