UNIVERSITAS 21 STUDY ‘Outward looking’ universities boost Swiss ranking By Isobel Leybold-Johnson swissinfo.ch MAY 21, 2015 – 01:00 Looking forwards: students in Switzerland get a good education (Keystone) Switzerland’s higher education system has been ranked 2nd in the Universitas 21 2015 global ratings. One aspect […]
The Telegraph Reserachers found that moderately hot or cold weather accounts for seven times as many deaths as extreme temperatures. Cold weather kills twenty times as many people as hot weather, according to an international study. The findings, published in The Lancet, also reveal that deaths due to moderately hot […]
Summary BY RAMI G. KHOURI, THE DAILY STAR, LEBANON The European Union’s desire to play a more active role in promoting Israeli-Palestinian peace, as its foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said Monday as she set out on her first visit to the region, is one of the few areas […]
PRINT SEND THIS ARTICLE 1 COMMENTS As a political refugee in Switzerland, Hani Abbas chose exile to escape Syrian security forces. Many of his fellow cartoonists and journalists had been assassinated, imprisoned or tortured. Abbas was born in 1977 in Yarmouk, a large Palestinian refugee camp in the suburbs of the […]
Source: The Week Christianity is declining in the United States, according to new Pew surveys. And I have some news for my fellow Christians: This is actually bad news for Christianity. That may seem obvious, but Russell Moore, an online acquaintance, a Baptist minister, and president of the Southern Baptist […]
Source: ET VENICE, ITALY: The Santa Maria della Misericordia church in Venice, which closed to worshippers 40 years ago, has been transformed into a mosque as part of the Venice Biennale — […]
Source: Middle East Monitor The European Union has threatened to impose economic and diplomatic sanctions against Israel if it does not resume peace talks with the Palestinians. According to Yedioth […]
Museum Kampa, Prague A line of yellow penguins and a group of giant, faceless crawling babies marks the site of Museum Kampa, a modern art gallery on Prague’s leafy Kampa Island. The giant babies – by Czech sculptor David Černý – and the surreal penguins,which glow brightly at night, are […]
By Veronica DeVore swissinfo.ch Language learning in Switzerland is linked to wider political debates over immigration and education. An online poll shows strong support for giving priority to national languages in school and in the workplace. Recently, several cantons have been embroiled in disputes over whether to introduce the teaching […]
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It was when Isis issued a fatwa saying a wife should obey her husband in all matters, including becoming a suicide bomber, that Aysha, a 32-year-old mother of two children, decided to flee her home in Mosul. She recalls that her husband did not ask her directly to be a […]
A look at the major issue of integration 05/07/2015 Focus Author: Marc Lettau (Text) Andrea Caprez (IllustrationS) Immigration is the biggest political bone of contention in Switzerland this year. For immigrants already here, how Switzerland envisages integration in future is a particularly highly charged issue. Should the state demand and […]
SPIEGEL Migration Debate: ‘One of the Most Serious Dramas of Our Times’ Interview Conducted By Maximilian Popp and Jörg Schindler DPA Syrian refugees arrive in a dinghy on the Greek island of Kos on May 6. Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann and human rights activist Elias Bierdel recently met with […]
SPIEGEL Migration Debate: ‘One of the Most Serious Dramas of Our Times’ Interview Conducted By Maximilian Popp and Jörg Schindler DPA Syrian refugees arrive in a dinghy on the Greek island of Kos on May 6. Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann and human rights activist Elias Bierdel recently met with […]
by JT | May 14, 2015 | 00:03 His Majesty King Abdullah speaks at a joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin on Wednesday (Photo courtesy of Royal Court) AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday held talks which focused […]
Jordan Times, 15.5.2015 AMMAN — On the sidelines of his working visit to Germany on Wednesday, His Majesty King Abdullah met with several leading intellectual, political and academic figures. At […]
Source: ET LINCOLNSHIRE: A British teacher who told his students that he was “allergic to Muslims” among other bigoted statements has been banned from teaching indefinitely, the BBC reported. The National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL), an agency of the United Kingdom’s Department for Education, took action after they received complaints from students. […]
Source: ET LINCOLNSHIRE: A British teacher who told his students that he was “allergic to Muslims” among other bigoted statements has been banned from teaching indefinitely, the BBC reported. The National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL), an agency of the United Kingdom’s Department for Education, took action after they received complaints from students. […]
GULF STATES Swiss tourist resorts ready for Ramadan By Yasmine Kanunah, in Geneva MAY 10, 2015 – 11:00 Interlaken, with a view towards the Jungfrau, is a favoured destination of […]
Epigraph: Do to others what you want them to do to you. This is the meaning of the law of Moses and the teaching of the prophets. (Matthew 7:12) How […]