Huff Post: by Megan Griffo — On Tuesday morning, a brain surgeon in Birmingham, Ala., walked six miles through a severe snow storm to save a patient’s life. Dr. Zenko Hrynkiw, Trinity Medical Center’s only neurosurgeon, had just finished surgery at a neighboring hospital when Steve Davis, the charge nurse at […]
swissinfo.ch and agencies January 31, 2014 – 15:11 US President Barack Obama has officially nominated Suzi LeVine as the next ambassador to Switzerland. She succeeds Donald S. Beyer, who left […]
Source: edmontonsun.com Ahmadiyya Student Association at NAIT held an open house on Thursday to give fellow students a better understanding of Islam. Taha Syed, missionary of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Edmonton, said people may be surprised to learn how much of the ancient text is relevant to today. [Please click […]
Little Partisan Gap in Views of Whether U.S. Has Reached Goals Negative Views of U.S. Efforts in Iraq, AfghanistanAfter more than a decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, the public does not think the United States has achieved its goals in either country. About half of Americans (52%) say […]
M. Basheer Ahmed, M.D. On one fine evening in March 2013, two young men got out of the car and passed young children playing on the street in a neighborhood in Karachi… Two children aged 6 and 7 with innocent faces smiled at him. The young men quietly passed them. […]
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Source: sadew.org JANUARY 25, 2014 AT SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY, DALLAS Conference on persecution of minorities calls for international pressures on South Asian governments to stop violence against religious minorities “Apologists for […]
PNN Scarlett Johansson has stopped working with humanitarian organization Oxfam, due to her new endorsement deal with Israeli company Sodastream. Actress Johansson has spend eight years being an ambassador for […]
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Source: CNN – Neighbors had been complaining for a while about the dreadful smell coming from William Buchman’s house in Santa Ana, California. “The stench is overwhelming,” said Forest Long, Jr., who lives nearby in the Orange County city. Long said friends were becoming reluctant to visit because of the […]
WARSAW: Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is hinting at growing U.S. impatience with Afghan President Hamid Karzai for not signing an accord permitting American troops to remain in his country after the U.S. combat mission ends in December. Hagel told reporters flying with him to Poland Thursday that at some point […]
Source: China Daily By CHEN JIA (San Francisco Journal) In the Year of Horse, the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley are both showing their particular affinity and openness […]
Source: Asia Times: And Obama, of course, is a decent actor who can deliver a decent speech – certainly better than Ronnie Reagan, whom Gore Vidal used to describe as “the acting president”. More:
Source: BBC A swarm of 100 tiny satellites is poised to launch into orbit, owned by schoolchildren and space enthusiasts. Richard Hollingham finds out what it took to make these tiny travellers fly, and how they avoid posing a risk to bigger spacecraft. As I type this, there’s a satellite […]
Full transcript, without spin or any agenda Source: The Washington Post Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you so much. Mr. Speaker, Mr. […]
Huff Post: Jennifer Zobair — Most insults aimed at Muslims are far from subtle. It is easy to recognize the affront, for example, when someone says she is tired of people saying Islam is a religion of peace, or sponsors ads in subway stations implying Muslims are “savages.” But sometimes the bigotry is subtle. […]
CTV News: The National Council of Canadian Muslims is serving the Prime Minister’s Office with a libel notice, claiming that Stephen Harper’s communications director defamed the group in an interview […]
Justin Trudeau gives Grits hope in heart of Tory country: Steward Justin Trudeau’s recent trip to Alberta should give Liberals hope that their leader has what it takes to appeal to voters disillusioned with the Conservative government. Toronto star 28/1/2014 Opinion page Save to Mystar Jeff McIntosh / THE CANADIAN […]
Afghan President Hamid Karzai suspects the United States may have backed insurgent-style attacks to undermine his government but has no evidence to support his theory, the Washington Post reported Tuesday. Karzai, whose relations with Washington have steadily deteriorated over the years, has compiled a list of dozens of attacks that […]
The Independent: The results of a long-term study of reproductive health, published in the British Medical Journal, have revealed that one in two hundred US women claim to have given birth without ever having had sexual intercourse. The findings were based on a study of 7,870 women and girls aged […]