BBC: He said Turkey’s secular and democratic character was “not up for debate”. His comments came a day after a key member of the ruling AK party (AKP) called for secularism to be taken out of the constitution. Parliamentary speaker Ismail Kahraman, who is overseeing the draft charter, said Turkey […]
83% of Muslim Canadians report being ‘very proud’ to be Canadian, compared to 73% of non-Muslim Canadians By Éric Grenier, for CBC News Posted: Apr 27, 2016 5:00 AM ET Last Updated: Apr 27, 2016 3:53 PM ET An overwhelming majority of Muslim Canadians have a strong attachment to their country and feel that […]
MP Naz Shah suspended from Labour bbc.co.uk Labour has suspended MP Naz Shah over comments she made about Israel. The Bradford West MP has been heavily criticised over the Facebook posts, including one suggesting Israel should be moved to the United States. In a Commons statement she offered a “profound […]
ALPINE RESEARCH Iron Age man was a fan of Swiss cheese APR 26, 2016 – 19:25 Dominique Yersin produces Etivaz cheese on the Le Grin alpine pasture at Chateau d’Oex […]
Source: Huffington Post BY Kent E. Allison Partner and National Leader of Employee Financial Education and Wellbeing, PricewaterhouseCoopers It’s a tough time to be a Millennial. In the face of economic […]
Reuters International APR 27, 2016 – 19:26 VIENNA (Reuters) – Austria’s parliament on Wednesday passed tough new asylum measures, including a process under which migrants could be turned away at the border within an hour, which could be activated if lawmakers decree public order is threatened. Austria has mostly served […]
Source: Huffington Post Jessie’s Law tries to make a patient’s addiction history more widely known to his or her physicians. WASHINGTON — The young woman whose story of heroin addiction […]
By AFP – Apr 26,2016 – JORDAN TIMES TEHRAN — Iran Tuesday summoned Switzerland’s ambassador, who represents Washington’s interests in Tehran, to protest a court ruling that $2 billion of frozen Iranian assets be used to compensate American victims of “terror”. The US Supreme Court ruled last week that […]
Source: Huffington Post By Ed Mazza Overnight Editor Ken Ham, the creationist behind the giant Noah’s Ark replica nearing completion in Kentucky, received some pointed questions on Twitter from those who […]
Apr 26,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – HASAN ABU NIMAH The French government’s repeated attempts to thaw the frozen Palestinian-Israeli peace process do not seem to have ceased despite lack of enthusiasm for the endeavour from almost all those supposedly concerned. Apart form the Palestinian Authority, the two other key partners, […]
Source: Aljazeera Presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has said halting the spread of Islamic extremism would be a priority of his administration if he is elected president. “Containing the spread of radical Islam […]
Source: BBC Austria has passed a controversial new law that restricts the right of asylum and allows most claimants to be rejected directly at the border. Rights groups say the […]
Source: BBC Turkey’s PM Ahmet Davutoglu has said the country’s new constitution will feature the principle of secularism. He said Turkey’s secular and democratic character was “not up for debate”. […]
Source: New York Times WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has issued new rules that give prosecutors in Washington greater oversight and control over national security cases after the collapse of […]
Source. Balkan Insight Ervis Alinj and Bledar Hamza were childhood friends as they grew up together in the village of Leshnica in southeast Albania. Their paths later strayed, as Alinj migrated to Greece and Hamza moved with his family to Italy – both in search of better lives. Their paths […]
Source: The New York Times By Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn APRIL 26, 2016 Donald J. Trump is essentially two key states from the nomination. By sweeping five states on Tuesday, he pulled […]
Source. Balkan Insight Cracks between the Patriotic Coalition and the Bridge of Independent Lists, MOST, which make up Croatia’s ruling coalition, are deepening and jeopardizing the government’s very survival. More.
Source: BBC By Inka Piegsa-Quischotte 27 April 2016 How does a tiny Spanish village of just 62 souls come to be excommunicated in its entirety and cursed with a spell […]
Majid Nawaz, The Daily Beast LONDON — There really is no other way to put this. Free thinkers in Bangladesh are being serially hacked to death in their homes. An infamous hit list appeared in 2013 naming 84 “atheist bloggers.” By the end of 2015 there had been seven such murdersacross […]
Source: National Geographic By Gabe Bullard As secularism grows, atheists and agnostics are trying to expand and diversify their ranks. More people than ever before are identifying as atheist, agnostic, […]