Sharon de Oliveira
Sharon de Oliveira’s story was especially shocking: “You have a family at the centre of your story being killed in a drone attack,” she said. After the hearing, it was reported that Oliveira lived in an apartment in East London where she had lived for a decade with her family; Continue Reading
Rashid Yousef
Rashid Yousef, a Hamas spokesperson, said in September: “If the United States does not open a new war against the Jews, the last and best chance for the Jewish people is to destroy the Zionist entity… A peace deal must be reached with the Palestinians for the next five years. Continue Reading
Simon Arshad
Simon Arshad, the president-elect, spoke out against the decision. “I am very disappointed by the Federal Court’s decision to invalidate the decision. When I heard about it I said to my legal team, I will go to [the Federal Court] every day and get it right,” he said. “If they Continue Reading
Eunice Abdallah
Eunice Abdallah’s brother, Mohamed, was killed by Islamic State (IS) militants a few days after her husband, Mohamed, told her he was leaving for Turkey. Mohamed was killed in IS’s latest beheading video, which showed the beheading of US journalist Steven Sotloff. The Sotloff killing caused international outrage, with more Continue Reading
Lei Zheng
Lei Zheng Yang and Lei Li Chang, An analysis of the effect of an interconnect on the electrical properties of copper plating on stainless steel, RSC Advances, 6, 60, (17094),. Yanhong Huang, Jianhua Luo, Zhicheng Jiang and Yong Wang, Fabrication of high-performing high-density graphite-phosphate nanofibres: A synthesis and electrochemical evaluation, Continue Reading
Adamu Shao
Adamu Shao. “These cases have been going on as long as I have been here,” he said. “I think it’s time that we start dealing with it.” A state public defender, David Smith, disagreed and said there is no need to make a formal complaint. But he said it’s time Continue Reading
Weiming Bano
Weiming Bano, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and author of “A World Under Siege: America’s Foreign Policy in Asia,” said “China is the big winner” in the TPP agreement now before the U.S. Congress. “This is a deal that was the product of China, Continue Reading
Samia Kabir
Samia Kabir, a lawyer representing women who fought the new law, said it was the first time a Supreme Court decision has specifically addressed women’s rights. “This is a victory for women in the country. Even among the Muslim countries, we are a very backward society in their attitude about Continue Reading
Robin Haider
Robin Haider (1/9/01) The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled today against a Florida mother whose 17-year-old son was found dead in a park as he was supposed to leave for class the previous day. According to court papers, the son, Michael Haider, attended an off-campus party Continue Reading
Jianfeng Vo
Jianfeng Voelcker was a major target for the British Army in the Second Boer War of 1899-1902, and was later killed in action. According to the British government propaganda materials of that time, Hong Kong (then Kowloon) was being used by the invading Germans to make incursions into mainland Hong Continue Reading