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“Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom.” - Nelson Mandela Today South Africa 🇿🇦 proudly carries the pursuit of justice for all to the ICJ.
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26 years to the day that we watched Jamal al-Durrah try to protect his 12-year-old son Muhammad from being shot and killed as he tried to hide by his side. Muhammad was killed a few minutes after this picture was taken. 23 years later, Israel killed Jamal’s brothers too.
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The revolution will not be televised. It will be vibe coded.
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What in the world @Google? Haven’t you learned your lesson from how terrible your search was on Islam? Now your AI is just casually being Islamophobic? Try this yourself and tag google with your results.
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Billions of dollars are flowing into a handful of companies now leading the AI transformation of militaries, as the old military-industrial complex reshapes itself into a military-tech one. We look at who some of these companies are aje.news/pld3tp
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Qatar's Father Emir Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani has died at the age of 74. He ruled for 18 years, reshaping the country's domestic and global footprint. Al Jazeera’s Mohammed Jamjoom takes a look back at his life.
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رجل ترك في التاريخ بصمة خيرة في زمن عز فيه الرجال، وخط في سجل هذه الأمة صفحة نيرة في وقت زاغت فيه الأبصار. كان شجاعا تمتلئ نفسه عزة وشهامة؛ وتطفح روحه بحب بلده وأمته، وقف مع غزة عندما خذلها كثيرون، أحب الخير لشعبه وأمته وعمل مخلصا لبلده فأحبه الناس ، كان حكيما في مواطن الاضطراب ، وبصيرا بالعواقب عند اختلاط الامور. كان يوصينا دوما بأن نقف إلى جانب الحق وأن نمارس مهنتنا بحرية وصدق، رأى في قناة الجزيرة تجسيدا للوعي الذي راوده مذ كان شابا يافعا؛ حلم النهضة والعزة، لذلك لم يتوان لحظة عن دعم الاعلام الحر رغم ضغوط هائلة من واشنطن وعواصم أخرى كثيرة. سيذكرك الناس شهما شجاعا، وسوف يكتب التاريخ أن هذه الأمة تجود بالأخيار حتى في أقسى الفترات وأشدها قفرا وضيقا. رحم الله الأمير الوالد الكبير ناصع الذكر عالي الهمة سمو الشيخ حمد بن خليفة آل ثاني، وعظم الله أجر أهل قطر الكرام وأبناء العالم العربي الأوفياء وآل ثاني الكرام، وعزاؤنا جميعا بوجود صاحب السمو الأمير الشيخ تميم بن حمد آل ثاني حفظه الله، وإنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون٠ #وفاة_الأمير_الوالد #قطر
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Imagine Qatar did this at the last World Cup…..
BREAKING: The White House called FIFA’s Gianni Infantino to review Team USA’s Folarin Balogun’s red card, AP source says. apnews.com/article/falorin-b…
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Strangely, I haven't seen the op-eds and pearl clutching from the Western media about the U.S. hosting the World Cup that I did when Qatar hosted it.
Somali referee Omar Artan, who was set to be the first from his country to officiate at the World Cup finals, has been denied entry to the United States.
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⭕️ The Government Media Office in Gaza: Israel is intensifying the “engineering of starvation” in the Gaza Strip by choking off flour supplies, amid alarming international silence.
My grandson Mahmoud.. He came to me today asking for food.. Bread crisis has started to emerge again after WCK stopped flour and bread supplies, and WFP slashed 1/3 of its supplies due to Israeli restrictions..
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Lebanon has declared a day of national mourning. Thousands of people's lives have been upended after Israeli air strikes, which came without warning, tore through neighbourhoods across the capital and cities across the country. Al Jazeera’s @heidipett reports from Beirut.
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Israeli soldiers torture a one-year-old child in Gaza, including burning his leg with a cigarette and inserting a nail into his leg, according to a report, to pressure his father to make confessions trtworld.com/article/3468729…
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6 months into the Gaza ‘ceasefire’:
Khan Younis | Yesterday, Israeli troops rigged and detonated the Islamic University southern branch in the city. The University was previously targeted in May last year but troops decided apparently to raid and flatten it completely.
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Katz orders army to “accelerate destruction of homes in line-of-contact villages,” to eliminate threats to Israeli communities near border.He said approach follows model used in Beit Hanoun &Rafah,referring to widespread demolitions during ground operations against Hamas in Gaza
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🇵🇸🚨Settlers torch 15 Palestinian villages across West Bank in seemingly coordinated retaliation Dozens of Israeli settlers carried out coordinated raids across many Palestinian villages, setting homes and vehicles on fire and assaulting residents, according to The Times of Israel. ➤ Attacks were recorded in Jalud, Fandaqumiya, Silat ad-Dhahr, and Qaryut, with footage showing buildings on fire as residents rushed to evacuate ➤ At least 9 Palestinians have been confirmed injured in a preliminary toll, including 3 in Jalud and 6 in the Jenin area, after being beaten by settlers. Many more are feared to have been come under attack. ➤ No arrests have been reported, consistent with a pattern of impunity in settler violence cases ➤ The raids come amid near-daily attacks in recent weeks and rising fears of retaliation after a settler was killed in a separate incident under investigation
Right now, 1:45am local time, settler militias are raiding more than 9 Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank. From Bethlehem all the way to Nablus, settler pograms are happening everywhere. This began at 12am local time and has not yet stopped 1:45am 3/22/26.
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🚨LEQAA KORDIA RELEASED: Palestinian activist Leqaa Kordia, detained by ICE for nearly a year after the Columbia Gaza protest crackdown, has been released on $100,000 bond, according to the New York Times. 🔹 An immigration judge granted the bond March 13, 2026, the third time a court has ordered her release after the government previously blocked earlier rulings. She was released today (Monday). 🔹 NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani raised Kordia’s case with the White House during a Feb. 26 meeting with President Trump, asking that immigration cases against four Columbia-linked activists be dropped. 🔹Kordia, a Palestinian from East Jerusalem, was arrested by ICE on March 13, 2025 after attending Gaza solidarity protests at Columbia University; her protest-related charges were later dropped.
BREAKING: Leqaa Kordia is out of detention! The news comes after more than 1 year of her confinement, as a judge ordered her release on bond for a third time on Friday
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The derision directed at Priyanka Chopra at the Oscars may be one of the clearest signs of the erosion of Indian soft power on the global stage. Here is a former Miss World Bollywood star who 'successfully' crossed over into Hollywood - breaking into roles in big TV shows - and using her identity to soften American empire. All the while, she has refused to shed her casteist, militaristic, and liberal Hindutva habitus. The days of Indians thinking they can cheerlead or deflect from Muslims being lynched, Muslim homes being demolished, support an occupation in Kashmir only to go abroad and represent children at UNICEF, stretch out on a yoga mat, eat plant-based food for the environment and meditate at wellness clinics and think the world doesn't know what a front all of this is, is becoming harder to sustain.
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Heartbreaking to hear the news of his passing. He launched Al Jazeera back in 1996 and has been consistently advocating for justice throughout his life. So many of us have benefited from his contributions to the media world. May Allah have mercy on him and may his work continue to have an impact in the world.
BREAKING: Veteran Al Jazeera journalist Jamal Rayan has passed at the age of 73. Born on August 23, 1953, Jamal was the first news anchor to appear on Al Jazeera, reading the channel’s debut bulletin in November 1996.
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BREAKING: Authorities in Lebanon say the number of people forced from their homes by the Israeli war on Lebanon has reached 831,000, as attacks on the country continue. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/9rvzyv
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Maybe they should release more Epstein files to distract us from the war.
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Lebanon says death toll from Israeli strikes across the country rises to at least 687
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