Source: NY Times: The Syrian conflict affects American foreign policy in a number of ways, but the Obama administration has approached it cautiously, not only because it wants to reduce American military engagement overseas but also because the conflict is complicated and quickly shifting. The rise of sectarianism and the […]
Source: NY Times: CAIRO — The leaders of the Arab world on Tuesday blamed the Syrian government for a chemical weapons attack that killed hundreds of people last week, but declined to back a retaliatory military strike, leaving President Obama without the broad regional support he had for his last […]
Source: Tariq Kareem Arif. Photos: Tariq Kareem Arif: Alhamdolillah the German Ahmadi Muslim Adventure Group reached Calais at the end of the 2nd day. The weather was much better than on first day shedding more sunshine. As group started its 2nd day earlier than yesterday, the members even had […]
August 27, 2013 – 19:13 Zurich Insurance chief financial officer Pierre Wauthier, who was found dead at his home on Monday, probably committed suicide, according to the local police in Zug. A police spokesman, citing information from the Forensic Medicine Institute, said third party involvement in his death could be […]
by Clare O’Dea, swissinfo.ch August 26, 2013 – 18:00 Human security, summed up as ‘freedom from want and fear’, is the current buzzword of international peace-building and humanitarian work. Two […]
Source: The Times of Malta, Tuesday, August 27, 2013, 00:01 by Laiq Ahmed Atif A very common saying in Pakistan is that if someone wants to take the biggest revenge on someone, does not need to kill him, but simply turn him into a drug addict. Drugs will keep killing […]
Russia has begun to evacuate its citizens from Syria, as its deputy prime minister stated that the West was acting in the Islamic world like “a monkey with a grenade”. […]
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Source: Gulf News.Com One of Indonesia’s most influential Islamic groups is urging the government to cancel the Miss World pageant scheduled for next month, saying the exposure of skin by […]
Source: BD News24 The US Ambassador to Bangladesh, Dan Mozena, has stressed the need to cut off money supply to terrorists, saying it acts like oxygen for terrorism. “Money and terrorism can be two sides of the same coin. Money [is] the facilitator of terrorism. Money [is] the enabler of […]
Source: Radio free Europe By Ron Synovitz, Venera Djumataeva and Gulaiym Ashakeeva A conservative Sunni Muslim movement that is banned in most of Central Asia has made inroads into Kyrgyzstan with […]
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Geopolitical Weekly TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2013 Stratfor By George Friedman Images of multiple dead bodies emerged from Syria last week. It was asserted that poison gas killed the victims, who according to some numbered in the hundreds. Others claimed the photos were faked while others said the rebels were at […]
Source: The Local German Catholics have rebelled against a bishop, attacking his leadership style and reading out a letter in a cathedral calling for change. More:
The United States’ possible military action against Syria was planned “many years ago” in order to replace the Syrian government with a pro-Western one, an American journalist said. “The issue is very clear. Syria is Washington’s war. It was planned many years ago,” Stephen Lendman told Press TV on Monday. […]
Source: Asia Times: The ”responsibility to protect” (R2P) doctrine invoked to legitimize the 2011 war on Libya has just transmogrified into ”responsibility to attack” (R2A) Syria. Just because the Obama administration says so. On Sunday, the White House said it had ”very little doubt” that the Bashar al-Assad government used […]
MG-Modern Ghana: The Acting head and missionary in charge of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission of Ghana, Alhaji Maulvi Muhammad Yusuf Yawson, has urged people in leadership position to lead lifestyles that are worthy of emulation. He explained that the lifestyles of leaders ought to be simple and without ostentation so […]
Source: TOI DUBAI: Oil-rich Saudi Arabia plans to become a leader in renewable energy by building 16 nuclear reactors by 2030 at an estimated cost of USD 100 billion and with a combined capacity of 22 gigawatts. More:
Source: TOI WASHINGTON: The US state department on Monday postponed a meeting scheduled for Wednesday in The Hague between senior diplomats from the United States and Russia due to “ongoing consultations” over the chemical weapons attack in Syria. The meeting was to have discussed plans for an international peace conference […]
IAN JOHNSTON SUNDAY 25 AUGUST 2013 THE INDEPENDENT Britain is “losing the plot” because its increasingly secular society has led to a breakdown of trust affecting marriage, child poverty and […]