Humanitarian workers say the plight of starving people in the Syrian town of Madaya is heartbreaking and the worst they have witnessed during the country's nearly five-year-lo...
http://www.voanews.com/content/aid-workers-besieged-madaya-syria/3142013.html
ISIS has claimed responsibility for a major attack [http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-iraq-violence-idUSKCN0UP1R420160111] at a shopping mall in Baghdad on Mond...
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/01/isis-claims-responsibility-baghdad-mall-attack
The first set of amicus briefs for Whole Woman's Health v. Cole, a Supreme Court case that will determine the constitutionality of a Texas anti-choice law that severely limits...
http://feeds.mediamatters.org/~r/mediamatters/latest/~3/D5XnMA7HQO8/207895
Tension over the South China Sea highlights the need for the United States to maintain a strong Navy to serve as a deterrent, U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan said on Thursday, cr...
[http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/23523/dars-media-roundup-(december-2015)] [This is a monthly roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Resistance and...
http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/23523/dars-media-roundup-(december-2015)
BY KOMAL GANOTRA: [caption id="attachment_62322" align="alignleft" width="420"] Source: reuters/Reinhard Krause[/caption] India represents one of the largest number [htt...
http://www.youthkiawaaz.com/2016/01/child-malnutrition-in-india/
BY RUCHIKA LALL [http://www.youthkiawaaz.com/author/ruchika_lall]: [caption id="attachment_60536" align="alignleft" width="453"] Source: reuters[/caption] You may know of ...
BY JASON JAYOLOGY [http://www.youthkiawaaz.com/author/jason_jayology]: [caption id="attachment_62309" align="alignleft" width="420"] Source: reuters/Carlos Barria[/caption] ...
Rich countries' development aid hit a record high in 2014, but the share that reached the world's poorest countries was the lowest since 2006, the Organization for Economic Co...
Chris Porter continues his review of Thomson reuters Eikon for the buy-side looking at data, analysis and news coverage. He outlines how it draws on the company’s considerab...
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TAROUDANTE - SAUDI ARABIA EXECUTED ON SATURDAY 47 PEOPLE OVER TERRORISM CHARGES, THE INTERIOR MINISTRY SAID. Out of all the people executed, one was a Chadian national and an...
http://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2016/01/176555/saudi-arabia-executes-47-men-on-terrorism-charges/