Security officials assured the writer that he was safe – when he was clearly still at great risk. And then, within hours, his blood was running down the steps of the Amman court Robert Fisk @indyvoices Thursday 21 September 2017 Nahed Hattar was shot dead in Amman on 25 September […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY HANNAH FINGERHUT While a large majority of Americans rate police officers positively on a 0-to-100 “feeling thermometer,” whites and blacks differ widely in their views, including […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY DREW DESILVER U.S. politicians say they revere the Constitution, but that doesn’t mean they don’t have plenty of ideas for changing it. Since 1999, 742 proposed amendments […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY ABBY BUDIMAN AND DREW DESILVER Public debt has increased sharply in many countries in recent years, particularly during and after the Great Recession. Globally, the total amount of […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY ANTONIO FLORES The Latino population in the United States has reached nearly 58 million in 2016 and has been the principal driver of U.S. demographic growth, accounting for […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY KIM PARKER AND RENEE STEPLER In about a third of married or cohabiting couples in the United States, women bring in half or more of the earnings, a […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY DOROTHY MANEVICH Supporters of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, top candidate for the conservative Christian Democratic Union party in the upcoming general elections, hold up posters to […]
Source: Pew Research Center About half of Europe’s 2015-16 asylum applicants had decisions still pending at end of 2016 BY PHILLIP CONNOR A refugee child at the Berlin administration facility for […]
Source: Pew Research Center Duterte and his war on drugs are seen positively by most Filipinos BY JACOB POUSHTER AND CALDWELL BISHOP Rodrigo Duterte claimed the presidency of the Philippines in May 2016, […]
Source: Pew Research Center A majority of Americans rely on general outlets for science news but more say specialty sources get the facts right about science BY CARY FUNK, JEFFREY GOTTFRIED AND AMY MITCHELL […]
Source: CNN By Nadia Kounang, CNN (CNN)Increased levels of prenatal fluoride exposure may be associated with lower cognitive function in children, a new study says. The study, published Tuesday […]
Video: Are the Muslim women closing the gender gap in Tunisia? The Muslim Times has the best collection of articles, promoting secularism and the Muslim women’s rights Source: Al Jazeerah […]
The Islamabad High Court (IHC) rejected on Friday a petition seeking the disqualification of MNA Ayesha Gulalai as a lawmaker. The court decided that the petition filed against Gulalai by Advocate Kulsoom Khaliq was not maintainable. Earlier, Justice Amir Farooq of the IHC heard the petitioner, who submitted that Gulalai had levelled […]
Canada Post and India Post mark Diwali, Festival of Lights Joint stamp issue is a historic first for these two postal services Posted on Sept. 21, 2017 by Canada Post in News Releases TORONTO […]
Indianexpress.com http://indianexpress.com/article/india/contract-marriage-raids-police-arrest-eight-arab-sheikhs-in-hyderabad-who-wanted-to-marry-minor-girls/Two other local qazis who performed fake marriages recently have also been arrested. Cops sealed several residence-cum-guesthouses in Falaknuma and Chandrayangutta area. (Express photo) In a major crackdown on contract marriages racket involving old Arab sheikhs “marrying” local teenage Muslim girls, Hyderabad Police raided several guesthouses and lodges and […]
fra.europa.eu: The vast majority of Muslims in the EU have a high sense of trust in democratic institutions despite experiencing widespread discrimination and harassment, a major survey by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) shows. The survey captures the experiences of Muslim immigrants and their EU-born children, revealing […]
Source: Huffington Post By Susanne Klaiber & Julius Zimmer HuffPost Germany An important group is rarely asked about the topic of Islam in Germany: Muslims themselves. Germans head to the polls […]
James White and Michael Brown debate the central issue of God’s Sovereignty and Election at Southern Evangelical Seminary in Charlotte, North Carolina. Predestination may become a less of a dilemma […]
Mob in Myanmar blocks relief supplies while fatal road accident hits truck carrying food to refugees in Bangladesh. Rohingya refugees wait for aid in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh [Danish Siddiqui/Reuters] Police in Myanmar have clashed with a mob blocking an aid shipment in Rakhine state while nine people have died in […]
Source: BBC News BY Matt McGrath Environment correspondent The succession of intense and deadly tropical cyclones that have barrelled across the Atlantic in recent weeks have left many people wondering if a […]