Freetown, Sierra Leone – Dr. Christiana Thorpe of the National Electoral Commission (NEC) announced at 6:30 pm local time that President Ernest Bai Koroma, presidential aspirant for the All People’s Congress Party (APC) has secured a second term as President of Sierra Leone with 58.7% (1.3+ million) of the votes […]
Mayors and local councillors in the Netherlands are facing rising levels of violence. According to a new report, 61% of Dutch mayors have been the victims of violence or aggression. More than half of the Netherlands’ local councillors have had similar experiences. The threats, intimidation and violence perpetrated by disgruntled […]
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The National Post: The entire Christian calendar is based on a miscalculation, according to Pope Benedict, who claims in a book published Wednesday that Jesus was born several years earlier […]
by Clare O’Dea, swissinfo.ch No other European country sends as few convicted violent criminals to prison as Switzerland. With the penal code due to be reformed, questions are being raised about whether the criminal justice system is serving the country well. Take a sample case of aggravated bodily assault. On […]
Source: Spiegel Jens Spahn is a conservative parliamentarian. He is also gay. In a SPIEGEL interview, the 32-year-old describes how this has informed his political career and assesses how far Germany has come on civil rights for gays and lesbians. More:
Source: All Africa.Com President Jacob Zuma will have South Africans believe the gap between rich and poor is narrowing. Tim Harris, the DA’s shadow minister of finance, said the gap is widening and the president is talking nonsense. Who’s right and who’s wrong? Thanks to a new fact-checking service called […]
Source: Jakarta Globe. Islamabad. Elderly men wait patiently, carefully combing their hennaed beards, while a guitar-playing student entertains the long queue of Pakistanis lined-up to be photographed, fingerprinted and questioned inside a crowded office in the capital Islamabad. This is the unlikely setting for possibly one of Pakistan’s few success […]
Source: Dawn.Com Undated photo shows Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan.—File Photo KHYBER AGENCY: A spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban has claimed that suspending mobile phone services in the country will not hold back the militant group from carrying out its activities. More:
Source: TOI Morsi issued a decree that shielded his decisions from judicial review. CAIRO: Supporters and opponents of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi called rival demonstrations on Friday after the Islamist leader assumed sweeping powers in what critics dubbed a “coup”. Morsi’s supporters, led by the Muslim Brotherhood which backed him […]
Source: Spiegel: dapd Local fisherman protest the Russian-built nuclear plant in Kudankalam, India. The 2011 disaster at Japan’s Fukushima plant led many countries to turn away from nuclear power. But a growing population and rising economy has prompted India to massively expand its nuclear program — even in the face […]
Russian TV: The world’s largest flower has blossomed in Basel. The monster stinky plant, which boasts the largest unbranched inflorescence in the world, is 2.27 meters tall and blooms for […]
Scientific American: John Horgan: I’m teaching Darwin again this semester, in two separate courses, and I’m confronted with a familiar dilemma: How should I respond to students who reject evolutionary […]
NY Times: WASHINGTON — The conflict that ended, for now, in a cease-fire between Hamas and Israel seemed like the latest episode in a periodic showdown. But there was a second, strategic agenda unfolding, […]
Source: http://nationalmirroronline.net/new/why-muslim-lawyers-need-a-petition/ …continued from last week. The moral degradation of those who raised obscene allegations against the Holy Prophet and produced or worked for this film can be accessed from media reports regarding them. The main person behind the film is said to be a Coptic Christian living in the […]
By Zahir Muhammad Mannan “And when your Lord says to the governing Angels: “Surely I am going to establish in the earth a meek representative. They passionately say: “If You establish (as a leader) by honoring one (person or people) in the (earth) from among the disorder that exists there, […]
The Local The amazing defensive chemical make-up of Asian ladybirds which enables them to dominate European species could be used to fight malaria and TB in humans, a German scientist says. More:
Source: The Daily Star We have learnt from newspaper reports that Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on November 13 described the violence in west Myanmar between Buddhists and Muslims as a “huge international tragedy” and said illegal immigration from Bangladesh had to be stopped. Dhaka has expressed surprise at […]
Submitted by admin4 on 23 November 2012 – 2:36pm By TCN News Source: http://twocircles.net/2012nov23/nationwide_march_against_muslim_witch_hunt_name_terrorism.html New Delhi: Various organizations led by Students Islamic Organisation of India(SIO) organized a nationwide protest to stop illegal detention and arrest of innocent Muslim youth in the name of terrorism. A march to Parliament was organized […]