By William J. Furney Suddenly, “super-busy” people (or people who like to tell us they are) everywhere have little or nothing to do, and they can’t cope, with the lack
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‘FGM Is About Control of Female Sexuality, But Some Girls Seek It’
By William J. Furney It’s International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation, yet the barbaric and sometimes fatal ritual is still being performed on around 3 million girls
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‘Constant Aggression, Repression by Spain Is Helping Catalonian Independence’
By William J. Furney Mike Eastabrook is a UK-based vice president of the advocacy group Foreign Friends of Catalonia, which seeks to counter what he calls “the crude repression of
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Blockchain (But Hadn’t a Clue What — or Who — to Ask)
By William J. Furney Blockchain seems to be everywhere. Almost every time you read a news article, the peculiar term is right there, staring you in the eyes and imploring
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Hunger-Striking American in Egyptian Jail Is ‘Distraught and Losing Hope’: Lawyer
By William J. Furney Mustafa Kassem is a taxi driver in New York who was visiting his wife and young son and daughter in Cairo, Egypt, in the summer of
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The Big Questions | François Rimbau: Religions People Are a Deviant Form of Spirituality
French stage and film actor François Rimbau talks to Furney Times for the first in the Big Questions series exploring what it means to be human. At what age would you
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PETA: Shock Is Only Way to Wake People Up About Animal Cruelty
By William J. Furney Animal rights group PETA does “extraordinary things to draw attention to cruelty to animals”, says the shock-stunt organisation’s UK director, Elisa Allen. The 36-year-old German-born London
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