Reuters DAILY STAR LEBANON BAGHDAD: Iraq’s top Shiite religious authority Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani urged fighters Friday to respect the rights of all Iraqis, regardless of sect or politics, after […]
Reuters BAGHDAD/KIRKUK, Iraq: Kurdish forces seized two oil fields in northern Iraq and took over operations from a state-run oil firm Friday, while Kurdish politicians suspended their participation in Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s government. The moves escalated a feud between the Shiite-led central government and the autonomous Kurdish region against […]
By Bartholomäus Grill in Juba, South Sudan SPIEGEL.DE The lucky ones manage to make it to the quarantine ward. Lying on cots under a tarp with vomit-buckets at their sides, […]
By Bartholomäus Grill in Juba, South Sudan SPIEGEL.DE The lucky ones manage to make it to the quarantine ward. Lying on cots under a tarp with vomit-buckets at their sides, […]
In what amounts to a diplomatic earthquake, Berlin has asked the country’s top CIA official to leave Germany. The measures comes in response to the second allegation in a week […]
theguardian: by Kirsten West Savali — When 20-year-old Frankea Dabbs abandoned her 10-month-old baby girl on a New York City subway platform on 7 July, it was a piercing cry for help that has long echoed throughout homes, neighborhoods and cities across the United States – a cry that is often ignored […]
theguardian: by Kirsten West Savali — When 20-year-old Frankea Dabbs abandoned her 10-month-old baby girl on a New York City subway platform on 7 July, it was a piercing cry for help that has long echoed throughout homes, neighborhoods and cities across the United States – a cry that is often ignored […]
The Independent: by Caroline Lucas — Parliament is a peculiar sort of place. Upon standing to speak there earlier this year, wearing a white t-shirt emblazoned with the words ‘No More Page Three’ – in support of the namesake campaign – I was metaphorically plonked into the naughty corner. No one batted […]
by Afzal Ashraf ALJAZEERA Afzal Ashraf is a Consultant fellow at Royal United Services Institute for Defense and Security Studies (RUSI) and served in the UK Armed Forces. He was […]
By Martin Patience BBC News, Beijing Several university students from China’s western region of Xinjiang have told the BBC that they are being banned from fasting during the month of […]
By Martin Patience BBC News, Beijing Several university students from China’s western region of Xinjiang have told the BBC that they are being banned from fasting during the month of […]
Source: The Huffington Post By Farahnaz Zahidi: Writer, editor and teacher Pakistan is internationally known for many things. For the surge of extremism. For the footballs we supplied to the World Cup. For an often exaggerated emphasis on the “miseries” of its people. But it is lesser known for being one of […]
Epigraph: When you spread out your hands in prayer, I hide my eyes from you; even when you offer many prayers, I am not listening. Your hands are full of […]
“The average anxiety level of a western teenager today is equivalent to a level which would have denoted a clinical anxiety disorder in the 1950s,” reveals Alastair McConville in this […]
“The average anxiety level of a western teenager today is equivalent to a level which would have denoted a clinical anxiety disorder in the 1950s,” reveals Alastair McConville in this […]
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By Abdul Rashid Agwan, MM News, Thomson Reuters, a UK-based multi-media corporation, has recently released its report ‘The Most Influential Scientific Minds 2014’, listing more than 3200 scientists who are […]
Source: CNN (CNN) — Complete shock, surprise and disappointment — that was my reaction to revelations from documents released by Edward Snowden that the National Security Agency monitored my e-mails from 2006 to 2008 after I left the Bush White House. I am one of five professionals featured in an […]
Source: TOI Leadership isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. Here are some essential tips for a good leader from 10 of the greatest philosophers: 1) “The best leaders do nothing”- Confucius. […]