BERLIN (AP) — Author Salman Rushdie called Sunday for the unconditional defense of freedom of expression as he received a prestigious German prize that recognizes his literary work and his resolve in the face of constant danger.The British-American author decried the current age as a time ...
PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — The envoys of the European Union and the United States urged Kosovo and Serbia on Saturday to resume their dialogue on normalizing relations before the bitter tensions between the two sides result in more violence.EU envoy Miroslav Lajcak and U.S. Special ...
TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — Night after night for six weeks, Erika Hernández knelt outside her home in central Mexico and prayed: “Please, God, don’t let my son turn into a criminal.”“I prayed a lot. I fasted. My faith was huge,” said the 46-year-old woman, fearing her son would be ...
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — For more than 20 years the Council on American-Islamic Relations has held its annual banquet at the Marriott Crystal Gateway hotel in Crystal City, Virginia, just outside the nationĢƵ capital, according to CAIRĢƵ executive director, Nihad Awad.Sporadic protests and ...
ItĢƵ hard to forget the children. Sometimes itĢƵ impossible.Like the rescuer carrying a child from a building destroyed in an Israeli attack on the city of Khan Younis, in the Gaza Strip. The dust-covered child — it seems to be a boy, though thatĢƵ not clear — looks up with huge eyes. ...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.S. vetoed a U.N. resolution Wednesday to condemn all violence against civilians in the Israel-Hamas war and to urge humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza, saying it was too early to craft an appropriate Security Council response to the crisis.U.S. Ambassador ...