Source: CNN By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business New York (CNN Business)Walmart wants store workers to help out customers instead of mopping up floors and unloading boxes in backrooms. So it’s increasingly turning […]
Source: The Converstaion An estimated 70 million people worldwide have been forcibly displaced, according to the United Nations. Every two seconds, someone in countries like Syria, Afghanistan, South Sudan and Myanmar is being forced […]
Source: The New York Times By Jane Perlez In the opulent halls of the Emirates Palace hotel, a seat of power in Abu Dhabi where 114 domes decorate the vast rooftop, […]
Source: NPR BY DANIEL ESTRIN When it came down to a final issue for Israeli voters to ponder before Tuesday’s elections, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made an extraordinary campaign pledge: […]
Source: Religion News Service BY Emily McFarlan Miller LINCOLN, Neb. (RNS) — In the days following major midwestern floods this spring, people of faith prayed for their neighbors and got […]
Source: The Morning Call By ANDREW MAYKUTH Few people here grasped the monumental implications of Pennsylvania’s expanded gaming law until Penn National Gaming Inc. announced plans recently to build a mini-casino […]
Source: BBC News Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk has voted for Manchester City forward Raheem Sterling as his PFA player of the year, and said title rivals City had several […]
Source: BBC News Could one of the next big fashion trends be Islamic male modest fashion? Meet the community of designers and models trying to inspire a new fashion genre. […]
Source: BBC News By Fernando Duarte For the first time in history, there are more elderly people in the world than young children, according to the United Nations. Their figures […]
Source: Time BY CIARA NUGENT APRIL 8, 2019 Two years before he became mayor of London in 2016, Sadiq Khan ran the capital’s famous marathon. He’d been healthy his whole life, […]
Source: Time BY JEFFREY MYERS Myers is the Rabbi of Tree of Life in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I am a victim, a witness and a survivor of the worst massacre in the […]
By Arys Aditya and Thomas Kutty Abraham April 13, 2019, Questions of faith have dogged president throughout his term Concerns over fake news have dominated election campaign Joko Widodo […]
The Grasberg copper and gold mining complex in Papua. Photographer: Dadang Tri/Bloomberg (Bloomberg) By Thomas Kutty Abraham and Rieka Rahadiana | Bloomberg April 12 at 12:25 PM As Indonesia’s April […]
Apr 13,2019 – JORDAN TIMES By Giorgio Chiovelli, Stelios Michalopoulos and Elias Papaioannou LONDON — This year marks the 20th anniversary of the United Nations Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention. Since […]
Apr 13,2019 – JORDAN TIMES – WALID M. SADI When less and less Arab leaders attend Arab summits, isn’t that a vote of no confidence in them! I think yes. […]
THIS CONTENT WAS PUBLISHED ON APRIL 13, 2019 FILE PHOTO: Members of the Iranian revolutionary guard march during a parade to commemorate the anniversary of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88), […]
Slavoj Zizek It finally happened – Julian Assange was dragged from the Ecuadorian embassy and arrested. It was no surprise: many signs pointed in this direction. A week or […]
in Archives, Art, Books, Literature, Poetry, Religion | April 5th, 2019 Too often those in power lump thousands of years of Middle Eastern religion and culture into monolithic entities to […]
World April 11, 2019 Earlier on Thursday, Edward Snowden described the arrest as “a dark moment for press freedom” Julian Assange © Victoria Jones/PA via AP MOSCOW, April 11. /TASS/. Former […]
Ex-Guardian editor says laws protecting free speech shouldn’t depend on the likability of those in the firing line. Julian Assange is seen in 2011, before he sought asylum in the […]