BERLIN (AP) 鈥� 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) 鈥� 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) 鈥� Night after night for six weeks, Erika Hern谩ndez knelt outside her home in central Mexico and prayed: 鈥淧lease, God, don鈥檛 let my son turn into a criminal.鈥濃�淚 prayed a lot. I fasted. My faith was huge,鈥� said the 46-year-old woman, fearing her son would be ...
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) 鈥� 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 nation鈥檚 capital, according to CAIR鈥檚 executive director, Nihad Awad.Sporadic protests and ...
It鈥檚 hard to forget the children. Sometimes it鈥檚 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 鈥� it seems to be a boy, though that鈥檚 not clear 鈥� looks up with huge eyes. ...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) 鈥� 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 ...
