This is a rapid sequence of excellent animal & wildlife photos. Don’t blink because you might miss something special. In the last picture, you come “eyeball-to-eyeball” with a Tiger. Enjoy!
By Christoph Reuter Ullstein Bild With two separate governments waging war against each other, Libya is crumbling. Islamic State is taking advantage of the turmoil to put down roots in the country. The US is weighing intervention. The brass band starts playing. The musicians march along the Corniche, their blue […]
ABDULRAHMAN AL-RASHED Published — Saturday 19 March 2016 I wish US President Barack Obama’s stormy interview with Jeffrey Goldberg for The Atlantic magazine took place five years ago. Perhaps back then its implications would have been different. This time his frankness has angered his friends and very little can be […]
From Wikipedia Bonsai (盆栽?, lit. plantings in tray, from bon, a tray or low-sided pot and sai, a planting or plantings, pronunciation (help·info))[1] is a Japanese art form using miniature trees […]
Source: The Guardian When there is upheaval within China’s own borders – riots, protests, vicious political power struggles – hardly a sniff of it will be found in the pages […]
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/donald-trump-and-the-failure-of-the-us-media-a-1082401.html#ref=nl-international An Essay By Holger Stark Forbes writer Clare O’Connor? “Dummy.” AP reporter Jill Colvin? “One of the truly bad reporters.” CNN Journalist Sara Murray? “Absolutely terrible.” Arianna Huffington? “Liberal clown.” Fox moderator Megyn Kelly? “A bimbo” with “blood coming out of her wherever.” It would be hard to top the insults […]
Kabrina Krebel Chang MARCH 15, 2016 Since 2007, the number of complaints for religious discrimination filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has risen significantly. It’s not hard to see why: An increase in immigrants of diverse faiths, greater workforce diversity, and the globalization of business all play […]
Mar 15,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Hasan Abu Nimah US President Barack Obama seems to be considering ideas that could facilitate a deal between the Palestinians and the Israelis, not while still in office, as time is running short for that, but for the benefit of his successors. “Middle East peace […]
By Natasha Bertrand March 2, 2016 View gallery . (Thomson Reuters) A boy looks on while residents inspect a damaged building in the rebel held besieged city of Douma, a suburb of Damascus A cessation of hostilities agreement in Syria, brokered by the US and Russia, officially came into effect last Saturday.In an […]
By AFP – Mar 12,2016 – JORDAN TIMES In this photo taken on Thursday, fighters fire weapons against the Daesh terror group in the Hawari area, south-west of the city of Benghazi, Libya (AP photo) WASHINGTON — In a rare public rebuke of two of Washington’s closest allies, […]
Obama said he was disappointed by the “s**t show” left in Libya by David Cameron Andrew Buncombe New York @AndrewBuncombe Friday 11 March 2016 55 comments There is a clear pattern about the entire thing. Every couple of years, a British or US leader will visit the other’s country, or […]
Mar 10,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – I have kept the pledge I made many months ago not to waste my time reading any press articles on the American presidential nominating contests, because the 15 or so candidates on the Republican side meant that nothing would become clear until after the first […]
Mar 10,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – George S. Hishmeh A week ago, my mailbox had a surprising letter addressed to my wife and me by a David Trone, who only provided a post office number and the name of a nearby neighbourhood for his address. The opening line was addressed to “dear […]
Mar 08,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – OSAMA AL SHARIF The US presidential race is attracting attention outside the United States because of the stark contrast among candidates, especially on the Republican side, over foreign policy and the increasing possibility that outsider billionaire Donald Trump could soon become the presumptive party […]
By Harriet Alexander, New York 5:52PM GMT 06 Mar 2016 Memoir: Love, Loss and What We Ate Sir Salman Rushdie needed consoling every year he did not win the Nobel Prize for literature, and their marriage was marred by jealousy and insecurity, according to an explosive autobiography by his former wife Padma […]
By Julia Baum JBaum@community-newspapers.com POSTED: 02/17/2016 Members of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Silicon Valley last week held an exhibition on the Holy Quran and other Islamic readings in an effort to unite and educate others. Dozens of neighbors turned up at the three-hour event on Feb. 12 at the Pearl […]
RAMZY BAROUD Published — WWW.ARABNEWS.COM Last update 8 March 2016 Regardless of the outcome of the American presidential primaries, or even the result of the general elections next November, a frightening phenomenon is underway. The US has decidedly moved to the right, in fact the ultra-right; class differences are […]
By Reuters – Mar 06,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – AMMAN — The United States has nearly finished setting up an air base in Kurdish-controlled northern Syria and was proceeding with the construction of a second base for dual military and civilian use, a Kurdish website said on Sunday. The […]
Islamic art exhibit underway at U.S. museum TEHRAN Times Art Desk TEHRAN – The Asian Art Museum in San Francisco is displaying works of Islamic art in an exhibition, which opened on February 26. The artworks are from India under the Moguls in the 16th century, Iran during the reign […]
Himalayan lakes, spacewalks and the presidential primaries helped Scott Kelly keep his wits over 340 days in space, the astronaut told reporters on Friday, days after he landed back on Earth from a record-setting mission. http://www.theguardian.com Nasa astronaut Scott Kelly speaks during a press conference on Friday in Houston. Kelly […]