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World Looks Away as Oil Disaster Looms off Yemen’s Coast
Elizabeth Hagedorn | Al-Monitor - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Jul 2022

11 Jul 2022 – Time is running out to prevent what Yemen envoy Tim Lenderking warns will be a “massive oil spill the likes of which the world has not seen.”

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Europe Sends Medical Aid to Iran Bypassing U.S. Sanctions
Al-Monitor - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2020

31 Mar 2020 – In the first transaction of its kind, France, Germany and Britain have sent medical goods to Iran under a trade mechanism set up to bypass US sanctions against Tehran.

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Who Are Turkey’s Protesters? The View from Taksim Square
Amberin Zaman - Al-Monitor, 3 Jun 2013

I was, in my capacity as a reporter, among the thousands of citizens who thronged the streets of central Istanbul on May 31 [2013] in what some are labeling “A Turkish Spring” and “A Turkish Occupy” movement. The Taksim Park project has morphed into a vehicle for popular resentment against Erdogan’s increasingly dismissive and authoritarian ways. Under a decade of AKP rule, Turkey has become the world’s top jailer of journalists.

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