Source: RNS NEW YORK — Religion News Foundation announced today that Jerry Pattengale has been named interim CEO and President of Religion News Foundation (RNF), and CEO and Publisher of its subsidiary Religion News Service (RNS). He replaces Thomas L. Gallagher. “We thank Tom for his contributions to RNF and […]
Dec 11, 2019 – http://www.swissinfo.ch DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran will overcome U.S. sanctions by either bypassing them or through negotiations, and it will not cross its red lines in any […]
Dec 11, 2019 – 13:14 By Shoon Lei Win Naing and Toby Sterling THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday rejected accusations of genocide committed […]
Courtesy: Azhar Ahmad, USA Source: NY Times By Prof. Atif Mian (@atifrmian) is John H. Laporte Jr. Class of 1967 Professor of Economics, Public Policy and Finance at Princeton University […]
Source: Dawn PRAGUE: A gunman killed himself on Tuesday after shooting dead six patients at a hospital in the eastern Czech city of Ostrava, in what the premier has called “an immense tragedy”. The attacker gunned down people at close range at the trauma ward of the Faculty Hospital in […]
Source: Spiegel It’s a daunting task. Since the 1980s, when the north rose up against Margaret Thatcher, the Tories have largely been considered unelectable in the region. But Brexit has muddled the situation. After decades of deindustrialization and globalization, residents of the former coal-mining region voted by a large majority […]
Source: Spiegel Malta, the European Union’s smallest member state, generally stays out of the headlines. Two-and-a-half years ago, DER SPIEGEL and other European media outlets involved with European Investigative Collaborations (EIC) published the “Malta Files,” which revealed how German companies were able to save on taxes by establishing themselves on […]
Source: Spiegel It’s a clear, warm autumn morning, and hundreds have gathered to pay their last respects to Najmullah, the revered commander of the militia in the village of Warduj, who fell in the battle against the Taliban. It is said that Najmullah never showed fear, that he always encouraged […]
Yasser Latif Hamdani @theRealYLH December 9, 2019 No one gave Shireen Mazari the memo that she is neither the Foreign Minister nor the Defence Minister of Pakistan. She holds […]
“In the last 60 years Pakistan’s economy has crashed 13 times,” explained Professor Atif Mian during a talk at the University of California, Berkley, on October 25, “and every […]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says awarding Austrian writer with Nobel Prize is ‘shame, disgrace’ By Jeyhun Aliyev and Sibel Morrow Awarding the Nobel Prize to Peter Handke will only […]
Source: Qrius By Subramaniam Ananthram, Senior Lecturer, International Business, Curtin University and Christopher Chan, Associate Professor of Human Resource Management, York University, Canada Can religion and spirituality promote ethical behaviour in the workplace? It’s […]
Source: Human Rights Watch Draft Law Favors Hindus, Other Non-Muslim Immigrants The Indian government’s proposed law to grant citizenship based on religion violates India’s international legal obligations, Human Rights Watch […]
Francis Ford Coppola (/ˈkɒpələ/,[1][2][3] Italian: [ˈkɔppola]; born April 7, 1939)[4] is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, film composer, and vintner. He was a central figure in the New Hollywood filmmaking movement of the 1960s and 1970s. He is widely considered […]
Suggested reading by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The anesthesia of familiarity: There should be a Creator of Our Universe Challenging Mainstream Thought About Beauty’s Big Hand […]
By AFP – Dec 07,2019 – JORDAN TIMES WASHINGTON — The US House of Representatives on Friday threw its weight behind a two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians, in a […]
Dec 09,2019 – JORDAN TIMES – JAMES Z. ZOGBY Two years ago Friday, President Donald Trump formally recognised Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. We knew then that this was an irresponsible […]
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla The popular name for baby boys is a way for Muslim families to honor Islam’s founder, the Prophet Muhammad. The name Muhammad has broken […]
The Tory manifesto promises a ‘fair, firm and compassionate’ approach. The party has more work to do on the last point It is no surprise that, as the general election campaign enters the home straight, the Conservatives are playing the immigration card. It echoes Vote Leave’s drive in the last […]