France, Land of Epicures, Gets Taste for McDonald's
PARIS - When McDonald's France announced a plan to open a restaurant in the commercial mall under the Louvre, the scene appeared to be set for a new French controversy. The New World was about to...
View ArticleNo business for snow business in sunny Lebanon
While much of the United States and Europe is fighting subzero temperatures, Lebanon is praying for snow as unusually warm weather puts a dampener on the country's lucrative ski season. "So many...
View ArticleSex Scandal Is New Crisis for Troubled French Team
PARIS — Less than two months before the start of the World Cup in South Africa, the French national soccer team, its on-field reputation in decline, is dealing with a sex scandal involving several...
View ArticleSuzuki makes a Splash
TOWN and cities are becoming increasingly congested. To tackle this, car manufacturers are embracing the small car market. There’s an array of choices for the befuddled motorist, ranging from the chic...
View ArticleFrance: Synagogue Defaced and Jewish Man Is Attacked
Three attackers defaced a synagogue in Nîmes on Sunday, then threw tear gas at a 78-year-old Jewish man, the local police said Monday. Word of the attack came as 300 people gathered Monday in front of...
View ArticleFrance Won't Extradite Iranian Sought by U.S.
PARIS — A French court on Wednesday refused an American request to extradite an Iranian businessman accused of violating an American embargo on exports to Iran. He had raised American suspicions by...
View ArticleFrance: Draft Veil Ban Approved
The French government approved a draft bill on Wednesday that prohibits the wearing of full facial veils in public places, which is expected to lead to a vote in Parliament in July. According to the...
View ArticleEmirates to begin management reshuffle in January
Dubai: Emirates airline on Sunday announced a management reshuffle across its Middle East operations. Its Middle East division will see a number of country manager rotations from January 1. The...
View ArticleArmy forces in Bahrain fire on protesters, at ambulances
MANAMA, Bahrain - At exactly 5:18 p.m. yesterday, the prodemocracy demonstrators, mostly young men, came to a fork in the road. Turn right, and they would head to a hospital that has cared for...
View ArticleMore than 100,000 demonstrate in Bahrain
MANAMA, Bahrain - More than 100,000 demonstrators packed central Pearl Square here yesterday in what organizers called the largest prodemocracy demonstration this tiny Persian Gulf nation had ever...
View ArticleBahrain King in Saudi Arabia to Discuss Unrest
MANAMA, Bahrain — A day after one of the largest pro-democracy demonstrations this tiny Persian Gulf nation had ever seen, its king was in Saudi Arabia, a close ally and neighbor, to discuss the...
View ArticleProtesters in Bahrain Demand More Changes by King
MANAMA, Bahrain — In by far the largest protest yet here, tens of thousands of demonstrators packed the city’s streets on Friday and closed a stretch of highway as they demanded that their king...
View ArticleOffering Slow, Small Changes, Morocco's King Stays in Power
RABAT, Morocco — With the pace of democratic change stalled or staggering under violent crackdowns in the Middle East and North Africa, Morocco’s recent decision to alter its Constitution provides...
View ArticleArt's own treasure island: the 'buried exhibition' that may never be found
Circled by sharks and forbidden to humans, Isla del Coco is one of the most isolated parts of the planet. Why did the likes of Marina Abramovic and Ed Ruscha want their art buried there? ...
View ArticleWhy one Canadian woman joined ISIS's Islamic state
While the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation has estimated that up to 2,800 Western men have gone to Syria to fight, much less is known about Western women like Canadian Umm Haritha,...
View ArticleCalgary brothers join ranks of Canadians fighting for ISIS
Two more Canadians are on the list of foreign fighters with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), CBC News has learned. Both are relatively recent converts to Islam from Calgary — and in a...
View ArticleWomen’s Soccer League Star Is Happy to Be an Ambassador
Nadia Nadim, who plays for Sky Blue F.C., is among those who could help bring more attention to the three-year-old National Women’s Soccer League....
View ArticleThe Bigger Picture of the Negev's Umm al-Hiran
Co-authored by Dalal Hillou For the past 60 years, Arab Palestinian Bedouin populations in the Negev desert in southern Israel have struggled to simply stay on their land in the face of discrimination...
View ArticleExistence Before Co-existence
Palestinian NGOs working with young people in Palestine and Israel face intense pressure from donors - many of them European organizations and foundations, and the EU itself - to facilitate dialogue...
View ArticleSmuggled Out HRW Syrian Report Blames Syria's Assad For 'Crimes Against...
Tens of thousands of photos showing people who died in Syrian government custody that were smuggled out of the country are now revealing the human stories behind their deaths, Human Rights Watch (HRW)...
View ArticleSyria's decade of repression
Exactly a decade ago, a 34-year-old Bashar al-Assad stood before Syria's parliament and spoke of "the desperate need for constructive criticism", "transparency" and "democracy". Many Syrians believed...
View ArticleFrom Taliban-ruled Afghanistan to Portland
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Soccer is the one constant in Nadia Nadim's life since fleeing the Taliban as a young girl. She first learned the game from her father, an Afghan military general who was...
View ArticleMore than simple heart burn
Most of us eat too much, drink a bit more than we should, and suffer from our occasional excess with the nagging irritation of heartburn. But for others, heartburn — or indigestion — becomes a frequent...
View ArticleNf1 promotes 5-HT6R constitutive activity [Pharmacology]>
Active G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) conformations not only are promoted by agonists but also occur in their absence, leading to constitutive activity. Association of GPCRs with intracellular...
View ArticleA paradox of transcriptional and functional innate interferon responses of...
The intestinal epithelium can limit enteric pathogens by producing antiviral cytokines, such as IFNs. Type I IFN (IFN-α/β) and type III IFN (IFN-λ) function at the epithelial level, and their...
View ArticleTwo ways Donald Trump's immigration ban can change Muslim countries
Not everyone is perturbed by President Donald Trump's executive order to place travel restrictions on the citizens of selected Muslim countries. ......
View ArticleBreaking France’s addiction to its state of emergency
Human Rights Watch’s own research has found repeated abuses against ordinary people during policing operations under emergency powers. Protesters march through Nantes with a puppet dressed as a judge...
View ArticleBetter ways to protect us from terrorists than a 'mini max' prison
The NSW government has unveiled a new $47 million initiative to fight violent extremism by setting up a new "mini max" jail. t raises several questions regarding the government's efforts to counter...
View ArticleNadia Nadim: the refugee who became a Danish footballing role model
Refugee, medicine student and now international football star Nadia Nadim has been credited with being an inspiration to young Danes as the women’s national team gears up for one of the biggest matches...
View ArticleJustice after ISIS: time for judicial triage
The overwhelming reliance on a counterterrorism framework is showing its limits. Judges and local officials in Iraq and Syria are realizing that you cannot lock everyone up. Author interviewing local...
View ArticleThe Israeli algorithm criminalizing Palestinians for online dissent
Israeli intelligence has developed a predictive policing system – a computer algorithm – that analyzes social media posts to identify Palestinian “suspects.” Graffiti on the separation wall in the West...
View ArticleInjury continues to haunt Sebastian Lletget during process to come back
The haunting comes when it’s dark and quiet and Sebastian Lletget has...
View ArticleSoccer allowed Afghan refugee to strike a powerful blow against the Taliban
Refugee centers are often squalid, desperate places, timeless...
View ArticleWhy western Sydney voted 'no'
Many ethnic and religious communities that reside in Blaxland and Watson are on a different social and moral tangent to electorates elsewhere in Sydney. ......
View ArticleSon of citizen detained in Iran to Bassil: It’s time to act
Today my family and I feel betrayed, and my father feels left behind. ......
View ArticleStefanie Sun is pregnant with her second child
Singaporean songstress Stefanie Sun has just announced that she is expecting her second baby. The 39-year-old Mandopop star confirmed pregnancy...
View ArticleNearly 100,000 people await kidney transplants
A kidney transplant is a surgical procedure done to implant a healthy kidney from one person into another person. People who need a kidney transplant have end-stage kidney disease and will not be able...
View ArticleCritical voices in critical times: Peter Mayo on Gramsci, Egypt and critical...
How can the work and thought of Antonio Gramsci help us make sense of the Arab Uprisings and their aftermath? Is there a place for critical pedagogy in times of counter-revolution? This interview is...
View ArticleBritain’s Opposition to the Death Penalty Has an ISIS Exception
Like a dripping corrosive liquid, ISIS and the response it provokes from governments are slowly eating away at key human rights principles. Driven by a desire to appear tough on the extremist group,...
View ArticleSinger Stefanie Sun gives birth to second child
Singaporean songstress Stefanie Sun has given birth to her second child just two days after celebrating her birthday. Sun had turned 40 on July 23. Her baby girl was born on July 25 and weighs 2.79kg....
View ArticleLondon's knife-crime problem exposes larger social woes
The recent surge in violence in London reminds Robyn Travis of his own youth in Hackney in the late 1990s and early 2000s, during a previous spike in violence on London's streets. ......
View ArticleNadim Ednan-Laperouse on daughter’s allergy death: ‘We don’t want anyone else...
It’s a heartbreaking story: a young teenager died after eating a sandwich containing sesame seeds, an ingredient to which she knew she had a severe allergy. But the sandwich had no label advising her...
View ArticleDr. Nadim Z. Baba Installed as President of the American College of...
CHICAGO, Nov. 15, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The American College of Prosthodontists (ACP) welcomes Nadim Z. Baba, DMD, MSD, FACP, as the organization's new president. Dr. Baba was sworn in for his one-year...
View ArticleRethinking resistance in post-uprisings Egypt
There is a dynamic relationship between authoritarianism and resistance, whereby authoritarianism is never absolute, but always challenged through multiple ways that do not solely revolve around...
View ArticleCVRx President and CEO Nadim Yared Named Chairman of the Medical Device...
ARLINGTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 12, 2019-- The , announced that CVRx’s President and CEO Nadim Yared has been named chairman of the MDIC Board of Directors and Executive Committee for a two-year...
View ArticleNadim's path: From Taliban-ruled Afghanistan to Portland
PORTLAND (AP) — Soccer is the one constant in Nadia Nadim’s life since fleeing the Taliban as a young girl. ......
View ArticleUncovering modern paint forgeries by radiocarbon dating [Chemistry]
Art forgeries have existed since antiquity, but with the recent rapidly expanding commercialization of art, the approach to art authentication has demanded increasingly sophisticated detection schemes....
View ArticlePeter Todd Accused of Sexual Abuse, ZCash Founder Testifies
Peter Todd filed a defamation suit against Sarah Michelle Reichwein a.k.a Isis Lovecruft, after the former accused him of sexually harassing her. In support of her argument, Zooko Wilcox, founder of...
View ArticleThe Syrian opposition is fighting the enemy within the mind of every citizen
The appointment of Abdulbaset Sieda to head the Syrian National Council (SNC) opposition comes at a time when the SNC is undergoing what was euphemistically called a restructuring and opening up to...
View ArticleSyria's Christians can be the catalysts for peace
What if the regime fell today? This is the question that occupies all Syrians, especially Syrians who are in one of the minorities....
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