TOM ESSLEMONT | REUTERS Published — Sunday 17 January 2016 LONDON: A $15 billion shortfall in global humanitarian aid could be addressed by tapping into innovative sources of finance, such as smartphone apps, the football industry and wealthy Islamic donors, a United Nations panel of experts said on Sunday. Despite […]
By Suzanna Goussous – Jan 16,2016 -JORDAN TIMES A view of Rmeimeen town north of Amman on Friday where a mosque stands next to a church in the mixed Muslim-Christian community (Petra photo) AMMAN — Church bells rang in Balqa’s Rmeimeen town on Friday in celebration of the opening […]
Source: ET It is time our parliamentarians started making laws that reflect the country’s realities instead of being browbeaten by the pronouncements of a body that is only supposed to have an advisory role. PHOTO: AFP The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) is a constitutional body that advises the legislature […]
Jan 17,2016 -JORDAN TIMES His Majesty King Abdullah drew a distinction between Daesh and khawarej (outlaws of Islam), making clear that the former, called by most of the West ISIS in Syria and Iraq, “can be defeated fairly quickly”, but the latter, “what I call the third world war by […]
By Mohammad Ghazal – Jan 16,2016 -JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — A cartoon published by Her Majesty Queen Rania in response to the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo’s mocking of the three-year-old Syrian boy found dead on a Turkish beach last year went viral over the weekend. On her Facebook […]
Epigraph: Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. (Matthew 5:9) By Don Melvin and Michael Martinez (CNN) Iran has completed the necessary steps in a deal […]
Asiapacific.anu.edu.au: It’s an old enemy of Wahhabism. But is Indonesia’s Nahdlatul Ulama and its project of tolerant, peaceful Islam an antidote to the extremism of Islamic State? A statement late last year by Islamic State’s spokesman and senior leader, Sheikh Abu Muhammad Al Adnani, drew attention mainly because of his […]
The Indepedent: Do you recognise this man? He appears a world-away from western representations of Jesus Christ but using forensic data from the skulls of ancient first century Jewish men, […]
Source: BBC Tsai Ing-wen has been elected Taiwan’s first female president. Ms Tsai, 59, leads the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) that wants independence from China. In her victory speech, she […]
Source: The Independent A move to ban child marriages in Pakistan has been withdrawn after meeting staunch resistance from a religious body, which branded the bill as “anti-Islamic”. The ruling […]
AFP — DAWN.COM ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said that Pakistan would eradicate ‘evil’ honour killings as he congratulated director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy on her Oscar nomination for a harrowing documentary on the practice. ‘A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness’, which follows the story of a rare survivor, was […]
IMRAN GABOL — PUBLISHED 18 MINUTES AGO LAHORE: Local police on Saturday arrested the imam of a mosque on terror charges in relation to the incident involving a 15-year-old boy who had cut off his own hand believing he had committed blasphemy. On Friday night a first information report (FIR No. […]
Just add sage The regime is trying to preserve a cuisine few people have heard of Jan 16th 2016 | BEIJING | From the print edition Great brain, great prawns […]
Reuters International JAN 16, 2016 – 09:01 ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) – Iraq is unlikely to undertake an offensive to recapture the northern city of Mosul from Islamic State this year because its armed forces are not ready for the task, the Kurdistan region’s deputy prime minister said in an interview. […]
Kerala-born young entrepreneur Mustafa is expanding his company by bringing Indian cuisine to the Middle East P.C. Mustafa.Image Credit: Courtesy: Mustafa Masala Dosa, Indian FoodImage Credit: Supplied ( 1 of 2 ) ‹› Published: 19:22 January 15, 2016 By Archisman DindaCorrespondent Kolkata: It is a proverbial rags to riches story. […]
Iranian-made Fateh 110 (Conqueror) (L) and Persian Gulf (R) missiles are seen next to a portrait of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at a war exhibition held by Iran’s revolutionary guard on September 23, 2011. (Reuters file photo) ARAB NEWS Published — Friday 15 January 2016 TANOUMA: Iran is […]
By AP – Jan 15,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Israeli soldiers stand around near the scene where a Palestinian was shot dead in the West Bank village of Aseera Ashamaliya near Nablus, on Thursday (Reuters photo) OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israelis troops on Thursday killed two Palestinians who attacked soldiers with knives […]
Jan 15,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMI G. KHOURI Many analysts this week have marked the five years since the fall of former Tunisian president Zine Al Abidine Ben Ali, the first of several Arab dictators who were toppled from office by a wave of spontaneous street demonstrations across Arab […]
By JT – Jan 14,2016 – JORDAN TIMES His Majesty King Abdullah is interviewed by CNN’s Wolf Blitzer in Washington DC on Wednesday (Photo courtesy of Royal Court) AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah has said that war against the khawarej (the outlaws of Islam) is a global struggle that […]
Source: Gulf News JAKARTA: Army trucks thundered through Indonesia’s capital Friday as authorities boosted security at possible terror targets and probed the suspected Daesh terror cell blamed for Jakarta’s deadly […]