The British government is poised to accept 15,000 Syrian refugees and hopes next month to get backing for airstrikes against Islamic State jihadists, the Sunday Times reported.

British Prime Minister David Cameron has been under pressure internationally and domestically to address the refugee crisis.

On Thursday, he said he was “deeply moved” by images of three-year-old Syrian toddler Aylan Kurdi, found dead on a Turkish beach.

Cameron now intends to expand Britain’s vulnerable persons relocation program, take in around 15,000 refugees and launch military action against people traffickers, the report said.

He also hopes to persuade MPs in the opposition Labour Party to back airstrikes in Syria in a vote early next month, it said.

The paper previously reported that there was an option to directly accept refugees from UN camps on the Syrian border.

Britain has accepted 216 Syrian refugees under a special government scheme over the past year and about 5,000 Syrians have been granted asylum since the conflict there broke out in 2011 — far fewer than countries like France, Germany and Sweden.

Britain has also opted out of a quota system for relocating asylum seekers within the EU despite growing calls in the EU for fairer distribution.

Cameron gained support for military action against Syria from an unusual source on Sunday — former archbishop of Canterbury George Carey.

Britain should help “crush” the Islamic State, formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant, and “airstrikes” might be needed, Carey said.

“I do not consider it enough to send aid to refugee camps in the Middle East. Rather, there must be renewed military and diplomatic efforts to crush the twin menaces of Islamic State and al-Qaeda once and for all,” he wrote in the Sunday Telegraph.

WHO-The British government , refugees

WHAT-to get backing for airstrikes against Islamic State jihadists

WHEN-  -

WHERE- British

WHY- -

HOW- -

Keywords-  airstrikes, domestically, vulnerable,diplomatic,opted, relocation, traffickers

It is a ironic. Everybody began to face this problem by seeing a three-year-old child drowned in a Turkish beach. Everyone should try to solve this problem and stop this war.

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Protests erupted across New York and in cities from Georgia to California after a white police officer was cleared in the chokehold death of an unarmed black man — a case that drew comparisons to the deadly police shooting in Ferguson, Missouri.

New York City police said early yesterday that more than 60 people were arrested, most for disorderly conduct.

The decision on Wednesday by the Staten Island grand jury not to indict Officer Daniel Pantaleo heightened tensions that have simmered in the city since the July 17 death of Eric Garner.

In the neighborhood where Garner died, people reacted with angry disbelief and chanted: “I can’t breathe,” and “Hands up — don’t choke.”

In Manhattan, demonstrators lay down in Grand Central Terminal, walked through traffic on the West Side Highway and blocked the Brooklyn Bridge.

A New York City Council member cried. Hundreds converged on the heavily secured area around the annual Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting with a combination of professional-looking signs and hand-scrawled placards reading: “Black lives matter” and “Fellow white people, wake up.”

“This fight ain’t over, it just begun,” said Garner’s widow, Esaw.

However, the protests were largely peaceful, in contrast to the widespread arson and looting that accompanied the decision nine days earlier not to indict the white officer who shot dead Michael Brown, an unarmed black teen.

US Attorney Eric Holder said federal prosecutors would conduct their own investigation of Garner’s death as officers were attempting to arrest him for selling untaxed cigarettes on the street. The New York Police Department also is doing an internal probe that could lead to administrative charges against Pantaleo, who remains on desk duty.

US President Barack Obama said on Wednesday night that the grand jury decision underscores the need to strengthen the trust and accountability between communities and law enforcement.

In his first public comments on the death, Pantaleo said he prays for Garner’s family and hopes they accept his condolences.

Police union officials and Pantaleo’s lawyer said the officer used a takedown move taught by the police department, not a banned maneuver, because Garner was resisting arrest. They said his poor health was the main reason he died.

Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan said the grand jury found “no reasonable cause” to bring charges. The grand jury could have considered a range of charges, from murder to a lesser offense such as reckless endangerment.

“I am actually astonished based on the evidence of the videotape, and the medical examiner, that this grand jury at this time wouldn’t indict for anything,” said Jonathan Moore a lawyer for Garner’s family.

Garner’s family planned a news conference later in the day with civil rights leader Reverend Al Sharpton. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio canceled his planned appearance at the annual Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting to hold a news conference at a Staten Island church.

“Today’s outcome is one that many in our city did not want,” he said in a statement. “Yet New York City owns a proud and powerful tradition of expressing ourselves through nonviolent protest.”

WHO- an unarmed black man , a white police officer

WHAT-Protests erupted across New York and in cities from Georgia to California after a white police officer was cleared in the chokehold death of an unarmed black man

WHEN- July 17 

WHERE- in Ferguson, Missouri

WHY- - 

HOW- GUN

Keywords- grand , demonstrators ,converged ,accompanied ,federal prosecutors ,  arson

 ,enforcement ,erupted

  They just want  a fair.It is unreasonable black people should be killed by white police officer, I think it is ok to have a parade to defend their racial. This world should not have racial discrimination forever.

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Malala Yousafzai celebrates string of A* grades at GCSE

Nobel peace prize winner, who has travelled the world campaigning for education rights for girls, achieves six A*s and four As

 Malala Yousafzai displays her Nobel peace prize medal in 2014. Photograph: Cornelius Poppe/EPA

Jessica Elgot

Friday 21 August 201512.00 BSTLast modified on Saturday 22 August 201500.03 BST

Even after winning a Nobel peace prize, with glittering invitations to speak to presidents across the world, education activist Malala Yousafzai always had one priority: her schoolwork.

And the Pakistani pupil’s dedication to her studies has paid off, according to her father Ziauddin Yousafzai, who tweeted that the 18-year-old had achieved six A*s and four As when the GCSE results were released on Thursday.

Malala has declined hundreds of speaking engagements and interviews in order not to miss a day of studying at her private girls’ school in Birmingham.

The family has set up home in the city since then 15-year-old Malala was treated at the city’s Queen Elizabeth hospital. She came to the UK after being shot in the head on her schoolbus, targeted by Taliban gunman for her activism on girls’ education, including a blog she wrote for BBC Urdu.

As well as studying core GCSE subjects at the independent Edgbaston high school for girls, Malala took an additional maths exam, and opted to study history, geography and religious studies. She achieved two A grades in English language and literature, her second language.

Edgbaston high school, where fees are £3,878 per term in the senior school, had a GCSE pass rate of 98.3%, and 28% of pupils achieved 9 or more A* grades.

Pakistani media has showered the teenager with praise for her excellent results. “Nothing that Malala Yousafzai achieves seems startling anymore but she continues to make Pakistan proud,” the Express Tribune wrote, with the Daily Pakistan website saying Malala “has made us proud once again”.

Among those in Pakistan congratulating Malala was her friend Aseefa Zadari, the sister of the Pakistan People’s party chair, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari.

August 21, 2015

Malala previously told the Guardianshe intended to study arts subjects at A-level, despite having suggested in the past she would like to pursue a career in medicine. “I will only miss school for an engagement if it is going to bring real change,” she said, adding that she realised that saying yes to too many invitations was affecting her schoolwork.

“That is the question I have to ask myself with each request and if the answer is yes, I say, ‘OK, I will sacrifice one day of my school for the education of millions of children who are out of school.’”

She plans to remain in the UK for the remainder of her education. “I want to get my education – a good university education. A lot of the politicians have studied in Oxford, like Benazir [Bhutto, who Malala states is her role model]. My dream is to empower myself with education, and then it is a weapon.”

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WHO- Malala Yousafzai

WHAT-winning a Nobel peace prize, with glittering invitations to speak to presidents across the world.

WHEN-Friday 21 August 201512.00 BSTLast modified on Saturday 22 August 201500.03 BST

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KEYWORDS-Nobel peace prize , education , presidents , GSCE , A-level . study , career , weapon , school , invitation ,



Malala just desired for educating . Few years ago , she was shot while she was on the schoolbus on the way to school . Fortunately , she alived and was invited to speak to presidents across the world .
Her speach made most of politicians question themselves , and she even won the Nobel peace prize last year.


https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/21/malala-yousafzai-gcse-education-a-grades