Source. Asia Times. The secretary-general of the Council of Europe (CoE), Thornjorn Hoagland, gains distinction as the first high-ranking European official to visit Ankara after the abortive coup of July 15. Hoagland’s is a recce mission to fathom the mood in Ankara, which is of course very ugly. Turkish President […]
Source. Dawn ISLAMABAD: A Punjab government Mi-17 helicopter crash landed on Thursday in Afghanistan’s Logar province where Taliban insurgents took the crew hostage before setting the helicopter on fire. DawnNews reported the helicopter had seven people onboard at the time of the incident, and was on its way for maintenance […]
Source. The Local The schoolboy had apparently stumbled upon the key to the bus lying on the street a few weeks ago, while the privately owned vehicle was parked and no longer in use, Bavarian police reported on Wednesday. So the young lad climbed into the bus and was seen […]
Source. Dawn THE news coming out of Saudi Arabia of thousands of foreign workers — Pakistanis included — not having been paid for months and reportedly running low on food is reason for concern. As reported, over 8,500 Pakistanis employed with two Saudi firms have not received their salaries for […]
Source. BBC A three-member IOC panel has ratified 18 shooters, 11 boxers, 11 judokas, eight tennis players, six sailors, five equestrian riders, three archers and one golfer, among others. The Tass news agency reported Russia Olympic Committee head Alexander Zhukov as saying: “We have documents on the admission of about […]
Source. CNN (CNN)Hillary Clinton holds commanding leads over Donald Trump in a trio of states that the GOP nominee has made central to his White House bid, according to polls released Thursday following both party’s national conventions last month, and has maintained an advantage in the perennial swing state of […]
Source.CNN Nairobi, Kenya (CNN)A Kenyan woman’s hands were butchered and she was left with injuries to her head after she was brutally attacked by her husband, who blamed her for not being able to conceive any children during their seven-year marriage. Jackline Mwende’s husband, Stephen Ngila, allegedly attacked her in […]
Source. CNN (CNN)Within minutes of skidding across the runway, all 282 passengers on board an Emirates flight, which exploded in flames in Dubai on Wednesday, were safely evacuated. In a life-or-death moment, what goes through the mind of an air steward? Training is key, a former Emirates crew member who […]
Source. The Daily Beast To listen to Republican after Republican, from Speaker Paul Ryan to Sen. John McCain, issue doleful statements decrying Donald Trump’s attack on the Gold Star parents of the late Capt. Humayun Khan is to hear the forewarning bell toll of infamy. Surely, history will remember who […]
In the past 48 hours, everything went wrong for Donald Trump. He lied and ranted more than usual, he insulted and offended, his friends used the press to criticize him, and his enemies in his own party said they were voting for Hillary Clinton, while anonymous reports ran rampant that […]
Aug 03,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – DAOUD KUTTAB The incident was tragic by any standard, but the response appears even more tragic. When Shadi Abu Jaber, a 17-year-old Jordanian, along with another passenger died in a car accident in Amman, social media users started talking about the young man whose […]
By Laila Azzeh – Aug 04,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Syrian refugees carry water at the Azraq camp, some 100km east of Amman and 20km west of the town of Azraq in Zarqa Governorate, recently (Photo by Muath Freij) AMMAN — More than half of the registered Syrian refugees […]
Police said mental health was a ‘significant factor’ in the case Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden A private ambulance leaves Russell Square in London early on August 4, 2016, after a woman in her 60s was killed during a knife attackAFP/Getty Images The London mayor Sadiq Khan has urged the public to […]
Exclusive: Airline urged to apologise after honeymooner ‘made to feel like a culprit’ Liam O’Hare, Ted Jeor A Muslim NHS worker was detained at a UK airport and questioned under terror laws after a cabin crew member spotted her reading a Syrian culture book on board her honeymoon flight. Faizah Shaheen, who helps […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY PHILLIP CONNOR More than 60 million people are displaced from their homes as of the end of 2015, thehighest number of displaced people since World War II, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). This group accounts for 0.8% of the world’s […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY ANGELINA E. THEODOROU74 COMMENTS Apostasy and blasphemy may seem to many like artifacts of history. But in dozens of countries around the world, laws against […]
Source: Pew Research Center Recent wave accounts for about one-in-ten asylum applications since 1985 BY PHILLIP CONNOR A record 1.3 million migrants applied for asylum in the 28 member states of the European Union, Norway and Switzerland in 2015 – nearly double the previous high water mark of roughly 700,000 […]
Source: The Guardian Migrants and refugees inside Moria camp on the Greek island of Lesbos. Photograph: Petros Giannakouris/AP By Patrick Kingsley in Moria, Lesvos Christians working in Greece’s most notorious asylum detention […]
Source: USA Today By Natalie DiBlasio The Twitterverse is trying to teach Donald Trump’s spokeswoman Katrina Pierson a sassy history lesson. In an interview with CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer, Pierson blamed President Obama and Hillary Clinton for the 2004 death of Army Capt. Humayun Khan. However, Khan died while George W. Bush was president — four […]
Source: USA Today By Doug Stanglin The Obama administration secretly airlifted $400 million in cash to Iran in January to settle a decades-old legal dispute just as the Iranians were releasing four Americans detained byTehran, The Wall Street […]