By Yolande KnellBBC News, Jerusalem 13 May 2013 From the sectionMiddle East These are external links and will open in a new window Image captionThe Tamar drilling platform sits 25km off the coast of Israel For decades, it seemed that most countries of the Levant, east of the Mediterranean Sea, […]
Contrary to initial claims girl’s rapid improvement indicates she was recently abandoned by her carers The young girl treated at a Bahraich hospital in northern India. Photograph: KK Productions/AP Michael Safi in Dehli @safimichael Saturday 8 April 2017 The discovery of a girl reportedly living with monkeys in the […]
Source: The Guardian Campaigners point out that substances used to manufacture the nerve agent were exported to Damascus in the 80s Syrian chemical weapons being removed from the country on a Danish cargo ship in 2014. Photograph: Petros Karadjias/AP By Jamie Doward Evidence that the sarin nerve agent was used in […]
Source: Religion News Service By Adelle M. Banks (RNS) For the first time, a majority of Americans has voiced concern about violence against Jews, polling by the Anti-Defamation League shows.While […]
BY ISMAILIMAIL POSTED ON APRIL 7, 2017 Source: Arab News by Lisa Kaaki For many years, “Cairo City of Sand,” an enlightened stroll across the illusive layers of Cairo, exquisitely […]
Source: The Guardian Mona Mahmood, Jess Gormley, Dan Susman and Iman Amrani, theguardian.com Following the ruling by the European court of justice to allow employers to ban religious symbols in […]
BY ISMAILIMAIL POSTED ON APRIL 8, 2017 Source: Edmonton Journal by Juris Graney Aga Khan drops multi-million dollar gift on University of Alberta North America’s largest — and possibly the […]
This guide is for families preparing for imminent terrorist or strategic nuclear attacks with expected blast destruction followed by widespread radioactive fallout downwind. (If attack NOT imminent, then first go […]
Source: The Guardian By Peter Walker and Decca Aitkenhead Jeremy Corbyn and senior Labour figures around him must not “faff around” and should unreservedly condemn Ken Livingstone for his comments linking […]
Source: Time BY JENNIFER DUGGAN / SPITSBERGEN Deep in the bowels of an icy mountain on an island above the Arctic Circle between Norway and the North Pole lies a […]
Source: BBC Scientists have captured a dramatic and violent image of the collision between two young stars that tore apart their stellar nursery. Located in the constellation of Orion, the […]
Source: Time BY Katy Steinmetz America’s neighbor to the north is fast moving toward legalizing recreational marijuana nationwide, which would make Canada the second country in the world to do so. […]
Source: BBC By Joobin Bekhrad 6 April 2017 Talk of ‘us’ and ‘them’ has long dominated Iran-related politics in the West. At the same time, Christianity has frequently been used […]
April 5, 2017 Ron Paul has accused the British and US governments of staging a false flag chemical attack in Syria in an attempt to topple President Bashar al-Assad. In an interview with defense policy advisor Daniel McAdams, the former Congressman says the alleged chemical attack that killed dozens of […]
If the U.S. had 100 people: Charting Americans’ religious beliefs and practices Source: PEW Research Center While 89% believe in God, only 55% believe in heaven and hell BY ALEKSANDRA […]
Source: CNBC By Christina Farr | @chrissyfarr Vinod Khosla once proclaimed that machines will replace 80 percent of doctors, which prompted waves of backlash from the medical community. Never one to […]
Over (only) 8,000 polygamy applications given green light since 2010: Malaysia Published 7:05 AM, MARCH 20, 2017 KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysia’s Shariah courts have allowed 8,808 cases of Muslim husbands who […]
APR 7, 2017 – US President Donald Trump announcing the missile strike on Thursday (Keystone) Switzerland has urged the international community to tackle the escalating Syrian crisis through diplomatic means rather than military confrontation. The statement follows United States missile strikes on a Syrian airfield suspected of launching an earlier […]
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL A French woman successfully gave birth mid-flight with the help of the cabin crew on a Turkish Airlines flight on Friday as the aircraft was on its […]
ARDA SAYINER@ardasayiner ISTANBUL Çemberlitaş Bath From the conquest of Constantinople on, the Ottoman Empire built thousands of public baths in every corner of the city as well as in Anatolian […]
