A Saskatoon teen who escaped Afghanistan is now in the running for a $100,000 scholarship to a Canadian university. Banin Arjmand was selected as a finalist for the Loran Award. Over 4,800 people applied for the award, which includes 36 scholarships that are set to be handed out. Arjmand...
A Saudi Arabian cleric who criticised the government has reportedly left the country and is safe, a Twitter page attributed to him said on Tuesday. Activists had raised concerns about the whereabouts of Emad al-Moubayed who was feared to be missing after posting a video...
In 1999, a massive earthquake shook Kocaeli Province, near Istanbul. The government badly mismanaged the response. The health minister at the time, Osman Durmuş of the Nationalist Action Party (MHP), initially refused many offers of foreign aid, saying, “I wouldn’t give them even one...
Dozens of Israeli air force reservists have said they will not turn up for a training day in protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposed judicial changes. As Israel’s strategic arm, the air force has traditionally relied on reservists in wartime and requires crews...
According to South Africa’s ambassador to BRICS, Anil Sooklal, the proposal to expand the bloc will be one of its main focuses this year. Speaking in an interview with the Russian news agency, TASS, this week, Sooklal said that at a meeting “in early February in...
