The country is outraged that Colin Firth has abandoned us to become Italian, but we could all take a lesson from his pragmatic attitude and realise that nationality is meaningless except when it comes to travelling without a visa Rae Bathgate Saying that nationality means nothing is a bit like declaring […]
While their neighbours are busy building weapons, the Kurds are taking in refugees, yet many Middle Eastern countries as well as the UK and the US seem to be opposed to Kurdish independence Mohammed Ali The Kurds deserve a chance to speak up about their own independence Reuters Often enough […]
For 20 years, Switzerland has been helping asylum seekers who choose to return to their home countries. The government is positive that giving money and advice to people to return home is part and parcel of a credible asylum policy. (SRF/swissinfo.ch) For the government Switzerland’s repatriation program is a success story. It says, helping […]
NYTimes.com At about 1 p.m. on Sunday, Diakita Amadou burst out the doors of the hotel he works at on 38th Street in Manhattan and took off. He had heard the adhan, the Muslim call to prayer, echoing through the lobby, and followed its song. At Madison Avenue he stopped. […]
By swissinfo with agencies/db September 24, 2017 Counting up the ‘yes’ and ‘no’ votes in canton Zurich. (© KEYSTONE / WALTER BIERI) Foreigners who have received temporary asylum in canton Zurich will have their state allowance drastically cut. More than two-thirds of voters in the canton agreed to the […]
Islamic State on the Ropes Two Paths Cross in the Ruins of Raqqa When Islamic State conquered Raqqa in 2014, Fadi al-Hadi fled to Germany while Nadja Ramadan abandoned her […]
Angela Merkel appears to have won her fourth term as German chancellor, but her coalition partners for the last four years, the Social Democrats, have likely received their worst […]
NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/23/opinion/trump-curry-kaepernick-lebron.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region®ion=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region&_r=0 President Trump showed an awkward sense of timing in denouncing Colin Kaepernick, the former Super Bowl quarterback who last season began kneeling during the national anthem to protest police injustice against minorities. He tweeted on Saturday: Wouldn’t you love to see one of these N.F.L. owners, when somebody […]
Source: UNESCO website Al-Hijr Archaeological Site (Madâin Sâlih) The Archaeological Site of Al-Hijr (Madâin Sâlih) is the first World Heritage property to be inscribed in Saudi Arabia. Formerly known as […]
The photo shown by Pakistan diplomat Maleeha Lodhi at United Nations was taken by award-winning photographer Heidi Levine inside the Gaza strip in 2014, and the girl had been injured in an Israeli air strike. http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/pak-diplomat-goofs-up-tries-to-pass-off-image-of-gaza-as-kashmir/story-l76jujGsSP2Hoj4fo3b5jM.html lifestyle business tech education whatnow photos videos jaago re Pakistan diplomat goofs up at […]
Malmo: By Kim Kastrup | September 19 2017 “It was not my intention to say these things” 242 2095 Imam til femteklasser: Grise er homoseksuelle Under et skolebesøg fra en femteklasse i en moské i Malmø fortalte imamen, at grise er homoseksuelle samt æder hinanden – nu har rektoren indstillet alle […]
Source: BBC News A popular spiritual guru has been arrested in India for the alleged rape of a 21-year-old woman, Indian media report. Falahari Maharaj is accused of raping the […]
Source: BBC News By Matthew Wall Technology of Business editor 22 September 2017 Image copyrightGETTY IMAGES Image captionIf a hacker managed to switch off a life-support machine, the results could be […]
Source; BBC News US bombers have flown close to North Korea’s east coast to demonstrate the military options available to defeat any threat, the Pentagon says. It said the flight […]
Source: Pew Research Center National and religious identities converge in a region once dominated by atheist regimes The Cathedral of the Annunciation, a Russian Orthodox church in Cathedral Square in […]
Source: BBC News Kim Jong-un has said remarks by “deranged” US President Donald Trump have convinced him he is right to develop weapons for North Korea. In an unprecedented personal […]
Source: Medium BY Kat Ely Designer & cofounder @cleardesignlab & @_plusfab artist, climber, and lover of new ideas and problems. Blind by Design is a series focused on addressing systemic biases within […]
Texas Congressman Tells Flood Victims: ‘God Is Telling You To Move’ Christian compassion: GOP Rep. Jeb Hensarling doesn’t want to subsidize flood victims because floods are God’s way of telling people to relocate. The Texas congressman claimed taxpayers should not have to pay for at-risk homes that are susceptible to […]
Girls from poor families are sold like commodities to the Arabs, many of whom arrive in India on tourist visas. Siddhartha Rai | Posted by Ashna Kumar New Delhi, September 23, 2017 | UPDATED 07:33 IST A +A – Omani and Qatari nationals with Indian Muslim priests after their arrest in Hyderabad on Wednesday for […]
Dawn.comSeptember 23, 2017 Umair Hamid, a vice president of Axact, was last month sentenced to 21 months in prison in the US for his role in the international diploma mill scheme. In addition to the prison term, Hamid, 31, from Karachi, was ordered to forfeit $5,303,020. He had pleaded guilty on April […]