By Patrick T. Hiller, July 15, 2015, published in Grassroots [...]

The War Prevention Initiative strongly supports the deal reached by Iran and the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, China, France and Germany (P5+1). We urge Congress to support the Obama administration’s agreement which strongly stands on principles of multilateral, negotiated agreements based on oversight and control. 

Malala Yousafzai, the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, celebrated her 18th birthday in Lebanon on Sunday by opening a school for Syrian refugee girls and called on world leaders to invest in "books not bullets." 

By Daniel Burke, July 10, 2015, published in CNN. Pope [...]

"Closing a chapter on a symbol of the Deep South and its history of resistance and racial animus, South Carolina on Friday lowered the Confederate battle flag from outside its State House, where it had flown for more than 50 years."

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June 30, 2015, published in TelesurTV © Government.ru / [...]

"This method of targeting terrorist groups has already been tried and tested across the globe, and more often than not, it fails with disastrous implications. The existence of ISIS is largely down to this- many people explain its existence by looking to the invasion of Iraq and the War on Terror. In-fact, the group was most likely actually formed in a notorious US run prison that was in operation during the Iraq War.

The 2003 US-led invasion into Iraq and subsequent war was however just another chapter in a long history of Western interventions that have laid the groundwork for groups like ISIS. 

Famagusta (Cyprus) (AFP) - Cyprus's Othello Tower, named after the ill-fated Shakespearean hero, reopened Thursday after a facelift with a performance of the tragedy that organisers hope will spread unity among long-divided communities.

The year-long, EU-funded project to renovate the mediaeval tower in the port of Famagusta's 14th century castle comes as Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders are locked in talks to reach a breakthrough on the decades-old split.

Thursday's retelling of Shakespeare's tragic love story featured actors from both communities, a rare act of cultural coexistence on an island cleaved by politics.

By Heather Saul, July 1, 2015, published in The Independent [...]