Source: CNN On Sunday, Saudi Arabia will end the world’s only ban on women drivers. For the first time in its history, women will be able to drive themselves legally […]
Source: CNN By Mohammed Tawfeeq, Lauren Said-Moorhouse and Nick Paton Walsh raq’s Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi has called for the “immediate” execution of all convicted “terrorists” on death row after the bodies of eight members of […]
Source: CNN By Swati Gupta, CNN The women, dressed in colorful saris, giggle as they arrange themselves into rows. It’s Friday morning in a small apartment in southern Delhi, where […]
Source: CNN The lifeless bodies of three babies, dressed in brightly colored clothing and looking almost as if they were sleeping, were carried carefully ashore Friday in Libya. Held in […]
Source: CNN Migration could be a “make or break” issue for the European Union, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in an impassioned speech Thursday ahead of a critical EU summit. […]
Source: Al Jazeera News By Hamza Mohamed Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – On Tuesday, as dawn broke with a hint of sunlight piercing through the thick rain-season clouds, residents in Addis Ababa […]
Source: Al Jazeera News At least two soldiers have been killed and several others wounded in an attack by unidentified fighters on the headquarters of an African military taskforce in […]
Source: Al Jazeera News Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Palestine have warned Israel on separate occasions about Turkey’s creeping influence in occupied East Jerusalem, according to a report by Israeli newspaper Haaretz. The report notes that senior […]
Source: Al Jazeera News By Ted Regencia At the end of a tumultuous week, marked by a currency crunch and rare protests by vendors in Tehran, economists are urging Iran’s […]
Source: Al Jazeera News The United Nations has warned of a looming “catastrophe” in southern Syria, as it raised the number of people fleeing a fierce government offensive aimed at retaking […]
Source: Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Melbourne’s archbishop, who said he’d prefer jail to telling civil authorities about any sex abuse of […]
Source: BBC News For decades the Anangu people in central Australia have asked tourists not to climb Uluru, formerly known as Ayers Rock, because of its sacred value. From next […]
Source: The Atlantic BY Shadi Hamid In January 2017, when President Donald Trump’s so-called Muslim ban was first announced, I was passionately against it. It was one of the most frightening textsI’ve […]
Source: Religion News Service BY Yonat Shimron (RNS) — Berkeley’s Graduate Theological Union, a multifaith consortium of research centers and seminaries, has selected the first non-Christian president in its history. Daniel […]
Source: Associated Press By ASHOK SHARMA NEW DELHI (AP) — Nikki Haley, the U.S. envoy to the United Nations, said Thursday her country is urging Pakistan more strongly not to […]
Source: Reuters BY Asif Shahzad, Mubasher Bukhari ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan has removed the leader of one of the country’s largest Islamist extremist groups from its terrorist watchlist while the Election […]
Source: BBC News A court in Israel has convicted a 19-year-old American-Israeli man of making hundreds of threats to bomb or attack Jewish schools and community centres. Michael Ron David […]
Source: Associated Press By ARON HELLER JERUSALEM (AP) — Prince William toured sensitive Jerusalem holy sites on Thursday and paid a pilgrimage to the tomb of his great-grandmother on the […]
Source: Reuters By Kanupriya Kapoor, Agustinus Beo Da Costa JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s counter-terrorism police plan to arrest more than 100 suspected militants in a bid to prevent retaliatory attacks after […]
Source: Reuters BY Tom Allard JAKARTA (Reuters) – A resounding win by an Indonesian mayor targeted by some hardline Muslims over the construction of a church highlighted a broader failure […]