Source: BBC Once famous for being tax-free, Saudi Arabia has announced it is trebling its Value Added Tax (VAT) from 5% to 15% and cancelling the monthly living subsidy from next month. The moves come as global oil prices have crashed down to less than half what they were a […]
Source: Dawn NEW YORK: The United States saw a record number of anti-Semitic incidents last year, including a sharp spike in physical attacks, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said on Tuesday in its annual report.The ADL, which works to protect Jewish communities, recorded 2,107 acts of anti-Semitism in the US in […]
By Frank Gardner BBC security correspondent Saudi Arabia has gone through radical change in a short space of time under Mohammed Bin Salman Once famous for being tax-free, Saudi […]
By Emily Judd, for Al Arabiya English Pope Francis has called on “believers of all faiths” to unite next Thursday in a day of fasting and prayer to ask “God […]
by DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL Life May 12, 2020 From avoiding caffeinated beverages to skipping dehydrating salty foods, there are some considerations you should make when it comes to fasting […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor’s Note: The reader may keep in mind that this is News out of Saudi Arabia. Not all Arabs will agree. Source: Arab News LONDON: […]
Arab News Wednesday . May 13, 2020 The online service is available for Makkah city only but it will be gradually expanded to other cities. (Photo/Supplied) Short Url https://arab.news/ps9qt Nada Hameed May 13, 2020 JEDDAH: Zamzam water is being distributed during Ramadan via the Saudi electronic business platform HNAK, said […]
Feel like you’re going mad after weeks without being touched by another person? Helen Coffey finds out why we crave human contact Source: Independent By Helen Coffey “It’s hard to remember when I last had physical contact with another human. That’s how normal it used to be – I wouldn’t […]
Reflections by Wee Kek Koon The religion is believed to have arrived in the 600s, brought in by traders from the Middle East and Central Asia Although Muslims settled in […]
Source: CNBC KEY POINTS Pfizer plans to test a coronavirus vaccine in thousands of people by September. CEO Albert Bourla said that if a vaccine proves to be safe, the company […]
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — As countries around the world slowly begin to reduce social distancing restrictions, the need for a vaccine against the COVID-19 disease becomes increasingly urgent. One Canadian […]
Source: WSJ By Michael S. Derby Fed’s purchases are part of the central bank’s efforts to restore functioning to the financial markets during the coronavirus pandemic The Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Monday that starting Tuesday one of its emergency market support facilities will begin buying corporate-bond exchange-traded […]
Most Europeans support a universal basic income, yet young people doubt democracy’s capacity to deliver change Matteo Salvini at the Chigi Palace in Rome on 23 March. ‘What kind of historical moment will this turn out to be, for Europe and the world?’ Photograph: Fabio Frustaci/EPA The coronavirus crisis seems […]
Application deadline passes under law designed to atone for 15th-century ‘historical wrong’ @swajones Wed 2 Oct 2019 A gift shop in the old Jewish quarters of Toledo, where Jews were […]
If businesses want to become more humane as well as productive, corporate leaders should feel obligated to credit every person in the supply chain for setting up their empire The […]
By John Philip Jenkins, who is a professor of history at Baylor University in the United States, and co-director for Baylor’s Program on Historical Studies of Religion in the Institute for […]
Source: NBC By Mansee Khurana Just this week, the Justice Department got behind a rural Virginia church’s claim that the state improperly discriminated against it by limiting its gatherings. Religious […]
(CNN) Hundreds of factory workers at a fish processing plant in Ghana have tested positive for the coronavirus, the country’s president Nana Akufo-Addo said. All 533 of them contracted the virus from one worker at the factory in the port city of Tema, the president said in his public address […]
Biden has made no secret of his opposition to the Trump peace plan. By HERB KEINON MAY 7, 2020 – THE JERUSALEM POST One of the cardinal tenets of American […]
Although they are now forgotten in the minds of most Jews, their impact on conversos in Portugal and exiles from Spain cannot be underestimated. a view of Lisbon By […]