Jersey City shooting suspects “targeted” kosher grocery store, mayor says
Dec 11, 2019 3:25 PM EST The mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey, said a shootout that unfolded there Tuesday was the result of a “targeted” attack on a kosher […]
Religion News Foundation welcomes interim leader
Source: RNS NEW YORK — Religion News Foundation announced today that Jerry Pattengale has been named interim CEO and President of Religion News Foundation (RNF), and CEO and Publisher of its subsidiary Religion News Service (RNS). He replaces Thomas L. Gallagher. “We thank Tom for his contributions to RNF and […]
Iran will bypass U.S. sanctions or overcome them through talks – Rouhani
Dec 11, 2019 – http://www.swissinfo.ch DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran will overcome U.S. sanctions by either bypassing them or through negotiations, and it will not cross its red lines in any […]
Suu Kyi tell U.N.’s top court charge of Rohingya genocide is “misleading”
Dec 11, 2019 – 13:14 By Shoon Lei Win Naing and Toby Sterling THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday rejected accusations of genocide committed […]
Prof. Atif Mian: How to Fix Pakistan’s Crashing Economy
Courtesy: Azhar Ahmad, USA Source: NY Times By Prof. Atif Mian (@atifrmian) is John H. Laporte Jr. Class of 1967 Professor of Economics, Public Policy and Finance at Princeton University […]
Gunman goes on rampage at Czech hospital, kills six, himself
Source: Dawn PRAGUE: A gunman killed himself on Tuesday after shooting dead six patients at a hospital in the eastern Czech city of Ostrava, in what the premier has called “an immense tragedy”. The attacker gunned down people at close range at the trauma ward of the Faculty Hospital in […]
Ground Zero of the Brexit Class War
Source: Spiegel It’s a daunting task. Since the 1980s, when the north rose up against Margaret Thatcher, the Tories have largely been considered unelectable in the region. But Brexit has muddled the situation. After decades of deindustrialization and globalization, residents of the former coal-mining region voted by a large majority […]
Malta Emerges as the EU’s Next Problem Child
Source: Spiegel Malta, the European Union’s smallest member state, generally stays out of the headlines. Two-and-a-half years ago, DER SPIEGEL and other European media outlets involved with European Investigative Collaborations (EIC) published the “Malta Files,” which revealed how German companies were able to save on taxes by establishing themselves on […]
Why a Deal with the Taliban May Be Inevitable
Source: Spiegel It’s a clear, warm autumn morning, and hundreds have gathered to pay their last respects to Najmullah, the revered commander of the militia in the village of Warduj, who fell in the battle against the Taliban. It is said that Najmullah never showed fear, that he always encouraged […]
Op-Ed Shireen Mazari and human rights
Yasser Latif Hamdani @theRealYLH December 9, 2019 No one gave Shireen Mazari the memo that she is neither the Foreign Minister nor the Defence Minister of Pakistan. She holds […]
Can Pakistan escape its economic curse?
“In the last 60 years Pakistan’s economy has crashed 13 times,” explained Professor Atif Mian during a talk at the University of California, Berkley, on October 25, “and every […]
‘Awarding Nobel to Handke encourages Islam’s enemies’
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says awarding Austrian writer with Nobel Prize is ‘shame, disgrace’ By Jeyhun Aliyev and Sibel Morrow Awarding the Nobel Prize to Peter Handke will only […]
Do Religious or Spiritual People Make More Ethical Employees?
Source: Qrius By Subramaniam Ananthram, Senior Lecturer, International Business, Curtin University and Christopher Chan, Associate Professor of Human Resource Management, York University, Canada Can religion and spirituality promote ethical behaviour in the workplace? It’s […]
India: Citizenship Bill Discriminates Against Muslims
Source: Human Rights Watch Draft Law Favors Hindus, Other Non-Muslim Immigrants The Indian government’s proposed law to grant citizenship based on religion violates India’s international legal obligations, Human Rights Watch […]
Video: Director of the famous Godfather movie about the Holy Quran
Francis Ford Coppola (/ˈkɒpələ/,[1][2][3] Italian: [ˈkɔppola]; born April 7, 1939)[4] is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, film composer, and vintner. He was a central figure in the New Hollywood filmmaking movement of the 1960s and 1970s. He is widely considered […]