There are four or six of them in camouflage overalls. They have waited perhaps for hours, in a van parked on a street corner, to see a girl with her veil out of place. They get out of the vehicle like rabid dogs, armed with sticks, and
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There is an old Kurdish saying, which in one sentence tells a truth so great as to be unbearable: ‘the Kurds have no friends but their mountains’. And the milestones of their history, marked by the betrayals they have suffered, stand there sadly to prove it. The
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There are ferocious and endless conflicts that no one cares about anymore, as the Ukrainian crisis focuses the attention of the entire world. But people are still dying there, every minute: a seemingly endless trail of blood – as on the island of Haiti. It has been
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Since 2017, the Chinese government, on the orders of Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping, has created a state programme to imprison, torture, kill and recondition up to 3 million Muslims, of Turkish origin, who have been living in the Xinjiang Uyghur province for generations: the programme,
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Sri Lanka is in flames. This time it is not an ethnic conflict, but the hunger and despair of a people, whose government, greedy for personal wealth and committed almost exclusively to the genocide of the Tamil minority, has led the state to default – to bankruptcy.
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This is a raw and desperate story. It is a story of children abused and torn from their families, victims of unprecedented violence, many of whom died by suicide. It is a story of desperate families struggling for years in vain against the justice system in a
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We live in times of unprecedented violence. Cradled in the wadding of our Western democracy (whose flaws and distortions we do not hide) we cannot even imagine what is happening all around us, starting with the martyrdom of the Ukrainian people, barbarously attacked by assassins sent by
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Twenty years ago, during the G8 in Genoa, I had stopped being a citizen and was just a hysterical father. My daughter was 16 years old and she had gone there, dressed in braids, Peruvian jumpers and chains, and the news that arrived on the first day
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February 1, 2021. The metropolis of Yangon, the former capital of Myanmar, wakes up under a stormy sky: the leader and icon Aung San Suu Kyi is arrested along with President Win Myint. The coup organized by the army brings General Min Aung Hlaing to power. It
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From a distance, there is a risk of misunderstanding: Turkey is making a strong voice, both diplomatically and militarily, like a poker player who constantly picks up without ever stopping. The reality, however, is that Erdoğan is a tired player who has drained his country economically and
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