The economist exposes the flaws of the common currency, but his solutions for reform don’t convince A protester burns a euro note during a demonstration in Athens, June 2015. Photograph: Reuters John Kampfner Monday 22 August 2016 It’s two months since Britain’s worst foreign policy blunder of the modern era […]
Source: The Daily Beast In 79 C.E. Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying the nearby cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in thick layers of volcanic ash. There was no time to suffocate; most died not from the poisonous gas but were instead flash-heated into immediate rigor mortis. The eruption froze the final […]
10/14/2016 Sophia von Bonin Co-founder of Re:Start CARSTEN KOALL VIA GETTY IMAGES What if we viewed the influx of refugees into Germany as an opportunity rather than a crisis? This was the question I asked myself, together with a group of young Berliners, when over 800,000 refugees arrived in Germany last […]
Source: The Local The threat from Volker Kauder, a key member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party, follows a similar warning by Justice Minister Heiko Maas, in a growing sign of German politicians’ frustration with such websites.”The time for round-tables is over. I’ve run out of patience,” said Volker Kauder, chairman […]
Sir John Sawers says Moscow has shifted balance of power but criticises Boris Johnson’s call for demo outside embassy Sir John Sawers: ‘We are not treating Russia and China as major powers that can cause us a great deal of damage.’ Photograph: Elyse Marks/Edelman/PA Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor Wednesday 12 […]
You can’t have an isolationist policy on climate change, global terrorism, weapons deals, international cyber-crime, the Zika virus epidemic or the refugee crisis – and you can’t have an isolationist policy on birth Holly Baxter @h0llyb4xter 28 comments It is pointless for Theresa May’s Government to demand passports before giving […]
Oct 10,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – MARK LEONARD People used to think that the most important decisions affecting Europe were made in Paris, Berlin or Brussels. But in recent months, as the European Union has confronted the refugee crisis, and the Syrian conflict that is fuelling it, Moscow and Ankara […]
When a Syrian peasant woman approaches our table in a small Ottoman restaurant, the locals step forward to give her coins. It puts to shame the liars of the Brexit campaign and their hatred of the foreigners who supposedly threaten little England Robert Fisk Kilis @indyvoices 176 comments Syrian refugees […]
Queen Margrethe’s comment came in a wide-ranging interview with Der Spiegel. Photo: JAN WOITAS/Scanpix Published: 04 Oct 2016 00:57 GMT+02:00 With Denmark once again engaged in a national conversation about what makes one ‘Danish’, Queen Margrethe II told German newspaper Der Spiegel that she represents “all people who are citizens […]
By Keshie Hernitaningtyas, for The Jakarta Post It took twenty five years to build the city of Madinat al-Zahra, which existed for only sixty-five years and laid forgotten beneath the ground […]
Source: The Daily Beast German police raided an apartment in the eastern city of Chemnitz on Saturday after receiving information of a bomb plot. A nearby house was also evacuated, according to local media. In a message on Twitter, Saxony police warned residents in the area to stay indoors. “Please […]
Source: The Local Relations between the two have nosedived since a ceasefire they agreed to in September fell apart in less than a week, and Washington on Friday accused Damascus and Moscow of staging “war crimes” in Aleppo. At least 250,000 people are living under siege in rebel-held east Aleppo, and […]
WORLD by LORI HINNANT, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Posted Oct 8, 2016 Laura Passoni talks during an interview with the Associated Press in an hotel in Brussels on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016. Passoni, a Belgian woman who joined Islamic State with her 4-year-old son and later escaped has written a book […]
October 7 Multiple Grammy® Award-winning, Golden Globe nominated singer and songwriter Chris Cornell joined Yusuf Islam on stage last night at the Pantages Theatre for a performance of “Wild World”. Watch the video below: About Chris Cornell: Chris Cornell is a modern icon who transcends genre. He was the chief […]
PARVEEN AKHTAR 5 October 2016 What lies behind two intra-Muslim killings in Britain? The question is timely at the unifying moment of a new Muslim year. East London Mosque, Whitechapel, London. Steve Parsons PA Archive/Press Association Images. All rights reserved.The start of the new Islamic calendar year falls this […]
MIGRATION SERIES (PART 4) By Duc-Quang Nguyen OCT 6, 2016 – 16:17 The free movement of people accord is in the line of fire as Europe battles with its migration crisis. But which European countries have more people leaving than arriving? We took a look at the data. It’s over […]
Source: The Local One had a beer bottle flung at him on a train. Another was woken at midnight as three men holding wooden slats rang his doorbell. A third had her headscarf pulled off by a stranger in the street.A year after they arrived in Germany seeking refuge from […]
Published: Oct 5, 2016 DAVID WALDMAN WASHINGTON — Technology will fuel an increase of up to 3% in the gross domestic product of every country over the next decade, the executive chairman of Cisco Systems said at an International Monetary Fund panel Wednesday. “If you look at what is […]
UKIP MEP Steven Woolfe. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant) WRITTEN BY Cassie Werber A senior member of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), which was instrumental in the campaign for Brexit, was hospitalized in serious condition after reportedly being punched by a colleague at the European Parliament in Strasbourg today (Oct. 6). Steven […]
Source: The Daily Beast Poland has overwhelmingly rejected a proposal for an absolute ban on abortion in the country in a 352-58 vote. The measure would have banned abortion even in the case of rape and resulted in prison terms as a consequence for violating the law. A citizens’ initiative […]