Two students were shot and wounded, one critically, inside a Los Angeles middle school classroom Thursday morning and police took a 12-year-old female student into custody, authorities said. Los Angeles Fire department’s Erik Scott, far right, police officers and school officials gather outside the Belmont Middle School in Los Angeles Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018 (AP […]
Continue reading …Ras Al Khaimah has achieved a Guinness World Records title with its latest adventure tourism product – ‘Jebel Jais Flight: The World’s Longest Zipline’. The official certification was handed over today to HH Sheikh Saud Bin Saqr Al Qasimi, Member of Supreme Council and Ruler of Ras Al Khaimah, by Hoda Khachab, the official adjudicator […]
Continue reading …An Austrian far-right figure at the centre of a scandal over a songbook praising the Holocaust has stepped down, blaming a “media witch-hunt”. Udo Landbauer. Photo: AFP Photo/Dieter Nagl Udo Landbauer, lead candidate for the Freedom Party (FPOe) in elections in Lower Austrian state last Sunday, said he was giving up all political functions including […]
Continue reading …Four migrants were shot Thursday during a huge brawl in the French port of Calais involving a hundred Afghans and Eritreans armed with sticks and stones, local authorities said. © Denis Charlet, AFP | Migrants gathering during a food distribution near Calais, northern France on September 27, 2017. One of the four is in life-threatening […]
Continue reading …The EU Commission says Denmark has made illegal agreements to purchase tanks, vehicles and artillery for the country’s military. The Commission has sent a formal notice to Denmark over the issue, reports Altinget. A tank during military exercises in Denmark in 2017. Photo: Henning Bagger/Scanpix Denmark According to the purchase agreements, suppliers of the new military […]
Continue reading …‘I believe the Canadian public wanted a say in our national anthem,’ Conservative Sen. Don Plett says The Senate passed a bill that renders the national anthem gender neutral Wednesday despite the entrenched opposition of some Conservative sena A bill to make Canada’s national anthem gender neutral has passed the Senate. (Mark Blinch/Canadian Press) The House […]
Continue reading …After Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi unexpectedly announced a political alliance with one of the Popular Mobilization Forces’ (PMF) militia leaders, Hadi al-Amiri, the US has raised concerns as the two sides were always seen as political enemies. Many of the militia under the umbrella of PMF are Iran-backed which increased fears of a growing […]
Continue reading …North Korea did not hesitate to lash out at US President Donald Trump over his country’s “gross” human rights violations shortly after his first State of the Union speech in which he referred to the North’s leadership as being “depraved.” Pyongyang’s “white paper” on the human rights situation in the US during Trump’s first […]
Continue reading …The FBI warned Wednesday it has “grave concerns” over the accuracy of a secret Congressional memo that could depict the agency as deeply politicized, as President Donald Trump’s top aide signalled the White House would allow the document’s release Based on highly classified information, the four-page memo — written by Republican lawmaker Devin Nunes, the chairman of […]
Continue reading …Much has been made recently of a rising far-right and an influx of Middle Eastern immigrants fuelling a rise in anti-Semitism. But official figures don’t seem to back these claims up. Photo: DPA At a ceremony on Saturday to mark Holocaust Memorial Day, Angela Merkel said that “it is inconceivable and shameful that no Jewish […]
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