Monitor: Children among dead after airstrike on IS Syrian bastion
At least eight civilians, many of them children, died when warplanes, presumably part of a US coalition, launched airstrikes on an area of eastern Syria controlled by Islamic State forces Saturday, according to a monitoring group. The strikes targeted houses in the city of al-Mayadeen, in the eastern province of Deir al-Zour, the…
Hinduism and its complicated history with cows (and people who eat them)
Are cows sacred to all Hindus? PRODaniel Incandela, CC BY-NC Just this past June, at a national meeting of various Hindu organizations in India, a popular preacher, Sadhvi Saraswati, suggested that those who consumed beef should be publicly hanged. Later, at the…
The GOP’s moral rot is the problem, not Donald Trump Jr. | Opinion
The key insight from a week of gobsmacking revelations is not that the Russia scandal may finally have an underlying crime but that, as The New York Times’ David Brooks suggests, “over the past few generations the Trump family built an enveloping culture that is beyond good and evil.”
UK acid attack survivors demand government action
Survivors of acid attacks in the United Kingdom have raised a call for tougher laws against perpertrators and demanded stricter measures for the purchasing of corrosive substances a fter a spate of acid attacks in recent weeks. Sulphuric acid in drain cleaners, bleaches and corrosive alkalis in battery fluid can be easily bought in shops […]
Pope advisors attack Trump’s aide Steve Bannon and US religious right
Rome (dpa) – Donald Trump’s chief strategist Steve Bannon and Christian extremists that have sided with the US president have a dangerously “fundamentalist” world view, according to two confidantes of Pope Francis. In a Sunday comment on Italian daily La Repubblica, church historian Alberto Melloni said the papal aides have laid bare “an unprecedented conflict” […]
Christian Father charged with murdering daughter over affair with Muslim
Sami Kara, reportedly a Christian Arab, allegedly killed teenager after she said she’d convert to Islam to be with her romantic partner By Stuart Winer Sami Kara is brought to Lod District Court for an indictment on murdering his own daughter, July 16, 2017. (Flash90) Prosecutors filed charges Sunday against a man accused of stabbing […]
Trump: We will maintain good relations with Qatar
US President Donald Trump is confident of maintaining good relations with Qatar and has ruled out moving the US airbase away from the country despite the political and economic blockade its facing by the Saudi-led group. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt imposed a land, sea and air blockade on Qatar on […]
Iran-born Maryam Mirzakhani remembered as ‘Math genius’
Maryam Mirzakhani, an Iranian-born mathematician who was the first woman to win the coveted Fields Medal, has died in a US hospital after a battle with cancer. She was 40. Mirzakhani’ friend Firouz Naderi announced her death on Saturday on Instagram, and her relatives confirmed the death to the Mehr agency in Iran. “A light […]
Trump Lowest Approval Rating in 70 Years of Poll
Donald Trump is not happy about a new poll showing he has the lowest six-month approval rating of any president in the past 70 years. The ABC News/Washington Post poll shows the president currently has just a 36% approval rating, showing a drop of 6 points since a similar poll taken after his first 100 […]
Israel reopens al-Aqsa Mosque compound
Israel has reopened al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City following two-day closure after three Palestinians and two Israeli police officers were killed in a gun battle in the mosque compound. Crowds chanted “Allahu Akbar” (God is Greatest) as a number of initial visitors entered the compound on Sunday. The compound was shut down on […]