A volcano in Iran called Taftan is showing signs of life after being quiet for about 700,000 years. Taftan, an almost 4,000-meter-high mountain, is located in southeastern Iran, near the border with Pakistan. For a very long time, Taftan was thought to be extinct, but in 2023 and 2024, scientists noticed something unusual: the ground […]
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The Arab-Israeli conflict has gone on for more than 75 years and has shaped the modern Middle East. Here are the major events. First Intifada in the Gaza StripImage: Efi Sharir / Photographer: Israel Press and Photo Agency (I.P.P.A.) / Dan Hadani collection, National Library of Israel / CC BY 4.0, CC BY 4.0, via
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According to a report by the BBC, the social media platform TikTok has made profits from poor Syrian families that beg for money. Parents and their children produced livestreams, in which they asked their followers for money. The BBC says that most of the money, up to 70 %, went to TikTok and only a
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Women around the world are protesting against the Iranian government. The demonstrations began after Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish woman, died after she had been arrested by Iran’s morality police. Amini was tortured and beaten to death because she refused to cover her hair with a headscarf. In the past days, women all over the world,
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