Source: BBC Toshiba chairman Shigenori Shiga has resigned, hours after the Japanese conglomerate revealed details of a multi-billion dollar loss. Earlier Toshiba had delayed issuing its results, but it then […]
theguardian: by Emma Graham-Harrison — Khatoon Khider used to be a popular Yazidi singer. Now she’s the head of an all-women battle unit with Isis in its sights Long before Khatoon Khider took up a gun, she became famous for singing about another woman who went to war, a tragic […]
Source: http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/peace-world-need-time-ju-vc/ Ahmadiyya Muslims organize conference Posted on 13/02/2017 by Dailyexcelsior | Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, Feb 12: Various intellectuals and religious personalities from various communities and faiths today stressed the need for the world peace, love, tolerance and brotherhood at a conference on peace, organised by Ahmadiyya Muslim community here today. The conference […]
Reuters International FEB 13, 2017 – Anies Baswedan gestures during an interview in Jakarta December 1, 2014. REUTERS/Pius Erlangga (reuters_tickers) By Kanupriya Kapoor and Fergus Jensen JAKARTA (Reuters) – A former Indonesian education minister backed by the main opposition party has quietly made gains in the race to become the […]
Source: http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-education-a-must-for-peace-say-speakers-at-symposium-2320104 Education a must for peace, say speakers at symposium ASHUTOSH M SHUKLA | Sun, 12 Feb 2017-07:05am , Mumbai , DNA Almost all speakers at a peace symposium on Saturday stated that there is need for education across all religions for better understanding and peaceful relations among followers. They […]
Source: Asia Review ‘Jakarta will be led by a Muslim leader who submits to the will of Allah’ Protesters pray at a rally against Jakarta incumbent governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama […]
Source: Time By Jill Colvin (PALM BEACH, Fla.) — Already in a domestic battle over his immigration order, President Donald Trump now faces a fresh foreign provocation in his first weeks […]
Source: CNN Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was thousands of miles away from home, but Kim Jong Un’s message was loud and clear — think twice before getting too cozy with the new US President. Abe, who is visiting the United States, and Japan were likely the main audience for […]
Source. Dawn Let’s assume Bajwa is inclined towards an overall policy rethink — towards a militancy-free Pakistan, in all shapes and manifestations. But then in strides the American behemoth once again, knocking heads around, demanding actions, threatening and intimidating — all because it wants its (muddled) way in Afghanistan. That […]
Mr Tanoesoedibjo has launched his own political party in Indonesia eyeing up the 2019 elections Rebecca Flood 2 hours ago An Indonesian businessman who attended Donald Trump’s inauguration has reportedly been bragging about his access to the president as he launches his own political career. Hary Tanoesoedibjo is a business partner of […]
Source: http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/mumbai/Ahmadiyyas-on-a-mission-to-spread-Islam%E2%80%99s-virtues/article17243625.ece Jyoti Shelar | MUMBAI: FEBRUARY 08, 2017 00:48 IST A tiny community in the city is spearheading a massive campaign to propagate the true meaning and teachings of Islam. The Ahmadiyya community, a sect of Sunni Muslims, feels their religion has been misunderstood in the backdrop of terror attacks across the […]
Source: Dawn “A SPECTRE is haunting Europe — the spectre of Communism. All the Powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre.” If adapted to the situation we now face, and have witnessed in the last three decades and more, these opening lines of […]
Reuters International FEB 11, 2017 – Protesters pray during a rally against Jakarta incumbent governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama inside Istiqlal mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia, February 11, 2017. REUTERS/Beawiharta (reuters_tickers) By Johan Purnama and Agustinus Beo Da Costa JAKARTA (Reuters) – Thousands of Indonesians gathered on Saturday at a mosque […]
Source: Associated Press By GERRY SHIH Yesterday BEIJING (AP) — The head of the Catholic church in Hong Kong has expressed optimism that the Vatican and Beijing can overcome the […]
Source: The Guardian Neo-Maoists have launched an online crusade against a “Christianity theme park” that recently opened in the southern Chinese city where Mao Zedong “converted” to communism. The park […]
Source: ET Intolerance against minorities has increased in India under the premiership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) said on Wednesday. The American body analysed mounting concerns over the fate of minorities in the secular country, highlighting constitutional laws which violate religious freedom of […]
Reuters International FEB 10, 2017 – (reuters_tickers) By Tom Allard and Agustinus Beo Da Costa JAKARTA (Reuters) – As a few hundred protesters held a rally outside his home in an upscale Jakarta neighbourhood this week, Indonesia’s former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono took to twitter to vent his […]
Source: Dawn Take the month of January. Open-source reporting suggests that, excluding lone-wolf operations that may or may not have been inspired by IS, the organisation mounted at least 37 separate attacks in nine different countries: Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Yemen, Egypt, Afghanistan, Libya and Somalia. IS also attempted an […]