Josh Elliott and Josh Dehaas, CTVNews.ca Staff Published Friday, April 1, 2016 2:48PM EDT Last Updated Friday, April 1, 2016 10:06PM EDT A Toronto-area Sikh man says he was verbally abused and beaten while vacationing in Quebec City by a group of men who targeted him because of his brown […]
Source. The daily Beast. The U.S. military conducted an airstrike in Somalia on Thursday with the help of the Somalian government, the Pentagon confirmed. According to a spokesman, the operation targeted Hassan Ali Dhoore, a senior leader of al Qaeda-affiliated group al-Shabaab. While the Pentagon has yet to confirm whether […]
Source. The daily Beast. During a press conference following his nuclear security summit Friday in Washington, D.C., President Obama told the media that GOP frontrunner Donald Trump “doesn’t know much about foreign policy, or nuclear policy, or the Korean Peninsula, or the world generally.” Trump has come under fire in […]
Source.Ghanaweb.com The national chief Imam Sheikh Dr. Osmanu Nuhu Sharubutu has categorically stated his office has nothing to do with the over 13 arrested Pakistani nationals, claiming to be preachers in Ghana. The Pakistanis were arrested at Assin Fosu in the Central region Thursday upon suspicion they were engaging in […]
By Salam Bhatti, NY – National Catholic Register Daesh (the preferred Arabic name for the group that calls itself the Islamic State) has attacked Turkey five times since October, leaving nearly 200 dead and hundreds injured. In the recent Brussels attack, Daesh killed dozens and injured many more. The loss […]
Source: Aljazeera By Ted Regencia Iraqi-born British architect Zaha Hadid, the first female winner of the top Pritzker Architecture Prize, has died at the age of 65. Hadid died after suffering […]
Source: BBC Pharmaceutical firm GlaxoSmithKline has said it wants to make it easier for manufacturers in the world’s poorest countries to copy its medicines. The British company said it would […]
Source: BBC By Jonathan Webb Science reporter, BBC News Scientists in Japan have successfully transplanted mice with lab-grown skin that has more of the organ’s working parts in place than […]
Source: The Guardian By Henry Greely Within decades, technology will give would-be parents choices that sound like the stuff of science fiction. What ‘easy PGD’ won’t give you though, is a […]
Source: The Gaurdian By Alex Duval Smith The Polish prime minister, Beata Szydło, said she backs moves towards a total ban on abortion, in a sign the nationalist government may be […]
Source: The Washington Post By Sudarsan Raghavan CAIRO — At a literary gathering in Cairo, the poem Fatma Naoot chose to read could not have been more relevant. It was […]
Source: The Washington Post By Hamil R. Harris There were about 15 of them there at the beginning. Turkish American engineers who in the early 1990s worked at NASA’s Goddard […]
Source: RNS By Cathy Lynn Grossman A is senior national reporter for RNS (RNS) A decorated veteran Sikh officer is the first to win an approval from the U.S. Army to […]
Source: Time ByRebecca Collard/Erbil, Iraq For the Doski family, the arrival to northern Iraq’s Erbil International Airport last week was bittersweet. Fayez Al Doski waited with his wife and two children as immigration officers went over the one-way travel documents issued to them by the Iraqi embassy in Germany. Like […]
Source: BBC By Matthew Phenix The driverless race car is coming. That’s a car that drives around a track. Very fast. Without a driver. Competing against other fast cars. Also […]
Source: The New York Times By BEN C. SOLOMON, TAIGE JENSEN, STEFANIA ROUSSELLE and LESLYE DAVIS MARSEILLE, France — In the United States and Europe, mainstream political parties find themselves besieged. Two-party systems that were once stable are under new pressure, fracturing and creating openings for populists on the extremes, […]
Junead Khan (left) and his uncle Shazib Khan. Photograph: CPS/PA theguardian.com/newsuk/2016/04/01 A British Islamic extremist is facing a life sentence after being found guilty of planning a terrorist attack on American military personnel in Britain. Delivery driver Junead Khan, 25, used his job with a pharmaceutical firm as cover to […]
Source: China Daily China is willing to encourage enterprises with due capacity to invest in Palestine, Vice-Premier Liu Yandong said in a meeting with Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah. Also, […]
Source. The daily Beast. “I don’t know whether there are any moral saints,” wrote the philosopher Susan Wolf, in her famous 1982 article “Moral Saints.” “But if there are, I am glad that neither I nor those about whom I care most are among them.” As Wolf saw it, there […]
Source. WSJ By MARGARET COKER in London and BEN KESLING in Baghdad Updated April 1, 2016 10:08 a.m. ET Islamic State has been using a well-stocked university chemistry lab in Mosul, Iraq, for the past year to concoct a new generation of explosive devices and train militants to make them, […]