Articles
Thursday, 18 September 2014 01:00
Syria: IS selling Christian women as ‘spoils of war’
US airstrikes and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters helped rescue thousands of Yazidis stranded on a mountaintop in northern Iraq. But hundreds of Yazidi girls and women were captured by IS during the prolonged ordeal, and are now…
Thursday, 18 September 2014 01:00
India and Pakistan floods: Thousands still marooned
Hundreds of thousands of people remain stranded in India and many more have been warned to leave their homes in Pakistan amid some of the worst flooding in the region in decades. The death toll in…
Friday, 05 September 2014 01:00
Ukraine's Poroshenko agrees 'ceasefire process' with Putin
Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko says he has agreed with Russian President Putin by phone on a ‘ceasefire process’ for the east. His office initially reported that a ‘permanent ceasefire’ had been agreed but later revised its…
Friday, 05 September 2014 01:00
Norwegian Muslims organise mass protest against Islamic State
Several thousand people - many of them from different walks of life and faiths, but all organised by a group of Norwegian Muslims - rallied on Monday evening in Oslo against the Islamic State militant group,…
Friday, 05 September 2014 01:00
Ukraine's Poroshenko agrees 'ceasefire process' with Putin
Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko says he has agreed with Russian President Putin by phone on a ‘ceasefire process’ for the east. His office initially reported that a ‘permanent ceasefire’ had been agreed but later revised its…
Friday, 05 September 2014 01:00
Victory for Christian sacked over gay weddings
Margaret Jones, a registrar who refused to marry same-sex couples, says she was sacked for her beliefs not for her actions. A marriage registrar has been vindicated by a council’s reversal of its decision to sack…