Source: Yahoo News BY Andrew BEATTY Australian authorities are weighing a young Saudi woman’s asylum claim at unusual speed, several lawyers and legal experts have told AFP, contrasting her high-profile […]
Source: The Guardian In Hotan, documents show officials are expanding detention camps and increasing surveillance by Lily Kuo in Luopu The Luopu County No 1 Vocational Skills Training Centre is hard to […]
Source: The Guardian India’s army chief said on Thursday that gay sex and adultery would not be tolerated in the army’s ranks, months after a landmark court ruling struck down colonial-era […]
Source: Reuters BY Zarir Hussain GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) – Indian police on Friday said they are investigating an academic, a journalist and a peasant leader for possible sedition for publicly […]
Source: Associated Press By DAVID McFADDEN BALTIMORE (AP) — Maryland’s top law enforcement official on Thursday announced a phone hotline for victims to report child sex abuse associated with a […]
Source: Wall Street Journal By Marlo Safi On Thursday Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited the recently opened Coptic Cathedral of the Nativity, not far from Cairo. “It is a […]
Source: The new Yorker By Robin Wright Secretary of State Mike Pompeo opened a speech in Cairo on Thursday by referring to the Bible that he keeps in his small, wood-panelled office […]
Source: The Washington Post By Michelle Boorstein Washington Cardinal Donald Wuerl knew of sexual misconduct allegations against ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick and reported them to the Vatican in 2004, church officials confirmed […]
Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican launched an official track team Thursday with the aim of competing in international competitions as part of an […]
Source: BBC News The trial of a man accused of killing four people at the Jewish Museum of Brussels has started in Belgium. Frenchman Mehdi Nemmouche is accused of shooting […]
Source: Religion News Service BY Marc Bennetts MOSCOW (RNS) — Before he was arrested in April, Anatoly Vilitkevich often went door to door in his hometown, proselytizing and passing out […]
Source: Associated Press By AMEL EMRIC BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Threatening Bosnia’s fragile peace, Bosnian Serbs on Wednesday celebrated a holiday associated with a bloody civil war and criticized […]
Source: NPR BY Diaa Hadid Youths sporting peach fuzz sway as they chant parts of the Quran. They sit in the courtyard of a sprawling Islamic seminary, or madrassa, on […]
Source: Reuters (This Jan. 10 story corrects the priest’s comments and removes the words “played down”) MANILA (Reuters) – President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday denounced bishops in the Catholic-majority country […]
Source: Associated Press By MATHILDE BOUSSION KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo appeared on the cusp of its first peaceful transfer of power with the surprise victory Thursday of opposition candidate […]
The trials and tribulations of Sudan’s president, Omar Al Bashir, are still ongoing as more citizens take to the streets to protest his rule and demand his resignation. […]
There has been a number of assertions that Scotland had an ancient Egyptian connection. One of the most popular is the legend of Queen Scotia who founded present-day Scotland with […]
By: Nil Sari Music has been used as a mean of therapy through the centuries to counter all kinds of disorders by various peoples. Physicians and musicians in the […]
Jennifer Bell January 10, 2019 In “The Future is Asian: Commerce, Conflict and Culture in the 21st Century,” Parag Khanna discusses the changing power dynamic that is resulting from […]
January 12, 2019 Sultan Muhammad V suddenly abdicated after just two years on the throne The monarch’s role is largely ceremonial, since administrative power is vested in the prime […]