NearBashiqa, Iraq (CNN)The reports are disturbing. Tens of thousands of men, women and children snatched from their homes and forced into the center of Mosul as the battle intensifies to drive ISIS out of Iraq's second-largest city. The intent is sinister. Using civilians as human shields is ISIS's attempt to hold onto the city, the jewel of its self-proclaimed caliphate ... They can try to hold out and survive the fierce fighting ahead ... ....
As insiders say emails came from device of disgraced ex-congressman Anthony Weiner, both sides question James Comey’s timing and deviation from protocol. Hillary Clinton has led a chorus of Democratic party fury over the FBI’s decision to investigate a new batch of her staff’s emails, a review announced just 10 days before the presidential election and in a striking break with law enforcement tradition ... Read more ... “It’s aberrational.” ... ....
The widow of astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, discovered a mysterious bag full of equipment from the moon landing buried in his closet. CarolArmstrong reportedly found the white bag, known as a McDivitt purse, filled with wrenches, lamps, cables and the 16mm camera that included footage of the Apollo 11’s descent on the moon’s surface ... Mrs ... NASA via Gizmodo ....
A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.6 on Sunday rocked the same area of central and southern Italy hit by quake in August and a pair of aftershocks last week, sending already quake-damaged buildings crumbling after a week of temblors that have left thousands homeless ... He said authorities were responding with helicopters as many roads were blocked from rockslides ... quake ... Mr ... Spuri said ... Pironi told The Associated Press....
“Up to the present time the government has not been serious about protecting Ahmadis,” Mirajuddin told The Jakarta Post after speaking in the seminar, which ran smoothly despite recent bans and disruptions by groups intolerant of seminars discussing sensitive political and religious issues ...Unfortunately, she said, Law No. 1/1965 on religious blasphemy was still effective in Indonesia ... The Jakarta Post. ....
Nuzzo went on to describe Amendment 1 as political “jiu-jitsu” by using language that appears to be promoting solar power, while at the same time actually stiffing solar power users ... forth between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, most voters will not pay close attention to the ballot language ... Fred Lewis went along and approved the ballot language....
Thousands of South Koreans took to the streets of the capital on Saturday calling for President Park Geun-hye to step down over allegations that she let an old friend, the daughter of a religious cult leader, interfere in state affairs. The evening protest came after Park ordered 10 of her senior secretaries to resign over a scandal that is likely to deepen the president's lame-duck status ahead of next year's election ... ....
The KanunguTragedy, authored by Fr Narcisio Bagumisiriza, reveals that the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God, a religious cult, which was accused of the deaths in an inferno in 2000, used the raging Aids pandemic to warn of an end to the world ... ....
Having in mind the intention to widen the variety of experiences one can have in Karnataka’s coast, the master plan may also create ‘clusters’ based on interests such as groups of places one can cover if they visit for religious......
Iran's sole Jewish parliamentarian said the Islamic Republic is not seeking war with Israel and asserted that Tehran knows that launching an attack on the Jewish state would amount to "suicide." "Iran does not want to start a war against Israel, because they know that everyone who starts a war in the Middle East is doing suicide," Siamak Moreh Sedgh told Israel Radio in an English-language interview aired Sunday morning... ....
Anti-Semitic slogans and language have become common among self-identified members of the "alt-right," a fringe conservative movement that fashions itself as a populist and anti-establishment alternative to the mainstream Republican Party... sovereignty" was reminiscent of historical anti-Semitic language....
. The Madras High Court has, while dismissing a public interest litigation petition (PIL) that alleged that the AtomicEnergy Department had encroached upon water bodies in Kancheepuram district, observed that the Department would not be exempt from following the law of the land ...The right to perform religious duties was also provided to them,” the Department said ... However, the court rules that the department is not exempt from ... ....
The revamped School Wiki —www.schoolwiki.in— would be ready for launch on November 1, Kerala Piravi Day ...Executive director of the IT@school programme K ... Analytical Malayalam language projects such as School Patram (school newsletter), Nadodi Vijnanakosham (Local Encylcopaedia) and Ente Nadu (My Village) would also feature on the portal ... New features ... Sadath said ... ....
(Source. Adelphi University). We buy eyeglasses that are tailored to our precise vision needs ... This fall, Dr ... Participants will be privy to all of their own information ... Cohn said ... Cohn said ... Dr ... One of her past projects involved working with religious institutions, such as the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, that serve minority populations, helping leaders and congregants become more knowledgeable about clinical trial participation....
Indonesian Military (TNI) spokesman Brig. Gen ... Wuryanto said the TNI had learned that the upcoming Nov ... 4 ... National Police chief Gen ... Gen ... The Nov ... 10. The protesters, who are mostly Islamic hard-liners, have demanded that the police charge Ahok, who is currently on leave for the Jakarta gubernatorial election campaign, with religious blasphemy after some felt the governor had insulted Islam when Ahok cited a verse from the Quran ... Comr ... ....
IRBIL, Iraq - At the evening service, the priest counseled forgiveness to a congregation with little reason to forgive ... As the Islamic State pushed beyond the city, onto the plains of Nineveh, its advance scattered the rich patchwork of religious and ethnic minorities - Yazidis and Assyrians, Kurds and Shabaks - that made the area a microcosm of diverse Iraq and a place unlike maybe any in the world. Churches were torched ... ---....