Source: The New York Times By JOE COCHRANE JAKARTA, Indonesia — When the head of a prominent Islamic university in Indonesia banned the face-concealing niqab headdress on campus this month, calling […]
Source: The Guardian By Alison Flood Author and the Centre for Inquiry planning free ebook versions of his books in Arabic, Urdu, Farsi and Indonesian following a ‘stirring towards atheism’ in […]
Source: Associated Press By ARITZ PARRA MADRID (AP) — A Vatican crackdown on the commercial use of its name and official emblems has encountered resistance from a Spanish website that […]
Source: Youtube TED Talks Cambridge researcher Aubrey de Grey argues that aging is merely a disease — and a curable one at that. Humans age in seven basic ways, he […]
Source: Time By ELI MEIXLER March 20, 2018 The world’s last male northern white rhino has died, according to a Kenyan wildlife conservatory and anti-poaching NGO WildAid, spelling the likely extinction for […]
Source: Time By ALICE PARK March 19, 2018 TIME Health For more, visit TIME Health. Researchers reported encouraging results for a stem cell transplant for multiple sclerosis (MS) that some doctors and […]
Source: BBC News Chinese President Xi Jinping has delivered a fervently nationalistic closing speech to parliament, painting China as the rising global power. Mr Xi said “achieving total unity” was […]
Source: BBC News US President Donald Trump has said that a series of deadly bombings in Texas were carried out by “sick people”, and also pledged justice for the victims. […]
Source: MSN News Sydney Maki and Alexandria Sage An Uber self-driving car hit and killed a woman crossing the street in Arizona, police said on Monday, marking the first fatality […]
Source: Time By ANDREW SANTELLA March 19, 2018 IDEAS Andrew Santella is the author of Soon: An Overdue History of Procrastination, from Leonardo and Darwin to You and Me. This article would […]
Source: The Washington Post By CATHERINE PORTER CALGARY, Alberta — As leader of one of Canada’s largest refugee agencies, Fariborz Birjandian, a refugee himself, has years of experience welcoming the world’s […]
Source: NPR BY ELEANOR BEARDSLEY Patrick Desbois, a Roman Catholic priest, has spent the last 15 years investigating and uncovering the details of Nazi massacres across Eastern Europe and Russia, crimes […]
Source: BBC News Cardinal Keith O’Brien, formerly the Catholic Church’s most senior cleric in Britain, has died at the age of 80. The cardinal, who resigned as Archbishop of St Andrews […]
Source: ET A few days ago, the whole world witnessed the epitome of political hypocrisy when the chief propagandist of a Muslim travel ban was warmly welcomed by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques in Islam. As a result, the Saudi-government invited taunts on social media for allegedly honouring […]
DAILY SABAH WITH AGENCIES ISTANBUL In this Feb. 13, 2018 file photo, Palestinian protest icon Ahed Tamimi is in a courtroom at the Ofer military prison near Jerusalem. (AP […]
MUHITTIN ATAMAN @MuhittinAtaman After the Arab revolutions and insurgencies started, all strong republican regimes, which were known as the main carriers of Arab nationalism, collapsed. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) began to claim the leadership of the splintering Arab world. These two states tried to reverse […]
Reuters International This content was published on March 20, 2018 2:42 PMMar 20, 2018 – 14:42 LONDON (Reuters) – Tehran denied on Tuesday allegations made by Saudi Crown Prince […]
By Bill Harby This content was published on March 18, 2018 In 1998, construction workers excavating for a car park uncovered archaeological artifacts dating back to about 11,000 BCE […]
Reuters International This content was published on March 19, 2018 4:28 PMMar 19, 2018 – 16:28 By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) – The United States’ nominee to lead […]
Source: The Washington Times By Austin Davis – Special to The Washington Times BERLIN — Popular anger at her refugee policies cost German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s long-dominant conservative bloc dearly […]