Source: The Guardian BY Damien Gayle A British-Iranian woman being held in an Iranian prison has been released from solitary confinement, her husband has said. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 37, was sentenced […]
Source: BBC By Josh Gabbatiss 2 January 2017 Most of us probably do not need to think too hard to distinguish living things from the “non-living”. A human is alive; […]
REPORT Daniel L. Byman Friday, December 30 Editor’s Note:Fighting terrorism has been at the top of the U.S. national-security agenda since 9/11, but the terrorism threat, and thus the appropriate means of counterterrorism, is often grossly misunderstood. Donald Trump must understand the changing nature of terrorism, revise U.S. policy in the […]
India Supreme Court bans election appeals using religion or caste Source: BBC The Indian Supreme Court has ruled that politicians cannot use religion or caste to seek votes. “Religion has […]
The arc of history is long, but it won’t ever judge the president’s Syria policy kindly. BY DAVID GREENBERG DECEMBER 29, 2016 Barack Obama’s impending departure from the White House has put many Americans in an elegiac mood. Despite an average approval rating of only 48 percent — the lowest, […]
DISPATCH Reporting Behind Enemy Lines in Mosul Omar al-Jubory believed the world needed to know what life was like under the Islamic State. He barely got out alive. BY DAVID KENNER JANUARY 2, 2017 Omar al-Jubory began his career as a journalist in the deep end — covering the most […]
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla; Associate Religion Editor Required reading for people of faith who are going into 2017 fighting. It’s been a tough year for America’s progressive faith community. […]
TRUMP, BREXIT The ten flops of democracy in 2016 By Claude Longchamp, founder and chairman of the GfS Bern research instituteReuse article DEC 26, 2016 Donald Trump won the race for US president even though his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton obtained a majority of votes. The reason is the electoral […]
AUGUST 8, 2014 BY ATIF MIAN AND AMIR SUFI Economists of all stripes are baffled by continued economic weakness in the United States. The easiest way to see the weakness is to compare where we are in terms of GDP today relative to historical trend growth, something we did in […]
PODCAST Language connects Swiss migrants to home By Jo Fahy JAN 1, 2017 – “My heart is in Switzerland, but I’m at home in America.” Choosing to set up a new life in a different country is a big step, but what effect does that have on the culture […]
Police chief defended detention of 650 North African men saying ‘their characteristics were such that potential crimes could indeed be expected’ Caroline Mortimer @cjmortimer Cologne’s police chief has denied accusations of racial profiling after the force tweeted they had detained hundreds of North African men to prevent a repeat […]
UN Security Council unanimously backs Syria peace plan By AFP – Dec 31,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Syrians gather around a Christmas tree in Aleppo’s government controlled Aziziyah neighbourhood on Saturday (AFP photo by George Ourfalian) UNITED NATIONS — The UN Security Council on Saturday unanimously approved a resolution […]
Source: Aljazeera Pope Francis has urged an end to the fighting in Syria as he gave his Christmas address at the Vatican, saying “far too much blood has been spilled” […]
Source: Time (BURLINGTON, Vt.) — Malware code linked to Russian hackers and found on a Vermont electric utility’s computer is further evidence of “predatory” steps taken by that country against […]
Source: Aljazeera Bruno Delgadillo, a young boy in the US state of Florida, suffered as many as 300 epileptic seizures per day but according to his mother a daily intake […]
Source: Huffington Post Microsoft’s 2016 holiday advertisement celebrates the accomplishments of ordinary people who worked hard to make 2016 a better year for everyone. The global tech company worked with […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY PAUL HITLIN During President Obama’s first full day in office on Jan. 21, 2009, he issued a statement committing his administration to pursue “an unprecedented […]
Source: Religion News Service By Rozanna Latiff KUALA LUMPUR/YANGON (Reuters) An aid flotilla carrying food and emergency supplies for Rohingya Muslims will sail from Malaysia for Myanmar’s troubled Rakhine State […]
Source: Religion News Service LOS ANGELES (Variety.com via Reuters) Just days after A&E pulled their Klu Klux Klan docuseries, the Church of Scientology is lashing out at the network for […]
Source: RNS BERLIN (Reuters) Islamist terrorism is the biggest test facing Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday in a New Year’s address to the nation, and vowed to introduce […]