Source: Spiegel International More than 3,000 people worked producing cheap t-shirts for European clothing chains in the highrise sweatshop that collapsed in Bangladesh last week. Hundreds died because the facility […]
Source:The Local Germany’s top Roman Catholic has called for women to be allowed to become deacons, which would enable them to perform baptisms and marriages outside of mass – a novelty for Catholic women. More:
Source: UPI.COM A terminally ill Irish woman does not have the right to be assisted in ending her life, the country’s Supreme Court ruled Monday. Marie Fleming, who has multiple sclerosis, appealed to the court after losing a challenge earlier this year to Ireland’s absolute ban on assisted suicide, The […]
Source:UPI.COM A woman in Spain recently gave birth to the first child born in the village of Los Giles in 45 years, causing a stir in the village. First-time parents Beatriz and Iker gave birth to Ainara in the village in Spain’s Almeria province three weeks ago, thinkSPAIN reported. The […]
France24. France will keep its defence budget broadly stable for the next five years, after meeting stiff resistance from lawmakers and the army to proposed cuts, although the flat budget will mean 34,000 job losses by 2019. A five-year blueprint for military strategy published on Monday said, “in total, from […]
Guardian: It was a spat that nobody wanted – neither the Greeks, the Qataris nor, say officials, the two nude statues that sparked the furore. But in a classic clash […]
Source: Spiegel. Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich officially confirmed for the first time that there were German “jihadists” in Syria. Friedrich particularly expressed concern about “calls for those Europeans who have been trained in battle (in Syria) to return home and pursue jihad.” More:
Source:The Local Uli Hoeneß is thought to have hidden millions of euros in Switzerland, safely out of sight of the German tax man. If he is proven guilty, the football legend will no longer be able to lead FC Bayern Munich as he has, comments ZEIT ONLINE‘s Oliver Fritsch. More:
Pamukkale, 19 km (12 miles) north of Denizli, is Turkey’s foremost mineral-bath spa because of its natural beauty: hot calcium-laden waters spring from the earth and cascade over a cliff. As they cool they form dramatic travertines of hard, brilliantly white calcium that form pools. Pamukkale has been used as […]
Source: www.advertiser.ie The Ahmadiyya Muslim Association of Ireland will hold its seventh annual Interfaith Peace Conference this Sunday in Clayton Hotel. The topic of this year’s conference is “The role of […]
Epigraph: “And when thy Lord brings forth offspring from the loins of the sons of Adam, He makes them witnesses against their own selves by asking them, ‘Am I not […]
electronicintifada: Amna SaleemThe American poet T.S. Eliot wrote that “April is the cruelest month.” The phrase springs to mind in April 2013, the month that a new director-general took up […]
Source:Spiegel In the opening chapter of “The Jewish Candidate,” Frank Carver, a reporter for the fictitious London Chronicle, is posted to Germany to cover the country’s most-fascinating election campaign since World War II. Rudolf Gutman, the first Jew to run for chancellor, is promising to free Germany from the shackles […]
Evening Standard London: A master bombmaker trained by al Qaeda was handed five life sentences today and told he may never be released unless he gives up extremism. Above from left, […]
dna: In a major victory to 4 lakh dalits in the UK, a bill that will outlaw discrimination on the basis of caste in Britain has received royal assent from […]
theguardian: by Ian Birrell. It is hard to take claims of religious intolerance from Christians seriously when UK Muslims are daily subject to real hate crimes A recent Chatham House study by […]
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Cultures & Croyances – (Culture & Belief) Religions have always been considered to be practiced with heart without any intervention of the reason or any form of logic. It is always said that it divides more than it creates harmony. Indeed, we have witnessed many religious wars that have caused […]
Source: www.keighleynews.co.uk Fears about the role of Muslim Sharia councils – raised by Keighley’s MP in Parliament this week – have received a mixed response from Muslim spokesmen in Keighley. Kris […]
JEDDAH: NASIM CHOWDHURY ARABNEWS Thursday 25 April 2013 In the early days of Islam, Omar, who would later become a caliph, was in a frenzied rage and set out to […]