15 Oct 2016 WRITER: AFP ARBIL (IRAQ) – Iraqi Kurdish leader Massud Barzani said Saturday that preparations for the operation to retake Mosul from jihadists have been completed and it is time for the battle to begin. Massud Barzani (centre) says it is time for the battle for Mosul to […]
Source: The Guardian The United Nations cultural and heritage body, Unesco, has condemned Israel’s “escalating aggressions” regarding the holy site in Jerusalem’s Old City, known to Muslims as al-Haram al-Sharif […]
Source: The Guardian François Hollande made the comments during more than 60 interviews with two Le Monde journalists. Photograph: Reuters By Kim Willsher in Paris The French president, François Hollande, has […]
Source: The Guardian A new Essential poll shows that Australians generally don’t support discriminating on the basis of religion alone for immigration purposes. The poll asked: “When a family applies […]
Source: BBC Police in China have detained 75 people in connection with a widespread network that illegally determined the gender of unborn babies. The illegal service – aimed at expectant […]
Source: BBC At least 32 people have died in a suicide attack targeting Shia in Iraq’s capital Baghdad, officials say. More than 60 were injured in the blast, carried out […]
Source: BBC Turkish-backed rebels in Syria are advancing on Dabiq, a symbolically important stronghold of so-called Islamic State. The small town holds great value to IS because of a prophecy […]
Source: Time By Katie Reilly Multiple women this week accused Trump of kissing or touching them without consent Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Saturday doubled down on claims about a […]
Source: Time BY Alexandra Sifferlin Once again, processed food companies will be at a major nutrition expo in Boston Updated On the weekend starting October 15, thousands of registered dietitians and […]
Source: Time BY Nancy Gibbs The managing editor of TIME. She is the co-author, along with TIME’s Michael Duffy, of two best-selling presidential histories: The President’s Club: Inside the World’s Most Exclusive Fraternity and The Preacher and the Presidents: Billy Graham in the White House. ‘Watch what we do, not what […]
Source: Time By Justin Worland More than 170 countries agreed early Saturday morning to limit emissions of key climate change-causing pollutants found in air conditioners, a significant step in the international effort to keep global warming from reaching catastrophic levels. The deal reached in Kigali, Rwanda, comes after years of wrangling […]
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It was just one year after the second world war ended, which brought death and destruction over Europe, when three young Muslim Missionaries from British India, arriving via England, stopped over in Switzerland on 13th October 1946. The actual destination was Germany, but at that moment the entry was […]
Following news item was sent The Muslim Times by Haider Qureshi, a renowned author, poet, and literary critic. Many students have written their masters, doctoral thesis on his work. “The formation of Urdu ghazal: the origins of the genre” is the first attempt by a Russian scholar to analyze the initial […]
“Donald, seriously, you know about sexual predators and things like that, I mean…” Donald Trump’s numerous interviews with Howard Stern over the years appear to be coming back to haunt him. Follow Sid Verma @_SidVerma Here is Donald Trump’s response to suggestions he is a “sexual predator” 1:09 PM – 13 […]
14 Oct 2016 BANGKOK POST Privy Council president Prem Tinsulanonda has been named Regent pro tempore following the passing of His Majesty the King on Thursday, NLA vice-president […]
But RCMP say they have no evidence that the Bashaw fire and the graffiti are linkedThis is a screenshot from a video of the fire that destroyed the Bashaw Motor Inn early Sunday morning. (Facebook/Brian Cabelka) Racist graffiti was found at the scene of a deadly fire that burned a central […]
President Obama Campaign Rally for Hillary Clinton in Cleveland, Ohio (10/14/2016) Incidentally, the chief Editor of the Muslim Times, Zia Hussain Shah, shares the middle name with the President
Source: BBC Israel has frozen co-operation with the UN’s cultural agency, accusing it of denying Judaism’s connections to the religion’s holiest sites. Its education minister said a Unesco draft decision […]
Source: BBC By Melissa Hogenboom 14 October 2016 Astronomers have spotted some ancient stars, known as RR Lyrae. They are at least 10 billion years old and were found hiding […]