COMPILED FROM WIRE SERVICES ISTANBUL A Turkish military helicopter flies near the Habur border gate between Turkey and the Iraqi Kurdish region in Şırnak province, Turkey. (AA Photo) The Iraqi government asked the Kurdish Regional Government on Sunday to hand over international border posts and its international airports, retaliating […]
Source: Huffington Post “We don’t have the resources to meet the demand through the public system of care. I wish we did.” By Lindsay Holmes, Beth Shelburne 09/20/2017 05:46 am […]
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla, Chris McGonigal Days after a magnitude 7.1 earthquake hit central Mexico, residents are in part turning to prayer and spirituality to cope with the devastation. […]
Source: Time By Jill Colvin and Matthew Lee / AP Updated: 4:53 AM ET | Originally published: 7:55 PM ET (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump has signed a proclamation imposing […]
Source: BBC News The Myanmar authorities have accused Muslim Rohingya militants of killing 28 Hindu villagers whose bodies were allegedly found in a mass grave. The army says the bodies […]
Source: Chicago Tribune Several dozen tradition-minded Roman Catholic theologians, priests and academics have formally accused Pope Francis of spreading heresy with his 2016 opening to divorced and civilly remarried Catholics. In a […]
Source: Time BY Nash Jenkins Sep 22, 2017 Republicans in Alabama will go to the polls Tuesday to choose their party’s candidate for the Senate seat vacated by Jeff Sessions […]
Source: Time BY Aric Jenkins Updated: Sep 23, 2017 6:28 PM ET President Donald Trump has three suggestions to fix the NFL: stop disciplining players for hard hits, boycott games when […]
Source: Time BY Alexandra Sifferlin Sep 22, 2017 TIME Health For more, visit TIME Health. This week marks one year since world leaders met at the United Nations General Assembly in New York […]
A Saudi cleric who said women should not be allowed to drive because they have a “quarter” of the brainpower of men has been banned from preaching, the government said on Friday. https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2017/9/22/saudi-cleric-suspended-for-calling-women-quarter-brained Saad al-Hijri was suspended from leading prayers and all other religious activity in the southern province of […]
UNICEF congratulate government for bold and positive step By Mahmoud Al Abed – Sep 24,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Children inside a classroom at Zaatri refugee camp, host to tens of […]
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 […]