By Reuters – Mar 23,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Staffan de Mistura, United Nations Special Envoy of the Secretary General for Syria, arrives for a meeting with the delegation of the High Negotiations Committee during the Syria peace talks at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday (AP photo) […]
Mar 22,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMZY BAROUD The apparent sudden Russian military withdrawal from Syria, starting on March 15, left political commentators puzzled. Few of the analyses offered should be taken seriously. There is little solid information as of why the Russian leader decided to end his country’s military push […]
By AFP – Mar 22,2016 -JORDAN TIMES A migrant girl exits a tent in the makeshift refugee camp at the northern Greek border point of Idomeni, Greece, on Tuesday (AP photo) GENEVA — The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) on Tuesday harshly criticised an EU-Turkey deal on curbing the influx […]
Courtesy: Dawn.com Former Karachi mayor Mustafa Kamal addressing a press conference –DawnNews KARACHI: Announcing the name of his ‘new party’ on Wednesday, former Karachi mayor Mustafa Kamal said the “Pak Sarzameen Party” will release its manifesto in the near future. The manifesto is being drafted by those who are […]
Source: Alislam.org By Qasim Rashid, who is an attorney and graduate of the Richmond School of Law. He served as Executive Editor of The Richmond Journal of Global Law and Business. The […]
The World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad has strongly condemned the terrorist attacks that took place earlier today in […]
Source: Salon Although someday I’d like to run for my local school board, I doubt I ever will. The single biggest factor holding me back (in my own mind) is […]
Source: Pew Research Center Women are generally more religious than men, particularly among Christians Standard lists of history’s most influential religious leaders – among them Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Muhammad, Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha) – tend to be predominantly, if not exclusively, male. Many religious groups, including Roman Catholics and Orthodox […]
Source: AlJazeera Toronto, Canada – Donnie McKay keeps his phone close. A band councillor in Pimicikamak Cree Nation (Cross Lake) in northern Manitoba, McKay never knows when there will be a […]
Source: BBC Is our Universe one of many? The idea of parallel universes, once consigned to science fiction, is now becoming respectable among scientists – at least, among physicists, who […]
Source: BBC The migrant crisis has put the EU – with its talk of continental unity and humanitarian ideals – to shame. Refugee misery. Asylum seekers’ agony. Chaos, friction and […]
Source: CNN By Bill Nye An Emmy-winning TV host as well as a scientist, engineer, comedian, author and inventor. He is best known to television audiences as “Bill Nye the Science […]
Source: The Washington Post On Aug. 15, 2014, Islamic State fighters who had surrounded her small Iraqi town for days ordered Nadia Murad and other Yazidis to walk to the […]
Source: The Wall Street Journal By FRANCIS X. ROCCA and ELLEN EMMERENTZE JERVELL Updated March 21, 2016 3:14 p.m. ET With his disregard for protocol, outspoken news conferences and denunciations of global […]
Source: BBC At least 24 people in southern Pakistan have died from poisoning after drinking illegally-made alcohol, police say. A number of others are in hospital after Monday’s incident in […]
Source: Time President Barack Obama hailed “a new day” in the relations between the U.S. and Cuba on Monday as he spoke alongside Cuban President Raúl Castro following a historic bilateral meeting. “For more than half a century, the sight of a U.S. President in Havana would have been unimaginable, […]
Source: Time At least 31 people were killed and 190 wounded when three explosions hit Brussels on Tuesday morning, the first two at Zaventem airport and the third on a subway train near European Union headquarters. Belgian federal prosecutor Frederic Van Leeuw called all three explosions terrorist attacks, and ISIS […]
Source: Pew Research Center Like a number of other ethnic groups in the Middle East, such as the Kurds, the Druze live in several different countries, separated by borders drawn […]
Source: Reuters A little-known alliance of hundreds of lawyers in Pakistan is behind the rise in prosecutions for blasphemy, a crime punishable by death that goes to the heart of […]
Source: Associated press VRINDAVAN, India (AP) — Aruna Samaddar threw fistfuls of colored powder into the air. Blue and red and green, the cheerful colors settled on her white sari […]