IMMIGRATION BAN By John Heilprin FEB 3, 2017 – A group of women in New York participate in evening prayers as people gather for a rally against the new ban on Muslims from certain countries (Keystone) An Iranian scientist who lives in Switzerland is suing US President Donald Trump and […]
DAILY SABAH WITH ANADOLU AGENCY ISTANBUL Bana Alabed (L), settled in Turkey she arrived from Aleppo with her family. Bana Alabed, 7, a Syrian girl whose Twitter posts on life during wartime in Aleppo made her a phenomenon, pleaded to U.S. President Donald Trump to lift the ban on Syrians. […]
Feb 01,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Michael Jansen It is significant that there have been demonstrations at airports and in cities across the US against Donald Trump’s decree banning citizens from seven mainly Muslim countries from entering the US for months until “extreme vetting” procedures decide who may be admitted. US […]
Reuters International FEB 2, 2017 – DAY 9 / JANUARY 28: Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Trump agreed to try to rebuild U.S.-Russia ties and to cooperate in Syria, the Kremlin said, after the two men spoke for the first time since Trump’s inauguration. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (reuters_tickers) By […]
It was not an easy transition. It is never easy. But it was necessary. 01/30/2017 Kashif N Chaudhry Physician, Writer, Human Rights Activist Like many other Americans, I am struck with disbelief over the new executive order by President Trump restricting Muslim refugees. I have a personal reason to be […]
Flynn, who recently consolidated national security power, sees Iran as the U.S.’s number one enemy. 02/01/2017 09:46 am ET Jack MilesAuthor, forthcoming “God in the Qur’an” (Alfred A. Knopf 2018) ROBYN BECK VIA GETTY IMAGESFlynn addresses delegates on the first day of the Republican National Convention on July 18, 2016 […]
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE | Published — Tuesday 31 January 2017 This file photo taken on December 13, 2016 shows fighters from the Kurdish-Arab alliance known as the Syrian Democratic Forces siting on a heavily armed vehicle near the village of Khirbet al-Jahshe, on the western outskirts of Raqa as they […]
Reuters International FEB 1, 2017 – An Afghan policeman keeps watch in front of shipping containers that blocked streets leading to Kabul’s government and diplomatic area in Kabul, Afghanistan May 16 , 2016. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani (reuters_tickers) By Josh Smith KABUL (Reuters) – The Afghan government controls less than 60 percent […]
The Prime Minister’s approach to international affairs is becoming increasingly clear: she wants to cosy up to the US, sell arms to despotic regimes, and cast us away from Europe Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas Yesterday afternoon, just before the Government made a statement in the House of Commons about Donald Trump’s barbaric […]
DAWN.COM — UPDATED Jan 26, 2017# The following is an excerpt from a declassified document released online by America’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as part of a searchable database on its website Reading Room. Declassified documents were previously only available to the public at the National Archives in College Park, Maryland. […]
JAN. 31, 2017 (AFP/File) By: Ramzy Baroud Ramzy Baroud is an internationally-syndicated columnist, author, and the founder of PalestineChronicle.com. His latest book is My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza’s Untold Story. US President Donald Trump promises to be pro-Israel in every aspect. “I’m the best thing that could ever […]
SHAZIA HASAN KARACHI: “’Sacred violence’ in America is defined by the Americans as ‘violence by Muslims’. They ask me why we Muslims are so violent. And I ask them instead ‘when did they stop beating their wives’,” said Prof Dr Amjad Hussain pointing to the absurdity of their asking him […]
January 28, 2017 ISLAMABAD: In 1954, the Afghanistan government had approached the United States seeking the merger of Afghanistan and Pakistan. The recently-declassified CIA documents reveal that Pakistan was approached over Kabul’s urge for Pakistan-Afghanistan merger but it was suspicious of this plan. A document dated 14 October 1954 reads […]
The White House accuses Sally Yates of betraying the Justice Department Feliks Garcia New York @feliksjose Accusing her of betrayal and insubordination, Donald Trump fired acting US Attorney General Sally Yates after she publicly questioned whether his controversial refugee and immigration ban was constitutional and refused to defend it in court. The dramatic […]
COMPILED FROM WIRE SERVICES ISTANBUL In this Dec. 7, 2016, file photo, Starbucks Chairman and CEO Howard Schultz speaks during the Starbucks 2016 Investor Day meeting in New York. (AP […]
Reuters International JAN 30, 2017 – Demonstrators shut down the traffic loops at LAX International Airport and yell slogans during a protest against the travel ban imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order, at Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California, U.S., January 29, 2017. REUTERS/Ted Soqui […]
SWISS FOREIGN MINISTER Trump immigration order ‘goes in wrong direction’ JAN 29, 2017 – United States President Donald Trump’s new travel ban on seven Muslim-majority countries is discriminatory and contrary to fundamental rights, warns Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter. Trump signed an order on Friday suspending the entry of people […]
Trump is no Roosevelt or Kennedy – not even a Bush, for what that’s worth. But May is no Churchill. Not even an Attlee or a Macmillan or even a John Major. It’s not just a failure of compassion – she does not have what Churchill spoke about very often […]
By Masuma Ahuja, CNN Updated 1924 GMT (0324 HKT) January 29, 2017 (CNN)From Boston to Baghdad, families are being ripped apart. Some people can’t go home to the US, others can’t return to their native countries to visit parents and children, and still others are stranded in airports and cities […]
BY ISMAILIMAIL POSTED ON JANUARY 29, 2017 By Dr. Salim Surani Vaping, smoking, puffing, sniffing, chewing and snorting seems like an adrenaline-pumping and exhilarating activity – at least, that’s what the tobacco and e-cigarette producers would like for consumers to believe. Cigarette smoking kills 480,000 Americans each year. This is […]