Protesters in Beirut forced a branch of coffee chain Starbucks to close today after anger directed towards the ongoing war in Gaza.
An immediate boycott of Israeli products has been urged across the Arab world after day 19 of the conflict has seen 1,010 people killed and over4,000 injured.
Lets face it, there seems to be some that are trying to create a hostility between Scotland and England. A few of us think we are above the English which geographically we are, whilst others think it’s solely the English that put the “U” in the United Kingdom.
The row over student fees in Scotland has only helped to expand the Anglo-Scot divide especially since Gordon Brown became the top man of the Labour Party.
While Scottish students, and EU students studying in Scotland get off ‘Scot free,’ English students still are required to pay the full fees.
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From the second you see the silver hair and broad face of one of the most reputable journalists on the BBC, you know that you will be provided with good quality reporting.
The same will apply to John Simpson’s autobiography, Strange Places, Questionable People.
Simpson reporting on the Iraq war
A young teenager walks into the room followed by her father. They both sit and talk politely. This is no ordinary family. This is the Hussein family who immigrated to Scotland from the Gaza Strip in Palestine back in 2000.
The father, Ghazi Hussein, decided to settle in Glasgow after a gruelling life in one of the most war ridden places in the world: Palestine.
He says: “When we arrived here I had a feeling things were going to get better. Everything in this country is so different to what I’m used to. My family and I were so overwhelmed. The culture and people of this country changed me as a person forever.”
Ghazi Hussein in Edinburgh
Over 3 million people are facing another harsh winter in Pakistan’s northern regions, a year on from the earthquake according to Oxfam Scotland.
An estimated 86,000 people lost their lives in what is the biggest South Asian earthquake to date. And still, the aid and relief isn’t reaching the people in need.
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It has been described as the day that made history as the 44th president was elected in what has been one of the biggest and most expensive presidential campaigns ever.
Voters turned out in their millions in hope of a ‘change’ and queued for hours outside polling stations throughout America.
After 21 months of hardship on this long and gruelling electoral trail across America’s 50 states, Barack Obama has finally made history as the first ever black president.
The congratulations were offered from many world leaders such as the hostile and frosty pat on the back from Russian President Dmitry Medvedev who used the occasion to announce moving missiles to the Baltic. (more…)
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