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09-05-2015 09:16:46
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Bulk of gold smuggled from Africa exported to UAE, says report via Financial Times
[Among African nations, Mali, Zimbabwe and Ivory Coast had the largest volumes of undeclared gold production, the report said.]
Aly-Khan Satchu Mihr Thakar Charles Onyango-Obbo on.ft.com/3wLO7HB
[“I’ve never had that claim to any place and I think that we should try to think about the fact that we really are all passing through,” she said.]
Aly-Khan Satchu I couldn’t agree more. theguardian.com/books/article/…
[Appearing at the Hay literary festival in Powys this week, Lahiri, who writes in English and Italian and has translated her own work, said she thinks our global “obsession” with what is original or authentic is “very problematic”.]
Aly-Khan Satchu Ditto. theguardian.com/books/article/…
[Thaksin would be the highest-profile case among more than 270 prosecutions in recent years under the controversial lèse-majesté law, which carries a maximum jail term of 15 years for each perceived insult of the royal family.]
Cc:Aly-Khan Satchu reuters.com/world/asia-pac…
[‘The army should get to know their enemy better than they do.’ If we had known the Taliban better as individual people, is there a way that we could avoid them taking full power?”]
Fazit: 'If we had known the Taliban better…'
Cc:Aly-Khan Satchu theguardian.com/books/article/…
[“They’d heard that women go around naked in Norway…She gestured to a skirt length above the knee & the women winced. When she told them she had travelled alone, they asked: “How come your family doesn’t love you?”]
Aly-Khan Satchu Patriarchy in full gear. theguardian.com/books/article/…
[Was The Bookseller of Kabul mentioned, I wonder? “I always mentioned it,” she says. “But of course the Taliban don’t read secular books – and they had plenty of other things to worry about.”]
Cc:Aly-Khan Satchu Geneviève Goëtzinger theguardian.com/books/article/…
[“I told the minister,” she says, “that I was looking for a high-level Taliban commander to speak to for this book. And he laughed and said: ‘No one’s going be in your book. We don’t talk in our movement.’”]
Cc:Aly-Khan Satchu Mihr Thakar theguardian.com/books/article/…
['The problem is that the world is run by old people,' he said, 'who forget what they were like when they were young.']
Fazit: A breath taking interview.
Cc:Aly-Khan Satchu reuters.com/world/americas…
['I do not defend drug use. But I can't defend the ban as it is, because now we have two problems: drug addition, which is a disease, and narcotrafficking, which is worse.']
Aly-Khan Satchu Mihr Thakar Worth reading. reuters.com/world/americas…