Our whitewashed history ignores the heroic role of people of colour in the war. By Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, IBTimes.co.uk This week, I passed the four lovely Portland stone pillars near Hyde Park corner in a taxi. These are Memorial Gates dedicated to the South Asian, African and Caribbean soldiers who fought in […]
Source: The Daily Beast The fight for Mosul heated up Friday as Iraqi forces announced they had recaptured six districts in the eastern portion of the city occupied by ISIS militants. According to the military’s statement, government forces took back from ISIS the neighborhoods of Malayeen, Samah, Khadra, Karkukli, Quds, […]
Source: The Daily Beast ROME — It is a terrifying sensation when your home starts to shake and your furniture starts to shimmy—especially when you don’t consider your address to be in a high-risk seismic zone. But for the last three months, starting on August 24 and ending, oh, at […]
Source: Dawn The leader of the opposition took it a bit too far when he said that Mr Khan’s shenanigans actually empower Nawaz Sharif; in fact the manner in which the PML-N and the PTI have gone at it over the past few years has empowered the men in khaki […]
Source: The Local More than 30 police joined the raids on ten rooms in several accommodation facilities in the towns of Nagold and Wildberg in the southwestern state of Baden-Wurttemberg, said police.”The Afghan asylum seekers are suspected of having raped a 17-year-old Iranian asylum seeker several times and of having […]
Source: The Local The young man’s lawyer described his arrest as a “scandal” in an interview with Spiegel. Prosecutors had only presented judges with minimal evidence which had clearly not convinced them, the lawyer said. Federal prosecutors also confirmed that the judge did not consider the evidence presented as sufficient “for an […]
Source: The Local The survey showed that 65 percent of German respondents answered that they would feel “afraid” if Trump were to become president of the United States, YouGov reported on Wednesday.Market research firm YouGov surveyed 2,068 German adults between October 20th and 25th, and also polled residents of the […]
In the village of Soran, near Hama, and the surrounding area, civilians speak of their loss as part of one battle in Syria’s larger civil war, writes Robert Fisk Robert Fisk Soran, near Hama, Syria @indyvoices Thursday 3 November 2016 The Hamdo family collect what is left of their home Nelofer Pazira […]
Source: The Guardian By Harriet Sherwood Martin Luther’s burning of the Papal Bull excommunicating him in 1520 led to five centuries of religious division in Europe. Photograph: Getty A simple act, it […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY DAVID MCCLENDON AND ALEKSANDRA SANDSTROM2 COMMENTS About 57,800 minors in the U.S. ages 15 to 17 were married as of 2014. That might sound like a lot of people (and it is), but it’s also just five of every 1,000 in that age group, a […]
Source: CNN By Ben Tinker, CNN (CNN)The US Department of Health and Human Services released its 14th Report on Carcinogens today, including seven “newly reviewed” substances, bringing its total number of known human carcinogens to 248. Five viruses have been added to the list: Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) […]
Source: Politico Magazine By KATIE ZAVADSKI NEW YORK—Earlier this summer, Deborah Fikes, a former executive adviser of the World Evangelical Alliance, which represents some 600 million evangelical Christians in 129 […]
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune By PEGGY FLETCHER STACK The optics tell a stunning story of Mormon decline — or so many observers insist. Photos of Mormons gathering en masse […]
Source: BuzzFeed News By McKay Coppins BuzzFeed News Reporter SALT LAKE CITY — When Mike Pence took the stage for a campaign rally last week in this most improbable of 2016 […]
Source: The New York Times By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON and RICHARD FAUSSET GREENVILLE, Miss. — A predominantly African-American church here was badly burned on Tuesday evening, with the words “Vote Trump” […]
Source: BBC More than 200 migrants are believed drowned in two shipwrecks off the coast of Libya, migration officials say. The UN refugee agency was told the news by survivors […]
Source: TOI A group of madrasa students demonstrated on the premises of Brahmanbarhia Press Club while hundreds of people blocked Sarail-Nasirnagar-Lakhai road by torching tyres on Sunday. After the mayhem […]
Source: TOI ISLAMABAD: Signalling a fresh slide in ties, Pakistan and India may temporarily recall their high commissioners and scale down the size of diplomatic staff in each other’s missions in the wake of the latest diplomatic spat over the spying episode, a media report said on Friday. The latest spat […]
Source: CNN By Euan McKirdy (CNN) Thousands of protesters waving flags are marching through Jakarta demanding the ouster of the city’s governor, who has been accused of blasphemy against Muslims. […]