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Media Censorship in Kosovo at the Behest of Big Business
Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa
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With media outlets in Kosovo and the region increasingly concentrated in the hands of major business moguls, journalists say censorship to protect the owners’ interests has become ‘the norm’. A six-month investigation, involving over thirty...
Unprotected, Women in Albania, Kosovo Face ‘Toxic Coexistence’ with Digital Abuse
Balkan Insight
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July 30, 2025
Zhaklin Lekatari describes a “toxic coexistence” with the online abuse she receives for championing women’s rights, sex education and LGBTQ+ rights in Albania. A journalist and founder of Tabu.al, Lekatari is no stranger to death threats. One...
Pristina's ruling culmination of political misuse of judiciary - Justice Ministry
Tanjug
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July 29, 2025
BELGRADE - The Serbian Ministry of Justice condemned in the strongest terms on Tuesday a "disgraceful and politically motivated" ruling by a so-called court in Pristina under which Serbs Milun Milenkovic, Aleksandar Vlajic and Dejan Pantic have...
State Dept: Trump’s “Third Countries” for Immigrants Have Awful Human Rights Records
The Intercept
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July 29, 2025
The United States is building an unprecedented network of deportee dumping grounds, pursuing deals with around a third of the world’s nations to expel immigrants to places where they do not hold citizenship. Once exiled, these third-country...
International students explore Turkish culture through food, history
Sabah
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July 29, 2025
At a summer camp that has become much more than a language program, 19 international students from 10 countries gathered in Türkiye’s northwestern city of Çanakkale to learn Turkish, but also to share a piece of their own cultures, especially...
Serbian Justice Ministry: Three Serbs in Kosovo Convicted without Evidence
Beta Briefing
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July 29, 2025
Source: Beta News / Politics | 29.07.25 | access_time 13:13 Pristina (Photo: YTPrintScreen) The ruling of a court of first instance in Pristina, sentencing three Serbs to several years in prison, is politically motivated as there was no relevant...
Kosovo Court Convicts Two Serbs in Absentia of Wartime Rape
Balkan Insight
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July 28, 2025
A courtroom at the Pristina Basic Court. Photo: BIRN The Pristina Basic Court on Monday found Dragan Denic and Ivica Rajkovic guilty in absentia of raping an ethnic Albanian woman during the Kosovo war and sentenced them to 15 years in prison...
99% of Interfaith Marriage Bans Found in Muslim Nations
Patheos
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July 27, 2025
Using freedom of interfaith marriage as an indicator of religious pluralism, this study reveals that 99% of legal restrictions on interfaith unions are imposed by Islamic countries. Specifically, 32 out of 53 Muslim-majority countries (60.4%)...
Love Is Blind UK reveals full cast for season two - with glam singer and hunky gym owner among hopefuls looking for love on hit Netflix series
Daily Mail
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July 30, 2025
The glittering cast of season two of Love Is Blind UK has been revealed, and includes a glamorous singer, a loveless dating-app creator and a party girl whose recent relationship broke down when she mentioned starting a family. The...
Love is Blind UK Season 2 cast in full as Welsh teacher joins Netflix show
Wales Online
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July 30, 2025
Aaliyah Rugg Senior reporter and Kimberly Nhundu 18:10, 30 Jul 2025 Love is Blind UK is set to grace our screens once again, with Netflix recently unveiling the 30 hopefuls aiming to discover their ideal match. A fresh batch of singletons will...
Manish Tewari | Why Bid For Olympics If There’s No Sports Culture?
The Asian Age
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July 26, 2025
As someone who takes an active interest in personal fitness, I have long bemoaned the lack of an active sports and a personal fitness culture in India. In the formative years of life, I used to spend an average eight to 10 hours in a swimming pool...
Journalists’ rights and obligations in digital media
Bianet
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July 30, 2025
The digital media transformation has created fundamental changes in communication and journalism while profoundly affecting the balance between rights and responsibilities. The need to redefine the traditional concept of press freedom in the...
Manipur, Tripura Dgps Empanelled For Director General Posts In Central Forces
MENAFN
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July 30, 2025
(MENAFN- IANS) Imphal/Agartala, July 30 (IANS) Director General of Manipur Police Rajiv Singh and his Tripura counterpart Anurag were empanelled for Director General (DG) of Central forces, officials said on Wednesday. A senior police official in...
Estonia shows off prison cells awaiting Swedish inmates
WKZO - Michigan
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By Andrius Sytas TARTU, Estonia (Reuters) -Estonia showed off some of the many empty cells in its Tartus prison on Wednesday as officials outlined how they would implement a proposed agreement for Sweden to send up to 600 inmates to the facility...
Manipur and Tripura DGPs empanelled for Director General posts in Central forces
The Economic Times
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July 30, 2025
Guwahati: Director General of Manipur Police Rajiv Singh and his Tripura counterpart Anurag were empanelled for Director General (DG) of Central forces. A senior police official in Agartala said that the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has...
We took action in Kosovo. Why should Gaza be any different?
The Herald (Scotland)
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July 24, 2025
The UK is threatening more sanctions against [[Israel]] but in reality they have no effect at all. Why would [[Israel]] listen to UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer or his Foreign Secretary David Lammy? They have no influence in what is an ongoing...
The 2025 Booker Prize Longlist Is Here: Kiran Desai Makes It to The List Again After 19 Years
Times Now
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July 30, 2025
2025 Booker Prize Longlist Is Here (Picture Credit - Yuki Sugiura/The International Booker Prize) The longlist for the 2025 Booker Prize has officially been unveiled by this year’s judging panel, chaired by acclaimed author and 1993 Booker Prize...
La habitual simpatía de EE.UU. por los terroristas
Strategic Culture
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July 30, 2025
La geometría internacional ha cambiado y Washington necesita acomodarse con todo esto. Únete a nosotros en Telegram , Twitter y VK . Escríbenos: info@strategic-culture.su Estados Unidos ha revocado la denominación de Hay´t Tahrir al-sham (HTS)...
On Salvadoran leader's birthday, US activists protest CECOT
The New Arab
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July 25, 2025
Demonstrators hold signs condemning Bukele and US support for El Salvador's notorious prison CECOT. [Brooke Andreson/TNA] On Thursday, activists in cities and towns across the US gathered on the birthday of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele to...
Kosovo on the Front Line: A Verdict That Stirred Serbo-Russian Moves
Novinite
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KOSOVO ON THE FRONT LINE An ICJ decision that ignited the geopolitical calculations of the Serbo‑Russian axis On the 15th anniversary of the International Court of Justice’s Advisory Opinion (ICJ, 2010) on the legality of Kosovo’s independence, a...