This week, the special session of Colorado’s legislature finished its business, completing work on bills that were caught up in GOP Speaker Frank McNulty’s unprecedented contortions to stop civil unions legislation from getting an up-or-down vote. Even though McNulty found new procedural tricks to stop civil unions again in the special session, the bills completed [...]
A colourful ceremony marked the handover of the new building The African Union has inaugurated its newly built headquarters in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. The entire $200m (£127m) project was funded by China as a gift to the AU, as Beijing continues to strengthen its influence in Africa. In front of African leaders a huge golden key was [...]
By Pepe Escobar Last week, independent journalist Sam Husseini went to a news conference by Prince Turki al-Faisal of Saudi Arabia at Washington’s National Press Club – where Husseini is a member. Then he did something that is alien to United States corporatemedia culture. He behaved as an actual journalist and asked a tough, pertinent, no-holds-barred [...]
Thirty-four Somali Muslims who drive airport shuttle buses for Hertz were suspended Friday over a dispute over praying on the job In the three years she’s worked as a shuttle driver for Hertz at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Zainab Aweis, had always taken time out of her shift each day to pray.An observant Muslim, she prays five [...]
Table des matières Cheminement d’une idée de changement stratégique 3 L’impact exercé par la diversité culturelle 3 Le mandat et la justification de l’étude 6 Le profil du CÉPEO 8 Les minorités ethnoculturelles dans la région d’Ottawa 8 La méthodologie 10 But et objectifs du projet 10 Étapes de la démarche [...]
Waxay dad badani isweyddiiyaan xidhiidhka ka dhexeeya madaxweynaha deegaanka iyo qaybo ka mid ah saxaafadda sida idaacadaha iyo warbaahinta aaladda intarneeka kuwa ay soomaalidu leedahay. Maanta waxaan rabnaa inaan u ifinno xidhiidhka madaxweynaha deegaanka iyo saaxaafadda siiba dadka xiiseeya siyaasadda deegaanka. Haddaba marka aan dib ujaleecno xidhiidhkan warbaahineed ee madaxweynaha waa Cabdi Iileye, [...]
Jigjiga (Xog Ogaal) Odayaasha Beelaha Qaxootiga ku ah Degaanka Soomaalida ayaa dhawaan bilaabay inay shaqo qaxooti ka furtaan arrimaha Xukuumada Degaanka Soomaalida. Odayaashan oo badankoodu haysta aqoonsiyo laga bixiyay Xerada Qaxootiga ee Dharwanaaje ayaa waxay dood ka dhigtaan inay muwaadiniin Itoobiyaan ah yihiin. Hadaba waxaan akhristoo idiin soo bandhigaynaa ninka isku sheega inuu yahay Af [...]
— Ottawa — L’Unité des agressions sexuelles et de la violence faite aux enfants du Service de police d’Ottawa se penche sur les circonstances entourant une série d’incidents mettant en jeu des individus abordant des jeunes et leur offrant de monter à bord de leur véhicule. Le jeudi 6 octobre 2011, un homme, au volant [...]
AP November 11, 2011 — VIENNA (AP) — A senior Iranian envoy is discounting the threat of a militaryattack on his country, saying “nobody would dare” to provoke such a confrontation with Tehran. Ali Asghar Soltanieh says Iran’s foes “should have learned a lesson” from the way his country fought Saddam Hussein’s army to a standstill after it [...]
MINNEAPOLIS – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is blasting two high-profile leaders in the metro Somali community as anti-Muslim ahead of a conference with police departments to discuss Somali culture — and the public spat is testing the limits of tolerance.The controversial claim comes from a group that is no stranger to [...]