Does Capitalism Contain the Seed of its own Destruction?
AHMED DANYAL ARIF CAPITALISM13th September 2020 Ahmed Danyal Arif, UK Today more than ever, our civilization is based on the domination of Chronos, the god of time and clocks, constantly […]
THE HOLY QURAN: A Historic Achievement: New Qur’anic Font Under the Guidance of Khilafat
26th September 2020 Khatt-e-Manzoor Based on report from Wakalat Ta`mil-o-Tanfidh The Holy Qur’an is published throughout the world in various fonts. For the sake of beautification, many fonts endeavor to […]
Swiss set to rebuff right-wing attack on EU immigration
About 36% of the care personnel in Switzerland come from other countries. © Keystone/Christian Beutler Voters on Sunday will have the final say on a proposal to scrap a major […]
Iranian asylum seeker stuck in limbo on divided Cyprus
By AFP – Sep 26,2020 – JORDAN TIMES Iranian singer Omid Tootian, 46, poses for a picture during an interview in the UN-controlled buffer zone in the Cypriot capital Nicosia, on […]
Activists protest ban on distributing food to migrants in Calais
Charities and human rights groups said officials had failed to provide basic services Migrants from Sudan sit near statues of Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle in a public park […]
Yusuf Cat Stevens on Islam, the fatwa and playing guitar again
Source: The Guardian The singer-songwriter tells Desert Island Discs about walking away from his fans, and the difficulties of following a spiritual path By Vanessa Thorpe The singer-songwriter […]
Germany calls on Greece to demilitarise islands near Turkey
September 22, 2020 Greek navy ship patrol the Aegean Sea between Turkey and Lesbos Island on 13 October 2019 [Christopher Furlong/Getty Images] September 22, 2020 at 10:42 am As Ankara […]
New camp for refugees in Greece ‘worse than Moria’
As EU members states attempt to agree on a new migration pact, refugees in Lesbos describe the new camp on the island as worse than Moria, as Marianna Karakoulaki reports […]
Why is Germany doing better than the UK at fighting a resurgence of Covid-19?
Source: The Local Boris Johnson’s comments about why “freedom-loving” UK has higher coronavirus cases than Germany and Italy have sparked a heated debate and given us a reason to look at why Germany is coping better than the UK in the fight against a second wave. What’s happening? On Tuesday […]
Palestinian refugee receives Spanish citizenship after discovering Jewish Sephardic roots
Source: Jewish Telegraphic Agency BY CNAAN LIPHSHIZ SEPTEMBER 24, 2020 (JTA) — As a U.K.-based academic who was born in Dubai to a Palestinian father and Lebanese mother, Heba […]
Lockdown ‘may kill 75,000 people’ in UK due to missing diagnoses and treatments
Nearly 75,000 people could die as a result of lockdown due to causes not related to Covid-19, research suggested. Figures presented to the Government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) […]
Lockdown resulted in ‘thousands’ of excess deaths as Boris Johnson’s ‘stay at home’ message scared people into keeping away from hospitals even when they urgently needed medical help, major new study reveals
Experts said ‘stay at home’ message scared people away from going to hospital Deaths in private homes from cardiovascular cases rose by third amid lockdown Care homes also saw these […]
How Islam Won, and Lost, the Lead in Science
By Dennis Overbye Oct. 30, 2001 Nasir al-Din al-Tusi was still a young man when the Assassins made him an offer he couldn’t refuse. His hometown had been devastated by Mongol […]
Life After Death
The question of life after death has agitated the minds of people belonging to all religions and all ages alike. There is also the atheistic view which totally denies the […]
Are we living at the ‘hinge of history’?
By Richard Fisher24th September 2020 Could right now be the most influential time ever? Richard Fisher looks at the case for and against – and why it matters. What is […]
Does Boris Johnson take the population for idiots? His latest offering suggests so
What the prime minister’s served up this week was full of flummery, cliche, pointless idiom and the inevitable whopper, writes Robert Fisk Yasser Arafat, when at his most distressed – angry, […]
Airlines prepare for pre-flight testing to restart aviation
September 23 2020 Workers of the Ministry of Health are seen at the airport as passengers wait to board a ‘Covid free’ flight at Rome’s Fiumicino airport, Italy, September 16, […]
Islam still faces obstacles on path to be part of Germany
Some ten years ago, German President Christian Wulff said Islam was very much part of German society. What about today? It was a short statement that had a […]
Do it like the Turks: How to detox your mind, body and fall pantry
BY LEYLA YVONNE ERGIL EXPAT CORNER SEP 17, 2020 Turkish baths and spas have been a detox practice that has been around for centuries. (iStock Photo) With the fun and […]
Why Muslims in France fear a bill on Islamic ‘separatism’
4 HOURS AGO Macron has pushed for a “French Islam” for years, and his latest proposed bill may give him the unbridled powers to see it happen. French politics has […]