Section: The Huffington Post (USA)
Terror Attacks in France: Sanity and Decency in Terrible Times
The terror attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris on January 7 which killed 12 people in a military style assault was followed by two other attacks causing the death of five more people. The victims were Jewish, Muslim, atheistic or Christian, French and non French. The immediate reaction of a huge majority of people in France was to...
Living Peace: A Gift for 2015 From the 14th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates
Photo by Irina Kalashnikova Violence, war, catastrophes, and the personal affairs of celebrities pass for news these days, but we need more than that. In troubled times like these, the counsel of the wise among us deserve our attention. Last month, in the magnificent, Michelangelo-designed plaza in Rome’s famed Campodiglio palace, the World...
Ukraine’s Donbass and Jim Crow — A Poor Analogy
In his WorldPost essay titled “Ukraine’s Donbas Is Like America’s Deep South,” Dr. Alexander Motyl presents the reader with a depiction of the eastern Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk (Donbass) and Crimea and concludes that their people have “proven to be the most reactionary, intolerant and illiberal...
CNN Gets Approval To Use Drones For News Reports
CNN has signed an agreement with the Federal Aviation Administration to explore the use of drones in newsgathering and reporting. The network said Monday that it has officially “entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement” with the FAA over using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in an effort to improve storytelling....
Putin Not Invited To Auschwitz Event: Kremlin
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin will not travel to a ceremony in Poland marking the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi Auschwitz death camp, the Kremlin said Tuesday, a decision that reflects a chill in Russian ties with the West. Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said on Ekho Moskvy radio that the president...
Why the Russian Far East Is So Important to China
VLADIVOSTOK — Russia is seldom thought of as an Asia-Pacific country. Yet it is one — thanks to its Far East. The Russian Far East is a huge area of northeastern Eurasia stretching from Lake Baikal to the Pacific Ocean. Allowing Russia direct access to the Asia-Pacific region, the RFE makes it a truly transcontinental nation, the only...
Ukraine’s Ousted President Yanukovich Is Now On Interpol’s Most Wanted List
KIEV, Jan 12 (Reuters) – Interpol has put ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich on the international wanted list on Ukrainian charges of embezzlement and financial wrong-doing, according to a notice on the international police organization’s website on Monday. Ukrainian authorities said Interpol’s publication of a...
This Week In Pictures: Faith In Practice Around The World, January 4 to 10
Humans express their faith in a multitude of ways. These photos capture the incredible diversity within faith practices that happen in our world in the span of just one week.Cologne, Germany: January 5 The Cologne Cathedral switched off its lights to protest a planned march by Pegida (Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident)...
Charlie Hebdo Rallies Draw World Leaders And Crowd Of Thousands
PARIS (AP) — Tens of thousands of people including more than 40 world leaders streamed into the heart of Paris on Sunday for a rally of national unity to honor the 17 victims of three days of terror. The aftermath of the attacks remained raw, with video emerging of one of the gunmen killed during police raids pledging allegiance to the Islamic...
Official: Hayat Boumeddiene, Woman Sought In French Attacks, Passed Through Turkey
PARIS (AP) — France vowed to combat terrorism with “a cry for freedom” in a giant rally for unity Sunday after three days of bloodshed that horrified the world. Police searched for a woman linked to the three al-Qaida-inspired attackers, but a Turkish official said she appears to have already slipped into Syria. The rally Sunday is...
