Uriel Sinai / Getty Images JERUSALEM — Haim Remez has never voted for a woman before, and he says he’s not about to start now. The 67-year-old religious father of five grimaces as he passes by a booth promoting Naomi Tzur and her nearly all-female party list in Jerusalem’s local municipal elections. “It’s not…
View this image › Russian President Vladimir Putin and IOC President Thomas Bach during a visit to Sochi this week. Ria Novosti / Reuters The head of the International Olympic Committee, Thomas Bach, told a coalition of Russian LGBT activists on Wednesday that he would not meet them during his visit to Sochi, a spokesperson…
View this image › People gather at a vigil for slain transgender woman Islan Nettles at Jackie Robinson Park in Harlem on Aug. 27, 2013, in New York City. Mario Tama / Getty Images Brazil and Mexico lead the list for the most reported killings of trans people in the past year, according to a…
View this image › John Minchillo / AP Images for Arcus Foundation Updated: 12:45 p.m. EST Russian police have detained four LGBT activists in St. Petersburg as they were preparing to unfurl a banner quoting the Olympic Charter’s language against discrimination on the city’s Belinskiy bridge. One of those arrested at around 3:45 p.m. local…
View this image › AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov This photo was taken by the Associated Press on Tuesday. An elderly woman was crossing the street in front of police officers as they held a section of the street in Kiev. Anti-government protests in the city recently turned violent. Police on Tuesday moved in on protesters camped…
View this image › Counter-protesters throw stones during a pride rally in Podgorica on Oct 20. Stevo Vasiljevic / Reuters ZAGREB, Croatia — LGBT rights activists in Montenegro have been targeted in at least three assaults since the capital Podgorica held its first pride march on Sunday. On Monday night, an 18-year-old high school student…
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View this image › AP A supporter of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi passes a fire barricade carrying a gasoline bomb during clashes against security forces in Cairo’s Nasr City district, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug. 14. Egyptian security forces launched an early morning raid to clear the two main sit-ins of supporters of ousted president Mohamed…
View this image › Amr Abdallah Dalsh / Reuters She was hoping for a day of peace, maybe some reflection on the 51 Egyptians who were killed on Monday as the country celebrated the October 6 holiday. But instead, Leila Faloun only met further hostility. “I came here today to mourn the dead, and still…
Jailed former oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky walked out of prison on Friday after 10 years behind bars. View this image › Tatyana Makeyeva / Reuters Khodorkovsky was arrested in 2003 on tax evasion charges widely seen as punishment for challenging Vladimir Putin. View this image › Via Twitter: @tvrain Putin unexpectedly announced on Thursday that he…
View this image › Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev. Shamil Zhumatov / Reuters WASHINGTON — The Sierra Club didn’t publish a strangely pro-Kazakh regime blog post at the behest of Kazakhstan, a spokeswoman said on Monday. “There is no financial relationship between Sierra Club and Kazakhstan,” said press secretary Maggie Kao. Asked how the post came…
Flood alert has been sounded in Jammu following heavy rain in which one person was killed even as rivers continued to flow above the danger mark. Tawi river is flowing at a danger level of 18-feet and river Chenab is flowing 33-feet above alert level. Read more: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Flood-alert-sounded-in-Jammu-one-dead/articleshow/53585346.cms
The Centre was almost prepared to grant the Special Category Status (SCS) to Andhra Pradesh but two factors dissuaded it from going ahead — clamour from nine more States for the same tag and NITI Aay Read more: http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/niti-aayog-ruled-out-special-status-to-andhra-pradesh-venkaiah/article9121585.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication
Forget the Costa del Sol, this tiny group of islands off the north of Scotland is the place to be this summer. 1. It never really gets dark. View this image › Sophie Whitehead This is the town’s skyline at 2 a.m. – sure to confuse all the emerging club-goers into thinking they have just…