Source: The Independent ‘Grabbing and snatching it was a private, illegal act which is justified by no law,’ says lawyer Will Grice @WillGrice The Koh-i-Noor stone in the Queen Mother’s crown A petition demanding the return of the Koh-i-Noor diamond has been filed in a Pakistan court, reports say. The […]
Source: Jordan Times By Suzanna Goussous – Dec 02,2015 – JORDAN TIMES Abdelrahman Qasem speaks to activists and reporters in Amman on Wednesday (Photo by Suzanna Goussous) AMMAN — Farmer Abdelrahman Qasem has faced Israeli aggression on his land in Palestine for over 30 years, with settlers continually putting pressure […]
Dec 03,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – GEORGE S. HISHMEH All hopes were dashed last weekend when President Barrack Obama, who was in Paris at what has been described as one of the largest gatherings of world leaders in history to deal with the consequences of climate change, failed to highlight the […]
Bangkok’s little-known population of Pakistani asylum seekers uses community action to respond to the challenges facing refugees without a camp. In an unremarkable concrete apartment block on the outskirts of Bangkok, over 100 families from Pakistan wait. They are a fraction of the 8,000-strong population of refugees and asylum […]
Aljazeera: Reports emerged last week that Saudi Arabia intends to imminently execute more than 50 people on a single day for alleged terrorist crimes. Although the kingdom hasn’t officially confirmed the reports, the evidence is building. Okas, the first outlet to publish the report, has close ties to the Saudi […]
Foxnews.com: SAN BERNARDINO, Cali. — The mass shooting during a holiday party at Inland Regional Center on December 2 in San Bernardino, California, is the deadliest since the 2012 incident at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Here are some ways you can help and support victims and the San Bernardino […]
By Iram Ahmad MD In his 1580 essay, “On Presumption,” French essayist Michel de Montaigne wrote: … It is that I lower the value of the things I possess, because I possess them, and raise the value of things when they are foreign, absent, or not mine… between two similar […]