| Afghanistan: In midwinter attacks, a brutal Pakistani reply to Trump Posted: 09 Feb 2018 01:02 PM PST ![Afghanistan: In midwinter attacks, a brutal Pakistani reply to Trump]( "Afghanistan: In midwinter attacks, a brutal Pakistani reply to Trump") Why, in the dead of winter, two months before the traditional start of Afghanistan's fighting season, has the country been rocked by four attacks that killed more than 150 people? The trigger was not a change in the Taliban's fighting calendar, analysts say, nor was it necessarily evidence of intensified competition between Taliban and the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) to lead the insurgency against the Western-backed government. Rather, they say, it was a violent Pakistani response – using its Islamist insurgent clients – to President Trump's recent pressure on Pakistan to rein in militant sanctuaries, or else.
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| A veiled truth in Iran and the US Posted: 09 Feb 2018 12:36 PM PST ![A veiled truth in Iran and the US]( "A veiled truth in Iran and the US") For all their official hostility toward each other, Iran and the United States now have at least one thing in common. Each is home to a campaign by Muslim women demanding the freedom to wear the clothes of their choice. In Iran, the campaign started in December when dozens of young women began to stand up in public squares and hold their headscarves aloft in defiance of mandatory laws on wearing a hijab.
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| With Holocaust law, Poland imperils reconcilliation with its past Posted: 09 Feb 2018 11:31 AM PST ![With Holocaust law, Poland imperils reconcilliation with its past]( "With Holocaust law, Poland imperils reconcilliation with its past") For their Polish peers, the textbook delves into the messy truths of occupation: while there was no collaboration with Nazi Germany at the state level in Poland, some Poles did collaborate with the occupiers. Recommended: How much do you know about Germany? In a new law signed this week by President Andrzej Duda, it is now a crime, punishable up to three years, to falsely attribute crimes of Nazi Germany to the Polish nation and state.
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| 'Calls From Home': How one Kentucky radio station connects inmates and families Posted: 09 Feb 2018 05:09 AM PST !['Calls From Home': How one Kentucky radio station connects inmates and families]( "'Calls From Home': How one Kentucky radio station connects inmates and families") As the last notes of Childish Gambino's "Me And Your Mama" fade to silence, Tom Sexton leans forward into a microphone. The melodic R&B track then begins to emanate from the heart of this small eastern Kentucky town, across the ice-clad mountains of central Appalachia. More than 5,000 men are incarcerated in the six federal and state prisons in the broadcasting range of WMMT.
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