Source: Time By Jake Pearson / AP (NEW YORK) — Massive 20-ton sanitation trucks, weighted with an extra 15 tons of sand, will surround the iconic New Year’s Eve celebration in […]
Source: The Atlantic By CANDICE NORWOOD In 2016, long simmering tensions over race and identity in America boiled over. Years of conflict between police and minority communities, clashing views concerning abortion […]
Source: The Atlantic By JOE PINSKER There are three things, once one’s basic needs are satisfied, that academic literature points to as the ingredients for happiness: having meaningful social relationships, being […]
Source: The Guardian BY Anushka Asthana and Denis Campbell Childhood memories of growing up with an alcoholic father have prompted the shadow health secretary to call for greater recognition of the […]
VOTE FEBRUARY 12 Making it easier for young foreigners to become Swiss By Urs Geiser DEC 29, 2016 Applications for a Swiss passport may take a long time and be quite expensive under the regular procedure (Keystone) Should grandchildren of immigrants have privileged access to a Swiss passport? The political […]
Published December 30th, 2016 A Palestinian woman lies on the ground after she was shot and wounded by Israeli security forces while approaching the Qalandia checkpoint with a knife, between Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank on December 30, 2016, according to Israeli police. (AFP/Abbas Momani) A Palestinian woman was […]
A Jewish bride sits next to her groom during the Mitzvah Tans dance ritual following their wedding in an ultra-orthodox neighbourhood in Jerusalem. (AFP/File) Each year, a number of Israeli rabbis affiliated with the rabbinate give permission for dozens of Orthodox Jewish men to take a second wife, despite the […]
Dec 29,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL US Secretary of State John Kerry outlined his vision for peace between Palestinians and Israelis in the boldest manner yet. His blueprint for peace entails Israeli withdrawal from Palestinian lands and Jerusalem as the shared capital of the two sides that would have to […]
By JT – Dec 29,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL AMMAN — The government on Thursday strongly condemned Israeli’s provocative policies as the occupation state frequently allows Jewish extremists to storm the compound of Al Aqsa Mosque/Al Haram Al Sharif. Al Haram Al Sharif is the third holiest site in […]
Nigel Farage is not a Nazi and nor is Donald Trump. But what is terrifying – and deeply akin to fascism – is our ability to ‘think’ our way from truth into lies Robert Fisk @indyvoices Thursday 29 December 2016 We do not live in a “post-truth” world, neither in the Middle East nor in […]
Source: BBC A residential school for transgender people has been opened in the Indian city of Kochi, to help adults who dropped out of school finish their education. Transgender people […]
Source: The Guardian The UK’s biggest and fastest growing Pentecostal church is embarking on an ambitious expansion programme in 2017, in part aimed at attracting white Britons to join its […]
Source: BBC President Barack Obama has unilaterally designated two new “national monument” nature preserves in the western US states of Nevada and Utah. The Bears Ears National Monument and the […]
Source: The New York Times By ADAM NAGOURNEY and SHARON OTTERMAN For Rabbi Gerald Sussman of Temple Emanu-El on Staten Island, the Obama administration’s recent confrontation with Israel was a […]
Source: Los Angeles Times By Joshua Mitnick For nearly three decades, governments around the world have insisted that the best way to end the most intractable conflict in the Middle […]
Source: The New York Times By PETER BAKER JERUSALEM — The two front-page headlines told very different stories about Secretary of State John Kerry’s lengthy address about Middle East peace. […]
Source: Reuters Chinese Catholics must run their church independently, implying at arms length from the Vatican, and guide believers on a “Sinicisation path”, said a senior Communist Party official, as […]
Source: RNS By Emily McFarlan Miller (RNS) The Rev. Franklin Graham isn’t sure which Scripture he’ll read at the Jan. 20 inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump. The evangelist and head […]
Source: CNN By Stewart Patrick Stewart Patrick is the senior fellow and director of the program on International Institutions and Global Governance at the Council on Foreign Relations. The views […]
Source: BBC Russian President Vladimir Putin has ruled out a tit-for-tat response after the US expelled 35 Russian diplomats amid a row over hacking. He said Russia would not “stoop” […]