As Europe continues to grapple with “the migrant issue,” a Danish town passes a law requiring pork to be included on municipal menus in what some say is a direct effort to stigmatize Muslim refugees.
Danish town’s new meat law ignites controversy
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Monthly Archives: January 2016
Obama irate over U.S. water crisis
Pledges support to Mich. city beset by water contamination.
Vigils held for victims of attack on Pakistan university
Vigils have been held in Peshawar and elsewhere in Pakistan for at least 21 people killed in a university attack. Four suspected attackers also died in Wednesday’s assault on Bacha Khan University.
Report due on ex-Russian spy killing
Kremlin expected to be blamed for Alexander Litvinenko’s death in 2006.
Colombia, FARC request U.N. observers
Rivals seek peacekeeping mission to oversee planned truce.
Kenya police kill four terror suspects
Arms and map detailing future targets for attack recovered during raid.
Indo-Palestinian theater collab takes its act on the road
Two theater companies — one Indian, the other Palestinian — are jointly staging a series of plays throughout the Indian subcontinent that detail the everyday conflict between Palestinians and their Israeli neighbors.
Deadly blasts, gun battles rock Indonesian capital
Militants launched a gun and bomb assault in Jakarta on Thursday in an attack that followed a threat by Islamic State fighters to put the country in their “spotlight.”
Sharp backlash in Germany after Cologne attacks
Violence against migrants has risen — as has anti-immigration rhetoric — after reports of a mass sexual assault on New Year’s Eve in Cologne, and refugees fear that even worse times are ahead.
U.S. struggles with gender-based hate crimes
2015 was the most deadly year for transgender people in the U.S., on record.