Trade wars and an arms race will give way to world disorder
Mar 06,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – OSAMA AL SHARIF The month of March began with a sinister sense of déjà vu at a global level. US President Donald Trump’s threat […]
Facing inevitable dead end
Mar 06,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Hasan Abu Nimah If what was published last Monday on the electronic Arabic daily, “Rai Al Youm,” about Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas […]
Hope among the ruins of Aleppo’s cultural heritage
Experts say a third of ancient Syrian city destroyed, but much can be restored Fri, Mar 17, 2017, Michael Jansen in Aleppo The ancient Aleppo Citadel was only lightly damaged. […]
Hindu woman elected to Pakistan’s senate in historic first
Source: Associated Press By ZARAR KHAN ISLAMABAD (AP) — A woman from Pakistan’s marginalized Hindu minority has been elected to the senate for the first time ever in an election […]
China Presses Its Internet Censorship Efforts Across the Globe
Source: The New York Times By PAUL MOZUR Photo China is using its status as home to the world’s largest population of internet users to help get what it wants outside […]
World’s longest-jailed journalist freed after 19 years as Uzbekistan’s President ends confessions under torture
Source: Independent BY Jane Dalton Human-rights activists are celebrating after the world’s longest-imprisoned journalist was freed after 19 years in jail in Uzbekistan. Yusuf Ruzimuradov was tortured and underwent a bogus trial on […]
India: King Abdulla speaks at Islamic Conference
Source: New Age Islam A conference was held today (1st March 2018) at New Delhi’s Vigyan Bhawan on ‘Islamic Heritage: Promoting Understanding and Moderation’. The Prime Narendra Modi attended the […]
‘Court can order govt to legislate against non-Muslims pretending to be Muslims in paperwork’
Source: Dawn By Muhammad Imran Senior lawyer and expert on law affairs Akram Shaikh on Friday told the Islamabad High Court (IHC) that a constitutional court has the authority to […]
Election Act case: IHC summons travel records of 6,000 ‘Ahmadis’
By Rizwan Shehzad Published: February 28, 2018 PHOTO: EXPRESS ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court on Tuesday ordered the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to submit the travel history of people who changed their religious status from ‘Muslim’ to ‘Ahmadi’, as listed in an earlier report compiled by the National Database and Registration […]
Collapse of Iran nuclear deal would be ‘great loss’, IAEA tells Trump
Reuters International This content was published on March 5, 2018 International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Yukiya Amano gestures during an interview with Reuters at the IAEA headquarters in Vienna, Austria September 26, 2017. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger (reuters_tickers) By Francois Murphy VIENNA (Reuters) – A collapse of the Iran nuclear […]
To Putin, Assad’s enemies in Syria are the same as Russia’s in Chechnya
For the Russian President, those Chechens who resisted his firepower inside Russia are merely continuing their struggle inside a Russian ally further to the south Robert Fisk @indyvoices Putin was trying to restore Chechnya to Russian sovereignty. In Ghouta – or in Aleppo – he was and is trying to […]
China NPC: Economy growth target ‘around 6.5%’ in 2018
Source: BBC News China has set its 2018 economic growth target at “around 6.5%”. The figure, announced at the opening session of the annual National People’s Congress, is in line with the […]
Five Centuries After Reformation, Catholic-Protestant Divide in Western Europe Has Faded
Source: Pew Research Center from August 2017 As Protestants prepare to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, a new Pew Research Center survey finds that the prevailing view among […]
War on terror is all faiths’ fight against ideology of hatred – King of Jordan
Source: Jordan Times – March 2, 2018 AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah on Thursday underlined that the global anti-terrorism war is not a fight between different religions or peoples […]
Huawei’s AI phone tested by driving car at dog
Source: BBC News Huawei has turned one of its phones into a dog-collision avoidance system for cars as part of an unusual publicity campaign. The Chinese firm invited BBC’s Rory […]
iQiyi, the Netflix of China, is going public in the US
Source: CNN News By Sherisse Pham The Netflix of China is ready for Wall Street. Video streaming site iQiyi is getting ready for an IPO on the Nasdaq under the […]
Rohingya refugees test Bangladeshi welcome as prices rise and repatriation stalls
Source: Reuters By Clare Baldwin, Andrew R.C. Marshall KUTUPALONG REFUGEE CAMP, Bangladesh (Reuters) – The first Rohingya refugees who arrived on Jorina Katun’s farmland in Bangladesh last year were worn out and traumatized after fleeing violence in neighboring Myanmar. They wept and begged to stay, and Katun, moved by their plight, […]
Indonesian Christians Flogged in Rare Shariah Punishment for Non-Muslims
Source: Wall Street Journal By Ben Otto and Anita Rachman Updated Feb. 28, 2018 12:51 p.m. ET JAKARTA—Two Indonesian Christians were publicly whipped for gambling, a rare case of non-Muslims being punished […]
India temple stirs controversy for ‘piercing’ children’s bodies
Source: BBC News A Hindu temple ritual in which boys aged between five and 12 years are pierced with metal hooks is stirring controversy in India after a senior police […]