Macedonia ready to give up claims on Alexander the Great
Associated Press SKOPJE: Macedonia’s left-wing prime minister says he is ready to renounce his country’s claim to the legacy of Alexander the Great to help solve a 26-year-old dispute […]
Help refugees wherever they come from, Austria’s Kurz says
Reuters International This content was published on December 24, 2017 Austria’s Chancellor Sebastian Kurz holds a news conference after meeting European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker (not pictured) in Brussels, Belgium, […]
Court ruling allows Syrian youth to bring family to Germany
Reuters International This content was published on December 22, 2017 BERLIN (Reuters) – A Berlin court ruling that permits the parents and siblings of a 16-year-old Syrian migrant to join him in Germany will now take effect after the foreign ministry abruptly dropped an appeal of the decision, German […]
German would-be partners have very different immigration ideas
Reuters International This content was published on December 24, 2017 12:26 AMDec 24, 2017 – 00:26 FILE PHOTO – Syrian refugees disembark from a bus on arrival at the […]
Birth Control for Men? Researchers Will Test a Hormone Gel in 2018
Source: Time By AMANDA MACMILLAN December 22, 2017 TIME Health A new kind of male birth control may be on the horizon. The largest clinical trial to date on hormonal […]
Donald Trump has spent a year lying shamelessly. It hasn’t worked
The Toronto Star, By DANIEL DALE Washington Bureau Chief, Fri., Dec. 22, 2017 WASHINGTON—If you are looking for anecdotal evidence that evidence no longer matters in American politics, you can call up someone like Lana Shardea. Shardea, a 73-year-old in Phoenix, believes Donald Trump is “the most intelligent, powerful, courageous president […]
Amasra: A town molded by the spirits of the ancients
DAILY SABAH WITH ANADOLU AGENCY ISTANBUL Like any other Black Sea towns, Amasra is blessed with greenery; but what makes it different is its ancient history dating back to […]
Reliving Lenin’s ride: A revolutionary train journey across wartime Europe
By Thomas Dworzak / Magnum Photos, Jo Fahy (text), Ester Unterfinger (picture editor) Photos showing Lenin’s journey from Switzerland to Russia This content was published on December 16, 2017 A […]
The madness of missiles
Dec 21,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Jonathan Power The nuclear weapon missile business is contradictory, full of missteps, highly dangerous and prepared in its madness (Mutually Assured Destruction, aka MAD, […]
US hypocrisy at the Security Council
Dec 20,2017 -JORDAN TIMES – Daoud Kuttab Since becoming the United States’ ambassador to the United Nations, Nikky Haley has had plenty of words to say about everyone. Of special […]
Why Mohammed bin Salman is taking an interest in the Arab Bank
There is no evidence he got his teeth into any of the president of the Arab Bank’s money – or tried to – but many Palestinians regard this as a […]
Just 10 Minutes of Exercise Can Help Your Brain
Source: Time By AMANDA MACMILLAN Just 10 minutes of physical activity can increase brainpower for a short time afterward, according to a new study published in Neuropsychologia. The finding may be important for […]
President Trump Just Signed the $1.5 Trillion Tax Overhaul Bill Into Law
Source: Time WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed the $1.5 trillion tax overhaul into law Friday, using his last moments in the White House before flying to Florida for the […]
A new era in fighting disease
Source: BBC News By Melissa Hogenboom Our quest to understand how our genes work started in earnest in the mid-19th Century when a biologist and monk called Gregor Mendel came […]
Bitcoin volatility sees trades suspended on certain exchanges
Source: BBC News Bitcoin plunged on Friday, extending a fall that saw the crypto-currency lose more than a third of its value from a record of nearly $20,000 (£15,000). The […]
Despite Haley threat, UN votes to condemn Trump’s Jerusalem decision
Source: CNN By Nicole Gaouette The United Nations voted overwhelmingly to condemn President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel despite threats from the US to pull […]
‘We will remember this’: US slams UN Jerusalem vote – video
Source: The Guardian The US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, speaks at an emergency session of the general assembly ahead of a vote criticising Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem […]
Opioid Crisis Could Be Biggest Hit To U.S. Life Expectancy In A Century, CDC Say
Source: Huffington Post By Nick Wing The average American life expectancy ticked downward for the second straight year in 2016, on the back of surging drug overdose deaths, according to […]
Despite Haley threat, UN votes to condemn Trump’s Jerusalem decision
Source: CNN The United Nations voted overwhelmingly to condemn President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel despite threats from the US to pull funding from the world body. Some 128 countries voted for the resolution, while nine voted “no,” and 35 nations abstained, including Canada, […]
Separatist parties in Spain’s Catalonia win majority in election
Source: CNN “The Catalan Republic has won,” he announced in Brussels in the early hours of Friday morning. “The Spanish government was defeated.” The Spanish government had called an early election in the hope of quelling the separatist movement, whose push for independence triggered the country’s worst political crisis in […]