أرشيف الوسم : dead

  On Tuesday , International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said  that it was “extremely concerned” by a growing number of corpses abandoned in the war zones in Yemen. Nourane Houas,the head of the ICRC’s Protection Department in Yemen said “With the escalation of the fighting, more casualties are being left behind owing to the increased danger associated with …

Amnesty International  By: Nadine Haddad ,( Egypt Campaigner at Amnesty International) As you walk through the bustling traffic in Cairo’s Rabaa al-Adawiya Square today, you would never know the bloodiest incident in Egypt’s recent history had taken place there two years ago, when the dispersal by security forces of two sit-ins in Cairo and other protests across Egypt left up to …

  An Asian father of a 20 years old girl let his daughter drown, after  he stopped life guards from rescuing her. According to a top official ,the man  preferred that his daughter die rather than be touched by a stranger men. Lt. Col Ahmed Burqibah, Deputy Director of Dubai Police’s Search and Rescue Department, said that this incident took …

On Thursday , Almost 40 refugees, including at least seven children, have died while to reach Italy from Libya in the latest Mediterranean migrant tragedy, Save the Children reported  . The Organization stated that some of the 80 survivors of the crossing who were brought ashore in Augusta, Sicily, reported the deaths occurred the day  before when the  boat they …

WELCOME TO ALGIERS, BABY. Joobin Bekhrad- Reorient Overshadowing, perhaps, even the bloody civil war that subsumed the country throughout the 90s and seeped insidiously into the early 2000s, the War of Independence remains, as one could well argue, the single most important and defining event in modern Algerian history. Beginning in the mid-1950s, only a short while after Gamal Abdel Nasser’s rise …

On Friday, a student at a US school opened fire in the school, killing two students and wounding several others before he took his own life. The incident occurred in the cafeteria of Marysville-Pilchuck High School in the town of Marysville, Washington. Marysville police spokesman Robb Lamoureux spoke to reporters after the incident, saying, “We are confident that there was …

Expat Lebanese boxer 20-year-old Alaeddine Ramadan, was murdered in the city of Vancouver, Canadian media reported on Saturday; the motives of the murder are likely sport-related, the media reported. “Alaeddine Ramadan, a 20-year-old boxing champion in the Canadian city of Vancouver, was found dead with multiple gunshot wounds on Wednesday night. Local authorities believe that the shooting was premeditated”, LBCI …

Britain-based monitoring group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights on Wednesday said that Syrian regime air strikes on a rebel-held town have killed 48 people in the past two days. “On Tuesday, 25 people, including seven women and a child, were killed in air strikes on Talbisseh, in Homs province”, the monitor said, adding that a rebel commander was among those …

Bosnian-Canadian Imam Zijad Delic, doing press rounds for his new book “Canadian Islam: Belonging and Loyalty” preaches the idea of the integral relation between Islam and Canada. The once-controversial imam, now seen as a progressive leader, said that Canada and Islam “complement” one another. “There is no contradiction”, he said. His new book comes hot on the heels of rising …

On Thursday, five people were killed as Egyptian police tried to repress attempts made by supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi to memorialize the first anniversary of the crackdown in Cairo. On August 14th, 2013, current President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, then the Egyptian army chief, had removed Morsi, the first freely elected President in Egypt. After Morsi’s removal, security forces …