Source: BBC By Helen Briggs BBC News Image copyrightTHINKSTOCKImage captionTropical species are thought to be particularly vulnerable Many species will not be able to adapt fast enough to survive climate change, say scientists. A study of more than 50 plants and animals suggests their ability to adapt to changes in […]
Source: BBC By Fergus Walsh A major trial of a drug to treat mild dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease has ended in failure. Patients on solanezumab did not show any slowing […]
Source: ABC News An international aid group has warned of the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Yemen’s western city of Taiz, saying that corpses litter the streets and civilians are trapped. “Sniper fire and indiscriminate shelling has trapped civilians. Dead bodies are in the streets and people are unable to attend […]
Source: ABC News Late-season storm Otto strengthened into a hurricane Tuesday as civil defense officials reported three deaths in Panama amid heavy rain and Costa Rica ordered the evacuation of 4,000 people from its Caribbean coast. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Otto was moving to the west and expected […]
Source: ABC News By JULIA JACOBO MICHAEL EDISON HAYDEN A man suspected of fatally shooting a San Antonio, Texas, police detective said he wished to apologize to the slain officer’s family. A SWAT team arrested 31-year-old San Antonio resident Otis Tyrone McKane around 4:30 p.m. local time on Monday, […]
Source: The Washington Post By Samantha Schmidt November 21 Zaineb Abdulla, 24, is organizing self-defense classes particularly for Muslim women. (Courtesy of Zaineb Abdullah) Zaineb Abdulla says she was about 8 years old the first time someone spit on her for being Muslim. The 24-year-old — who wears a hijab, […]
Source: Philly.com By Rob Tornoe, Staff Writer A “furious” Jake Tapper blasted CNN and his own show, The Lead, for displaying a phrase on Monday night’s show that outraged many […]
Source: The Hill BY MARK HENSCH New York Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) says his city will sue President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration if it implements a national registry for […]
Source: Reuters By Ian Simpson | WASHINGTON The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum expressed alarm on Monday over “hateful speech” at a white nationalist meeting over the weekend, and a restaurant apologized for hosting the group after a woman tweeted a picture of herself making a Nazi salute. The National Policy […]
Aljazeera.com: by Liz Gooch, Mary Ann Jolley — Thousands of girls and women in India are sold into marriage and often face a lifetime of abuse and hardship. Live submit The first time Muklesha was sold, she was just 12 years old. Her buyer was a man in his 70s. […]
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla; Associate Religion Editor Christian, Jewish and Buddhist leaders attended prayers at a Washington, D.C., mosque to emphasize solidarity. Christian, Jewish and Buddhist leaders joined their Muslim […]
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WASHINGTON, DC – Today, President Barack Obama named 21 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the Nation’s highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or […]
By: Zubair Khan. Pictures: Basil Ahmad Bhatti It was a great day for Ahmadiyya and Humanity First Croatia. In a festive ceremony, eyeglasses were handed over to children who are patients cum students in Special Hospital/School located in city part of Golijak Zagreb-Croatia. Mr Davor Bernardic, member of Croatian National […]
Source: ABC News By J.J. GALLAGHER The number of Syrians living under siege has doubled in just the past six months and now totals nearly one million, the United Nations‘ humanitarian chief said on Monday. Stephen O’Brien, the U.N.’s Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, told the United Nations Security Council that […]
Source: ABC News By GENEVA SANDS Thousands of Green Cards have been mishandled over the past three years, according to a new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Inspector General report. Electronic system errors have caused at least 19,000 cards to be issued as duplicates or with incorrect information, such as […]
Source: ABC News By FRANK BAJAK, ASSOCIATED PRESS All along the winding Rio Grande, the people who live in this bustling, fertile region where the U.S. border meets the Gulf of Mexico never quite understood how Donald Trump’s great wall could ever be much more than campaign rhetoric. Erecting a […]
Source: BBC The Chinese government will rejoice to hear Donald Trump promise that the US will quit the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) on his first day in the White House. For […]
Source: Aljazeera By Christa Blackmon A media analyst and digital anthropologist. “ISIS is not Islam!” declared many Muslims on social media after the attack on the mosque holding the final resting place of the Prophet Muhammad in Medina during the holy month of Ramadan. Popular social justice figure and New York […]