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About The Equal Rights Treatment for Refugees Organization (ERTR)

About The Equal Rights Treatment for Refugees Organization (ERTR)

Equal Rights Treatment for Refugees, (ERTR), was initially committed to an objective approach to issues of refugees in the Middle East and elsewhere.  It was… Read More ›

Yahoo has killed its online video hub, Screen

Yahoo has killed its online video hub, Screen

  Yahoo’s online video hub Screen is no more. The company has shuttered the Screen service in the latest sign of CEO Marissa Mayer’s ongoing… Read More ›

China weakens Yuan again

China weakens Yuan again

  Moments ago, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) announced its Tuesday fixing level for the yuan — and it’s weaker again. The USD/CNY rate… Read More ›

Brooklyn, NY – Hasidic House In Bed-Stuy, Repeated Target Of Harassment, Vandalized By Anti-Semitic Graffiti

Brooklyn, NY – Hasidic House In Bed-Stuy, Repeated Target Of Harassment, Vandalized By Anti-Semitic Graffiti

  Brooklyn, NY – Chasidic residents who say they have been subjected to repeated harassment since moving into a newly renovated three family home near… Read More ›

Toronto – Canada Investigates Why 6-year-old Is Listed As Travel Risk Share Tweet Share Mail

Toronto – Canada Investigates Why 6-year-old Is Listed As Travel Risk Share Tweet Share Mail

  Toronto – Canada’s public safety minister has promised to investigate the case of a six-year-old boy whose name appears to be on a travel… Read More ›

Saudi Arabia-Iran feud jeopardizes U.S. efforts on ISIS, Syria

Saudi Arabia-Iran feud jeopardizes U.S. efforts on ISIS, Syria

Washington – The growing rupture between Saudi Arabia and Iran is threatening U.S. efforts to end the Syrian civil war and stop ISIS in the Middle… Read More ›

Saudi Arabia-Iran row spreads to other nations

Saudi Arabia-Iran row spreads to other nations

  The fallout of Saudi Arabia’s execution of a Shiite cleric is spreading beyond a spat between the Saudis and Iranians, as other Middle East… Read More ›

White House outlines gun control moves

White House outlines gun control moves

The Obama administration will announce a series of executive actions on Tuesday to combat gun violence in the U.S. Among other things, the actions would… Read More ›

In the Iran-Saudi Arabia conflict, a clash of civilizations

In the Iran-Saudi Arabia conflict, a clash of civilizations

The cold war between the two regional powers is likely to heat up, reviving an age-old sectarian war between Sunni and Shiite Islam in which… Read More ›

Turkey: Saudi-Iran tensions will hurt ‘powder keg’ region

Turkey: Saudi-Iran tensions will hurt ‘powder keg’ region

Ankara says death penalties ‘are of no help to making peace’ in Middle East after Tehran fumes over Riyadh’s execution of Shiite cleric   Turkey… Read More ›

Iran voices ‘regret’ over attacks on Saudi embassy

Iran voices ‘regret’ over attacks on Saudi embassy

Riyadh defends carrying out executions, says severed ties with Tehran shouldn’t affect peace talks on Syria, Yemen   Iran has expressed “regret” over two attacks… Read More ›

Here’s your complete preview of this week’s big market-moving events

Here’s your complete preview of this week’s big market-moving events

  It’s 2016. And the year is off to a busy start. In the US, the economic calendar is stacked with the releases of monthly… Read More ›

Oil is spiking

Oil is spiking

Futures markets are open and the price of crude oil in the US and Europe is surging on the back of increased tensions in the… Read More ›

The standoff at an Oregon wildlife center has its roots in a spirited argument in conservative politics

The standoff at an Oregon wildlife center has its roots in a spirited argument in conservative politics

  A tense standoff at an Oregon wildlife center is touching on a relatively niche issue in conservative politics. On Saturday, an armed, antigovernment group protesting the… Read More ›

New York – NY Governor Signs Executive Order To Protect Homeless In Frigid Temps

New York – NY Governor Signs Executive Order To Protect Homeless In Frigid Temps

New York – New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (KWOH’-moh) says he’s ordering cities statewide to take homeless people from the street to shelters when temperatures… Read More ›

New York – De Blasio Readies NYC’s Pitch In Often Unfriendly Albany

New York – De Blasio Readies NYC’s Pitch In Often Unfriendly Albany

  New York – Mayor Bill de Blasio, bruised from a tough second year in office, must now prepare to return to the site where… Read More ›

Raleigh, NC – Google Helps Analyze If Rooftop Solar Panels Are Good Deal

Raleigh, NC – Google Helps Analyze If Rooftop Solar Panels Are Good Deal

Raleigh, NC –  The company that lets you compare air fares and translate foreign languages online wants to make it easier to weigh the costs… Read More ›

Ramadi residents fleeing ISIS: ‘They wanted to use us as human shields’

Ramadi residents fleeing ISIS: ‘They wanted to use us as human shields’

Habbaniyah, Iraq – Standing in the entrance of her tent on a chilly winter night in the Iraqi desert, Nada Saleh describes the terrifying moment her… Read More ›

La Liga: Real Madrid denied vital win by late Valencia equalizer

La Liga: Real Madrid denied vital win by late Valencia equalizer

  Gary Neville’s Valencia denied Real Madrid the chance to move above arch-rival Barcelona in the La Liga standings with a last-gasp equalizer in a… Read More ›

Saudi execution of Shia cleric threatens to deepen regional sectarian crisis

Saudi execution of Shia cleric threatens to deepen regional sectarian crisis

Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr was not among the “A-list” of Shia clerics in Saudi Arabia. But his execution has provoked a regional crisis, sparking condemnation from… Read More ›