Australias hypersonic spaceplane for a new space race
Source: BBC By Richard Hollingham 17 November 2016 On 28 October 1971, the bullet-shaped Black Arrow rocket blasted into the clear sky over the desert plain at Woomera in southern […]
Minnesota court jails leader of Islamic State plot for 35 years
Source: BBC A man described by a US judge as a leader of a group who plotted to travel to Syria to fight for the Islamic State group has been […]
Turkish Nato officers ‘seek asylum’ after failed coup
Source: BBC A number of Turkish officers posted to Nato have sought asylum since the country’s failed military coup in July, Nato’s secretary-general has said. Jens Stoltenberg said the officers […]
Teens Who Couldn’t Vote Struggle to Accept President Donald Trump
Source: Time By Katy Steinmetz / Berkeley, Calif By 9 p.m. on Election Night, Maya Raiford-Cohen had started sending texts to her fellow students at Berkeley High School, organizing young people […]
USA: Driving While Veiled: Georgia Aims to Ban Muslim Women off The Roads
Driving While Veiled: Georgia Aims to Ban Muslim Women off The Roads 11.16.2016 GEORGIA – State legislators are aiming to ban Muslim women from wearing a Burqa and other head coverings that might disguise their face when they are driving. House Bill 3, filed by state Rep. Jason Spencer, R-Woodbine, […]
LeBron James to donate $2.5 million for Muhammad Ali exhibit
Source: Washington Post By Matt Bonesteel LeBron James has added to his growing philanthropic portfolio with Thursday’s news that he, his charitable foundation and business partner Maverick Carter will donate […]
Why Pakistan’s Gwadar port is important for China
Source: TOI The first consignment of Chinese goods passed on November 13 through the Gwadar port in Pakistan on to ports in West Asia and Africa. The port is the showpiece of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor project, which Beijing sees as a crucial link that will help it in its […]
US: Kamala Harris says suspicious of Donald Trump’s immigration policies
http://indianexpress.com/article/world/world-news/kamala-harris-says-suspicious-of-donald-trumps-immigration-policies-4381752/ The California Senator said she would be staying in Washington DC after the orientation programme to search for a house. Indian-American Kamala Harris, who scripted history by winning a Senate seat, has said she is suspicious of president-elect Donald Trump’s plans to deport 2-3 million undocumented immigrants with criminal […]
EU leaders meet in Berlin to seek answers on Trump
Source: The Local Trump’s election upset has rattled European nerves, as he appeared to call into question a near 70-year-old security shield for US allies under NATO, and vowed to withdraw from hard-fought deals on the climate and Iran’s nuclear programme. His friendly disposition towards Russian President Vladimir Putin also raised […]
Bollywood actress Mallika Sherawat brutally attacked in Paris
PARIS Nov 18: According to media reports, Bollywood actress Mallika Sherawat was punched in the face and sprayed with teargas by masked attackers in an upmarket area of Paris. The incident happened on November 11. However, it got widely reported in the international media on Thursday, after the actress filed […]
Workers paid minimum for Swiss army boots
Swiss soldiers are wearing boots made in Romania. Photo: AFP/Fabrice Coffrini Workers paid minimum for Swiss army boots Published: 18 Nov 2016 09:18 GMT+01:00 The Swiss army is manufacturing boots for its soldiers in Romania at the cost of just two francs an hour, according to a television report. According […]
I’m glad cryonics is legal – we should all have rights over our bodies
Simon Jenkins A judge granted a dying teenager’s wish to be frozen in the hope she might live again. This decision was about the rights of all of us ‘This hope clearly gave comfort to a dying person.’ Storage facilities at one of two US cryonics institutions. Photograph: Cryonics Institute/Handout/EPA […]
A Danish photographer has captured the effect of anti-immigration politics in one image
Posted a day ago by Narjas Zatat in discover Since Donald Trump announced his intention to run in the presidential race, and his subsequent victory, there has been a notable […]
Cyprus reunification talks to resume as Turkish Cypriot President urges decision
DAILY SABAH ANKARA Following an intense series of talks in Mont-Pelerin between Nov. 7 and Nov. 11, Turkish and Greek Cypriot leaders will return to Switzerland on Nov. 20 as negotiations facilitated by the United Nations (U.N.) look set to resume. Meanwhile, speaking at the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus’s […]
FIBA allows player to wear hijab on court
Source: The Daily Sabah The International Basketball Federation (FIBA) gave permission Thursday for a female Muslim basketball player to wear her headscarf while playing. The federation announced that 18-year-old Noha […]
Barack Obama on fake news: ‘We have problems’ if we can’t tell the difference
The US president denounced the spate of misinformation across social media platforms, including Facebook, suggesting American politics can be affected ‘If everything seems to be the same and no distinctions are made, then we won’t know what to protect. We won’t know what to fight for’: Barack Obama on fake […]
Hundreds of Rohingya flee Myanmar army crackdown to Bangladesh-sources
Reuters International NOV 16, 2016 – Men clean fishing nets near a Rohingya refugee camp outside Sittwe, Rakhine state, Myanmar November 15, 2016. Picture taken on November 15, 2016. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun (reuters_tickers) By Serajul Quadir and Wa Lone DHAKA/SITTWE, Myanmar (Reuters) – Hundreds of Rohingya Muslims are fleeing a […]
Trump presidency faces a very wild Mideast
Nov 17,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Rami G. Khouri The election of Donald Trump as the next American president has added a major new element of uncertainty to a Middle Eastern picture that had already achieved its highest state of confusion, violence and uncertainty in its modern history. The factors that […]
From the CIA to the GFE
Nov 17,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Jeffrey D. Sachs The United States needs to shift its spending from war to education, from CIA-backed regime change to a new Global Fund for Education (GFE). With hundreds of millions of children around the world not in school, or in schools with under-qualified teachers, […]
Sanders: If Trump has the ‘guts’ to take on corporate America, he’s got an ally
Source: CNN By Edward Mejia Davis and Jeff Zeleny, CNN President-elect Donald Trump will find himself with an unlikely ally if he makes good on his promise to be an […]