By SPIEGEL Staff DPA Banks across Europe, including the European Central Bank, are preparing for the possibility of Greece leaving the euro zone. With Athens and Brussels still at odds, such an eventuality seems more realistic than ever. But how disruptive would a Grexit really be? On Wednesday of this […]
OSCAR-NOMINATED FILM Swiss ‘secondo cinema’ shines in Hollywood By Ariane Gigon FEB 20, 2015 – 08:00 Talkhon Hamzavi was born in Tehran in 1979 and arrived in Switzerland aged seven (Keystone) Swiss-Iranian film director Talkhon Hamzavi has been nominated for an Oscar for her coming-of-age social drama about a young […]
Source: Arab News: LONDON: British Defense Secretary Michael Fallon said Russian President Vladimir Putin poses a “real and present danger” to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania on Thursday and said NATO is getting ready to repel any possible aggression. Fallon, whose remarks were published as Britain said it had scrambled jets […]
Source: The Local A group of young Norwegian Muslims plans to create a human ring around Oslo’s synagogue following the Shabat celebration this Saturday, in a gesture they are calling a ’Peace Ring’. More:
Saudi Artist Ahmed Mater Sues Swiss Watchmaker Swatch For Plagiarism Coline Milliard, Wednesday, February 18, 2015 Ahmed Mater’s Magnetism (2012) is emblematic of the vibrant new art scene emerging from the Gulf. The etching print, which exists in several versions, pictures a black cubic magnet neatly encircled by steel dust—a poetic evocation of […]
The pair are jailed at Hull Crown Court after a “farcical” attempt to cheat UK immigration laws at a ceremony in October. 10:31, UK,Saturday 14 February 2015 Beata Szilagyi and Zubair Khan were jailed for immigration offences Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on Google+ Share by email A […]
AFP , Wednesday 18 Feb 2015 Ahram Online Pope Francis walks as he arrives to lead the weekly audience in Saint Peter’s Square at the Vatican February 18, 2015. (Photo: Reuters) Security at the Vatican and across Italy has been stepped up because of a perceived heightened risk of […]
theguardian: by Robin McKie — Research finds disease now leading cause of death in British women; many are also carers before succumbing themselves An MRI scan of a human brain. Women over 60 are now twice as likely to get dementia as breast cancer. Women are bearing the brunt of the […]
‘Guantanamo of the East’: Ukraine Locks Up Refugees at EU’s Behest By Maximilian Popp spiegel.de REUTERS Brussels is doing all it can to prevent refugees from reaching Fortress Europe, with initiatives like funding the construction of interment centers in Ukraine. Asylum seekers who have spent time there […]
ANTI-EXTREMISM Breaking the radicalisation cycle By Simon Bradley FEB 18, 2015 – 10:20 Global efforts to counter violent extremism continue to intensify with a high-level summit in Washington this week. Outside of international talks, are grassroots approaches the answer? A new Geneva-based agency thinks so. On Wednesday, civil society and […]
Contrast this with every major news channel’s favorite depiction of Islam as a religion of hate and evil whose followers are nothing less than agents of terror. Muslim students Deah Barakat, […]
Prime Minister Manuel Valls on Monday urged France’s Jews to stay in the country after a fresh call by the Israeli premier for European Jews to emigrate to Israel. “My message to French Jews is the following: France is wounded with you and France does not want you to leave,” […]
After ten months of testing, a federal pilot project in Zurich is significantly reducing the length of time it takes to process asylum applications without harming the quality of decision-making, Swiss migration officials say. But there’s still room for improvement with the fast-tracking, the State Secretariat for Migration said on […]
Source: justgiving.com Raising Funds for charity and welfare of humanity for MKA UK because It’s a part of our faith to serve the mankind Event: Mercy4Mankind 10K London 2015 on 25/04/2015 […]
Friday Sermon: Essence of Conscious Nation Building Sermon Delivered by Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad at Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. Source: alislam.org Video available in Urdu, English, Arabic, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, French, German, Indonesian, Malayalam, Spanish, Swahili, Tamil, Turkish Audio: Urdu: download English: download Arabic: download […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Association Victoria held its ‘Annual Australia Day Dinner’ at ‘Bait-ul-Salam’ (House of Peace) mosque Langwarrin with the theme of ‘Australia, my homeland’ Source: ahmadiyyatimes.blogspot.in Ahmadiyya Muslim Association (AMA) […]
Source: The Daily Beast VATICAN CITY—So which is it? Are Catholics supposed to heed Pope Francis’s advice not to “breed like rabbits” or are they to follow his missive, “The choice not to have children is selfish.” And is it ok to be gay, as the world thought he meant […]
Leader of Denmark’s Jews voices “disappointment” over Israeli leader’s “come to Israel” plea following deadly anti-Semitic attack By Robert Tait, Jerusalem Benjamin Netanyahu has clashed with Denmark’s chief rabbi after seizing on Saturday’s deadly shootings in Copenhagen to call on European Jews to emigrate en mass to Israel. Rabbi Jair […]
Summary Copenhagen police said early Sunday they had shot a man dead hours after fatal gun attacks targeting the Danish capital’s main synagogue and a debate on Islam and free […]
NOTE BY THE EDITOR: I wrote this article from Kosovo in the year 2000. It has a renewed interest as now-a-days more and more Kosovars are leaving the country (again). The reality of the current predicament in Kosovo by Rafiq A. Tschannen The impressions a traveller receives when visiting Kosovo […]