From the section Middle East French President Emmanuel Macron has paid an unscheduled visit to Saudi Arabia amid an escalating crisis between the kingdom and Lebanon. His trip comes days after Lebanese PM Saad Hariri resigned while in Riyadh, saying he feared for his life. Foes Saudi Arabia and Iran […]
The Local news@thelocal.ch @thelocalswitzer 10 November 2017 human rightsundiscrimination The UN in Geneva. Photo: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP A UN panel on Thursday quizzed a Swiss government delegation about the country’s efforts […]
Reuters International This content was published on November 9, 2017 8:16 PMNov 9, 2017 – 20:16 FILE PHOTO: Lebanon’s prime minister Saad al-Hariri gestures during a press conference in […]
09 November 2017 A report on PressTV says Saudi King Salman plans to relinquish power and hand the keys to the kingdom over to his son, Crown Prince Mohammed […]
Reuters International This content was published on November 10, 2017 8:46 AMNov 10, 2017 – 08:46 FILE PHOTO: Lebanon’s Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri attends a general parliament discussion in downtown […]
November 9, 2017 6:10 PMNov 9, 2017 – 18:10 Since the beginning of the year, around 14,000 migrants have been rescued at sea and detained in Libya (Keystone) Ahead of […]
Source: Dawn ON Nov 13, UN member states will review Pakistan’s human rights record for the third time through the Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) mechanism. Pakistan has been reviewed twice before in 2008 and 2012, but this time around there is an important difference: Pakistan finally has […]
The former Israeli defence minister Moshe Ya’alon has publicly confirmed that Israel was treating fighters under a deal to help protect the border Kim Sengupta Diplomatic Editor Thursday 9 November 2017 Syrian patients, […]
He certainly did not anticipate what happened to him. Indeed, Hariri had scheduled meetings in Beirut on the following Monday – with the IMF, the World Bank and a series […]
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Source: Globe and Mail BY PETER MCKNIGHT SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE AND MAIL 2 HOURS AGONOVEMBER 8, 2017 Peter McKnight is a former Templeton-Cambridge fellow in science and religion at […]
Source: Associated Press FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico group that erected a monument on city-owned property honoring the Ten Commandments will move it to church property. The city […]
Source: BBC News Yemen faces the world’s largest famine in decades “with millions of victims” if aid deliveries are not resumed, a senior UN official has warned. Mark Lowcock, the […]
Source: Time By Casey Quackenbush 11:52 PM EST Saudi Arabia pushed war-ravaged Yemen to the brink of the worst famine the world has seen in decades when it closed the country’s […]
Source: Time By Joseph F. Coughlin November 8, 2017 IDEAS Coughlin is founder and director of MIT’s AgeLab and the author of The Longevity Economy. There are so many older adults in […]
Source: BBC News One in three adults might ignore potential symptoms of pancreatic cancer, according to a charity. Stomach ache, indigestion, unexplained weight loss and faeces that float rather than […]
Source: BCC News By Michelle Roberts Health editor, BBC News online Image copyrightWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY People with malaria give off a distinctive “breath-print” that could be used as a test for the […]
Source: Independent BY Samuel Osborne A Muslim father whose three children are being cared for by a Christian foster family was told by a judge he must not “pressure” them about Islam. […]
Source: Resnick Institute Viewpoint By Jonas C. Peters Director, Resnick Sustainability Institute Science is a global market, one where free trade in the form of hypotheses, results, conclusions, and their […]