What is a moral foreign policy?
Mar 05,2020 -JORDAN TIMES By Joseph S. Nye, Jr. CAMBRIDGE — Many Americans say they want a moral foreign policy, but disagree on what that means. Using a three-dimensional scorecard […]
More white people arrested over terrorism than any other ethnic group for second year in a row
Official statistics released after head of counterterror police names far-right extremism as fastest growing threat Lizzie Dearden Security Correspondent @lizziedearden 18 hours ago The number of white terror suspects being […]
Senior ICC judges authorise Afghanistan war crimes inquiry
Decision overturns earlier rejection of request to examine actions of US soldiers Owen Bowcott Legal affairs correspondent @owenbowcott Thu 5 Mar 2020 Fatou Bensouda, the international criminal court’s chief prosecutor, […]
EX President McAleese threatens to leave Catholic Church if Vanier story not explained
Source: Irish Times Former president Mary McAleese has written to Pope Francis saying she will leave the Catholic Church “if it transpires that the Holy See failed to act to […]
True Justice and Peace
by Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Khalifatul Masih V(aba) The root cause of the unrest in the world today is due to a lack of justice found at every level […]
Wherever they are, takfiris are menace to world peace, stability
Mar 04,2020 -JORDAN TIMES – MICHAEL JANSEN Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s offensive in Syria’s Idlib province could determine whether or not there will be a long-term base for Al […]
Crypto spying scandal: The countries that trusted bugged Swiss encryption devices
Mar 4, 2020 – 15:00 This cipher machine was on the market from 1952. The export licences for Swiss encryption technology analysed by the NZZ cover 1997-2019. (Keystone / Ennio […]
Time to die – until November 2020
Bond movie No Time to Die pushed back to November After ‘thorough evaluation of the global theatrical marketplace’, next 007 outing will delay April release amid coronavirus fears Benjamin Lee Wed 4 Mar 2020 THE GUARDIAN The next James Bond film No Time to Die has been pushed […]
Is Ankara afraid of being invaded?
Source: Arab News By Abdulrahman Al-Rashed The Syrian war, which began nine years ago, marks the first time that Turkey’s air force and artillery has targeted Syrian regime forces and Iranian militias. Turkish F-16 fighter jets or drones would not have entered Syrian airspace — where Syrian, Iranian and Russian […]
Refugee aid groups attacked as tensions rock Greek island
By AFP – Mar 03,2020 -JORDAN TIMES LESBOS ISLAND, Greece — Several aid groups on Greece’s Lesbos said they were suspending work with refugees and evacuating staff on Tuesday in […]
Erdogan finds himself without allies in beleaguered Idlib
Mar 03,2020 -JORDAN TIMES – OSAMA AL SHARIF Turkey is now officially at war with the Syrian government in Damascus for the first time since 2011. It is something that […]
Coronavirus: Airlines struggle as deadly outbreak causes ‘bookings to collapse to zero’
IATA pleads for airport landing rights to be preserved Simon Calder Travel Correspondent @SimonCalder 3rd March 2020 independent.co.uk No new bookings, just cancellations: that is one leading airline’s current […]
Russia’s Putin wants traditional marriage and God in constitution
Source: BBC Russian President Vladimir Putin wants marriage to be defined as the union of a man and woman in a revised constitution, ruling out gay marriage. It is among […]
What do Trump, Farage and Hitler have in common? A reliance on fiery, antagonistic rhetoric
Victor Klemperer’s moving diaries about the Second World War are of huge historic importance. But the volume he valued most is a short and devastating treatise on the […]
A Journey from Christianity to Islam: First Ecumenical Council to Vatican II (325 CE – 1965 CE)
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Every tragedy has a silver lining. The catastrophe of September 11, 2001, has put Islam under the microscope and constant scrutiny by the media. Thanks to this examination, every Muslim and every well informed non-Muslim, has […]
Crypto Leaks: Swiss authorities file criminal complaint against encryption firm
Mar 1, 2020 – http://www.swissinfo.ch The economics authority says it was misled by the Zug-based company when it filed export applications for its secretly manipulated encryption devices. (Keystone / […]
Young ethnic minority workers more likely to be in unstable jobs – study
Young people from Black, Asian and other minority ethnic backgrounds are at greater risk of being in unstable employment, according to research. The group is 47% more likely to to […]
Vatican opens archives on history’s most controversial pope
Vatican opens archives on history’s most controversial pope AFP 1st March 2020 Watch: A look inside the Vatican’s secret wartime archives (Reuters) The Vatican unseals the archives […]
Workplaces must make room for Muslim women – starting with our toxic drinking culture
A new report has found many Muslim women give up on their career ambitious due to hostile professional environments Nimra Shahid @nimrashahid_ 2 days ago Imagine you’re in a room […]
Turkey opens gates into Europe as migrants gather on border
By Andrew Wilks and Costas Kantouris, Associated Press 8 hrs ago Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said his country’s borders with Europe are open. Mr Erdogan’s announcement delivered […]