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Image Credit: OCHA The United States Monday moved its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem in accordance with President Donald Trump’s decision amid large Palestinian protests and killing of several protesters from Israeli fire. Meanwhile, several countries...

Photo:  Jessie Eastland/Wikimedia Common South Asia may not be the only region to experience climatic catastrophes but it certainly seems to be the region at risk. A UN weather expert has confirmed fears that this week’s...

A Palestinian girl inside her family’s partially destroyed home, looks at the destruction outside, in the Shejaiya neighbourhood of Gaza City. Photo: UNICEF On April 11, I had the privilege of speaking in Temple Emanuel, a...

Photo: Small Business Administration The U.S. Small Business Administration Monday awarded an Illinois entrepreneur heading a pest management company as 2018 Small Business Person of the Year. Rebecca Fyffe received the award from Linda McMahon, Administrator of the...

Photo: U.S. State Department Pakistani teenage Dania Hassan, an activist working to raise the quality of education, will be among recipients of U.S. State Department’s Emerging Young Leaders Award for this year. The Emerging Young Leaders...

Shops on H St in Washington D.C. Image Credit: AgnosticPreachersKid/Wikimedia Commons Washington D.C. is hosting this week’s celebration of small businesses with  awards and workshops. More than 75 national award winners are being awarded and recognized...

Flag ceremony at Wagah border crossing, Photo: Daniel Hauptstein via Wikimedia Commons Of late I have recurring dreams, ominous and disturbing, which involve trains. They appear in the early hours when I am neither fully asleep...

Author Prof. Jocelyne Cesari engages in dialogue with Ambassador Akbar Ahmed at Georgetown University on March 26, 2018.  In the eyes of most Europeans, Muslims have come to represent fanaticism, fundamentalism, and female suppression, subjugation and...

Photo: Film stars Kareena Kapoor and Saif Ali Khan at their registry marriage ceremony, Credit: Bollywood Hungama/Wikimedia Bollywood superstar Kareena Kapoor  is once again being trolled on the social media for her marriage to a Muslim actor after...

The United States, Britain and France have launched coordinated military strikes against Bashar al Assad’s regime in Syria in reaction to the use of chemical weapons against civilians. President Donald Trump has described the actions as...