REFUGEE FEE FEB 19, 2017 – Many foreigners are fleeing the US for Canada, sometimes straight into the arms of Canadian police at the border. (Keystone) Rather than blocking their entry, nations should charge migrants a fee for being taken in, suggest two Swiss economists in a joint opinion […]
Source: BBC A famine has been declared in parts of South Sudan, the first to be announced in any part of the world in six years. The government and the United Nations report that some 100,000 people are facing starvation, with a million more on the brink of famine. A […]
Source: The Daily Best President Donald Trump’s attorney hand-delivered a “peace plan” from a Ukranian lawmaker to the White House that would let the U.S. lift sanctions on Russia if it were enacted, The New York Times reported. Michael Cohen, Trump’s personal attorney who delivered the document, said the goal is […]
Source: Asia Times: SOUTH CHINA SEA (NNS) — Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 1, including Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 1’s Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG 108), and aircraft from Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 2, began routine operations in the South […]
Source: Asia Times: The Israeli-Palestinian issues – settlements, ‘two-state solution’ and the American embassy’s relocation to Jerusalem, etc. – hogged the attention during Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting with President Donald Trump in the White House on Wednesday. The Iran question became a sub-text. This was rather odd, but not […]
Source: Independent and Youtube By Jack Shepherd @JackJShepherd Last year, the BBC aired Planet Earth II, a sequel to the highly successful documentary series of the same name, narrated by […]
Epigraph: Indeed, Allah commands you to make over the trusts to those entitled to them, and that, when you judge between men, you judge with justice. And surely excellent is […]
Abdel Moein and his family were among hundreds of Syrian refugees whose lives were put on hold after an executive order, since stayed, suspended U.S. resettlement. By: Lisa Abou Khaled | 16 February 2017 | Français | عربي Abdel Moein Al Abed, his wife Fatima, eight-year-old twins Mohamad and Jomaa, and daughter, Shahd, […]
By Abdullah Ayasun It is not an easy task to campaign against a change that proponents argue will spawn a better era. In Turkey, campaigners for yes to a constitution that will expand presidential powers designed their strategy to herald a much better, stronger and prosperous country. Campaigning against this […]
Published on 4 January 2017 in Report Yasser Rayes (author) Mohanned, 5 years old, lies on a bed in the Abs hospital in Hajjah, a governorate in Yemen which has some of the highest numbers of severely and acutely malnourished children. (Photo © UNICEF/Fuad) Hunger is the most dominant thought […]
Source: Huffington Post By Antonia Blumberg A new survey asked Americans to rate different religious groups on a “feeling thermometer” from zero to 100. The results revealed that Americans are […]
Millionaire businessman Firoz Merchant helps debt-ridden inmates start a new life Firoz Merchant in his office.Image Credit: Virendra Saklani/Gulf News Firoz Merchant interacting with prisoners.Image Credit: Virendra Saklani/Gulf News ( 1 of 2 ) ‹› Published: 20:00 February 18, 2017 Shafaat Shahbandari, Staff Reporter Dubai: A man who came […]
Source: Catholic News Agency By Hannah Brockhaus Vatican City, Feb 17, 2017 / 04:02 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Nur Essa, a Muslim Syrian woman whose family was brought to Rome from […]
Reuters International FEB 18, 2017 – Netherlands’ Party for Freedom (PVV) leader Geert Wilders attends a news conference after a European far-right leaders meeting in Koblenz, Germany, January 21, 2017. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay (reuters_tickers) By Thomas Escritt SPIJKENISSE, Netherlands (Reuters) – Dutch anti-Muslim, anti-EU party leader Geert Wilders promised to […]
Reuters International FEB 17, 2017 – The new Central Mosque is photographed in Cologne, Germany, February 15, 2017. REUTERS/Thilo Schmuelgen (reuters_tickers) ISTANBUL (Reuters) – The head of Turkey’s Diyanet religious authority denied on Friday that any of its imams had ever been involved in illegal activities and said investigations […]
Source: BBC Dutch populist leader Geert Wilders has launched his election campaign by calling some Moroccans “scum”. Mr Wilders tops opinion polls ahead of the 15 March parliamentary vote, but […]
Source: Time Lucinda Shen Feb 18, 2017 Norma McCorvey, the plaintiff at the center of the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade case that expanded abortion rights in the United States, […]
Reuters International FEB 17, 2017 – Workers attend a groundbreaking ceremony of Taksim mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, February 17, 2017. REUTERS/Osman Orsal (reuters_tickers) By Melih Aslan and Osman Orsal ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Construction began on Friday of a mosque in Istanbul’s central Taksim square, a controversial project championed by […]
Source: Time (MUNICH) — Russia wants pragmatic relations with the United States but also is hoping for the creation of a “post-West world order,” the country’s foreign minister said Saturday, […]
Source: Time Tessa Berenson Feb 17, 2017 A Burger King employee in Canada was fired three years ago for stealing a fish sandwich, fries and orange soda. This month, […]