Marokko heeft dus een punkscene, wist ik niet. En dat zoiets als Taqbir bestond, had ik helemaal niet voor mogelijk gehouden. Op de hoes van hun uitstekende eerste EP ‘Taqbir‘ zien we de Kaäba, de voor moslims heilige steen in Mekka, vernield worden door een sloopkogel. Ook de naam Taqbir is heiligschennis, verwijzend naar de kreet Allahu Akbar. De band, aangevoerd door een vrouw, gaat wild tekeer tegen het patriarchaat en tegen de islam, volgens de zangeres het belangrijkste instrument van onderdrukking in Marokko. Mekka belichaamt voor haar het kapitalisme, want met de miljoenen die Saoudi-Arabië verdient aan de bedevaartgangers, wordt bijvoorbeeld het bombarderen van Jemenieten bekostigd. Het nummer met de godslasterlijke titel Alzuki Akbar (‘zuki’ betekent kont) begint met de dwingende opmerkingen die veel jonge Marokkaanse vrouwen dagelijks horen: “Ga je zo gekleed naar buiten? Heb je niks anders om aan te trekken? Wat zit er op je gezicht? Doe een hijab om en ga bidden!”. Waarna de zangeres het er bij de luisteraar inramt dat ze zich niet zal schamen en haar eigen lichaam viert. U begrijpt waarom de bandleden anoniem zijn. Ik las ergens dat ze tegenwoordig vanuit Spanje opereert. In de video boven zien […]

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Prosecutors pointed to internet searches made on the family computer in the months before the killings to make their case

Prosecutors revived a theory in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial case this week, suggesting she had faked a suicide attempt after allegedly strangling her three children.

While prosecutors have been arguing that Clancy acted intentionally and should be held criminally responsible, her defense has said she suffered from postpartum psychosis.

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Prolonged deployment is coupled with reports of water shortages, plumbing issues and attempts to jump overboard

• Trump downplays concerns about sailors onboard USS Abraham Lincoln

US navy veterans and military health experts are expressing concerns about the strain on sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, which has spent nearly nine months at sea supporting US operations in the Middle East, amid reports of poor living conditions and worsening mental health among its crew.

The San Diego-based aircraft carrier left port on 21 November, originally bound for the Pacific, but was redirected to the Middle East as the US-Israel war with Iran began. It has now spent more than 250 consecutive days at sea without a significant port visit, with its deployment repeatedly extended.

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Women’s football has much to gain from the kind of reforms that threats to snub upcoming tournaments might prompt. Infantino should be taken on

“And I say to all the women … Pick the right battles. Pick the right fights. You have the power to change. You have the power to convince us men what we have to do and what we don’t have to do. You do it. Just do it. With men, with Fifa, you will find open doors. Just push the doors. They are open.”

Those were the condescending words of Fifa’s president, Gianni Infantino, three years ago during a tone-deaf speech in Sydney, which left his audience, including some of the most senior women in the game, exasperated. It is a damning indictment of Infantino’s tenure that his patronising monologue on the eve of the Women’s World Cup final now barely even creeps into the top 10 of the most controversial moments since his latest re-election, in March 2023.

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I was struggling to make ends meet as an unpaid intern when a sarcastic song from the hit comedy gave me the clarity to walk out

It was 3am in the summer of 2017, and I was lying in a triple bunk bed in a hostel in London, listening to the sounds of the 14 other people in my dormitory snoring. I had been working unpaid internships in the fashion industry in London for the past 18 months and living in £12-a-night hostels. When I couldn’t sleep, I would watch TV on my beaten-up phone to drown out the snores. I was watching Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, an absurdist comedy about a woman who moves to New York after 15 years imprisoned in a doomsday cult’s underground bunker.

Her relentless positivity often inspired me to keep going, but on that particular night, the opposite happened: Kimmy gave me the courage to give up.

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Daniel’s boyfriend thinks his youthful complexion is down to fancy skincare, and Jessica’s nearest and dearest still don’t know she’s had a breast enhancement …

Jessica was at a spa with her friends of more than 20 years when she noticed one stare at her bikini, lock eyes with her and laugh, before asking: “Wait, have you …?” The game was up – eight months after she’d had a secret breast enhancement, she’d been rumbled. Fearing judgment from even her closest circle, she had only spoken to two people who’d had the procedure, for advice, and told a neighbour in case she was unwell after the surgery. “My family still don’t know – most people don’t,” the 42-year-old from London says, including her two children who live between her and her ex-husband. “I’m not alone; I’ve since learned winter is the most popular time for people to get things done, then they can just hide under jumpers while everything settles in, so no one notices.”

For years, celebrities have endured public speculation about their tweakments and surgeries – but as procedures become more commonplace, “civilian” patients are facing the same questions from family and friends. And many of them are choosing to go incognito; some surgeons estimate up to 70% of their clients aren’t telling others about their aesthetic procedures. But what are the practicalities of disguising everything from breast augmentation to filler to hair transplants from your closest circle? And why are so many people spending thousands of pounds to alter their appearance – only to hope that no one notices?

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A visual celebration of Mexican football culture, blending the country's pre-Hispanic heritage with the passion and energy of the World Cup.

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