ET: VATICAN CITY: The Vatican on Friday called for a truce in wars around the globe during Sunday’s World Cup final, taking to social media with the hashtag #pauseforpeace as a conflict in […]
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Source: Time By Qasim Rashid Islam places immense emphasis on privacy in ways that Western governments today have only begun to match with privacy laws. Whether it’s a legal scholar […]
Two hundred Ghanaian World Cup fans in Brazil are asking for asylum, a move that has drawn scepticism and ridicule. The asylum-seekers argue they are fleeing from “violent conflicts between different Muslim groups” in Ghana. These fans entered Brazil on tourist visas and their requests are being prepared by the […]
Two hundred Ghanaian World Cup fans in Brazil are asking for asylum, a move that has drawn scepticism and ridicule. The asylum-seekers argue they are fleeing from “violent conflicts between different Muslim groups” in Ghana. These fans entered Brazil on tourist visas and their requests are being prepared by the […]
Summary Without the explanatory lens of colonial behavior, I can think of only two ways to understand how Israel can repeat every few years what it is doing now in Gaza, unleashing the power of its advanced military machines against an essentially helpless civilian population that has neither a means […]
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 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 […]