Source: BBC Incoming White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer confirmed the pair met to discuss vaccines and immunisations. However, a spokeswoman for Mr Trump, Hope Hicks, told Reuters that “no […]
Source: Huffington Post BY Marina Fang Associate Politics Editor, The Huffington Post President Barack Obama in his farewell address to the nation Tuesday argued that empathy for those who are different […]
Source: New York Times Book review by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who is a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the N.B.A.’s all-time leading scorer. His book “Coach Wooden and […]
Published January 11th, 2017 Jackson celebrated her newborn son’s birth with a bloody animal sacrifice. (File photo) Pop icon Janet Jackson became a mother at 50 on 3 January, and rumors are already flying about how she’s spent the first hours with her newborn baby Eissa and billionaire Qatari husband […]
Six months after the EU referendum, the government in Britain still has no plan for leaving the bloc. What does Brexit really mean? By Christoph Scheuermann Photos AFP January 10, 2017 They came here in the search for answers. Students, pensioners, married couples, men looking weary after a long day’s […]
ŞEYMA ERAZ – ELIF BINICI ISTANBUL An Israeli natural gas drilling platform in the Mediterranean. The normalization of ties between Turkey and Israel proposes the transfer of Mediterranean gas to Europe through Turkey. The ample amount of gas reserve in the Eastern Mediterranean provides an incentive to ensure a definite […]
Source: LUBP Political workers, students, intellectuals, writers and the oppressed minorities are facing forced abductions in Pakistan. We must raise our voices on this issue. In the past three days four Social Media Activists have been abducted from Central Punjab and Islamabad. This is a premeditated campaign by the State […]
SINAN ÖZTÜRK@sinan_ozturk ISTANBUL The new heir to the throne of the scattered Ottoman dynasty, which once ruled the strongest empire in the world, has witnessed the horrors of the Syrian civil war since 2011 in his native Damascus. Dündar Abdülkerim al-i Osman, the oldest male member of the Ottoman family, […]
LEYLA YVONNE ERGIL ISTANBUL Published January 9, 2017 Hosting the largest number of refugees within its borders, Turkey houses many volunteer groups that are helping refugees in a number of ways. Several of them are run by expats or welcome them to distribute more help With the start of a new […]
Reuters International JAN 10, 2017 – Immigrants are escorted by German police to a registration centre, after crossing the Austrian-German border in Wegscheid near Passau, Germany, October 20, 2015. REUTERS/Michael Dalder (reuters_tickers) BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s interior and justice ministers, representing the two blocs in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ruling […]
Epigraph: So show your love for the stranger or foreigner, for you were foreigner in the land of Egypt. (Deuteronomy 10:19) Source: The Independent My relationship with Israel began with […]
Jan 10,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Hasan Abu Nimah Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s instant reaction to the Palestinian attack last Sunday on Israeli soldiers in Jerusalem was to attribute the attack to a Daesh terrorist, much like what had happened earlier in Nice and Berlin. While the judgment was indeed […]
Jan 10,2017 -JORDAN TIMES – Osama Al Sharif The Obama presidency is in its waning days and the United States — as well as the rest of the world — is bracing itself for the unknown under a man who has befuddled his allies even before his foes. Donald Trump will […]
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Source: BBC A white supremacist has been sentenced to death for the racially motivated killings of nine black people at a South Carolina church. Dylann Roof was convicted last month […]
Source: New York Times WASHINGTON — Senator Jeff Sessions, who is in line to become attorney general, said Tuesday that the law “absolutely” prohibits waterboarding and offered no hints at […]
Source: Al Jazeera News media say law due to take effect soon also prohibits import and marketing of garment in “all cities and towns”. Morocco has banned the production and […]
Source: BBC President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to be the new attorney general has denied sympathising with the Ku Klux Klan, in a tough Senate confirmation hearing. Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, […]
Source: BBC By Josh Gabbatiss 10 January 2017 Plants, according to Jack C Schultz, “are just very slow animals“. This is not a misunderstanding of basic biology. Schultz is a […]
Source: BBC By Rodolfo Contreras A jumble of cultures The people in Hormozagan province on Iran’s southern cost are known as Bandari (Port People). Once an important stop on the […]