Bana Alabed: Seven-year-old Syrian girl meets Turkey's President Erdogan
By Muhammad Lila and James Masters, CNN
Bana Alabed, the seven-year-old Syrian girl who brought the plight of Aleppo's victims to the world, wrote the latest chapter in her extraordinary story by meeting Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara.
The meeting, at the presidential palace in the Turkish capital, was captured on camera and appears to show Bana thanking Erdogan in English, saying: "Thank you for supporting the children of Aleppo and help us to get out from war. I love you."
Why cutting soot emissions is 'fastest solution' to slowing Arctic ice melt
Reducing wood-burning, gas-flaring and global diesel emissions would be ‘quick win’ in combating irreversible climate change, scientists sayWorld leaders should redouble efforts to cut soot emissions because it is the cheapest and fastest way to combat climate change, climate scientists and advocates have told the Guardian.
Black doctor barred from helping on flight gets an apology - and triggers policy change
Delta changes its requirement on medical credentials in flight
In October, physician Tamika Cross took a Delta Air Lines flight home from the wedding of a childhood friend. A man fell ill and a call went out for medical help. But when Cross tried to come to his aid, a flight attendant dismissed the young, black doctor. “We are looking for actual physicians or nurses,” the flight attendant said, according to Cross. The story, shared via Facebook, triggered thousands of comments, and an outpouring of stories from minorities and women who had faced scepticism from people who didn't think they looked like doctors.
US rock star blasts Korean Air's 'ill-equipped' response to 'psycho' passenger |
By Lee Han-soo, Park Si-soo
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Popular U.S. rock musician Richard Marx has lashed out at Korean Air for its "ill-equipped" response to an unruly passenger on a plane he was aboard.
He said Korea's flagship airline should be "sanctioned" because crew members were unable to subdue a "psycho" without the help of passengers. |
What Nietzsche's philosophy can tell us about why Brexit and Trump won
Hugo Drochon's new book on Nietzsche can teach us about American populism and European disintegration.
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Normally, a book about Nietzsche’s political theory would not be of interest to general audiences, but against the backdrop of Brexit and Donald Trump, I suspect it will be.
One reason is that Nietzsche anticipated our current cultural and political climate. From his late 19th-century perch, he warned that Europe’s increasingly democratic states would fall into parochialism and mass hysteria. He even condemned Otto von Bismarck, the Prussian statesman who unified Germany in 1871, for cementing his power by stoking nationalist resentments and appealing to racial purity.
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