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 […]
Source: BBC The blasts, part of a wave of attacks across Afghanistan on Tuesday, took place during rush hour as staff were leaving the complex. The Taliban said they carried […]
Source: The Washington Post By Paul Duggan The Rev. William J. Barber II, a pastor and activist who has emerged as a leading religious critic of President-elect Donald Trump, was […]
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune By PEGGY FLETCHER STACK Mormons and others who wonder about the salaries of top LDS leaders got a possible peek at those numbers Monday, when […]
Source: Associated Press By MEG KINNARD and JEFFREY COLLINS CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Dylann Roof told jurors Tuesday that he could ask them for life in prison instead of the […]
Source: The New York Times By MITCH SMITH The morning rush at the Jewish community center in Columbia, S.C., had subsided when the phone rang on Monday. The caller, an elderly-sounding woman, “in a loud screaming voice kept saying there’s a bomb,” said Barry A. Abels, the center’s executive director. […]
Source: RNS By Adelle M. Banks WASHINGTON (RNS) He had done it before, after Tucson, Aurora, Fort Hood and Sandy Hook: taken on the mantle of the pastor-in-chief before a crowd […]
Source: CNN By Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News One in three women with breast cancer detected by a mammogram is treated unnecessarily, because screening tests found tumors that are so […]