Some thoughts of comparing Jordan with Indonesia
Moving from one country to another always is accompagnied with mixed emotions. On the one hand we experienced many things in the country we are leaving and on the other […]
Pope Francis Falls in Poland
Source: The Daily Beast. Pope Francis reportedly fell on Thursday in front of thousands of people during Mass at the Jasna Gora shrine in Czestochowa, Poland. He wasn’t injured, and he was able to finish the event after he was helped to his feet by Vatican Master of Ceremonies, Guido Marini, […]
World is at war
Source. CNN Francis said Wednesday that “the world is at war” as he addressed the slaying of a Catholic priest by radical Islamists in France, but he stressed it was not a war of religion. Speaking on the papal plane en route to Krakow, Poland, for World Youth Day celebrations, Francis […]
Wife’s bomb hoax caused security scare at Geneva airport
Source: ET GENEVA: A woman who wanted to stop her husband boarding a plane at Geneva has admitted making a false bomb threat, prosecutors said on Wednesday, after hours of tightened security that caused traffic chaos around the airport on the French-Swiss border. More:
Netherlands, Latvia lead world for people’s height
Source: TOI NEW YORK: If you want to see a tall population of men, go to the Netherlands. Tall women? Latvia. And in the United States, which lags behind dozens of other countries in height, the average for adults stopped increasing about 20 years ago. That’s the word from […]
UK woman sues neighbours for cooking spicy food
Source: TOI LONDON: A woman in the UK has filed a court case against her neighbours for cooking spicy food which she says waft out “pungent toxic fumes”, causing her “respiratory problems” as well as choking. Joanna Louise Cridlin, an animal rights campaigner, is suing her neighbours’ landlord Viridian Housing at […]
French Attackers Kill Priest in Normandy Church
Source: The Daily Beast. Two hostage-takers armed with knives were killed in France early Tuesday after they captured several people during Mass in a church in the small town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray in Normandy. Police told Reuters that one civilian was killed—an 86-year-old priest who is reported to have had his […]
Berlin refugee teen prepares to swim at the Olympics
Source: The Local Yusra Mardini has been nominated for the team of Refugee Olympic Athletes at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. To her, though, this tournament may seem like one of her lighter challenges. More:
Doctor killed in Berlin hospital shooting: police
Source: The Local A doctor has died after being shot at a Berlin hospital, Berlin police said on Twitter on Tuesday. The incident took place at the Benjamin Franklin Hospital in the Steglitz district of Berlin at around midday. By shorty after 2.30 pm Berlin police announced via Twitter that the […]
There still hasn’t been an Isis attack on Germany
Source. The Local Federal investigators have taken over the case looking into the bombing in Ansbach on Sunday that killed the attacker and left 15 other people injured, four of them seriously. It takes a particular type of crime to go to federal prosecutors. The knife attack in Reutlingen which […]
Isis says Syrian bomber in Bavaria one of its ‘soldiers’
Source. The Local It quoted an “insider source” as saying Sunday’s attacker in the southern city of Ansbach who wounded 15 people “was a soldier of the Islamic State” who had acted “in response to calls to target nations in the coalition fighting” Isis. German authorities have identified the assailant […]
UK Transport Secretary visits Head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
Post-Brexit UK, refugee crisis and various other issues discussed On 22 July 2016, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad was […]
Man kills woman with machete in Germany
Source. TOI BERLIN: A 21-year-old Syrian refugee killed a woman with a machete and injured two other people on Sunday before being arrested in the southern German city of Reutlingen, a police spokesman said. The asylum-seeking Syrian man had been involved in previous incidents causing injuries+ to other people, he […]
Brexit heightens global economic risks, says G20
Source. BBC The UK’s vote to leave the European Union heightens risks for the world economy, finance chiefs have said at the end of the G20 summit in China. The outcome of last month’s referendum “adds to the uncertainty” for the global economy, the group of the world’s 20 largest […]
Rio Olympics 2016. Moscow’s secret agents, it seems, were busy switching bottles of competitors’ pee.
Source. The Daily Beast MOSCOW — That the Russian Federal Security Service, the famous FSB, is out of control is not a surprise to many people here. But the damage it’s doing to Russia’s standing in the world — and to itself — is really quite extraordinary. The most recent […]
German Turkish community split by unrest after coup plot
Source. The Local “All those who criticise Erdogan are immediately considered supporters of Gülen or the PKK [the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party],” said a leader of the opposition Greens party, […]
Social media a blessing and a curse in Munich shooting
Source. The Local The 18-year-old gunman, a German-Iranian named David Ali Sonboly, also used the internet to plan and carry out his crime, in which he killed nine people and wounded 16 others. Nevertheless, the social networks provided a valuable source of information and solidarity for the city’s frightened population […]
German bishop wants Islam classes in all state schools
Source. ET BERLIN: The head of the Protestant Church in Germany has called for Islam to be taught in state schools across the country as a way to make young Muslims impervious to the ‘temptation of fundamentalists’. Bishop Heinrich Bedford-Strohm told the Heilbronner Stimmenewspaper that teaching Islam in schools nationwide would […]
Munich gunman inspired by rightwing Breivik
Epigraph: Every human life is sacred and precious; killing one is like triggering a genocide. (Al Quran 5:32/33) Source. The Local Europe reacted in shock to the third attack on […]
A field of 50,000 illuminated flowers
Source: BBC By Rowena Henley Deep within Australia’s vast desert, a tremendous tower of rock has been forming for some 600 million years. For Aborigines, Uluru is sacred, full of […]