© AP Photo/ Adel Hana POLITIC28.12.2015 The Palestinian authorities are set to meet in the coming days to discuss the state of its relations with Tel Aviv amid the recent escalation of the long-standing conflict, Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) chief Saeb Erekat said. MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The PLO chief ruled out the […]
By AFP – Dec 27,2015 – JORDAN TIMES Demonstrators, most of them angry against Muslim residents, march in Ajaccio, on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica, on Saturday (AP photo) AJACCIO, France — France banned demonstrations in part of the Corsican capital Ajaccio on Sunday following two days of anti-Arab […]
By Suzanna Goussous – Dec 27,2015 – JORDAN TIMES In this file photo, Syrian refugees fill water from taps located outside the Azraq camp (Photo by Muath Freij) AMMAN — Azraq camp for Syrian refugees is facing “harsh conditions” with an increasing number of daily voluntary returns to Syria, due […]
Voices You won’t hear it, but news from Afghanistan is bad Isis men are now fighting in their thousands in the country we arrived to “liberate” 14 years ago, quite apart from tens of thousands of Taliban “pushing” in to their “heartland” around Sangin Robert Fisk @indyvoices Member of Afghan […]
Source: Time Expecting the move, Ursula Gauthier, a longtime journalist for the French news magazine L’Obs, said late Friday night that she was prepared to leave China. Once she departs […]
Source: Time BEIJING — The head of a Chinese firm that is building the world’s biggest animal cloning factory has vowed not to use the technology on people — for […]
Source: NBC News By DAVID LOM and ERIC BACULINAO “WE REALLY DON’T WANT THE ENTIRE SOCIETY TO BECOME ONE BILLION EINSTEINS” BEIJING — The head of a Chinese firm that […]
Source: Huffington Post A true friendship is a bond built on trust, and when that trust is broken, the friendship often shatters. Brené Brown has spent decades researching trust and vulnerability, […]
Source: Huffington Post By Kashif N. Chaudhry Physician, writer and human rights activist Christmas is one of the most important days in the Christian calendar. Granted it has largely been turned […]
Source: Huffington Post By Warren J. Blumenfeld Independent Writer “[I am] calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our representatives can figure out what’s […]
Source: Huffington Post By Geoffrey R. Stone Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago In recent weeks, two of the legal scholars I most admire — Cass Sunstein and Eric Posner — have independently called for possible limitations on the scope of First Amendment protection in […]
Source: Huffington Post By Mette Ivie Harrison; Mormon in progress, former atheist, mother of 5, author of ‘The Bishop’s Wife,’ Princeton PhD I spent about five years as an atheist. I […]
Dear Donald Trump: You may remember (you do, after all, have a “perfect memory!”), that we met back in November of 1998 in the green room of a talk show […]
Source: The Daily Beast By Jay Michaelson Why try to understand complicated things like demographics for the decline of your faith when you can blame gays and liberals for waging a […]
Source: NPR By the end of the century, Muslims could outnumber Christians for the first time in history, according to a report released by the Pew Research Center. “Another way of […]
Source: BBC Vast areas in Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil are being hit by the worst flooding in 50 years, forcing the evacuation of more than 150,000 people. Days of […]
Source: BBC Where to go to escape the stresses of life, the bustle of the workweek and the noise of traffic? To find out, we turned to question-and-answer site Quora, […]
Source: BBC Eight people are reported to have been killed in Texas in new tornadoes, raising the death toll to 26 in a week of storms in several US states. […]
Source: Huffington Post WASHINGTON (AP) — Taunted by Republicans to declare war on “radical Islamic terrorism,” Democrats are turning to an unlikely ally: George W. Bush. President Barack Obama, under […]