PARIS, FRANCE – Sophie Kasiki, one of the few Western women to have seen the Islamic State group's harsh "caliphate" in Syria and escaped, recounts her life in the jihadists' stronghold Raqqa with detached calm and inner rage.
Born to a Catholic family in Cameroon and living in Paris since the age of 9, she converted to Islam as an adult. She traveled with her 4-year-old son to Syria in February 2015, to join three friends who had left for jihad a few months before.
STATE HOUSE — Logan International Airport workers rallied outside the State House to push for a $15 an hour minimum wage, after calling off a strike Wednesday morning in the wake of the terrorist bombing at the airport in Brussels on Tuesday.
Led by Massachusetts-32BJ SEIU, a union with 18,000 members in the Bay State, the workers sought to drum up support for legislation from Sen. Sal DiDomenico and Rep. Adrian Madaro (H 3923 / S 2125) that would phase in the minimum wage increase over three years, taking it to $12 this year, $13.50 next year and to $15 in 2018.
