Bangladesh moves to ban Jamaat-e-Islami

ET: DHAKA: Bangladesh war crimes investigators moved on Tuesday to outlaw the country’s largest Islamic party, accusing it of genocide and other atrocities during the 1971 struggle for independence. Government investigators handed a report detailing war crimes allegations against  to prosecutors, in the latest move against the party which has banned […]

University ‘bridges’ US-China gap

Source: China Daily By JACK FREIFELDER As scholars and academics continue efforts to encourage the study of China, Pace University, in New York City’s Lower Manhattan, is trying an alternative tack to promote its students’ interests in the world’s second-largest economy — by subsidizing a chance to study abroad. The […]

Who speaks for the voiceless?

By Leonard Pitts Jr., who is a columnist for the Miami Herald Who speaks for Ghanson Debrosse? Before he was born, many people did. Anti-abortion groups did. Churches did. Protesters did. And lawmakers did. Florida, for instance, requires that a woman undergo an ultrasound before getting an abortion, and the provider […]

Flight 370 Ended in Southern Indian Ocean.

Source: NY Times The prime minister of Malaysia announced in Kuala Lumpur that there was no longer any doubt that the missing Malaysian Airlines jetliner, Flight 370, crashed in the Indian Ocean. Prime Minister Najib Razak said the conclusion was based on new analysis of data from an automated satellite […]

Pakistan erased Int. NYT cover story

Pakistan erased an entire International New York Times cover story By Chris Welch on March 22, 2014 12:53 pm Email 191Comments Don’t miss stories Follow The Verge 71 inShare Today’s edition of The International New York Times was stripped of its cover story in Pakistan. Instead of seeing a lengthy report on […]