THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE > PAKISTAN By News Desk Published: February 28, 2017 Saudi Arabia’s King Salman inspects an honour guard at the Parliament House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia February 26, 2017. PHOTO: REUTERS Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud kick-started his first official royal tour of Asia […]
Syrians in camps fear work permits may come at the cost of aid as sector insiders call for awareness By Mohammad Ghazal – Feb 28,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Free-of-charge work permits granted to Syrian refugees have made life better for many, but awareness of benefits still lacking (File photo) AMMAN […]
By US Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson At the onset of President Trump’s campaign, Mr. Trump painted Mexican immigrants with a broad and nefarious brush, demonizing them as aggravated felons whose […]
Eli Berzlon | Reuters |Published — Tuesday 28 February 2017 Israeli police evicts settlers from the West Bank settlement of Ofra, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017. Israeli forces began evacuating nine homes in the settlement following a Supreme Court decision that ruled they were built on private Palestinian land. (AP Photo/Oded […]
Chris Doyle | Published — Monday 27 February 2017 The UK has educated a monarch, president or prime minister from a quarter of the world’s countries. It is 10 times more likely to educate a world leader than the US, producing one leader per 50,000 graduates. That must rank as […]
Source: Reuters Reporting by Saad Sayeed; Editing by Robert Birsel In the first episode of the program on Sunday, the former general appeared live from Dubai and responded to questions […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY MICHAEL LIPKA Muslims are the fastest-growing religious group in the world. The growth and regional migration of Muslims, combined with the ongoing impact of the […]
Source: The New York Times By DANIEL VICTOR Two attacks on Jewish cemeteries in the last week have resulted in an outpouring of more than $136,000 in donations from thousands […]
Source: Associated Press By MITCH WEISS SPINDALE, N.C. (AP) — From all over the world, they flocked to this tiny town in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, lured […]
Source: The Conversation On Feb. 16, 2017, a bomb ripped through a crowd assembled at the tomb of a Sufi saint, Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, in southeastern Pakistan. Soon thereafter, the […]
Source: The New York Times By EDWARD WONG A half-dozen United Nations experts who investigate human rights abuses have taken the rare step of banding together to condemn China for […]
Source: The New York Times By MAHER SATTAR and ELLEN BARRY DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh’s Parliament softened its landmark law against underage marriage on Monday, a move that human rights […]
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL DPA Photo The Council of Europe has identified deficiencies in the statistical recording of hate crimes in Germany. A report published by the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) said that the German police relied on an “excessively restrictive definition of hate crimes” when registering them. […]
Source: Time By Amanda MacMillan In the debate over which is the stronger sex, the so-called “man flu” inevitably comes up. It’s a popular theory that men get sicker—or at least […]
Source: Time By Casey Harden Casey Harden is Interim CEO of YWCA USA. This month, President Donald Trump signed three executive orders that will intensify the criminalization of communities of […]
Source: Time By Alice Gabriner Images, whether captured by a satellite, a scientist, an explorer, a photojournalist or an artist, enable us to record, study and reflect on our planet’s evolving […]
Source: CNN By Meera Senthilingam, CNN (CNN)Twelve types of bacteria were deemed “priorities” in urgent need of new antibiotics, according to a list released by the World Health Organization on […]
Source: The New York Times By AUDREY CARLSEN, K.K. REBECCA LAI and ADAM PEARCE FEB. 26, 2017 During the week when President Trump’s refugee ban was in effect, refugees were […]
Source: Philly.com By Stephanie Farr & Jason Laughlin – Staff Writers Millard Braunstein has weathered a lot in his 89 years, but when he walked the grounds of Mount Carmel […]
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer February 27 at 3:42 PM This story was originally published Friday and has been updated after additional Jewish community centers and schools were […]