Source: BBC US President-elect Donald Trump has said he will deport or jail up to three million illegal migrants initially. Those targeted would be migrants with criminal records, such as gang members and drug dealers, he told US broadcaster CBS in an interview. He also confirmed that another election promise, […]
Thousands of demonstrators filled public squares, parks and streets in the country’s three largest cities on Saturday to protest President-elect Donald J. Trump, part of a wave of dissent that has swelled since the presidential contest last week. NYTimes.com 2016/11/13 They were transgender people, the children of immigrants, and parents toting […]
Source: CNN By Farahnaz Ispahani is a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the author of “Purifying The Land of the Pure: A history of […]
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla; Associate Religion Editor Sakeena Ahmed is a fourth grader who has plenty of wisdom to share. The 9-year-old from Oak Brook, Illinois, wrote a letter […]
Calgary,Alberta / News Talk 770 (CHQR) Haley Jarmain Posted: November 11, 2016 Over 700 distinguished guests, including the Mayor, Police Chief, as well as politicians from all levels of government, gathered in northeast Calgary Friday night for a the Calgary Peace Symposium. The event comes at a time of global […]
OCT. 4, 2016 12:51 P.M. (UPDATED: NOV. 1, 2016 9:45 P.M.) Israeli security forces tend to an injured soldier next to the body of a slain Palestinian in the southern occupied West Bank on Oct. 16, 2015. (AFP/Hazem Bader, File) By: Chloe Benoist BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — In October 2015 began […]
Reuters International www.swissinfo.ch NOV 12, 2016 An injured boy is wheeled from the ambulance after an explosion in at the Shah Noorani Shrine in Baluchistan, at a hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, November 12, 2016. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (reuters_tickers) By Gul Yousafzai QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – An explosion claimed by militant […]
Reuters International NOV 13, 2016 – swissinfo.ch Refugee advocates hold a banner during a protest in central Sydney, Australia, October 5, 2016 calling for the closure of the Australian detention centres in Nauru and Manus Island. REUTERS/David Gray/File Photo (reuters_tickers) SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia has reached a resettlement deal with […]
REBUILDING BOOM NOV 12, 2016 – swissinfo.ch The average age of the around 84,000 dams in the US is 52 years (Keystone) Companies like Sika and LafargeHolcim want to be a part of US President Elect Donald Trump’s plans to rebuild crumbling roads, bridges, tunnels and airports infrastructure. While the […]
thestar.com Trump presidency has sparked fear among many Americans, UN climate delegates. WASHINGTON — Departing Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid lashed out at Donald Trump on Friday as “a sexual predator who lost the popular vote and fuelled his campaign with bigotry and hate.” The Nevada Democrat said in a statement that “If Trump […]
Source: The Guardian In first interview since winning US election, Trump says he may not repeal Obamacare and says prosecution of Hillary Clinton is not a priority Donald Trump has […]
Source: The Gaurdian By Jon Swaine and Guardian Staff Thousands have taken to the streets across the country in the days since Donald Trump was elected president. Photograph: Stephen Lovekin/REX/Shutterstock Protesters across the US were gearing up on Friday for weekend demonstrations over the election of Donald Trump, as other activists […]
Source: The Guardian Agence France-Presse Tens of thousands of men, women and children joined one of the largest anti-government protests seen in Seoul for decades on Saturday, demanding President Park […]
Source: The Guardian By Martin Chulov Islamic State fighters have killed scores of alleged spies or battlefield deserters in the past week and are dispatching boys as young as 12 to the frontlines with suicide belts as the group’s enemies advance on its last major strongholds. Witnesses in Raqqa and Mosul […]
Source: BBC Next time you’re doing your grocery shopping and put a bunch of bananas in your trolley, spare a thought for the journey they’ve been on. Many will have […]
Source: BBC US President-elect Donald Trump has said he is open to leaving intact key parts of President Barack Obama’s healthcare bill. Mr Trump, who has pledged to repeal the 2010 law, said he will keep the ban on insurers denying coverage for pre-existing conditions. He told the Wall Street […]
Source: The Washington Post By Derek Hawkins and Fred Barbash A student at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette fabricated a story that she was attacked and had her hijab rippped off, police said Thursday. The attack was one of several reported in the wake of Donald Trump’s election victory. […]
Source: Reuters By Jon Herskovitz A U.S. Muslim civil rights group said on Thursday it was monitoring reports of several incidents targeting Muslims in the United States since Republican Donald Trump’s victory on Tuesday and called on the president-elect to denounce the attacks. The reports included at least two assaults […]
Source: RNS By Josephine McKenna ROME (RNS) President-elect Donald Trump will uphold Christian values, a prominent U.S. cardinal has said. In an interview published in the Italian conservative daily Il […]
Source: The Guardian By Peter Beaumont in Jerusalem Israeli government ministers and political figures are pushing the US president-elect, Donald Trump, to quickly fulfill his campaign promise to overturn decades of US […]