How to make sure Trump or anyone like him never, ever returns to power
Defanging the most toxic elements of the Trumpian right would benefit the world as well as the United States. But it’s up to his opponents to devise strategies to […]
Rohingya survivors tell of misery and death at sea; hundreds still adrift
World Monday, 04 May 2020 By A.S.M Suza Uddin and Poppy McPherson COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh/BANGKOK (Reuters) – Rohingya refugee Shahab Uddin thought the wooden trawler he boarded in February […]
Exclusive: almost a fifth of UK homes with children go hungry in lockdown
Source: The Guardian New data shows families go without as parents lose income, meal voucher scheme is beset with problems and food banks can’t cope By Nosheen Iqbal; @nosheeniqbal The […]
British public turn to prayer as one in four tune in to religious services
Source: The Guardian Young people lead resurgence of faith, and Vicar of Dibley tops a poll as the best screen priest to lead nation through the crisis A quarter of […]
New Intermittent Fasting Program Shown to Suppress Cancer and Metabolic Disease in Mice and Humans
Source: Good News Network By Andy Corbley – As scientists become more and more fascinated by the surprising health benefits of fasting, yet another intriguing new study emphasizes the importance […]
U.S. Probes University of Texas Links to Chinese Lab Scrutinized Over Coronavirus
Source: WSJ By Kate O’Keeffe The Education Department has asked the University of Texas System to provide documentation of its dealings with the Chinese laboratory U.S. officials are investigating as a potential source […]
Roche expects to make more than 100 million antibody tests monthly by end of 2020
Source: CNBC Swiss drugmaker Roche said on Sunday it expects to be able to produce “significantly more” than 100 million of its new antibody tests monthly by the end of 2020, doubling […]
MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman — a palace coup
Ben Hubbard’s book tells how the Saudi prince fuses autocracy with ‘modernisation’ Malise Ruthven April 30 2020 Barring accident or assassination, Mohammed bin Salman is destined to become king of […]
Avigan to be tried in mild Covid 19 cases in UK
UK coronavirus patients set to trial ‘promising’ Japanese-made drug Source: The Evening Standard By Elena Cruse Some 450 UK coronavirus patients will be recruited to take part in a new […]
Humanity First Germany continues to help in Kosovo
Source: Al Hakam By Besmir Yvejsi, Secretary Ishaat, Jamaat-e-Ahmadiyya Kosovo Kosovo is one of the countries affected by Covid-19 and the management of the situation is very good, thanks to […]
Local, Practical, Apolitical: Inside Germany’s Successful Coronavirus Strategy
Source: Wall Street Journal By Bojan Pancevski and Bertrand Benoit Nation’s 16 states are unsung heroes of the battle; keeping factories open, health-care system prepared BERLIN—Germany’s success in battling the coronavirus pandemic has […]
Pakistan minister calls for beheading of blasphemers
Ali Khan’s comments follow reports that Ahmadis will join a new minorities council Ali Muhammad Khan denied media reports that Ahmadis would be part of a new minorities council. (Photo […]
The Observer view on Britain’s relationship with Saudi Arabia
Observer editorial 3 hrs ago Dramatic falls in global oil prices are the result, primarily, of collapsing demand due to the coronavirus pandemic. Other factors predating the crisis are also […]
Surviving as an Ahmadi in Pakistan
Source: Pulitzer Center By Ayilah Chaudhary After a decade’s worth of service in Pakistan’s Armed Forces, Ali Akhtar Tariq, a 38-year-old aeronautical engineer, says he was demoted, threatened, and eventually […]
Early Muslim Contacts with China
The Review of Religions, April 1992 The following are some notes on early contacts of Muslims with China read by Dr. M. Ishaq Khalil at the Conference on Islam and […]
Chomsky: Maintaining sanctions on Iran amid coronavirus is ‘sheer sadism’
“The sanctions are illegitimate in the first place, and maintaining them during the pandemic is sheer sadism,” Chomsky told IRNA in an interview published on Saturday. Speaking from his […]
Netanyahu’s ‘war cabinet’ on its way to make annexation a new reality
Apr 28,2020 – JORDAN TIMES – OSAMA AL SHARIF Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has never had it so good. His one-time foes are lining up behind him like never […]
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says more than 30 countries have asked Japan for favipiravir (Avigan) to fight Covid 19
Japan, China Vie to Be Global Supplier of Unproven Coronavirus Drug Source: Wall Street Journal By Peter Landers and Miho Inada TOKYO—A drug called favipiravir has set off a diplomatic tug of war […]
Pakistan’s dangerous capitulation to the religious right on the coronavirus
Source: Washington Post By Madiha Afzal, who is a David M. Rubenstein fellow at the Brookings Institution and author of “Pakistan Under Siege: Extremism, Society, and the State.” Perform your ablutions at home. Bring your own prayer mats, place them six feet apart. Wear masks. Use the provided hand sanitizer. […]
Inside the extraordinary race to invent a coronavirus vaccine
Source: Washington Post By Carolyn Y. Johnson Companies are launching trials at an unprecedented pace, but some worry about the trade-offs between speed and safety. Ian Haydon, a healthy 29-year-old, […]