It was Feb. 25, 1964 in Miami, a skillful, mouthy young boxer from Louisville, Ky., Cassius Clay, had just beaten his opponent Sonny Liston for the heavyweight championship of the world. Something else, though, was also stirring in his soul. He and his brother, then Rudolph Clay, had been talking for[…]
Of all the tributes being paid to Muhammad Ali, few can match the praise that the former boxer heaped upon himself. Ali, in his own words, was the “prettiest, the most superior, most scientific, most skilfullest fighter in the ring”. Elvis Presley was the 20th century’s king of Rock ‘n’[…]
France’s Education minister, Najat Vallaud Belkacem, has found herself on the firing line since revealing a plan to teach Arabic to primary school kids as young as six. Belkacem has suggested including Arabic among the language choices for French pupils. “Arabic will be taught in primary schools if the human[…]
The Kenyan government’s plan to close the Dadaab refugee camp is “logistically impractical”, according to Somalia’s ambassador to the US. Ahmed Awad sounding the warning on Thursday, saying that shutting the complex – which is home to at least 340,000 people – could damage relations between Kenya and Somalia. “I[…]
Venezuela’s opposition has appealed for calm after electoral authorities cancelled a meeting on whether they could go ahead with efforts to remove President Nicolas Maduro in a referendum. The National Electoral Board (CNE) had been due to deliver its ruling on whether it accepted or rejected an initial petition with[…]
Sheikh Abdulaziz Bin Abdullah Al-Asheikh, the Grand Mufti of the Kingdom, chairman of the board of senior Ulema and general president for religious research and Ifta, condemned Iran’s refusal to abide by the Shariah requirements and arrangements and regulations for organizing the Haj, Saudi Press Agency reported Wednesday. He stressed[…]
Video has emerged showing a knife getting kicked closer to the suspected assailant in Hebron killed in the infamous March incident. The footage was shown at a court looking into whether an IDF soldier committed manslaughter by killing the wounded attacker. The video exposing tampering with evidence at the scene[…]
The German parliament has withstood a barrage of pressure from the Turkish government, approving a symbolic resolution that declares the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turkish forces a ‘genocide’. The vote was almost unanimous in supporting the resolution with just one MP voting against and another abstaining. The move[…]
Saudi women have dismissed the idea raised by Uber that the company was massively improving their mobility, as the car ride service received its biggest cash injection from the kingdom’s public investment fund. Uber, which has been operational in the country for two years, said on Wednesday that it had[…]
Kurdish-led forces have launched an offensive to capture the Syrian town of Manbij, a suspected supply route for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL also known as ISIS) group to smuggle weapons in from Turkey. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a US-backed coalition of armed groups led[…]
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