WWorld Read More2 minute read Philippines Rejects Daesh’s Claim It Killed 100 TroopsbyNews Week MeFebruary 10, 2018 MANILA, April 14 – The Philippines has dismissed as “purely propaganda” Daesh’s claim that its militants killed scores…
WWorld Read More1 minute read Australian Woman Kidnapped in Afghanistan’s Capital KabulbyNews Week MeNovember 7, 2017 KABUL, Nov 6 – An Australian working for a non-governmental organization (NGO) in Afghanistan was reported kidnapped in…
WWorld Read More2 minute read Turkey Arrests Novelist for Ties to Kurdish Militants: MediabyNews Week MeOctober 31, 2017 ISTANBUL, Aug 20 – A Turkish court arrested prize-winning novelist Asli Erdogan on Friday over alleged links to…
WWorld Read More4 minute read Barricades on the Beach: Beirut Residents Fight for Their WaterfrontbyNews Week MeOctober 12, 2017 Dec 5 – Construction of a new luxury resort on Beirut’s waterfront could enclose the city’s last free public…
WWorld Read More2 minute read Syrian Army Edges Closer Towards Rebel Stronghold in CapitalbyNews Week MeOctober 10, 2017 AMMAN, Nov 1 – The Syrian army and its allies seized a strategic area in the besieged rebel-held…
WWorld Read More2 minute read Iran’s Supreme Leader Tells Ahmadinejad Not to Run Again For PresidentbyNews Week MeSeptember 27, 2017 DUBAI, Sept 26 – Iran’s supreme leader has told former hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad not to stand again…
WWorld Read More2 minute read Severe Malnutrition in YemenbyNews Week MeSeptember 27, 2017 HODAIDA, Yemen, Oct 26 – The emaciated frame of 18-year-old Saida Ahmad Baghili lies on a hospital bed…
WWorld Read More2 minute read Death of 7-year-old Jamila: Victim of a man-made catastrophe in YemenbyNews Week MeSeptember 26, 2017 HODEIDAH, Yemen, May 3 – Eyes half open and sunken deep into their sockets, little Jamila Ali Abdu…
WWorld Read More4 minute read Primark Ramps Up Efforts to Tackle Worker Exploitation in Turkey, AsiabyNews Week MeSeptember 24, 2017 LONDON, March 29 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – British budget fashion chain Primark has ramped up checks on the…
WWorld Read More3 minute read Syrian Militias Make Slight Progress in Attack on Daesh Stronghold of RaqqabyNews Week MeSeptember 24, 2017 BEIRUT, Nov 7 – U.S-backed Syrian armed groups have captured a number of villages in the first days…
WWorld Read More2 minute read U.N. Syria Envoy Says Rebel City Idlib Risks Aleppo Fate If No Peace TalksbyNews Week MeSeptember 23, 2017 PARIS – U.N. envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura warned on Thursday that without a ceasefire or political…
WWorld Read More3 minute read Cyprus Closer to Unification Says Turkish Cypriot Foreign MinisterbyNews Week MeSeptember 19, 2017 LONDON, Nov. 18 – Cyprus is closer than ever to ending a four-decade partition and its Turkish and…
WWorld Read More3 minute read Iraqi Army Tries to Reach Site of Daesh Executions South of MosulbyNews Week MeSeptember 14, 2017 SOUTH OF MOSUL, Iraq, Oct 27 – The Iraqi army was trying on Thursday to reach a town…
WWorld Read More3 minute read Kurdish Women Fighters Battle Daesh With Machineguns and SongsbyNews Week MeSeptember 14, 2017 SAMAQA, Iraq, Nov 4- When Daesh insurgents fired mortar bombs at Iranian Kurdish women fighters holding a desert position…
WWorld Read More1 minute read Iran Sends Planes of Food to Qatar Amid Concerns of ShortagesbyNews Week MeSeptember 10, 2017 LONDON, June 11 – Iran has sent four cargo planes of food to Qatar and plans to provide…
WWorld Read More1 minute read Top Female Politicians Who Defied Saudi Arabia’s Dress CodebyNews Week MeSeptember 8, 2017 German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s visit to Saudi Arabia sparked headlines for her defiance of the country’s dress code.…
WWorld Read More3 minute read Where is Palestine?byNews Week MeSeptember 8, 2017 Have you ever wondered where is Palestine? Well you’re not alone people all over the world have gone…
WWorld Read More3 minute read A Quarter of India’s Energy Demand Can Be Met with Renewable EnergybyNews Week MeAugust 22, 2017 Increasing India’s renewables would save 12 times more than it costs Abu Dhabi, U.A.E., 22 August 2017 — India…
WWorld Read More3 minute read Raqqa Families Make Daring Escapes from Daesh StrongholdbyNews Week MeAugust 21, 2017 RAQQA, Syria, Aug 21 – As Shawakh al-Omar huddled with 16 relatives in a single room in house…
WWorld Read More2 minute read Big Tobacco Leaves Huge Ecological Footprint: WHObyNews Week MeAugust 6, 2017 GENEVA, May 30 – Tobacco growing is causing “massive harm” to the environment through the extensive use of…
WWorld Read More2 minute read Home Raised Chicken Help Egyptians Cut Costs as Holy Month ApproachesbyNews Week MeJuly 9, 2017 CAIRO, May 25 – In the yard of her home in a Cairo necropolis, where thousands live among…
WWorld Read More4 minute read Violence, Inequalities and Challenges for Women in the Arab RegionbyNews Week MeJuly 4, 2017 One in three women worldwide has experienced some form of gender-based violence in their lifetime, according to the World…
WWorld Read More2 minute read Daesh Cornered in Mosul as Iraq Prepares Victory CelebrationsbyNews Week MeJuly 3, 2017 MOSUL, Iraq, July 3 – Daesh fighters were battling to hold on to the last few streets under…
WWorld Read More7 minute read Nuclear War Without a WarbyNews Week MeJuly 2, 2017 There are compelling reasons to end production and use of the nuclear material. There is enough highly enriched…
WWorld Read More3 minute read Lebanon: Army Blames Terrorists for Killing ChildbyNews Week MeJuly 2, 2017 Five suicide bombers attacked Lebanese soldiers patrolling two Syrian refugee camps in the Lebanese town of Arsal, close…
WWorld Read More1 minute read MI5 to Investigate How it Dealt with Warnings on Manchester Suicide BomberbyNews Week MeJuly 2, 2017 LONDON, May 29 – Britain’s MI5 is to hold an inquiry into how it dealt with public warnings…
WWorld Read More2 minute read Civilians Lack Food, Water, Medicine as Mosul Battle MountsbyNews Week MeJuly 1, 2017 BAGHDAD, May 29 – Tens of thousands of civilians in parts of Mosul held by Daesh are struggling…
WWorld Read More1 minute read FIFA “In Contact” with Qatar Over 2022 World CupbyNews Week MeJune 15, 2017 ZURICH, June 5 – Soccer’s governing body FIFA said it was in “regular contact” with the organising committee…
WWorld Read More5 minute read Rough Justice in Iraq: One Man’s Path to Mass Execution by the RoadsidebyNews Week MeJune 8, 2017 SOUTH OF MOSUL, June 8 – The killers made no attempt to hide the bodies of the 15…
WWorld Read More1 minute read A British Man Stood Up for Muslims Following the Manchester AttackbyNews Week MeJune 6, 2017 A British man by the name of Aarron Lambo has stood up for Muslims following the Manchester attack.…