Kazakh ambitions to replace Russian with their own language as the official language provokes troubling rhetoric:
- Is Kazakhstan Russia’s Next Ukraine? (Middle East Soccer)
“While the Houthis have hit Saudi Arabia several times recently, it is a small fraction of cross-border strikes, with the Saudis carrying out dramatically more airstrikes against sites in Yemen”:
- UN Envoy: Yemen’s Escalation Worst in Years (Antiwar.com)
A “Columbia University graduate student who was targeted by the fake auction websites, wrote on Twitter that she no longer felt safe speaking out about the treatment of Muslim women in India”:
- GitHub Shuts Down Indian Website ‘Auctioning’ Muslim Women (Washington Post)
Held without charge or trial, “500 so-called administrative detainees began new year by refusing to show up for their court sessions”:
The rally in Iran’s currency may be due to “the increased likelihood of Iraq and South Korea releasing Iran’s frozen assets, as well as a breakthrough in Vienna talks”:
The Pakistani PM blames “corruption and rising sex crimes” for the ails of the Muslim world, but the “real issue, as Turkish scholar Mustafa Akyol has described it, is the ‘reopening of Muslim minds’. It’s about turning to reason, freedom, tolerance and enlightenment”:
- Imran Khan Thinks Corruption, Sex Crimes Are Ruining Muslim World. No, Lack of Education Is (The Print)
“It’s unclear whether Iran, which did not attend or make submissions to the court, will make the payments. Tehran has previously offered the families of those killed $150,000 per victim”:
- Canadian Court Orders Iran to Pay Millions to Families of Victims from Plane Shot Down in 2020 (Washington Post)
A Palestinian journalists observed that “Watson’s ‘simple statement’ had left ‘Zionists everywhere … in a frenzy'”:
“Although the U.S.-led international coalition announced the end of its “combat mission” in Iraq in December, some 2,500 U.S. and 1,000 coalition troops remain in the country to advise and train Iraqi security forces”:
- Rockets Fired Near Baghdad Base Housing U.S. Troops Amid Iran Tensions (Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty)
