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BAGHDAD (AP) -- Top Islamic State commander and feared ethnic Chechen jihadi fighter Omar al-Shishani has died of wounds suffered in a U.S. airstrike in Syria, a senior Iraqi intelligence official and the head of a Syrian activist group said Tuesday....
(Vatican Radio) President Vladimir Putin has ordered the Russian military to withdraw most of its forces from Syria, timing his move to coincide with the launch of Syria peace talks. But Mr Putin made it clear that Russia will maintain its air base and a naval facility in Syria and keep some troops there.Meanwhile,The United Nations special Envoy for Syria says the first day of the latest round of Syrian peace talks in Geneva were useful as Peter Kenny reports.Listen: Staffan de Mistura, the United Nations special Envoy for Syria says the first day of the latest round of Syrian peace talks in Geneva were useful.The two sides are not meeting face to face. Instead, UN negotiator De Mistura has started the talks by meeting with the Syrian government delegation under its Ambassador to UN in New York, Bashar Jaafari.De Mistura said the talks are the only way of stopping five years of war that has claimed more than 270,000 lives. Even though the stakes are high there is no al...
(Vatican Radio) President Vladimir Putin has ordered the Russian military to withdraw most of its forces from Syria, timing his move to coincide with the launch of Syria peace talks. But Mr Putin made it clear that Russia will maintain its air base and a naval facility in Syria and keep some troops there.
Meanwhile,
The United Nations special Envoy for Syria says the first day of the latest round of Syrian peace talks in Geneva were useful as Peter Kenny reports.
Listen:
Staffan de Mistura, the United Nations special Envoy for Syria says the first day of the latest round of Syrian peace talks in Geneva were useful.
The two sides are not meeting face to face. Instead, UN negotiator De Mistura has started the talks by meeting with the Syrian government delegation under its Ambassador to UN in New York, Bashar Jaafari.
De Mistura said the talks are the only way of stopping five years of war that has claimed more than 270,000 lives. Even though the stakes are high there is no alternative to the talks said the special envoy.
“These talks are important, they are strongly wanted, and requested by the [International Syria Support Group] ISSG, the 18 countries who are part of it, plus two international organizations. They are strongly urged by the US and Russian Federation, the P5 and the Security Council. So let’s be clear: these talks are wanted by the international stakeholders.”
If the talks do not hold the only alternative is a war that can be even worse than the one now.
There is much distance between the sides De Mistura admitted.
He said the basis of the Intra-Syrian talks is the “Geneva communiqué” from June 2012 and resolution 2254, adopted by the UN Security Council in December. The real issue is political transition, he said.
(Vatican Radio) The continuing drama of the migrants crowded up against the Greek-Macedonian border took a dramatic new turn yesterday when three Afghans drowned trying to cross a raging mountain river.John Carr reports from Athens.Listen: The victims were among at least 2,000 migrants who acted on a sudden rumour that an unguarded spot at the border had been found. Television images showed dramatic scenes of migrants, children and even old people in wheelchairs waist-deep in foaming rivers and trying to scale steep mountain paths in the driving rain.Reports from Macedonia indicate that about 700 people made it over the border from Greece, only to be rounded up and sent back to the makeshift camp at Idomeni, where about 15,000 are still languishing, ankle-deep in mud. According to Greek media reports, many are convinced that the Macedonian At the same time, eight migrants are reported missing in the Aegean Sea after strong north winds caused their boat ...
(Vatican Radio) The continuing drama of the migrants crowded up against the Greek-Macedonian border took a dramatic new turn yesterday when three Afghans drowned trying to cross a raging mountain river.
John Carr reports from Athens.
Listen:
The victims were among at least 2,000 migrants who acted on a sudden rumour that an unguarded spot at the border had been found. Television images showed dramatic scenes of migrants, children and even old people in wheelchairs waist-deep in foaming rivers and trying to scale steep mountain paths in the driving rain.
Reports from Macedonia indicate that about 700 people made it over the border from Greece, only to be rounded up and sent back to the makeshift camp at Idomeni, where about 15,000 are still languishing, ankle-deep in mud. According to Greek media reports, many are convinced that the Macedonian At the same time, eight migrants are reported missing in the Aegean Sea after strong north winds caused their boat to capsize.
Vatican City, Mar 15, 2016 / 12:08 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A Palestinian school teacher on Sunday became the recipient of a US$1m international award for her work with children – and it was Pope Francis who announced the winner.“A population that is not well educated because of wars, or by other reasons that exist in order not to get any education, is a population that decays,” the Pope said in a pre-recorded video message announcing Hanan Al Hroub as the winner of the Global Teacher Prize, awarded by the Varkey Foundation.“That is why I would like to highlight the noble profession of a teacher.”A teacher in the West Bank, Hroub was awarded the Global Teacher Prize for her specialization in working with children exposed to violence at a ceremony held in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates' largest city.Detailed in her book We Play and Learn, Hroub's methods at the Samiha Khalil Secondary School have led to a decrease in violent behavior among children ...
Vatican City, Mar 15, 2016 / 12:08 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A Palestinian school teacher on Sunday became the recipient of a US$1m international award for her work with children – and it was Pope Francis who announced the winner.
“A population that is not well educated because of wars, or by other reasons that exist in order not to get any education, is a population that decays,” the Pope said in a pre-recorded video message announcing Hanan Al Hroub as the winner of the Global Teacher Prize, awarded by the Varkey Foundation.
“That is why I would like to highlight the noble profession of a teacher.”
A teacher in the West Bank, Hroub was awarded the Global Teacher Prize for her specialization in working with children exposed to violence at a ceremony held in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates' largest city.
Detailed in her book We Play and Learn, Hroub's methods at the Samiha Khalil Secondary School have led to a decrease in violent behavior among children living in the volatile region, according to the Global Teacher Prize website.
“A child has the right to play,” the Pope said in the video message. “Part of education is to teach children how to play, because you learn how to be social through games, and you learn the joy of life.”
"I would like to congratulate the teacher Hanan Al Hroub for winning this prestigious prize due to the importance she gives to the role of play in a child’s education,” he said.
Having grown up in a Bethlehem refugee camp where she regularly witnessed violence, Hroub now teaches at a school in the town of al-Bireh, about 14 miles north of Jerusalem.
She was partly inspired to work in this field after her own children were traumatized after witnessing a shooting.
Hroub told the Associated Press: "I feel amazing and I still can't believe that the Pope said my name."
"For an Arab, Palestinian teacher to talk to the world today and to reach the highest peak in teaching could be an example for teachers around the world."
The primary school teacher told the agency she intends to use the money to create scholarships for students who excel.
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- For decades, Las Vegas has loved Elvis Presley tender - and loved him true - but the King's presence in modern day Sin City has lately been diminishing, one impersonator at a time....
BOSTON (AP) -- When Dr. Michelle Johnson scribbles out prescriptions, the next stop for many of her patients is the gym, not the pharmacy....
NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (AP) -- Myanmar's parliament elected Htin Kyaw as the country's new president Tuesday in a watershed moment that ushers the longtime opposition party of Aung San Suu Kyi into government after 54 years of direct or indirect military rule....
ZAATARI REFUGEE CAMP, Jordan (AP) -- The murals of forests, seaside cities and beaches being painted on homes in a desert camp in Jordan are cheery and colorful, meant to boost the morale of the Syrian refugees living here....
MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia's defense ministry said Tuesday that its military at the Russian air base in Syria is preparing for some of the planes and fighter jets to leave and return home following a pullout order from President Vladimir Putin....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Kennedy Copeland is a Marco Rubio fan who voted for John Kasich in Ohio. Ann Croft is all in to elect Hillary Clinton president but cast her ballot for Rubio in Virginia. Julia Price will back the Democratic nominee in November but voted for Kasich in Tennessee....
