This Is What Happens When A Mosque Becomes A Homeless Shelter
Source: BuzzFeed News By Aisha Gani BuzzFeed News Reporter “I slept in Victoria coach station because I was scared to sleep on the street. I pretended to go somewhere. I […]
Debate: Western Democracy Is Threatening Suicide?
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Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Malta holds its First Jalsa Salana – A Report
Source: https://ahmadiyyamalta.org/2017/12/12/first-jalsa-salana-malta-2017/ First Jalsa Salana Malta – Annual Convention – 2017 The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Malta held its First Jalsa Salana – Annual Convention – on Sunday 10th December 2017, in Gzira, Malta. Local members of the Community, guests and dignitaries attended this convention. A special message from the current Worldwide Head […]
In pictures: The Caledonian Forest
Source: BBC News Cairngorms Connect is a new project in Scotland bringing together land-owning NGOs, public bodies and private landowners to work on nature conservation in one of the biggest […]
Children force you to be in the moment – we need a bunch of four-year-olds in every old people’s home
Source: Independent By Sappi Khorsandi; @ShappiKhorsandi Children brighten up the place. Especially very little ones with those turns of phrase which you don’t correct because they are too cute. ‘My top […]
Daesh: What happened to all the foreign fighters?
By AFP – Dec 16,2017 – JORDAN TIMES This file photo taken on February 8 shows members of the Syrian Democratic Forces , made up of US-backed Kurdish and Arab […]
Who Owns the Dead Sea Scrolls?
Source: Wall Street Journal By Charlotte Allen Dec. 14, 2017 6:26 p.m. ET Israel had long planned to take part in a major exhibition of the Dead Sea Scrolls in […]
Haemophilia A trial results ‘mind-blowing’
Source: BBC News By James Gallagher British doctors say they have achieved “mind-blowing” results in an attempt to rid people of haemophilia A. Patients are born with a genetic defect […]
A global snapshot of same-sex marriage
Source: Pew Research Center BY DAVID MASCI AND DREW DESILVER With the Australian Parliament’s recent passage of legislation legalizing gay marriage, 26 countries now permit gays and lesbians to wed. And if a recent high […]
EU says 15,000 migrants to exit Libya in two months
By AFP – Dec 14,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Migrants stand in a detention centre run by the interior ministry of Libya’s eastern-based government in Benghazi, Libya, on Wednesday (Reuters photo) […]
Pope says Satan is More Intelligent than Humans & the Muslim Times’ Response
Pope says Satan is more intelligent than humans – We believe he is not a person but only a personification of our id or negative tendencies Source: The Express Tribune […]
Turkey switches to full defiance of US, continues Putin courtship
Source: Asia Times Arguably, Turkey no longer qualifies to be a NATO member. McMaster spoke at a rare public policy platform with his British counterpart Mark Sedwill, at an event hosted by the Policy Exchange think tank in Washington. How any of this transmutes into Anglo-American policy will bear watching. […]
Jewish groups in Germany urge crackdown on anti-Semitic acts
. Reuters International This content was published on December 13, 2017 By Andrea Shalal BERLIN (Reuters) – Jewish groups in Germany are pressing the authorities to crack down on anti-Semitic […]
Heat-not-burn tobacco ‘is a health risk’
Source: BBC News “Heat-not-burn” tobacco products are harmful to health even though they are safer than regular cigarettes, say UK experts. The advisory panel to the government said the devices […]
Emboldened by change, some Uzbek imams turn on loudspeakers for call to prayer
Reuters International This content was published on December 11, 2017 By Mukhammadsharif Mamatkulov TASHKENT (Reuters) – Some mosques in Uzbekistan are starting to broadcast the Muslim […]
Inside Geneva – Syria: what will it take to make peace?
By Imogen Foulkes This content was published on December 11, 2017 Patient diplomacy: UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura speaks at a meeting with the Syrian Negotiation Commission (SNC) in […]
International humanitarian law: ICRC president warns over ‘explosive mix’ of urban conflicts
By Kathrin Ammann This content was published on December 11, 2017 The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Peter Maurer inspects the scene of the […]
Prince Charles accession ‘could trigger debate on disestablishment’
Source: The Guardian BY Harriet Sherwood Prince Charles during a visit to Castell Coch, near Cardiff. Photograph: PA Prince Charles’s accession to the throne could trigger a national debate about the […]
Trump’s Jerusalem Folly Time for Europe to Take the Lead on Peace
U.S. President Donald Trump prides himself on being a deal-maker. But his decision to relocate the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem will produce only losers. It is time […]
Germans could learn a lot from their new immigrant neighbours
Firstly, they need to abandon the idea ouperiority, however fast their Audis and BWMs are Wissam Hojaiban After having travelled half the globe and headed numerous German cultural institutions around […]