Source: BBC Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir was on course for a career in professional basketball, until a ban on headgear prevented her from playing and wearing her hijab at the same time.So she chose to fight to change the rule. Please watch the video clip in BBC
Source: CNN A number of insurgents have attacked a building housing a state TV station in Jalalabad, eastern Afghanistan, police tell CNN.An explosion was heard from the vicinity after the insurgents entered the building, Nangarhar police spokesman Hazrat Hussain Mashriqiwal said Wednesday.The situation is ongoing. More:
Source: CNN Inside 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the mood was darker still. “This is on him,” meaning Trump, a top Republican close to the White House said, after speaking with dejected advisers inside the West Wing. Even before news of the Comey memos broke, the West Wing was wallowing in despondency, […]
May 16,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Kaushik Basu Global inequality today is at a level last seen in the late nineteenth century — and it is continuing to rise. With it has come a surging sense of disenfranchisement that has fuelled alienation and anger, and even bred nationalism and xenophobia. As […]
Reuters International MAY 16, 2017 Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim makes a speech during a meeting in Ankara, Turkey, April 19, 2017. Ali Balikci/Prime Minister’s Press Office/Handout via REUTERS (reuters_tickers) By Ece Toksabay ANKARA (Reuters) – Germany’s decision to grant asylum to Turks accused of participating in last year’s failed […]
By swissinfo.ch, Keyston MAY 16, 2017 – 11:26 Thousands of curious visitors made the trip to a new mosque in Wil in northeast Switzerland, which was inaugurated last weekend. The […]
MAY 16, 2017 – About 14,000 of Switzerland’s 325,000 Muslim inhabitants are of Bosnian nationality.(Keystone) Swiss and Bosnian religious leaders have signed a joint declaration aimed at affirming the […]
By Simon Bradley May 15, 2017 Children stand among destroyed homes in Autaya in eastern al-Ghouta, Syria, on May 11, 2017(Keystone) Round six of United Nations-brokered talks aimed at ending […]
‘An exclusion without exceptions would violate the cultures and traditions of some communities’ Andrew Buncombe New York @AndrewBuncomb A high profile Republican governor has declined to sign into law, a measure that would have made his state the first to ban child marriage without exception. Chris Christie, the governor of […]
Tissue samples from the three-week 2008-2009 Israeli-Hamas Gaza war shows remnants of heavy metals in the wounds of Palestinians which can lead to cancers Robert Fisk Beirut @indyvoices A doctor tends to a soldier injured in fighting in Qaraqosh in Mosul, Iraq Getty/Chris McGrath The details were horrific. Outside the besieged […]