A leading international education expert has said that children should be taught in schools how to recognise “fake news”. According to Andreas Schleicher, the the OECD’s director of education and skills, schools need to teach their [...]
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US warplanes have killed at least 42 Syrian civilians in a mosque during an air raid overnight in a village west of Aleppo. Over 100 other people were wounded in the air raid on the village of al-Jineh, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed on Friday. US military officials confirmed that it carried out a deadly airstrike in northern Syria, but have denied deliberately bombing the mosque.
A ruling by the European Union's top court on Tuesday, which allows companies to bar staff from wearing Islamic headscarves and other visible religious symbols, has set off a storm of complaint from rights groups and religious leaders. With its first ruling on a hot political issue across Europe, the Court of Justice (ECJ) has found that a Belgian firm which had a rule barring employees who dealt with customers from wearing visible religious and political symbols "may not have discriminated" against a receptionist dismissed for wearing a headscarf.
The Iranian Foreign Minister has accused Benjamin Netanyahu of resorting to “fake history” “falsifying the Torah”and “selling bigoted lies” about his country after the Israeli Prime Minister said Iran had been trying to “destroy” the Jewish people for 2,500 years. On his official twitter account, Mohammad Javad Zarif wrote:“To sell bigoted lies against a nation which has saved Jews three times, Netanyahu resorting to fake history and falsifying Torah. Force of habit.