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The former Afghanistan captain Khalida Popal with current Afghanistan player Shabnam Mabarz, who is wearing the new head-to-toe outfit with an integrated hijab. Photograph: Jan M. Olsen/AP
by Louise Court | Apr 19, 2017 | Sports
Khalida Popal has paid a high price for becoming the face of the Afghanistan women’s football team. “Sometimes I still have nightmares,” she says quietly. “Those men are standing and looking at me and laughing or there is the fear that they will rape me.” It is six...
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No joke: Occupy Wall Street activists protest against capitalist corruption. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)
by Abdullah Mustafa | Jan 26, 2017 | Business
Brussels – Transparency International issued its 2016 Corruption Perception Index (CPI) report on Wednesday – the outcome raised concerns on how massive and pervasive corruption is in the public sector. “The world systemic corruption and social inequality...
