‘No words can erase the pain and suffering they experienced,’ Trudeau says of victims Source: CBC Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has formally apologized in the House of Commons for the […]
NBC News By Frank Thorp V In the final days of his life, former Utah Republican Senator Bob Bennett turned to his son and asked him, “Are there any Muslims […]
Morley Safer, a CBS television correspondent who brought the horrors of the Vietnam War into the living rooms of America in the 1960s and was a mainstay of the network’s news magazine “60 Minutes” for almost five decades, died on Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 84. NYTimes.com […]
Source: Time By Ian Bremmer The 100th anniversary of the Sykes-Picot agreement comes on May 19, marking a century that helped shaped the Middle East May 19 marks the 100-year anniversary of the Sykes-Picot Agreement, signed by diplomats Sir Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot to help Britain and France divide the […]
Source: Time By Mark Thompson Many are booted out with ‘bad paper’ and can’t get upgrades The scariest part of Emily Vorland’s relatively uneventful 2009 deployment to Iraq was that the […]
Source: The Washington Post By Robert Kagan May 18 at 7:09 PM Robert Kagan is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a contributing columnist for The Post. […]
Source: BBC A global revolution in the use of antimicrobials is needed, according to a government backed report. Lord Jim O’Neill, who led the Review on Antimicrobial Resistance, said a […]
Source. The Local Search by location File photo of refugees serving food at emergency accommodation. Photo: Britta Pederson/picture alliance/DPA The one-euro job scheme aims to help newcomers into the job market. But is it effective? With a spoon and spatula in hand, Zaid, a 23-year-old Iraqi refugee, lifts the lid […]
Source. The Local Amnesty International’s Refugees Welcome Index shows that China is the country where people are most willing to take in refugees. Germany comes a close second. More.
Politics Photo: DPA Source The Local The AfD hope to block the new build by means of a referendum and have put a proposal to this effect in from of the state parliament in Thuringia, public broadcaster MDR reports. The populist party, who have seen their popularity soar during the […]
Source: MSN ATHENS, May 19 (Reuters) – Aircraft debris was found in the southern Mediterranean by Greek authorities searching for a missing EgyptAir aircraft which vanished from radar screens early […]
Epigraph: O mankind, We have created you from a male and a female; and We have made you into tribes and sub-tribes that you may recognize one another. Indeed, the […]
Source: ET Shahbaz Taseer has spoken up for the first time about his five-year horrific ordeal. Why now, is anyone’s guess but with so much negativity and fabrications going around, perhaps it was time to set the record straight. Even after his interview with CNN and BBC where he had […]
Source: ET Prayer leader wants Muslims to vouch for family. PHOTO: AFP/FILE LAHORE: A Gujrat-based Christian family is on the verge of having blasphemy charges pressed against it after reportedly dining on a panaflex banner, The Express Tribune has learnt. A local prayer leader and his followers have been pestering police […]
Source: ET A tweet on the airline’s official account says flight MS804 left Paris at 23:09 pm local time. PHOTO: REUTERS CAIRO: An EgyptAir plane missing with 66 people on board probably crashed into the sea, officials from the airline and the Egyptian civil aviation said on Thursday. The Airbus (AIR.PA) […]