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Oil prices retreated after Iran's foreign minister said there had been "major progress" toward ending the fighting in Lebanon during the first session of high-level talks.
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JD Vance holds peace talks with Iran as Trump threatens strikes over Hormuz The Washington PostU.S., Iran agree on roadmap for final deal and plan to end military operations in Lebanon CNBCTrump news at a glance: President threatens to restart attacks on Iran even as Vance cites progress in talks The GuardianVance, Iranian officials meet in Switzerland for first round of high-stakes talks Fox News
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RELIGION and human rights have always had an intense, tortured relationship. On one hand, liberty of conscience and belief is one of the first and most fundamental principles enshrined in the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, the European Convention on Human Rights and other documents that lay out humanity's minimum entitlements. On the other hand, secular campaigners often blame oppressive forms of religion for a high proportion of the worst assaults on human welfare: from religiously inspired ethnic cleansing to female genital mutilation to the nihilist jihadism which treats every form of faith but its own as a legitimate target.
At this year's tenth-anniversary session of the Oslo Freedom Forum, an ever-expanding international festival for campaigners against tyranny, victims of religion were more obviously in evidence than practitioners. Speakers included Fatemah Qaderyan, 16, an Afghan teenager who led an award-wining female robotics team but lost her father in a jihadist bomb attack; and Omar Mohammed, an Iraqi...Continue reading
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