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Zarif: Islamic world has to showcase internal unity to west

Edit Irna 22 Jun 2016

Paris, June 22, IRNA – Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif urged Islamic world to showcase its internal unity to the western world ... ....

Zarif: Islamic world has to showcase internal unity to west (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of IR of Iran)

Edit Public Technologies 22 Jun 2016

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif urged Islamic world to showcase its internal unity to the western world ... Stressing the need for the Islamic states to demonstrate a strong unity among themselves, he said the Islamic World has to show the world that it could fight the extremism and terrorism which is adversely affecting the face of Islam and the Islamic world....

Muslim world must be united, fight terror on its own: Iran’s Zarif

Edit Press TV 22 Jun 2016

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the Muslim world must, instead of highlighting differences, strengthen its unity in the face of extremism and show the Western world how it can fight the scourge on its own ... “In the Islamic world, we need to show how we can fight, by ourselves, the extremism and terrorism that has affected the Muslim world,” Zarif said ... He arrived in the French capital on Tuesday ... ....

Improving global economy should be boost for NI, says Danske Bank

Edit Belfast Telegraph 22 Jun 2016

Northern Ireland should be well placed to benefit from a more than 3% growth in the global economy this year, Danske Bank has said. The lender forecast growth of 3.1% for 2016 in its Big Picture report today. Share Go To ... Ms McGowan added ... But Ms McGowan said. “Challenges around debt and over-capacity are very real for China, and the country is still only at around a third of the level of living standards in the western world.”. ....

What is so unfair about Britain being in the EU?

Edit The National 22 Jun 2016

Nearly a century ago, a well-travelled English writer with a somewhat weary view of Britain's far-flung empire described nationalism as one of England's "many spurious gifts to the world" ... "I'm the mongrel product of this European continent and I'm an internationalist," she wrote before laying into the nationalism on the march across the western world ... Rashmee Roshan Lall is a writer on world affairs....

Brexit: The UK's Donald Trump moment

Edit CNN 22 Jun 2016

The similarities in the two campaigns suggest powerful shared tensions are tearing at the world's most enduring English-speaking democracies ... "There is a sense that people feel that standard centrist politics is no longer representing them, and that has meant membership (in) political parties, and the proportion of people voting all over the Western world, has fallen," said Tombs, author of the book "The English and Their History ."....

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British Prime Minister David Cameron makes a statement appealing for people to vote to remain in the European Union outside 10 Downing Street in London, Tuesday, June 21, 2016.

'Brits don't quit', Cameron declares as EU referendum in balance

Edit Deccan Chronicle 22 Jun 2016

London ... Britons vote on Thursday on whether to quit the 28-nation bloc amid warnings from world leaders, investors and companies that a decision to leave would diminish the former imperial power's influence, unleash turmoil on markets and send shock waves through Europe and the wider Western world ...   ... "For our children and their children we should be facing the problems of the world together and not alone," he said ... ....

‘Brits don’t quit’, Cameron declares as EU referendum in balance

Edit Indian Express 22 Jun 2016

Britons vote on Thursday on whether to quit the 28-nation bloc amid warnings from world leaders, investors and companies that a decision to leave would diminish the former imperial power’s influence, unleash turmoil on markets and send shock waves around the Western world ... “For our children and their children we should be facing the problems of the world together and not alone,” he said ... WORSE THAN BLACK WEDNESDAY?....

Betting the farm on Brexit? Farmers divided on EU referendum

Edit The Guardian 22 Jun 2016

With almost 40% of the EU’s budget spent to agriculture, the industry is central to the referendum debate ... People trade, the world trades ... I think it’s a fallacy to say that Europe will turn its back on the fifth biggest economy in the world ... “That ban put us under savage pressure at a time when the entire western world was going into recession ... “It’s not a question about leaving Europe, it’s about saying hello to the world,” he said ... ....

Speech by the Honourable Ralph Goodale, Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, to the National Council of Women of Canada (Embassy of Canada in France)

Edit Public Technologies 22 Jun 2016

That places us fifth in the world in terms of female representation ... Under that regime Canadian teenagers have become the heaviest users of marijuana in the western world and organized crime has been enriched by Billions of dollars in illegal profits every year ... The Aga Khan has said that Canada is the finest expression of pluralism the world has ever known....

“I am happy to be proved wrong”: Amanda Feilding on drugs, trepanning, and the benefits ...

Edit New Statesman 22 Jun 2016

Much of Feilding’s work is about establishing a more evidence-based scale for measuring the positive and negative effects of drugs, and through this research she has concluded that the western world's decision to lump for alcohol and tobacco as our legal, accepted drugs of choice was an unfortunate one....

J.K. Rowling weighs in on 'Brexit,' Donald Trump: 'Nationalism is on the march across Western world'

Edit The Washington Times 21 Jun 2016

British novelist J.K. Rowling had some choice words for Donald Trump Monday as she weighed on the "Brexit" referendum. In an essay on her website titled, "On Monsters, Villains and the EU Referendum," Ms. Rowling sided with "Remainers" who support the U.K. remaining a member of the European ... ....

Adrian Blundell-Wignall blames emerging markets for Donald Trump, Brexit

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 21 Jun 2016

The rise of Donald Trump and an acrimonious Brexit campaign is a consequence of an emerging-market growth model that is displacing and disaffecting middle-income workers in the Western world ... "The one moving part that is explaining it all is the emerging-market world now is just too big and the way it is trying to grow is incompatible with Western countries."  ....