July 7, 2025
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How Europe is planning to cope with drought

Representative AI generated image Water scarcity is a fact of life in Malta. The island in the middle of the Mediterranean, between Italy and North Africa, has no lakes or rivers and doesn’t get much rainfall. And with a hot, dry climate, a population of 563,000 — and more than six times that in yearly […]

Who are Ismail Royer and Shaykh Hamza Yusuf? Donald Trump’s controversial ‘jihadist’ appointments to Religious Liberty Commission

File photo: Shaykh Hamza Yusuf (left) and Ismail Royer (Picture credit: Zaytuna college, Religious Freedom Institute) US President Donald Trump on Friday appointed Ismail Royer and Shaykh Hamza Yusuf to the White House’s newly formed Advisory Board of Lay Leaders under the Religious Liberty Commission. The announcement comes amid growing scrutiny from critics like conservative […]

South Korean truth commission halts probe into adoption fraud, hundreds of cases in limbo

SEOUL: The South Korean government’s fact-finding commission suspended its groundbreaking investigation into the extensive fraud and abuse that tainted the nation’s historic foreign adoption program, a decision stemming from internal disputes among commissioners regarding which cases warranted recognition as problematic. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission confirmed human rights violations in just 56 of the 367 […]