Please refer to the video showing the President of Myanmar opening the Book Fair: Report from the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Myanmar: “The Glad Tiding Literature” run by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, Myanmar had successfully put up a 3 days book stall at the Nobel Myanmar Literary Festival […]
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL File Photo A group of researchers headed by Wits University geologist Professor Lewis Ashwal have revealed that a lost continent is buried under the island of Mauritius. Their new study, which focused on the break-up process of the continents to understand the planet’s geological history, was published […]
DAILY SABAH WITH ANADOLU AGENCY ISTANBUL Bana Alabed (L), settled in Turkey she arrived from Aleppo with her family. Bana Alabed, 7, a Syrian girl whose Twitter posts on life during wartime in Aleppo made her a phenomenon, pleaded to U.S. President Donald Trump to lift the ban on Syrians. […]
Feb 01,2017 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL US President Donald Trump said last week that he “will absolutely do safe zones in Syria”, intended to protect the displaced, vulnerable Syrians and, presumably, put an end to the flow of refugees to the West, the US included. The departments of state and […]
Feb 01,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Michael Jansen It is significant that there have been demonstrations at airports and in cities across the US against Donald Trump’s decree banning citizens from seven mainly Muslim countries from entering the US for months until “extreme vetting” procedures decide who may be admitted. US […]
Reuters International FEB 2, 2017 – DAY 9 / JANUARY 28: Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Trump agreed to try to rebuild U.S.-Russia ties and to cooperate in Syria, the Kremlin said, after the two men spoke for the first time since Trump’s inauguration. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (reuters_tickers) By […]
FACT CHECK By Geraldine Wong Sak Hoi FEB 2, 2017 Some campaigners claim that Islamist extremists could obtain the Swiss passport under a proposed facilitated naturalisation procedure, as this poster from the youth wing of the Swiss People’s Party in canton Schwyz shows. (jsvp-sz.ch) Misinformation has been a recurring feature […]
Source: Swissinfo.ch and agencies/ts A plane from Swiss International Air Lines flying from Zurich to Los Angeles has made an emergency landing at Iqaluit in northern Canada. The landing went smoothly and all passengers and crew are safe. A technical problem caused the left engine of the Boeing 777-300ER to […]
Source: Time By Alexandra Sifferlin Spending time in nature can work wonders for human health, from lowering blood pressure and stress hormones to sparking feelings of awe. Growing research suggests it […]
Source: Time By Josh Sanburn Texas’s governor blocked funding this week to Travis County — home to Austin — over the county’s refusal to cooperate with federal authorities on detaining undocumented immigrants. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott withheld $1.5 million in grant money on Wednesday after Travis County Sheriff Sally Hernandez […]
Source: BBC By Jo Marchant From Mosaic 2 February 2017 Ana Maria has never been to Machu Picchu. The 61-year-oldalways wanted to visit the mountain ruins but she suffers from […]
Source: BBC A phone call between US President Donald Trump and Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull has called into question a refugee resettlement deal. The Washington Post reported Mr Trump called […]
Source: BBC Women in America walked in the shoes of Muslim women by wearing a hijab for World Hijab Day. The BBC asked non-Muslim women why they decided to don […]
Source: The New York Times BY SCOTT SHANE, MATTHEW ROSENBERG and ERIC LIPTON WASHINGTON — It was at a campaign rally in August that President Trump most fully unveiled the […]
Source: Associated Press By PHILIP MARCELO BOSTON (AP) — A nationwide campaign to get more Muslim Americans involved in local politics is being launched by a Massachusetts nonprofit. Jetpac Inc. […]
Source: The Washington Post By Sarah Pulliam Bailey Ask an evangelical why he voted for President Trump and chances are high he will say it was because of the Supreme […]
Source: The New York Times WASHINGTON — President Trump vowed Thursday to overturn a law restricting political speech by tax-exempt churches, a potentially huge victory for the religious right and […]
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla; Associate Religion Editor September 11 Families: Don’t Use Our Loved Ones To Turn Away Refugees | The Huffington Post “This is not about protecting […]
Source: Wasim Shah, outreach coordinator for the West Birmingham Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, said it was vital that the UK kept open ‘channels for discussion’ with Mr Trump.The US President provoked worldwide outrage when he enacted an order barring immigrants from seven majority-Muslim countries from visiting the US, and blocking entry […]
Source: The Daily Beast On the dark and cloudy morning in Brooklyn after Donald Trump’s election-night upset, 20 members of the nonprofit Make the Road New York gathered in the conference room of their office for an all-hands emergency meeting. The Latino and working-class organizing group, which specializes in immigrant […]