Source: AT MANILA – Following high-profile deployments of medics and medical equipment to virus-hit nations in Europe and the Middle East, China is now ramping up its “face mask diplomacy” closer to home in neighboring Southeast Asia. As US politicians call for China to be held accountable for spawning the […]
Epigraph: On account of this, We prescribed for the children of Israel that whosoever killed a person — unless it be for killing a person or for creating disorder in […]
Source: Patheos by Dan Peterson I’m beginning to write up a brief introductory discussion of the great early Muslim mystic Rābiʿa al-‘Adawiyya al-Qaysiyya. In order to do so, I’m drawing […]
Ott said the coronavirus crisis helped him find his faith. By Safaa Kasraoui Apr 19, 2020 Rabat – Austrian Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighter Wilhelm Ott announced his conversion to […]
Source: BBC By Rebecca Morelle; Science correspondent, BBC News The UK is gearing up to use the blood of coronavirus survivors to treat hospital patients ill with the disease. NHS […]
France banned the wearing of Veil (Burqa and Hijab) Islamic attire which is worn by Muslims across the world, was banned by France in 2011. There is a complete ban […]
By Alexandra Ulmer and Shilpa Jamkhandikar MUMBAI (Reuters) – The purple ink stamped on Iqbal Hussain Siddiqui’s hand by Indian health workers was supposed to ensure he stayed home under […]
Resolution strongly supported by dozens of countries, human rights groups and charities Simon Tisdall Sun 19 Apr 2020 The US fears the measure could hinder its ability to prosecute military […]
As citizens enter their second weekend of lockdown, Turkey’s maritime denizens continue to enjoy a significant decrease in sea traffic in the country’s biggest city. Dolphins were seen by […]
Shira Haas is mesmerising as the young woman fleeing a closed Hasidic Jewish community for a new life in secular Berlin There is one indelible scene in Unorthodox that will stick in your memory long after you’ve finished watching the four-part miniseries. photo Esty, a 19-year-old Hasidic Jew, has escaped […]
Editorial: On some measures, the country is now the world’s largest economy and can also be fairly ranked as a military superpower @IndyVoices Independent Premium As the formal but ill-defined prime ministerial stand-in, Dominic Raab has sometimes appeared hesitant to take the kind of decisions that only prime ministers can […]
Alcohol is ‘unhelpful coping strategy’ for coronavirus lockdown says WHO Alcohol is the most accessible that we can self-medicate with, and repeat prescriptions are always available. But now detox is […]
BEIJING, April 19 (Xinhua) — Beijing will carry out mandatory nucleic acid tests on eight groups of people, said a municipal health official at a press conference on Sunday. Gao […]
Scope, Style and Preservation of the Quran Sometimes the Quran is Written on Stone and Often on Paper? The Scope, Style and Effect of the Holy Quran The History of the Qur’anic […]
Source: The Guardian By Bethan McKernan While Turkey stands accused of domestic repression, its largest city is increasingly seen as a beacon for the persecuted A ruined yali, or Bosphorus […]
18th April 2020 Sabahat Ali Rajput, Mexico A lot of people are palpably furious right now – enraged with their governmental heads, frustrated with their Health Ministers, disappointed in their […]
COLUMN: Saudi Arabia have an awful human rights record but deputy prime minister Bin Salman’s takeover bid has been accepted with scarcely any question or objection ByStan Collymore 09:04, […]
Source: CNN Jared Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trump, traveled to the Trump golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, with their three children for the first night of Passover on April 8, according to The New York Times In so doing, they ignored federal guidelines. President Donald Trump’s much-vaunted coronavirus […]
Source: NewScientist No, this virus isn’t a bioweapon. New diseases have emerged throughout human history, and we have seen two major coronavirus outbreaks in the last two decades: SARS and MERS. So we shouldn’t be surprised by the arrival of the covid-19 virus. However, rumours on social media suggest that […]
Source: AT The director of a maximum-security laboratory in China’s coronavirus ground-zero city of Wuhan has rejected claims that it could be the source of the outbreak, calling it “impossible”. Beijing has come under increasing pressure over transparency in its handling of the pandemic, with the US probing whether the […]