Reuters International FEB 13, 2017 – Former Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad attends an opening reception of Conference on Cooperation among East Asian Countries for Palestinian Delevopment (CEAPAD) in Tokyo February 13, 2013. REUTERS/Issei Kato (reuters_tickers) DUBAI (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Monday he believed former […]
Reuters International FEB 11, 2017 – U.S. President Donald Trump listens to a translation during a joint news conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the White House in Washington, U.S., February 10, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts (reuters_tickers) WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump pushed back early on Saturday […]
By Reuters – Feb 11,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi is seen on a screen as he speaks via a videoconference during a ministerial summit to hold discussion on the future of Mosul city, post-Daesh terror group, in Paris on October 20, 2016 (Reuters photo) […]
Feb 11,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Ian Buruma Those who have been telling us that Islam, not just revolutionary Islamism, is a lethal threat to Western civilisation should now feel satisfied: the president of the United States, and his main advisers, agree with them. In the tweeted words of Donald Trump’s […]
Designating the Muslim Brotherhood and all its affiliates as terrorist organisations will have a huge impact within the US on the civil society groups that hold the American Muslim community together Shenaz Kermalli @@mskermalli Imagine your morale if you were a Muslim living in America right now. What could be worse than having […]
The case raises concerns that border patrol agents are targeting minorities more broadly in the wake of Donald Trump’s travel ban The Canadian side of the Canada-US border crossing is seen in Emerson, Manitoba. Photograph: Lyle Stafford/Reuters Amanda Holpuch in New York and Ashifa Kassam in Toronto Friday 10 February […]
Nikki Haley, US ambassador to United Nations, rejects choice of Salam Fayyad as Libya peace broker and declares UN ‘biased to the detriment of our allies’ Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad (L) and then Israeli defence minister Ehud Barak shake hands at a conference on security and policy in […]
A confrontation will probably come in a year or two, when previous policies conceived under Obama have run their course. Trump may feel that he has to show how much tougher he is than his predecessor Patrick Cockburn @indyworld President Trump made great play when he came into office with […]
Source: The Independent The attempt to rush through the ban is said to be a result of the blitzkrieg approach of Bannon, who exhorts that it is vital to make full use the momentum of Trump’s landmark victory before the loathed ‘establishment’ can organise itself to sabotage the revolution By Kim […]
By SHIREEN YOUNUS, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER When I was four years old, my mother taught me how to read the Quran. We started with the Arabic alphabet. I remember learning how to sound out “alif,” the first letter in the word “Allah,” and “sheen,” the first letter of my own […]
View of the Israeli settlement of Efrat in the West Bank on Feb. 7, 2017. (Ammar Awad/Reuters) By William Booth February 10, 2017 JERUSALEM —President Trump warned Israel on Friday that building more homes in Jewish settlements was not “good for peace” and said he wanted Israel to “act reasonably” […]
Reuters International FEB 9, 2017 – U.S. Army General John Nicholson, Commander of Resolute Support forces and U.S. forces in Afghanistan, speaks during a memorial ceremony to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, in Kabul, Afghanistan September 11, 2016. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani (reuters_tickers) By Phil Stewart and Idrees […]
Reuters International FEB 10, 2017 – 04:02 Iranian citizen and U.S green card holder Cyrus Khosravi (L) greets his brother, Hamidreza Khosravi (C), and niece, Dena Khosravi (R), 2, after they were detained for additional screening following their arrival to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport to visit Cyrus, during a pause […]
Image copyrightAPImage captionArmy Captain Matthew Ball (R) hugs his former interpreter Qismat Amin at San Francisco International Airport A US Army officer has brought his former Afghan interpreter to live with him in America amid fears he could fall foul of new immigration restrictions. Capt Matthew Ball paid for Qismat […]
They might get the US embassy moved to Jerusalem – but they might also be very worried that Steve Bannon is going to provoke a war with Iran. What did the US government mean, when it said Iran was ‘on notice’ after its recent missile test? Was that a warning […]
by IlmFeed When 7 year old Jack Swanson heard that the Islamic Center of Pflugerville in Texas had been vandalised, he decided to donate all of his savings – $20 dollars – to the mosque. Vandals had torn pages of the Qur’an, covered it in faeces and left it outside the […]
VICTORIA, Texas (AP) — A fire that destroyed a South Texas mosque has been ruled arson, but there’s no evidence of a hate crime at this time, federal investigators said Wednesday. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Houston did not reveal the nature of the evidence that […]
Jonathan Power | Published — Wednesday 8 February 2017 What does US President Donald Trump think about NATO? Twice during his election campaign he rubbished it publically, saying it was “obsolete.” Yet this month, when he met UK Prime Minister Therese May, he told her he supported NATO 100 percent. […]
MELIH ALTINOK @melihaltinok U.S. President Donald Trump speaking at the CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia, Jan. 21, 2017. CIA Director Pompeo’s visit to Ankara is likely to aid Trump’s efforts in […]
FRENCH PRESS AGENCY – AFP LONDON AFP Photo British Foreign minister Boris Johnson, who was born in New York, has renounced his U.S. citizenship, a United States Treasury Department document said on Wednesday. Alexander Boris Johnson figured in the Treasury list of people who had given up their U.S. citizenship […]