Source: El Pais BY LUCÍA GONZÁLEZ On Saturday, Pedro Sánchez became the seventh head of government in modern Spanish democracy to take the oath of office, and the first one to do so […]
By Thomson Reuters Foundation – Jun 05,2018 – JORDAN TIMES Women walk past rubble of damaged buildings in Raqqa, Syria, on May 14 (Reuters photo) BEIRUT — There is evidence […]
Giuseppe Conte calls for redistribution of asylum seekers and review of Russian sanctions Agence France-Presse Wed 6 Jun 2018 Italy’s new prime minister, Giuseppe Conte. Photograph: AFP/Getty Italy’s incoming prime […]
Source: Reuters VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis has blocked a move by German bishops to allow Protestants married to Roman Catholics to receive communion in Catholic churches, a prospect […]
Source: Independent By Narjas Zatat in news Non-Muslim women across the world are wearing the hijab for 30 days as part of the Ramadan Hijab challenge. The initiative was created by the World […]
Air and artillery strikes by the US and its allies inflicted devastating loss of life on civilians in the Isis-held city of Raqqa, according to an Amnesty International report. It […]
BERIL DEDEOĞLU Turkey and the European Union recently held discussions on visa exemption for Turkish citizens wanting to travel to the EU. The EU has been blocking and diverting […]
Source: The New York Times By Martin Selsoe Sorensen COPENHAGEN — Denmark has a long record of taking daring steps on issues like gender rights, development aid and green energy. […]
Source: Associated Press ROME (AP) — The 5-Star Movement, one of the two populist parties in Italy’s new government, distanced itself Sunday from anti-gay comments made by a minister from […]
Source: Reuters By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – The Vatican will host executives of the world’s top oil companies for a conference next week on climate change and the […]
Source: The Economist RELIGION and human rights have always had an intense, tortured relationship. On one hand, liberty of conscience and belief is one of the first and most fundamental […]
By James Gallagher Health and science correspondent, BBC News 3 June 2018 About 70% of women with the most common form of early stage breast cancer can be spared the […]
Reuters International This content was published on June 3, 2018 Janez Jansa, leader of the Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS), arrives for press conference after the general election in Ljubljana, Slovenia, […]
Source: Daily Times It is a great pleasure and honour for all of us to be here today, in a quantum leap of a revolutionised understanding of the world, where the product of a time that once divided it into blocs, now sees into the everyday life and curiosities of […]
Source: CNN Could it be that Europe is facing yet another existential crisis, six years after financial meltdown threatened the eurozone’s collapse? This week the third- and fourth-largest economies in the eurozone — Italy and Spain — experienced political earthquakes. Italy will now have a government of insurgents with little […]
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Source: The Independent The controversy over burqas, burkinis and beards isn’t really about clothing. It’s about the fear that immigrants might retain their non-Christian identities even while living in Western […]
Jun 02,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Harold James PRINCETON — In The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, John Maynard Keynes famously worried that, “Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back”. Yet, even without […]
Source: The Guardian By Paul Karp Almost one in five public school parents have objected to religious views being shared with their children through school chaplains, a review has found. […]
Campaigners say ban violates rights to freedom of expression and religion June 1, 2018 Women wearing niqabs stand outside the parliament in Copenhagen. Photograph: Mads Claus Rasmussen/AFP/Getty Images Denmark has joined […]