Mosque-centred strategy to start next year in challenge to Home Office’s unpopular Prevent programme The Makkah Masjid Mosque in Leeds. Under the new programme mosques will be the key point of contact for the counter-radicalisation scheme. Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian Vikram Dodd Police and crime correspondent Wednesday […]
By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO and GAIA PIANIGIANIOCT. 25, 2016 An urn containing the cremated remains of a Roman Catholic priest during a funeral Mass in Mexico last month. The church allows cremation as long as it is done in accordance with Christian doctrine.CreditAlan Ortega/Reuters VATICAN CITY — Ashes to ashes is […]
First major exhibit on the Qur’an in the US, at the Smithsonian’s Sackler Gallery in Washington, displays manuscripts over a period of almost a millennium The Qur’an commissioned by Mongol ruler Uljaytu in Baghdad in the early 1300s and brought back to Istanbul by Suleiman the Magnificent. Photograph: Neil […]
By Mónica Zorita de la Morena Djibouti, Djibouti, Oct 25, 2016 / 12:03 am (Aid to the Church in Need).- “Even if work has to be done silently, it is […]
Source: Time By Geoffrey Smith China alone installed two wind turbines per hour and 500,000 solar panels a day last year. Solar power now accounts for more installed capacity than any […]
Source: Time By Alice Park Colonoscopy may be getting all the attention as the preferred way to screen for colon cancer, but a tried-and-true method that doesn’t require a hospital visit […]
Source: Time By Katie Reilly Two weeks away from Election Day, nearly half of American voters are experiencing election-related stress, according to a new poll. The ABC News poll found that 46% of likely voters said the 2016 election is stressful. Half of those voters said it had caused them “serious […]
Source: Time Budget air carrier IndiGo recently announced kid-free Quiet Zones on its flights, adding to an ever-growing list of airlines creating adults-only spaces. It’s a controversial move. Some customers and airlines say the policy gives people traveling for business a better chance to get work done or grab a nap. Others think the policy is […]
Published October 25, 2016 Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad addresses Canada’s first National Peace Symposium On 22 October 2016, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad delivered the keynote address at the 1st National Peace Symposium hosted by the Ahmadiyya […]
Source: Time By Abdul Sattar (QUETTA, Pakistan) — Militants wearing suicide vests stormed a Pakistani police academy in the southwestern city of Quetta overnight, killing at least 59 people, mostly police […]
OCT. 25, 2016 (AFP/File) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — International Relations Commissioner for the Fatah movement Nabil Shaath called on Palestinians to begin a full-fledged consumer boycott of Israel in an interview with The Arab Weekly on Tuesday. “A consumer boycott should be the Palestinians’ weapon against Israel,” the newspaper quoted Shaath […]
By DAVE PHILIPPSOCT. 24, 2016 Capt. Christopher Van Meter in Iraq. Now a teacher in Modesto, Calif., he is repaying $46,000.Creditvia Christopher Van Meter After 21 years in the military, three deployments, and a roadside bomb blast that left him bleeding and unconscious, Christopher Van Meter got a letter […]
Source: Time By Alice Park Once a liar, always a liar, the old saying goes. Turns out there’s some scientific truth to that: researchers have tracked down how the brain makes lying easier as the untruths build up, providing some biological evidence for why small lies often balloon into ever larger […]
Published time: 22 Oct, 2016 Get short URL http://on.rt.com/7soi The Russian Ministry of Defense says that the US-led coalition is responsible for striking mourners in the Iraqi city of Daquq on Friday, killing dozens of civilians, including women and children. The coalition jets apparently identified the mourning procession as […]
York University researchers reviewed data from 81,902 traffic stops involving Ottawa residents CBC News Posted: Oct 24, 2016 1:00 PM ET Last Updated: Oct 24, 2016 6:28 PM ET Middle Eastern and black drivers — particularly young men — were far more likely to be stopped by Ottawa police than other drivers, […]
Source: The Local Among the 35 people with diplomatic passports who applied for asylum with the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF), there were also spouses and children, the Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) reports.The Interior Ministry also noted that there are no definitive statistics on the number of asylum applications […]
First major exhibit on the Qur’an in the US, at the Smithsonian’s Sackler Gallery in Washington, displays manuscripts over a period of almost a millennium The Qur’an commissioned by Mongol ruler Uljaytu in Baghdad in the early 1300s and brought back to Istanbul by Suleiman the Magnificent. Photograph: Neil Greentree […]
Source: The Guardian By Ed Pilkington in Atlanta, Georgia Craig Baxam was lost. He thought he was in a town in northern Kenya called Marareme, though really he didn’t have a […]
Source: Associated Press ROME (AP) — Hundreds of Muslims have gathered near Rome’s Colosseum to pray and protest the closures of mosques and other places of worship. An imam led […]
Source: The Atlantic By DAVID A. GRAHAM ALEXANDRIA, Va.—This Democratic headquarters one warm October night could have been practically anywhere in the country. Volunteers crammed into a dingy, decrepit office suite, […]