Congress passes big budget deal sooner than morning time to stay executive shutdown
Congress passed a bipartisan budget plan in the…
Congress passed a bipartisan budget plan in the…
Ramallah, occupied West Bank – Abdulla has never met his older brother and namesake, but the one-year-old doesn’t fail to point at the many pictures of his sibling that adorn the family’s living room and often blow it a kiss. « I didn’t want to name him Abdulla, » the boy’s mother, Zeinat Ghneimat, said. « For weeks, I…
As President Donald Trump continues to bluster and tweet his way through a chaotic presidency, the Middle East is simmering dangerously close to a boiling point. Wars in Yemen and Syria are still burning hard, the feud between Qatar and the so-called Quartet of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Egypt and Bahrain trundles…
In cramped quarters at Russia’s Higher School of Economics, shared by four students and a cat, sat a server with 13 hard drives. The server hosted Sci-Hub, a website with over 64 million academic papers available for free to anybody in the world. It was the reason that, one day in June 2015, Alexandra Elbakyan,…
Two Reuters news agency journalists held for two months by Myanmar authorities were arrested over their investigation of a massacre of 10 Rohingya men, the news agency said in a report that detailed the killings. It is the first time Reuters has publicly confirmed what Myanmar nationals Wa Lone, 31, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 27,…
In 2005, Gerry Adams went to South Africa. After landing in Johannesburg, he laid a wreath at Freedom Park before driving to the University of Witwatersrand to make a speech. At that point, he’d been the leader of the Irish nationalist party, Sinn Fein, for 22 years. It was a party Nelson Mandela described as…
Egypt’s presidential election is a « referendum with guaranteed results » for President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, according to a leading opposition figure. In an interview with Al Jazeera, Abdul Moneim Aboul Fotouh said he encouraged citizens to boycott the « absurd » vote, expected to take place between March 26 and 28, saying « no sane Egyptian would accept » the…
As a partial US government shutdown went into effect on Friday, the Senate passed a massive two-year spending bill that would keep the government open through March 23 if passed by the House. The Senate vote came in the early hours of Friday morning after Congress missed a midnight deadline to pass the measure and…
The former manager of Rose McGowan has been found dead in an apparent suicide her family have confirmed. Jill Messick represented McGowan in 1997 when the actress claims she was raped by movie mogul Harvey Weinstein at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah. Ms Messick’s name had resurfaced in the recent scandal surrounding Weinstain’s alleged…
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