Nationalism the big winner in Bulgarian election
Source: Reuters By Angel Krasimirov | ELIN PELIN, BULGARIA Syrian refugee Fatema Batayhi says she has not left her home for five weeks, not since a hostile crowd confronted her […]
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India meat crackdown leaves butchers concerned
Source: BBC Several slaughterhouses and meat shops have been shut in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh after the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) comprehensively won state assembly […]
Trump to deliver Liberty University commencement address
Source: CNN By Dan Merica, CNN Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump will deliver the May commencement address at Liberty University, the largest Christian university in the world announced Wednesday. Trump, who […]
Pharmacist convicted of racketeering, fraud in fungal meningitis outbreak
Source: CNN By Chuck Johnston and Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN)Jurors in the trial of pharmacist Barry Cadden delivered a mixed verdict Wednesday in connection with a deadly 2012 nationwide fungal […]
Jesus’s tomb unveiled after $4m restoration
Source: The Guardian Wednesday’s ceremony will mark completion of nine-month renovation of most sacred monument in Christianity BY Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent The restored tomb in which Jesus’s body is believed […]
London attack: What we know so far
Source: BBC Four people have died and 20 people have been injured after what police are treating as terrorist attacks in Westminster, earlier on Wednesday. Here is what we know […]
Supermarkets Keep Slashing Prices and It’s Not Working
Source: Time By Jennifer Calfas Mar 21, 2017 Supermarkets are slashing prices to the point where for the first time in nearly 50 years, prices on items decreased on average. The […]
President Trump’s Former Campaign Chair Paul Manafort Once Worked to Advance Putin’s Interests
Source: Time BY Jeff Horwitz and Chad Day/AP Mar 22, 2017 WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, secretly worked for a Russian billionaire to advance the interests […]
Whatever happened to Generation X?
Source: BBC By Lindsay Baker 21 March 2017 It’s a familiar and ongoing feud: baby boomers in one corner and millennials in the other. It seems the two generations are […]
Do all mammals know how to swim?
Source: BBC By Josh Gabbatiss 21 March 2017 My girlfriend’s grandparents, Audrey and Hamish, are an inquisitive pair with a keen interest in all things biological. One day, they decided […]
The microbes in your body that you could not live without
Source: BBC By Adam Rutherford 22 March 2017 It began with what can only be described as an ingenious invention. It’s a fold-out sheet, with sticky tabs at the front […]
Pope asks forgiveness for Church role in Rwanda genocide
Source: Reuters By Crispian Balmer | VATICAN CITY Pope Francis asked for forgiveness on Monday for the “sins and failings of the Church” during Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, saying he hoped […]
India’s sacred Ganges and Yamuna rivers granted same legal rights as humans
Source: Reuters By Rina Chandran MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – An Indian court has declared the sacred Ganges and Yamuna rivers living entities, giving them the same legal rights as […]
Germany: 3 teenagers convicted in bomb attack on Sikh temple
Source: Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — A German court convicted three 17-year-olds on Tuesday of participating last year in a bomb attack on a Sikh temple that was motivated by […]
A New Form of Stem-Cell Engineering Raises Ethical Questions
Source: The New York Times By Carl Zimmer As biological research races forward, ethical quandaries are piling up. In a report published Tuesday in the journal eLife, researchers at Harvard Medical […]
Court: Student prayers OK at school board meetings
Source: Associated Press By KEVIN McGILL NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Texas school board can open its meetings with student-led public prayers without running afoul of the Constitution’s prohibition against […]
US Muslims and Jews strengthen bonds amid acts of bigotry
Source: Associated Press By RACHEL ZOLL NEW YORK (AP) — They sat on either end of the congressmen’s couch, one a Jewish healthcare executive whose parents fled Germany in 1936, […]
Britain follows U.S. in banning some electronics in cabins on certain flights from several Muslim-majority countries
Source: The Washington Post By Rick Noack, Lori Aratani and Luz Lazo March 21 at 2:23 PM LONDON — Britain joined the United States on Tuesday in banning passengers traveling […]
Ibtihaj Muhammad: I Fear President Trump’s ‘Campaign of Terror’ Against American Ideals
Source: Time By Ibtihaj Muhammad Muhammad is an American fencer and Olympic medalist Dear President Trump, Representing the United States in the Olympic Games was the greatest honor of my life. […]
The Comey Hearing Dealt President Trump Another Setback
Source: Time BY Sam Frizell For President Trump, the blows kept coming at a congressional hearing Monday. First, FBI Director James Comey told the House Intelligence Committee that his agency is […]