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Rohingya

Thousands are fleeing Myanmar in terror. Where's your hashtag for Rohingya Muslims?

By Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

Don't ever believe that Buddhists are all calm and humane. Look at Aung San Suu Kyi's brutal sins.

Big Issues

Ahmad Raoof Bashardoost

Iran murdered my brother in a 1988 massacre. Our father is still searching for his grave

The West's indifference to Iran's historic crimes lets my brother's killers get away with murder.

By Massoumeh Raouf

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Leave Malia Obama alone at Harvard

For years, Malia and Sasha have suffered intrusive, malicious, sexist and racist criticism.

By Laura Bates

Sierra Leone Freetown mudslide

400 dead. Hundreds missing. Where is the world's outcry for Sierra Leone's mudslide victims?

In one of Sierra Leone's worst tragedies, hundreds more are currently homeless, with nowhere to go.

By Alimatu Dimonekene

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Don't blame the firefighters who ate piglets they rescued, blame our carnist society

A stay of execution after all the effort of the rescue felt plain wrong, even to those who eat pigs.

By Jimmy Pierson

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What Europe can learn from Israel in its war against vehicle attacks and lone wolf terror

Barcelona's attack follows a wave of car rammings in Nice, London, Paris, Berlin, and Stockholm.

By Richard Kemp

Abdel Fattah Al Sisi

Sisi has kept Mahmoud Abu Zeid in jail for years without trial - he lied about democracy in Egypt

Journalists are being held as 'terrorists'.

By Peter Greste

Truck in Nice attack

What Europe can learn from Israel in its war against vehicle attacks and lone wolf terror

The van terror attack in Barcelona follows a similar wave of car rammings in Nice, London, Paris, Berlin, and Stockholm.

By Richard Kemp

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It's fine to punch Nazis – the trouble is everyone's a 'fascist' these days

How can we 'bash the fash' when everyone gets painted as the bad guy?

By James Bloodworth

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Ten years on from the global financial crisis: how is the UK and the pound?

Disgruntlement at the failure of improvement in living standards had severe political implications.

By Kit Juckes

New Delhi rape

I spoke to 100 sex offenders in New Delhi – one told me a five-year-old 'provoked' him

Study finds disturbing evidence in the attitude of attackers towards victims.

By Madhumita Pandey

From Trump to Maduro to Modi – we're an inch away from democratic totalitarianism

These could be the last days of liberal democracy. Be very afraid.

By Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

Why the word 'bubble' cannot be applied to bitcoin

Cybersecurity expert sheds light on the new currency paradigm.

By John McAfee

Brexit

Ten years on from the global financial crisis: how goes it for the UK and the pound?

Disgruntlement at the failure of improvement in living standards had severe political implications.

By Kit Juckes

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Why it's wrong to cancel the passports of British Isis fighters

The government should take responsibility for the monsters it had a hand in creating.

By James Bloodworth

Hong Kong 20 years of Chinese rule

American chickens have turned Europhiles into chauvinists

Americans are as fussy about hygiene as any people on Earth.

By Daniel Hannan

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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

“Munroe Bergdorf is abused while Jacob Rees-Mogg is lauded - only straight white men have free speech

“Most Britons don't have a religion anymore - it's time our institutions caught up with them

“Banning 'triple talaq' divorces is India's first step to giving Muslim women their rights back

Brexit

London Stock Exchange

'Plus ça Change'? Britain's equity market regulation in the post-Brexit era

By Richard Beresford

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Five things you need to know about Labour's new Brexit policy

By Daniel Hannan

Terror attacks

Spain terror attack

'Man with a van' has become Isis' new and cheap guerrilla warfare tactic in Europe

By David Otto

"Europe is in a state of perpetual war and the enemy is hiding in our midst."

Armed officers at Borough Market

As a Muslim restaurant owner in Borough Market, this attack sickens me

By Iqbal Wahhab

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Grenfell Tower

The Tory landlords running this country have a clear conflict of interest when it comes to keeping people safe

By Chris Williamson MP

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If we don't want riots after Grenfell, we can no longer ignore the victims

By Yomi Adegoke

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Saint Martin 'on verge of civil war' as violence escalates in wake of Hurricane Irma

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