SECURITY By swissinfo.ch and agencies JAN 30, 2016 – 15:23 Swiss police outside the French consulate in Geneva on December 11, when four terrorist suspects were being hunted (Keystone) Switzerland has dropped an investigation of two men of Syrian origin arrested in Geneva last month over traces of explosives found […]
By Jeannie Wurz FEB 1, 2016 – 11:00 Providing ageing immigrants with information through roundtable discussions is the goal of the project “Together into the Future”. (Keystone) They came to Switzerland as foreign labourers or refugees, and likely never thought they would spend their old age in the country. A […]
Leading world storytellers to attend festival in Tehran Tehran Times Culture Desk TEHRAN – 11 foreign storytellers will be attending the 18th edition of the International Storytelling Festival opening in Tehran on February 16. The festival has been organized by the Institute for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults […]
ARAB NEWS Published — Monday 1 February 2016 Beyond any shadow of doubt, Daesh and its likes have nothing to do with Islam. All the actions of these terrorist organizations are in sharp contrast with the true teachings of Islam and Sunnah. It seems that Daesh is just a puppet […]
Jan 31,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – JOSCHKA FISCHER There is an alarming political shift to the right occurring on both sides of the Atlantic, linked to the growing force of openly chauvinist political parties and figures: Donald Trump in the United States, Marine Le Pen in France. Other names could […]
Jan 31,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – KLAUS SCHWAB Of the myriad challenges the world faces today, perhaps the most overwhelming is how to shape the Fourth Industrial Revolution that began at the turn of the century. New technologies and approaches are merging the physical, digital and biological worlds in ways […]
Jan 31,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL According to Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour, His Majesty King Abdullah will be telling the February 4 refugee donors’ conference that “the Syrian crisis is no longer a refugee concern only, but a security burden, an issue of sleeper cells, illicit drug trafficking, terror and […]
Source: Time It would move people through vacuum tubes at speeds up to 750 mph Student engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have won a competition to design […]
Source: Time Burma embarked upon a democratic era on Monday as a new parliament sat for the first time, with democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi finally in a position to […]
Source: BBC Worldwide, around a billion people have a disability, says the World Health Organisation. In Europe and America, this is one in five people. And since they are less […]
Source: BBC To restore sight to damaged eyes, doctors often need to transplant the cornea – the transparent covering of the iris and the pupil – from a donor’s dead […]
Source: BBC “For me, a calorie is a unit of measurement that’s a real pain in the rear.” Bo Nash is 38. He lives in Arlington, Texas, where he’s a […]
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Source: Advocate A handful of Baton Rouge Muslims took the stage in a Methodist church hall Sunday afternoon to explain their faith, answer questions and dispel a host of misconceptions […]
Source: The Week Iowa’s Republican caucus looks to be a battle between Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas), and both areheavily courting the evangelical Christian voters who helped Rick […]
Source: RNS (RNS) Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders — a political independent, a socialist and possibly the most liberal member of Congress — may be a cultural Jew but he’s campaigned […]
Scientists get ‘gene editing’ go-ahead Source: BBC By James Gallagher, Health editor UK scientists have been given the go-ahead by the fertility regulator to genetically modify human embryos. The research will […]
Guardian: Young Muslims have told politicians at a meeting in Bradford to discuss radicalisation that they feel increasingly demonised and isolated. MPs and around 70 young people aged between 16 and 25, representing Muslim communities in Bradford, Leeds and Dewsbury, met in a hotel for the two hour Big Conversation […]
Huff Post: by Emily Peck — It’s pretty obvious, but weirdly unacknowledged. President Barack Obama is proposing a cool solution to help close the gender pay gap, but it doesn’t hit at perhaps the biggest problem keeping women from earning what men make. That problem? Life. Women’s responsibilities outside of […]
theguardian: by Alison Moodie — Religious discrimination claims in the US have doubled since 2001. Should businesses take more steps to ensure every employee feels valued? Samanth Elauf stands with her mother outside the US Supreme Court in Washington in February 2015. Elauf was denied a sales job at an […]