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Hundreds attend funeral of 17 Palestinians from Hebron National News Related Articles IOF break into Bethlehem, violent clashes break out PNN/Hebron This Saturday afternoon hundreds of people are gathering together in Hebron for the funeral of 17 Palestinians whose bodies were returned to their families yesterday by the Israeli occupation forces. […]
Source: AFP and Yahoo News January 2, 2016 The Vatican signed the accord in June, just over two years after the Roman Catholic Church recognised the Palestinian territories as a sovereign state […]
By Reuters – Dec 31,2015 – JORDAN TIMES A man carries an injured child amidst rubble near a burning vehicle in a site damaged from what activists said was shelling by forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar Assad in the town of Douma, eastern Ghouta in Damascus, Syria on Wednesday […]
The executions were certainly an unprecedented Saudi way of welcoming in the New Year – if not quite as publicly spectacular as the firework display in Dubai which went ahead alongside the burning of one of the emirate’s finest hotels Robert Fisk Middle East Correspondent @indyvoices 233 comments Saudi Defence […]
Science and Islam is a three-part BBC documentary about the history of science in medieval Islamic civilization presented by Jim Al-Khalili. The series is accompanied by the book Science and […]
Source: BBC David Robson – Writer My pick: How your eyes trick your mind It’s been a privilege to see my stories appear alongside the work of some really talented […]
Source: Huffington Post Twitter Inc has clarified its definition of abusive behavior that will prompt it to delete accounts, banning “hateful conduct” that promotes violence against specific groups. The social […]
Source: Huffington Post We already know a lot about our solar system. It’s nearly 4.6 billion years old, andconsists of eight planets and five known dwarf planets, for starters. But […]
Source: News Herald CALLAWAY — Investigators have not ruled out that “ritualistic sacrifice” played a role in the death of a 3-year-old discovered in a suitcase with what appeared to be a knife wound to the chest, the Bay County Sheriff’s Office reported Wednesday. Investigators still were processing the scene […]
Source: Associated Press When she was 16, Rana Abdelhamid was accosted on the streets of New York by a man who tried to pull off the head scarf she wears […]
Members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association are delivering goods they’ve collecting during a food drive. Published Thursday, December 31, 2015 6:40PM EST A group of young Montrealers is delivering the goods they’ve collected during a holiday food drive, as they do every year. But this year, the Ahmadiyya Muslim […]
Source: Buzz Feed On Monday, the American Civil Liberties Union announced that it is suing Dignity Health, a Catholic hospital network, for refusing to provide a woman with the tubal […]
Source: Religion News Service CANTERBURY, England (RNS) Attacks on Jews and Muslims in London, including assault and harassment, have soared by more than 60 percent over the past year, police statistics […]
Source: Pew Research Center When Pew Research Center started the Fact Tank data blog back in 2013, our goal was to present data that would help people better understand the news of the day. But in looking at our top blog posts of 2015, we realized that the pieces we published often made news, too. […]
Source: CNN By Donna Brazile, A CNN contributor and a Democratic strategist, is vice chairwoman for civic engagement and voter participation at the Democratic National Committee. A nationally syndicated columnist, she […]
Source: Time Ahmed Rajib Haider was hacked to death in 2013 Two students in Bangladesh were sentenced to death on Thursday for killing a prominent atheist writer and blogger in […]
Source: BBC It may not be the kind of place you would expect to stumble upon a mosque, but Muslims have lived among the forests and lakes of Lithuania for […]
Source: BBC Sixty-five million years ago, an asteroid is believed to have crashed into Earth. The impact wiped out huge numbers of species, including almost all of the dinosaurs. One […]
Source: CNN Jakarta, Indonesia (CNN)An unrelated man and woman who had been seen alone together were caned in public in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, for violating Sharia law, a police chief […]