A Global Challenge Needs a Global Response
Source: Spiegel Serbian President Aleksander Vučić threw a tantrum this week of a kind that should give us pause for thought. “European solidarity does not exist,” he raged. “That was […]
Mass panic worse than COVID-19
Mar 19,2020 -JORDAN TIMES – Shehab Al Makahleh The whole world is in a state of anxiety. The COVID-19 panic has been a result of the case of vagueness of the nature of the disease and how to contain it rather than how to cure patients who have fallen ill […]
Europe Has Been the Greatest Disappointment in This Crisis
Source: Spiegel When the news began spreading on Sunday that the French luxury firm LVMH was converting its entire perfume production to the manufacture of disinfectant gel, the details of the matter may have been uncertain, but one thing was clear: It was a moment that would go down in […]
A Crucial Idea Darwin Had on Evolution Was Just Confirmed, 140 Years After His Death
Source: MSN Published in 1859, Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species made a number of bold claims about the nature of evolution – including the suggestion that an animal […]
Turkey shuts cinemas, cafes, gyms to halt coronavirus spread, extends flight ban
Mar 16, 2020 – http://www.swissinfo.ch ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey will temporarily close cafes, sports and entertainment venues and is suspending mass prayers in mosques in an effort to contain the […]
Why did the Plague spare Poland?
The Black Death skipped certain parts of Europe – and that could be a lesson for today’s coronavirus epidemic Frank Jacobs 06 March, 2020 Why were Milan, Poland and a few other places spared the worst of the Black Death? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/Bubonic_plague-en.svg Image: Andy85719 – CC BY-SA 3.0 Calm down, we’re […]
UK: Coronavirus: 1 million jobs at risk as government leaves pubs, bars and restaurants ‘in limbo’ over pandemic
Up to 1 million workers in pubs, bars and restaurants face losing their jobs after Boris Johnson urged Britons not to go out in a bid to halt coronavirus. Britain’s […]
How will we judge multinationals when the epidemic is over?
Jessica Davis Plüss Journalist Mar 11, 2020 – swissinfo>ch Employees at the greatest risk are those who don’t have the luxury to work from home. (Keystone / Matteo Bazzi) […]
Germany Moves To Shut Down Most of Public Life
Source. The Spiegel The German government and the federal states have agreed to severe restrictions on public life in order to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Supermarkets and other shops that provide basic goods that are necessary for daily life will be allowed to stay open. Also excluded from […]
Roche’s Test for Covid 19 Gives Result in 3 Hours
Epigraph: Whoever saves a life, it will be as if he or she has saved the whole of humanity. (Al Quran 5:32/33) Source: Guardian Coronavirus tests being rushed to Australia […]
Manipulated media > How Swiss scientists are trying to spot deepfakes
By Geraldine Wong Sak Hoi Mar 11, 2020 Although the best-known deepfake videos are parodies featuring politicians and celebrities, there is growing concern the technology could be deployed to interfere in political processes or manipulate public opinion. (Shutterstock) As videos faked using artificial intelligence grow increasingly sophisticated, experts in Switzerland […]
OIC calls on UN to declare March 15 as solidarity day against Islamophobia
Dr. Yousef Al-Othaimeen, secretary-general of the OIC, reiterated his call for the UN to declare March 15 as the International Day of Solidarity against Islamophobia. (File/AFP) Short Url https://arab.news/5jswg Arab […]
What happened during Christchurch pilgrims’ moving Hajj journey
Sheikh Abdullatif Al-Asheikh consoles a pilgrim whose husband died during the Christchurch attack last year. (Supplied) Short Url https://arab.news/zfuzj Updated 14 March 2020 Mohammed Al-Sulami King Salman invited 200 Muslims […]
Christchurch marks anniversary of mosque shootings
By NICK PERRY, Associated Press © Provided by Associated Press Survivor of the Al Noor mosque shootings, Temel Atacocugu, center, exchanges a hongi with a member of the […]
France to close restaurants and cafes and the latest about Corona
Epigraph: Every human life is sacred and precious and saving one is like saving the whole of humanity. (Al Quran 5:32/33) France to close restaurants and cafes Herd immunity: will […]
Switzerland: Islamic Council leaders face retrial for Jihadist propaganda
Mar 13, 2020 – swissinfo.ch Switzerland’s Supreme Court has overturned the acquittal of two Islamic Central Council of Switzerland (ICCS) leaders accused of terrorist propaganda. Islamic council president Nicolas Blancho and its spokesman Qassim Illi were accused of broadcasting propaganda videos in support of the terrorist group al-Qaeda. But they were acquitted in […]
Meet the British Orthodox Jew standing up for China’s Uighur Muslims
‘Nothing on this scale has ever happened before, except once, and that was the Holocaust,’ protester tells Evie Breese @Evie_Breese Andrew has been protesting outside the Chinese embassy office in […]
The Coronavirus Crisis: Reflections on Islam and Hygiene
12th March 2020 Shahzad Ahmad – UK, Tanvir Ahmed The recent outbreak of the coronavirus, coupled with the worrying fact that there is no vaccine yet, has resulted in […]
BA says jobs will go as airline industry faces crisis ‘worse than 9/11’
The British Airways chief executive, Alex Cruz, told staff coronavirus was ‘a crisis of global proportions like no other we have known’. Photograph: Steve Parsons/PA British Airways has warned staff […]
Coronavirus effect : Swiss industry fears consequences of US travel ban
By Matthew Allen Mar 12, 2020 – 17:41 A United States ban on travellers from Europe has been condemned as “incomprehensible” by leading Swiss manufacturing association, Swissmem. The Swiss-American […]