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Yemeni mother arrives in US to say goodbye to dying son A Yemeni mother who was granted a waiver from President Donald Trump´s ban on travel from several Muslim majority countries has arrived in the US to say goodbye to her dying toddler son. Shaima Swileh wore dark glasses as she walked into the arrivals terminal at San Francisco airport Wednesday night. A group of supporters carrying placards greeted her. Her two-year-old boy Abdullah Hassan, a US citizen like his father, suffers from a rare genetic brain condition and is on life support in a hospital in Oakland, California. But Swileh had been unable to join him due to Trump´s order barring visitors from six countries including Yemen. After a tearful televised plea from the boy´s father prompted public outrage, the US embassy in Cairo issued a visa for Swileh, who has been living temporarily in Egypt. After the waiver was granted, her husband, Ali Hassan, expressed relief and said, "This will allo...

Yemeni mother arrives in US to say goodbye to dying son A Yemeni mother who was granted a waiver from President Donald Trump´s ban on travel from several Muslim majority countries has arrived in the US to say goodbye to her dying toddler son. Shaima Swileh wore dark glasses as she walked into the arrivals terminal at San Francisco airport Wednesday night. A group of supporters carrying placards greeted her. Her two-year-old boy Abdullah Hassan, a US citizen like his father, suffers from a rare genetic brain condition and is on life support in a hospital in Oakland, California. But Swileh had been unable to join him due to Trump´s order barring visitors from six countries including Yemen. After a tearful televised plea from the boy´s father prompted public outrage, the US embassy in Cairo issued a visa for Swileh, who has been living temporarily in Egypt. After the waiver was granted, her husband, Ali Hassan, expressed relief and said, "This will allo...

Dia Mirza and others enraged over PM Modi's all-male Bollywood meetup While Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meetup with Bollywood stalwarts proved to be a fruitful one, there was one enormously essential part that was quite predictably overlooked –women in the industry. The absent component of the meetup was questioned by Bollywood star Dia Mirza who asked why the noteworthy gathering had no representation from women in the industry that stand as an integral part of it. Responding to Akshay Kumar’s tweet full of gratitude for the country’s premier, Mirza left her male counterparts present at the occasion, speechless. "This is wonderful! Is there a reason why there were no women in this room? @akshaykumar,” she wrote. The Sanju starlet was not the only one enraged at the abandon of female representation as social media too had erupted with fuming messages over the inattention.  Ishmeet Nagpal @IshmeetNagpal . @ akshay...