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Wednesday, 12 May 2021, 3:27 pm
The United Nations and the Islamic Development Bank today
launched an initiative to help fund efforts to recover
better as the world continues to grapple with the COVID-19
pandemic.
Coming at a time when the global health and
economic crisis have pushed millions of people into extreme
poverty, the newly launched International Dialogue on the
Role of Islamic Social Financing in Achieving the
Sustainable Development Goals will help unlock Islamic
social financing that has the potential to provide urgently
needed support for poverty alleviation, economic recovery,
pandemic response, and sustainable
development.
“Standing in solidarity with those in
The second wave of the
pandemic has struck India with a devastating impact. With
over 300,000 new cases and 3,000 deaths across the
country each day at present, the total number of deaths has
just passed the 200,000 mark – that’s about one in
16 of all COVID deaths across the world. It is also
evident that the India statistics are significant
underestimates.
The virulence of the second
wave in India seems to be related to a confluence of
factors: government
complacency, driven by poor data collection and being in
denial about the reality of the data; a new
variant with a hockey-stick shaped growth curve; and
Americans: $2000 checks please
Americans: No,
$2000 checks
Government: Okay, since you asked nicely
here s your airstrikes on Syria.
This latest Biden
airstrike is being spun as defensive and retaliatory
despite its targeting a nation the US invaded (Syria) in
response to alleged attacks on US forces in another nation
the US invaded (Iraq). You can t invade a nation and then
claim self-defense there. That s not a thing.
If
you re uncritically repeating US government claims about its
justifications for its acts of mass military violence,
you re not doing journalism, you re writing Pentagon press
releases.
It s like the Biden administration is
actively trying to vindicate everyone who spent the last