For India to Agree to a Climate Deal Like China Would Be Disastrous
NEW DELHI -- The agreement between U.S. and China on climate change at the APEC summit in Beijing last week sent participants at the G20 summit in Brisbane struggling to reconcile their response to...
View ArticleCanada's Young G20 Leaders Call for Real Jobs Solutions
The recent remarks by Bank of Canada's Governor Stephen Poloz, that young people struggling to find work should consider "working for free," were highly controversial. Particularly so for nearly 50...
View ArticleUN Committee Urges Security Council To Refer North Korea To International...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The world's boldest effort yet to hold North Korea and leader Kim Jong Un accountable for alleged crimes against humanity has moved forward at the United Nations. The U.N. General...
View ArticleEndangered Frogs Blended Into Juice For Dubious Healing Powers
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Suffering from stress? Not feeling sexy? High in the Andean mountains, some locals believe putting frogs in a blender is the answer. Unfortunately, there is no scientific evidence...
View ArticleThe Legal Loopholes That Perpetuate Child Marriage
Co-authored by Aleta Sprague and Megan Arthur Between today and this time next year, around 15 million girls under the age of 18 will be married -- joining the ranks of another 700 million former child...
View ArticleC.A.I.R. and Muslim American Society Seek Clarity After UAE Designates Them...
The United Arab Emirates designated two top U.S. Muslim organizations as terrorists groups on Saturday, drawing "shock" and confusion from representatives. The Council on American-Islamic Relations...
View ArticleMigrant Defends Mother's Decision To Send Him Unaccompanied Into U.S.
No mother wants to put her child in a dangerous situation, but José Luis Zelaya says his mom had no choice. Zelaya, 27, is from San Pedro Sula. With a homicide rate of 169 per 100,000 inhabitants last...
View ArticleThis Is How Much The World Has Changed Since Last Time We Passed Immigration...
To understand how long overdue comprehensive immigration reform is, consider this: The last time the United States passed comprehensive immigration legislation, Republicans played a leading role in...
View ArticleBrittany Maynard's Mother Calls Vatican Anti-Euthanasia Remarks 'A Slap In...
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Brittany Maynard's mother is responding angrily to criticism from the Vatican of Maynard's decision to end her life early under an Oregon law written to let terminally ill...
View ArticleIsraeli Police Officer Wounded In Jerusalem Synagogue Attack Dies: Report
Israeli police announced that a policeman who was critically wounded in Tuesday's attack on a Jerusalem synagogue has died in the hospital, Haaretz reports. A spokesperson for Hadassah hospital...
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Remembering The Victims Of Jerusalem Synagogue Attack
Four men were murdered in a devastating attack on Jerusalem's Kehillat Bnei Torah synagogue on Tuesday, which left the community reeling from the bloodshed. The attack began at 7 a.m. when two...
View ArticlePakistan: A Tale of Two Countries
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times... Some moons ago, during perhaps the best of times, I fell in love with a country called Pakistan -- and not only because I was born there. From...
View ArticleWhy Are European Muslims Joining ISIS?
The numbers are alarming. The Metropolitan Police Commissioner in London recently said that five British citizens are joining ISIS every week, swelling the ranks of European Muslims believed to number...
View ArticleThe Story of Shama and Shahzad
Crouched inside the small, sparsely furnished, poorly lit room, voices could be heard from outside, voices that had distorted into a snarling, indecipherable noise that grew by the moment. Their fates...
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Israel Vows Harsh Response To Synagogue Attack
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel vowed harsh retaliation Tuesday for a Palestinian attack that killed five people and left blood-smeared prayer books and shawls on the floor of a synagogue in Jerusalem — an...
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This 17-Year-Old Has Given 45 African Girls An Education By Selling Headbands
About five years ago, Mary Grace Henry of Harrison, New York, asked for a sewing machine for her birthday. She wanted to design and sell headbands to pay for just one African girl's schooling. Now,...
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Photos Of Toilets Around The World Prove That Proper Sanitation Provides...
Your toilet probably isn’t the piece of furniture you proudly show off to guests, but it should be. Wednesday marks World Toilet Day, the advocacy event that raises awareness for the 2.5 billion people...
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Ebola, Africa and the Fight to Protect Childhood
It knows no socio-economic boundaries. Blind to race, gender and religion, it's infected thousands and infiltrated public consciousness like nothing in recent memory. An ever-present topic in the...
View ArticleThe Battle for Jerusalem
To be a Palestinian resident of Jerusalem is to suffer from a special form of statelessness. They are citizens neither of Israel nor of Palestine. They cannot vote. They have no official passports and...
View ArticleSri Sri Ravi Shankar, Spiritual Leader And Activist, Travels To Iraq To...
What can meditation do to help a war-torn nation heal? This is a question spiritual teacher Sri Sri Ravi Shankar has been asking for decades and one that has be a primary concern of his since war broke...
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