By almariam
Justice Anthony Kennedy with Cal State San Bernardino Political Science Students and Faculty in 02/2015
On June 23, 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Fischer v. Texas that the University of Texas at Austin (UTA) program which considered race, among many other...
Britons vote to leave the EU in referendum that could seal the fate of 28-nation union and high-profile UK politicians.
UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage declared victory
Britain has voted to leave the European Union in a referendum, with...
The unprecedented arrests and detentions in Kenya of seven members of parliament and a senator capped a wave of rising political tensions and violence on the streets. These tensions were inflamed when a member of President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Jubilee...
The Egyptian Criminal Court sentenced our colleagues Ibrahim Helal, former director of news at Al Jazeera's Arabic channel, and Alaa Sablan, identified by the prosecution as an Al Jazeera journalist, to death on Saturday, 18 June 2016.
The two journalists were falsely accused of wrongdoing...
Just before the anti-corruption summit in London, British Prime Minister David Cameron made his now infamous public gaffe in a rather a silly, schoolboyish way. He boasted to the Queen:
We’ve got some leaders of some fantastically corrupt countries coming...
Anders Kompass on the UN’s failure to uphold its principles
By Anders Kompass
GENEVA, 17 June 2016
By the time I reported the sexual abuse of children by peacekeepers in Central African Republic in 2014, I had worked for the UN...
Jo Cox, who died after a shooting in her constituency on June 16. Yui Mok/PA
It was just before 5pm when a sombre Dee Collins, the temporary chief constable of West Yorkshire police in northern England, read out the news....
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wants to become the Commander-in-Chief of the United States.
By almariam
This week Trump proved he is supremely qualified to be the Monster-in-Mischief of the United States of America.
A cowardly terrorist brimming with self-hate and hate of humanity...
June days in South Africa can be dark, cold and short. The sun rises late and sets early. Highland frosts feel their way through blades of blemished veld; mists mask roads ahead and behind. The month brings with it...
From his first rumble on the world stage to his last breath, he remained the most adored figure and best global icon the world has ever known
By Bashir Goth
As a transcendent sports legend and an iconic cultural figure, Muhammad...