Mar 26,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – EDITORIAL Iraq could be facing a human and environmental disaster of great proportions if the Mosul Dam, on the Tigris River, is not attended to, and fast, US experts say. The deteriorating dam, which needs daily maintenance work, according to one of the engineers […]
TOKYO—Japan on Saturday opened its first bullet-train service to the northern island of Hokkaido, part of an extension of high-speed rail to more corners of the country frequented by tourists. The trains will travel through the Seikan Tunnel, one of the world’s longest, and connect Tokyo with some ski areas in Hokkaido […]
Source: Times of India DHAKA: Bangladesh will celebrate its 45th Independence Day on Saturday, March 26th, the day it emerged as a sovereign nation, breaking the shackles of suppression of […]
An Indian Muslim devotee offers prayers during Eid al-Adha at Jama Masjid in New Delhi, in this October 6, 2014 file photo. (AFP) ARAB NEWS Published — Friday 25 March 2016 Akifah Baxter, a former Christian based in the United States, once strolled through a bookstore in search for guidance […]
In this file photo, Saudi men talk and browse the Internet at a hotel in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (AP) ARAB NEWS Published — Saturday 26 March 2016 MADINAH: Harassment on the Internet among the country’s young people aged 13 to 26 has risen by 70 percent, fueled by the spread […]
Source: Voice Of America DHAKA, BANGLADESH—Thousands of Muslims rallied in Bangladesh’s capital on Friday to denounce a court petition seeking to remove Islam as the country’s official state religion. About […]
Source: Tribune Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Myanmar politician Aung San Suu Kyi recently lost her cool during an interview with BBC’s Mishal Husain. After getting grilled by the BBC presenter, […]
Thu Mar 24, 2016 A child cries as Palestinians salvage items from their home after it was demolished by Israeli bulldozers south of Hebron (al-Khalil) on Feb. 2, 2016. (AFP photo) The UN children’s agency, UNICEF, says some 87 million children under the age of seven are growing up in conflict zones across […]
EYAD ABU SHAKRA Published — Friday 25 March 2016 A few hours separated two events last week: The Arab League picked Ahmed Aboul-Gheit as new secretary-general and its foreign ministers labelled Hezbollah of Lebanon a terrorist organization. There is nothing untoward about Aboul-Gheit’s appointment as he is a veteran diplomat […]
White Helmets, a non-sectarian group of ordinary people, was officially formed in 2014 and now has 3,000 volunteers Women volunteers of the White Helmets, which is a group of unarmed men and women set up in 2014 to fill the voImage Credit: Whitehelmets.org White Helmets volunteers rescue children from a […]
By AP – Mar 24,2016 – JORDAN TIMES UNITED NATIONS — The UN’s top Mideast envoy warned on Thursday that a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict “is slipping through our fingers” as a result of Israel’s settlement building and confiscation of Palestinian land, and the lack of Palestinian unity. Nickolay […]
By Muath Freij – Mar 24,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Nadia Salem drives her taxi in Amman on Thursday (Photo by Muath Freij) AMMAN – As Nadia Salem drives her taxi on the streets of the capital, many drivers find it a strange sight. The looks of surprise from other […]
Mar 24,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMI G. KHOURI The complex situation across all of Syria has become ever more challenging with the recent announcement by major Kurdish parties that they are moving ahead with a plan to unite several disconnected areas across all of northern Syria into a semi-autonomous […]
Mar 24,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – EDITORIAL While the Syrian government delegation to the peace talks in Geneva rejects any discussion of the future of President Bashar Assad, opposition leaders insist he must go if a transition government is to be instated in the country, taking talks back to a […]
Mar 23,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – DAOUD KUTTAB The airlifting of a dozen-and-a-half Yemeni Jews to Israel last Monday received wide coverage. The action to evacuate 19 Yemenis to Israel is said to have included four stops and was done in cooperation with the US State Department. What happens to […]
By Reuters – Mar 23,2016 – JORDAN TIMES This file photo taken on March 14, 2014, shows a partial view of the ancient oasis city of Palmyra, 215 kilometres northeast of Damascus (AFP photo) BEIRUT — Syrian soldiers and their allies advanced to within 1km of Palmyra on Thursday and […]
Source: BBC By Jonathan Marcus; Diplomatic correspondent We are accustomed to thinking about policy in binary terms – domestic politics on the one hand, foreign affairs on the other. But […]
Source: Huffington Post On March 23, 1940 the All India Muslim League adopted a historic resolution in the city of Lahore. This resolution has since come to be known as […]
Source: International Business Times By Priyanka Mogul A number of British Lords have criticised India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi for supporting Hindu extremism. The concerns were raised in UK parliament […]
By Reuters – Mar 23,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Staffan de Mistura, United Nations Special Envoy of the Secretary General for Syria, arrives for a meeting with the delegation of the High Negotiations Committee during the Syria peace talks at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday (AP photo) […]