Category: World News
Muslims around the world consider climate during Ramadan
Washington Post “Green Ramadan” initiatives in Indonesia and around the world promote an array of changes during the Muslim holy month, which has fasting and, in many cases, feasting elements as people gather around food to break their fasts https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/16/muslims-green-ramadan-climate-solar-panels-mosques/fedeb636-dcc3-11ed-a78e-9a7c2418b00c_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world
Read MoreIran steps up enforcement of mandatory hijab for women
Washington Post After months of women-led protests, Iranian authorities are cracking down on those who do not wear a headscarf in public. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/16/iran-women-hijab-cameras/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world
Read MoreSon of Iran’s last shah set to make first visit to Israel
Washington Post Iran’s exiled crown prince is scheduled to come to Israel this week https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/16/israel-iran-shah-holocaust-pahlavi-islamic-republic/8d847df4-dc96-11ed-a78e-9a7c2418b00c_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world
Read MoreUnited Nations calls for halt to Sudan violence after three aid workers and dozens of others are killed
Fox News The United Nations’ World Food Program ceased operations in Sudan this weekend after three aid workers were killed during violent clashes between the country’s army and a powerful paramilitary group. Volker Perthes, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Sudan, reiterated on Sunday that international aid workers are “not a target,” condemning…
Read MoreFormer Indian politician linked to organized crime gunned down on live television
Fox News An assassin posing as a journalist gunned down Indian politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother live on television Saturday evening. Ahmed, who was no longer active in politics, was being escorted by police alongside his brother as a throng of media representatives surrounded them and pushed microphones in front of them. Three men…
Read MoreIran: Jail terms for those behind downing of Ukraine flight
Washington Post Iran’s state media says a court has sentenced an air defense commander allegedly responsible for the deadly downing of a passenger plane amid Iran-U.S. tensions several years ago https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/16/iran-prison-sentence-ukrainian-passenger-plane-shootdown/f9ac0078-dc83-11ed-a78e-9a7c2418b00c_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world
Read MoreTeen suspended for opposing trans ideology files human rights complaint: ‘Shockingly discriminatory’
Fox News A lawyer for a Canadian teenager who was suspended from his Catholic high school after opposing transgender ideology has filed a human rights complaint alleging religious discrimination. Attorney James Kitchen with Liberty Coalition Canada filed the application to the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal last week on behalf of his client Josh Alexander, 17,…
Read MoreVeterans of violence, Sudan’s weary doctors brave another crisis
Washington Post Sudan’s doctors struggle with exhaustion, blood shortages and violence that has claimed some of their own as they try to treat a massive influx of wounded. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/16/sudan-fighting-hospitals-overwhelmed/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world
Read MoreHe’s been Mexico’s voice abroad. Now he wants the presidency
Washington Post He’s been the face of Mexico internationally for nearly five years and often the country’s leading voice in meetings with top world leaders — including volatile ones, like former U.S. President Donald Trump https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/16/mexico-election-marcelo-ebrard-us/e85b2e4c-dc70-11ed-a78e-9a7c2418b00c_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world
Read MoreAI’s threat to humanity will be far greater if China masters it first: Gordon Chang
Fox News Chinese Communist Party socialist values reinforced through artificial intelligence are a threat to humanity, but the country’s restrictions on the technology may also hamper its development, China expert Gordon Chang told Fox News. “Artificial intelligence poses a direct threat to humanity, but it’ll become even more a threat to humanity if China masters…
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