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Coke and Pepsi boycott over Gaza lifts Muslim countries’ local sodas D_Trends

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Coke and Pepsi boycott over Gaza lifts Muslim countries’ local sodas D_Trends

Coca-Cola and rival PepsiCo spent hundreds of millions of dollars over decades building demand for their soft drinks in Muslim-majority countries, from Egypt to Pakistan. Now, both face a challenge from local sodas in those countries due to consumer boycotts that target the globe-straddling brands as symbols of America and by extension Israel, at a … Read more

Bangladesh interim government lifts ban on Jamaat-e-Islami Dtrends

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Bangladesh interim government lifts ban on Jamaat-e-Islami Dtrends

Listen to article Bangladesh’s new interim government on Wednesday lifted a ban on the country’s largest Islamist party, Jamaat-e-Islami, its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir and “all associated organisations”. The ban was imposed in the final days of the rule of now-ousted ruler Sheikh Hasina. “The government… has cancelled the previous order of August 1, 2024, that … Read more