HARUN YAHYA Published — Thursday 1 May 2014 Last week Turkish Prime Minister Recep Teyyip Erdogan expressed sorrow over the incidents involving Armenians that took place in April 24, 1915 during the Ottoman rule. This was the first time in the history of the Republic of Turkey that any top […]
Source: MWN Taroudant, Morocco – Samir Nasri, a French international football player who plays for the English club Manchester City, expressed his concerns over growing racism against Muslims in France, his second home. In an interview with the Telegraph on April 25, Samir Nasri, 26, denounced the rise of racism against Muslims in […]
Source: Balkan Insight: Photo by: Wikimedia Commons/Silar To work as a journalist today, you need a great deal of courage. In the last twelve months, hundreds of journalists, photographers and camera operators in the world have been killed, injured, kidnapped, threatened or sued. Europe is no exception: worrying patterns are […]
theguardian: by Sandra Laville — Jenny Smith will never forget the phone call that saved her life. It was her second attempt after finding herself incapable of speech the first time. Trying again a few days later, she managed a few gasped words: “I’m a battered wife, can you help […]
Source: Spiegel There’s nothing you can do about your relatives, but you certainly have a choice when it comes to picking your friends. This sage wisdom also applies to Gerhard Schröder, the former German leader and confidant of Russian President Vladimir Putin. He himself can decide whom to embrace and […]
Source: CNN Russia’s seizure of Crimea last month may have unfolded with a lightning quickness, but Vladimir Putin and the West are now engaged in a much slower match of wits on a chessboard stretching across most of eastern Ukraine. Rather than going for checkmate, both sides now seem content […]
Islamic Cemetery Location: Altach, Austria (Europe) Architect: Bernardo Bader Architects, Dombirn, Austria Client: Altach Municipality, Gottfried Brändle Mayor Completed: 2011 Design: 2008-2011 Site size: Ground floor area: 4’235 m2 – […]
Mustafa Kutlay USAK Center for EU Studies 28 April 2014 In his book, Inventing Europe, Gerard Delanty meticulously discusses how the idea of “Europe” and “Europeanness” has been reinvented throughout […]
by Jo Fahy, swissinfo.ch April 28, 2014 – 11:00 If you expect to meet Swiss people working in Zermatt’s hotels and restaurants, you might be surprised to be greeted by […]
Helen Rowe, Isabelle Toussaint | AFP ARABNEWS Published — Monday 28 April 2014 PARIS: Once pilgrims came on camels or on foot in their thousands, now millions of Muslims make […]
Telegraph: The two-day London meeting will be attended by senior government officials, prosecutors and representatives from financial centres and international organisations. Britain will on Tuesday host international talks aimed at recovering Ukrainian assets believed to have been looted under the regime of deposed president Viktor Yanukovych. The international Ukraine Forum […]
Telegraph: Long-term unemployed will have to report daily to local job centres to discuss how to get back to work and may be told to clean war memorials and restore historic monuments. Long-term unemployed people will have to clean war memorials, restore historic monuments and look after animals at city […]
Seven months after Swiss parliament voted to outlaw the provision of mercenaries by Swiss-based security firms, British security contractor Aegis, one of the world’s largest working in conflict zones, is pulling its holding company out of Basel. The company, which effectively transferred its headquarters from London to Basel in 2010, […]
Mahrukh Arif | Secrétaire Générale – Responsable Communication Cultures & Croyances | Education – Religions – Laïcité A large part of the audience was composed by judges and lawyers who […]
Source: The Independent By Patrick Cockburn World View: The former prime minister’s intervention on radical Islam was aimed at all the wrong targets Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of the core […]
Source: The Independent By Patrick Cockburn World View: The former prime minister’s intervention on radical Islam was aimed at all the wrong targets Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of the core […]
Epigraph: The Arabs of the desert say, ‘We believe.’ Say, “You have not believed yet; but rather say, ‘We have accepted Islam,’ for the true belief has not yet entered into your hearts.” […]
by Matthew Allen, swissinfo.ch April 25, 2014 – 11:01 The mind-boggling $100 trillion (CHF88 trillion) of debt racked up by governments, central banks and companies worldwide has turned some heads towards Switzerland’s successful track record of reducing its own debt burden. But is it a sustainable approach? Swiss voters approved […]
Source: The Local Britain, he says, is what the rest of Europe should aspire to. “This is the only country left in Brussels where representatives have maintained a certain common sense.” A ‘frustrated’ liberal A long time supporter of the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP), Henkel says he became “frustrated” […]
Source: CNN (CNN) — Three of the best-loved leaders in the history of the Roman Catholic church will be united this weekend when Pope Francis makes his predecessors, Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II, saints in a special ceremony in St Peter’s Square. The two canonization candidates share an […]