David Cameron suffered a stinging Commons defeat over Europe as Conservative backbenchers told him he must deliver real reductions in the European Union budget. The defeat came after more than […]
By Christoph Sydow SPIEGEL.DE Officially, the European Union views Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories as illegal. But that hasn’t stopped the EU from doing booming trade with the outposts. […]
The town of Olten has a café that is specially for refugees and asylum seekers. Margaret Stringer, who runs the church-funded café, can relate to the migrant experience, as she came to Switzerland from Britain 16 years ago. Asylum laws are in the process of being tightened in Switzerland, and […]
Source: The Review of Religions & http://www.ahmadiyya.org.uk: BUCKINGHAM PALACE 18TH July, 2012 Your Holiness, The Queen has asked me to thank you for your letter which accompanied the beautiful gifts […]
NewsPakistan.pk: Despite many challenges on different fronts, Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar has said that Pakistan strongly remains steadfast in its commitment to the promotion and protection of human rights. In her opening statement at the 14th Session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, […]
Ahmadiyya Times: Source/Credit: Grassroot Diplomat: Edited by Imran Jattala London, UK: – Dr Iftikhar Ayaz, OBE, Consul General of the Tuvalu Islands, has been nominated for the first ever Grassroot Diplomat Initiative Awards. According to a press release by Grassroot Diplimat, “the award looks to recognize outstanding diplomats and politicians in the UK for their dedication, commitment and […]
Banking giant UBS has announced massive layoffs along with huge losses in its third-quarter results, saying it aims to trim as many as 10,000 employees to drastically shrink its ailing investment bank. Switzerland’s biggest bank said that as part of the cost-cutting drive it “is likely to have a headcount […]
Mahmud Mosque in Switzerland built before recent ban on minarets in Switzerland By Simon Bradley Source: Swissinfo.ch United Nations member states have urged Switzerland to step up its fight against […]
BBC News London: Catrin Nye and Sarah Levene. A group of Muslims have started their own poppy appeal at a London mosque that acted as a bomb shelter during World War II. Working alongside the Royal British Legion, the London-based Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association has sold poppies in the capital […]
France 24: Six out of ten French people believe the influence of Islam in France is “too big” and 43 percent see the religion as a “threat” to national identity, according to the results of an opinion poll published on Thursday. The sensitive poll, which will likely cause ripples in […]
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Russian TV: Chaos and violence are on the rise in the UK a year after the PM declared a war on gang culture, a study revealed. Police aggression and a […]
Source: Official Website of Majlis Khuddamul Ahmadiyya, UK Credit: Malayalam Khutba Section Dear Khuddam, [السّــلامُ علَيْكُــمْ ورَحْمَـةُ الله وبَرَكَــاتُه] Following the elections at Majlis Khuddamul Ahmadiyya UK Majlis-e- Shura last […]
(1880) Translated by H.P. Blavatsky. [The following is an extract from M. Dostoevsky’s celebrated novel, The Brothers Karamazof, the last publication from the pen of the great Russian novelist, who died a few months ago, just as the concluding chapters appeared in print. The fifth chapter of this novel is […]
October 28, 2012 Balkanalysis.com Editor’s note: while an October exhibition of Macedonian medieval manuscripts in Brussels incited protests from the government in Sofia over historical issues, there is another collection of texts in the country about which relatively little is known- that is, Macedonia’s Islamic manuscript collection, a legacy from […]
Global Post: LONDON, UK — It started as a simple scandal involving a few sordid claims about a dead television presenter. Now revelations about Jimmy Savile have become a “tsunami […]
by Urs Geiser, swissinfo.ch The Swiss media have improved their coverage of politically and socially relevant issues, but they have become more superficial over the past decade according to Zurich […]
Silvio Berlusconi was condemned as a man with a “natural capacity for crime” by a Milan court which handed him a four year prison sentence for tax fraud. The […]
The father of a girl shot by the Pakistani Taliban for wanting to go to school said his daughter would “rise again” and has started walking and talking after asking […]
In 1943, a Greek war veteran named Stamatis Moraitis came to the United States for treatment of a combat-mangled arm. He’d survived a gunshot wound, escaped to Turkey and eventually […]