LUSAIL STADIUMCapacity: 80,000 Location: Lusail, 15 kilometres north of Doha’s city centre 6️⃣ legendary stadiums, 6️⃣ sleeps until #Qatar2022 💤 We’ll be dreaming about Lusail Stadium tonight! 💭 pic.twitter.com/VS4SUigouZ — Road to 2022 (@roadto2022en)…
UK set to deliver more economic pain
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Trump criminal probes will proceed – even as he’s candidate
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Coopting Black struggles insults victims of police brutality
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Amnesty tells Taliban ‘release detained women activists now’
Amnesty International called for the “immediate and unconditional release” of women human rights defenders recently detained by Afghanistan’s Taliban. The global watchdog on Monday said that at least three prominent figures, Zarifa Yaqoobi, Farhat Popa…
UN council condemns Algeria’s ‘overbroad’ terrorism law
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How Egypt is shutting African climate activists out of COP27
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Kurdish groups deny involvement in Istanbul bombing
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Iran launches deadly strikes on Kurdish groups in Iraq
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Trump fights Twitter ban at US appeals court
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