The Antarctic Peninsula is setting heat records. They won’t stand long.
Five hundred miles south of South America’s Cape Horn, a narrow strip of land and a smattering of islands form the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, a forbidding realm of […]
More than 2,000 former prosecutors and other DOJ officials call on Attorney General Bill Barr to resign
By Laura Jarrett, CNN (CNN) More than 2,000 former Justice Department officials who served in Republican as well as Democratic administrations have signed a statement posted Sunday calling on Attorney […]
Hospital director dies in Wuhan as China designates dead nurses and doctors as ‘martyrs’
Epigraph: Every human life is precious and sacred and saving one is like saving the whole of humanity. (Al Quran 5:32/33) Hong Kong (CNN) The death toll from the novel […]
Could Switzerland help end the conflict in Yemen?
By Kathrin Ammann Feb 18, 2020 – 11:00 The war in Yemen has been raging for five years, at huge human cost. Some experts believe that neutral Switzerland, […]
From ISRAEL HAYOM: The history of nonagression pacts in Islam (as seen by this author)
By Harold Rhode, who received in PhD in Ottoman history and later served as the Turkish Desk Officer at the US Department of Defense. He is now a Distinguished Senior […]
A 117-strong group doctors and psychologists has called for an end to what it calls the “psychological torture” and “medical neglect” of Julian Assange.
see also: (Video by Sky News) The WikiLeaks founder is being held in Belmarsh Prison awaiting a hearing on February 24 which could see him extradited to the […]
Bomb kills Pakistani policeman assigned to anti-polio team
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A roadside bombing targeted a police vehicle in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing a policeman and wounding three others, officials said. The police were assigned to […]
Pakistan no longer a militant safe haven — PM Imran Khan
Premier’s comments came at a conference marking 40 years of Pakistan’s hosting Afghan refugees By AFP – Feb 17,2020 -JORDAN TIMES ISLAMABAD — Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan asserted on […]
Why Are So Many Christians Converting to Islam
It is a fact that Islam is growing rapidly in the West. In the U.S. alone the number of Muslims has risen dramatically, from about 10,000 in 1900 to 3 […]
Significant changes in Arab public opinion
Feb 17,2020 -JORDAN TIMES – James J. Zogby Across the Middle East and North Africa, 2019 provided an eventful end to a tumultuous decade. There were unsettling developments on […]
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos pledges $10bn to save Earth’s environment
Source: The Guardian By Richard Luscombe; @richlusc Move comes a month after Amazon threatened to fire employees who spoke out about company’s role in the climate crisis Jeff Bezos, the […]
Boris Johnson’s approach to immigration doesn’t just reek of racism, it makes no economic sense
Source: Independent, UK The perceived costs of relaxing rules are often myths. In financial terms, free movement of people is a huge benefit to us all, writes Phil Thornton Why […]
Every Thing You Wanted to Know about Compilation and Preservation of the Holy Quran
Epigraph: Indeed, We (Allah) Ourself have sent down this Quran, and most surely We will be its Guardian. (Al Quran 15:9/10) New Light on the History of the Quranic Text? […]
This Day in History, on Feb 17, Giordano Bruno Burnt Alive, at the Stake in Rome
Promoted post: Who Has a Greater Claim to Science: Judaism, Christianity or Islam — The Bible or the Quran? Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of […]
ISIS bride Shamima Begum says life ‘fell apart’ as she was stripped of UK citizenship
Shamima Begum said her life ‘fell apart’ when she was stripped of UK citizenship. The former UK schoolgirl, 20, was one of three east London schoolgirls who travelled to Syria […]
Growing Islamophobia ‘intolerable,’ UN chief Guterres says
Source: Daily Sabah AP — The U.N. chief on Sunday voiced his concern over rising Islamophobia in the world, calling it “intolerable.” Antonio Guterres’ remarks came during a joint news […]
Crypto spying affair : How manipulated Swiss tech shaped world politics
By Swiss public television, SRF Feb 12, 2020 – From left to right: Sadat, Carter, Begin sign the Camp David Peace Accords between Egypt and Israel in March 1979. […]
Including Ahmadiyyas would trigger reaction among Indian Muslims: Ravi Shankar Prasad on CAA
Monday, February 17, 2020 On giving Indian citizenship to Pakistan’s Ahmadiyya community, Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has said that doing so could trigger a reaction from Indian Muslims. Speaking […]
Bangladesh: Ahmadiyya regional convention ends in Sunderbans
Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Bangladesh on Saturday concluded its regional convention for Satkhira, Khulna, Jashore and Chuadanga region with a call to spread the ideals of Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (SM). The […]
‘Westlessness’: is the west really in a state of peril?
The Guardian Top diplomats disagreed over the global relevance of the west at the Munich security conference Patrick Wintour diplomatic editor Sun 16 Feb 2020 The chosen theme of […]