Paris and the Power of Empathy
Like so many in my Facebook circle, I was horrified by what happened in Paris Friday night. But I'm ashamed to say that when I learned of and wrote about the attacks in Paris, I had no idea that an...
View ArticleFrance is target of choice for jihadists
The bloody attacks in Paris show that France is a target of choice for jihadists due to its air strikes against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, as well as its controversial ban on the burqa...
View ArticleThe 10 biggest business stories on Tuesday November 17
1. The Office for National Statistics publishes UK inflation figures today at 9.30am. This includes the retail price index for October, the consumer price index and the producer price index. 2. In the...
View ArticleA Successful Climate Change Conference Is The Best Response To ISIS Brutality
Certain people have perhaps been thinking, after the immense shock of the attacks of November 13, that the only thing that matters from now on, as a response to terrorism, is a security reinforcement,...
View ArticleAt Third Committee Debate, Human Rights Council President Says High Response...
(Source: United Nations General Assembly) As the Human Rights Council was moving into its tenth year, its record had testified to a high level of responsiveness while it continued to be actively...
View ArticleParis attacks: death toll hits 128, Francois Hollande calls it ‘act of war’...
As Paris and the rest of France awoke today, the death toll from Friday’s devastating string of coordinated terror attacks rose to 128, with 200 others in the hospital. French President Francois...
View ArticleUphill task for Nigeria's new economic team
Nigeria finally has a government after a wait of more than five months but the new ministers have their work cut out to reverse a damaging slump in Africa's leading economy. Falling global oil prices...
View ArticleTime to Change Course in the War on Terror
At the time this is being written, more than 100 people have been confirmed dead in the Paris attacks and another 70 have been wounded. The death toll is expected to rise and there are also reports of...
View ArticleMoral confusion cause of new wave terrorism
Brace yourselves. There is a new wave of terrorism, as the Friday night tragedy in Paris, coming to some G20 countries. It will have many roots, but a principal one, regardless of the ideological...
View ArticleIt Is Time Humanity Issued the Death Blow to ISIS
As I left my mosque in Philadelphia Friday afternoon my phone lit up with texts and tweets about attacks in Paris. Muslims have been conditioned on how to respond to these attacks. First, we feel pain...
View ArticleParis attacks: how far does our global solidarity extend?
Are some terror victims deemed more newsworthy than others? Nigerians and Kenyans express global solidarity amid media bias...
View ArticleUN Official Warns of Potential Migration Crisis
Lisa Schlein GENEVA— A senior United Nations official is warning of a potential migration crisis in the Sahel region of Africa because of conflict, climate change, abject poverty and a lack of...
View ArticleWiden fight against Boko Haram to tackle climate change, migration: U.N.
By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - The four countries fighting the Boko Haram insurgency in West Africa's Lake Chad region should unite behind a broader strategy to ease the poverty and climate change...
View ArticleNigerian army foils fresh Boko Haram attack: military
Nigeria's army on Monday said it had foiled a planned Boko Haram attack on the northeastern city of Maiduguri using powerful assault rifles and home-made bombs. Army spokesman Colonel Sani Usman said...
View ArticleThe Paris Tragedy, Islamic State, Boko Haram Crisis and Hypocrisy of the West
[Premium Times] As we grieve for the lost lives in Paris, we must accept that the West has failed miserably to respond to the threat posed by Islamic radicalism, of which Boko Haram, the Islamic State...
View ArticleProgress seen against Boko Haram
Boko Haram has lost significant ground in northern Nigeria, according to some of the region’s top officials and international security experts, dealing a setback to a group that for years has menaced...
View ArticleNigerian Army Arrests Boko Haram Suspect in Top 100 Wanted List
Nigeria’s army said a suspected Boko Haram Islamist militant on its top 100 wanted list was arrested in the country’s northeast. The suspect was apprehended in the Borno state capital...
View ArticleParis Attacks Highlight Western Vulnerability, And Our Selective Grief And...
As France enters yet another period of mourning, Lebanon is just emerging from one. Not that you probably heard anything about it. By Chris Graham November 14, 2015 "Information Clearing House" - If...
View ArticleParis attacks: Global economic cost of terrorism highest since September 11,...
In the wake of Friday's massacre in Paris, a new report says the world is paying the highest price for terrorism since the 2001 attack on New York's Twin Towers. In 2014, acts of terror cost the world...
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