What We Know About the Attack in Nice
Source: Time By Simon Lewis At least 84 people were killed Thursday night when a truck careened through crowds of people celebrating Bastille Day in the southern French city of […]
French Politicians Say Nice Attack Might Have Been Avoided
Source: Time By Dan Stewart Nice was the third major attack in France in 18 months Senior politicians in France have begun questioning the country’s anti terror strategy, hours after a man driving a truck killed 84 people in France’s third major terrorist attack in 18 months. Alain Juppé, a […]
Three Reasons France Became a Target for Jihad
Source: Time By John R. Bowen Jihad seems to hit France harder than other countries, with more than 1,000 young people leaving to fight on the side of ISIS or […]
Major win for Microsoft in ‘free for all’ data case
Source: BBC By Dave Lee North America technology reporter The US government cannot force Microsoft to give authorities access to the firm’s servers located in other countries, a court has ruled. […]
Where the water is too pure to touch
Source: BBC By BBC’s Travel Show Natural caves exist throughout Hungary, but a cave system in the small town of Tapolca has an especially memorable method of exploration. The around […]
Russia-Turkey: Making nice sans trust comes easy
Source. A Times. A prejudice against Turks as being self-serving and untrustworthy – although exotic – is deeply embedded in the European psyche. In William Shakespeare’s play, Othello used the word “Turk” in that sense.A recent poll found that only 9% of Germans consider that Turkey can be a “trustworthy […]
Turkey strongly condemns Nice attack, offers solidarity with France
Source: Huriyat Daily News Turkey has strongly condemned the terrorist attack that killed at least 84 people in Nice during the French National Day celebrations, offering solidarity with France and […]
Why the terrorists are winning the intelligence war?
Source: Asia Times. Yet another criminal known to security services has perpetrated a mass killing, the Tunisian Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel. Why did the French police allow a foreign national with a criminal record of violence reside in France? Apart from utter incompetence, the explanation is that he was a snitch for the […]
What It’s Like Growing Up Gay in Afghanistan
Source: The Daily Beast We were sitting on the cliffs as darkness fell, obscuring our view of the niches across from us where the giant Buddhas had for centuries smiled upon the fertile valley. It had only been a few years before that they were blasted away by the Taliban. The […]
Did Britain Just Get a Racist Foreign Minister in Boris Johnson?
Source: The Daily Beast. Boris Johnson, whose thirst for spectacularly offensive jokes has already led to multiple apology tours, has now been chosen as the international face of Britain.Britain’s least diplomatic man is the country’s new head of diplomacy.In a decision that installs the court jester as the international face […]
Russia Is Building a Nuclear Space Bomber
Source: The Daily Beast The Russian military claims it’s making progress on a space plane similar to the U.S. Air Force’s secretive X-37B robotic mini-shuttle. That in itself isn’t terribly surprising or even, for the United States, particularly worrisome. Lots of governments and even private companies are working on space planesthat […]
Vicious criticism of Pakistan by US Congress panel
Source: Dawn.Com WASHINGTON: A US congressional panel has demanded cutting off all US assistance to Pakistan to persuade Islamabad to act against the Afghan Taliban groups allegedly using its territory to launch operations into Afghanistan, a move that Foreign Affairs Adviser Sartaj Aziz says is motivated by “baseless concerns” of […]
Bangladesh regulates Friday sermons after attacks
Source: Dawn DHAKA: Bangladesh on Friday moved to regulate weekly sermons in hundreds of thousands of mosques as part of a stepped-up campaign to combat extremism, officials said.The move comes […]
Zakir Naik has a large following in Pakistan: Should we be alarmed?
Source: ET Indian preacher Dr Zakir Naik has come under a lot of scrutiny after it emerged that the terrorists who carried out the terrorist attack in Dhaka on July 1st may have been radicalisedby his preaching. Zakir Naik’s Peace TV Bangla has been banned by the Bangladeshi government as […]
Are these the dark ages in the Muslim world?
Scroll.in: It is a well-known fact that 1.6 billion Muslims contribute a disproportionately smaller share to the world’s knowledge. This global community – forming the majority population of 57 countries and spanning virtually every single country of the world – has had only three Nobel laureates in science in the […]
As many as 84 dead as truck hits crowd in Nice, France
Epigraph: Every human life is precious and sacred, killing one is like triggering a genocide. ( Al Quran 5:32/33) Many dead as lorry hits crowd in Nice Source: BBC A […]
