The suspect arrested for stabbing prominent author Salman Rushdie, Hadi Matar, had been in contact with the US-designated terrorist organization, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), prior to the nearly lethal assault on the writer, news organization VICE reported on Sunday ... console.log("BODY1. CatId is."+catID);if(catID == 69 . ... .
Hundreds of Mexican military troops were flown into Tijuana on Saturday to beef up street patrols after armed gangs hijacked and burned at least a dozen vehicles in the border city, the latest in a wave of attacks hitting civilians across the country. U.S ... Tijuana is home to the San Ysidro-El Chaparral ports of entry, the busiest U.S. border crossing.
Reading and watching the media over the past year, you might be forgiven for thinking that we are facing the collapse of civilisation ... In the face of these threats, it may be hard to maintain a rose-tinted view of the future – unless, that is, you are the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker ... The Covid-19 pandemic is the obvious place to start ... .
In a remarkable document from the 13th century, a Sufi writer records his epiphany about the prophet Muhammad granting permission to music in India... ....
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In our series of letters from African journalists, Ismail Einashe writes that many black people in Italy feel that racism is not taken seriously. For Italian-Eritrean filmmaker and podcaster Ariam Tekle, there is no doubt that the recent killing of a disabled Nigerian street vendor, Alika Ogorchukwu, in Italy was a "racist murder" ... .
UNICEF ha intentado mantener los programas de higiene y apoyo que antes se prestaban en los centros educativos. MADRID, 14 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) - ... Esta cifra supone un 2,5 por ciento del PIB anual afgano además de implica privar a las niñas y jóvenes de su derecho a una formación ... educación secundaria ... "No pararemos hasta lograr este objetivo ... .
Aynsley Genga is a JURIST Staff Correspondent in Kenya. She reports from Nairobi. It has been five days since we in Kenya had our elections on August 9th. Five days, and still we do not know who our president is. As the wait continues, so does the pressure. Kenya is in a state of limbo at the moment ... The rigging attempts do not end there ... Kenya region ... .
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A US delegation of lawmakers has arrived in Taiwan for a two-day visit during which they will meet PresidentTsai Ing-wen – the second high-level group to come amid continued military tensions with the island’s giant neighbour, China... Taiwan’s presidential office said the group would meet Tsai on Monday morning ... It added, however ... .
To feed and cool his buffaloes, Hashem Gassed must cross 10 kilometers (6 miles) of sunburnt land in southern Iraq, where drought is devastating swathes of the mythical Mesopotamian Marshes...Vast expanses of the once lush Huwaizah Marshes, straddling the border with Iran, have been baked dry, their vegetation yellowing ... "We are at a loss where to go.
Federal officials warned in a new bulletin that law enforcement officers and others in the government are facing increasing threats after last week's unprecedented search of former PresidentDonald Trump's residence at Mar-a-Lago ... .
Calling the 62-year-old "indomitable", Prime MinisterNarendra Modi echoed tributes from other senior officials, tweeting that the death of the tycoon was "saddening." ... .