Clifford D. May Clifford D. May is president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and a columnist for The Washington Times. Some members of Congress disapprove of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom’s prioritization of “freedom of religion or belief.” But this fight may be part of a […]
Human Rights breaches in Haiti, Algeria and Cuba Press Releases Plenary session AFET DROI 28-11-2019 – 11:51 Haiti must stop violently repressing protesters Algeria must end harassment and intimidation of […]
As uncertainty takes center stage in post-Bouteflika Algeria, the European Parliament denounces human rights breaches in the country, urging Algiers to improve its rights record. Hirak demonstrations in Algeria. […]
Mehrunnisa Akbar November 15, 2019 With open arms, Prime Minister Imran Khan welcomed the Sikh community in the thousands from its neighboring country and lifetime rival, India. While this […]
By Zubair Khalil Khan On 26.11.2019 three hours 53 minutes of early morning passed as usual. However at 03.54 an earthquake of 6.4 magnitude shook the second largest city Dorres of Albania. It has over 113 thousand population. Until latest news 49 died and hundreds injured. Search for buried and […]
Apparent targeting of family whose relative was convicted of terror attack prompts accusations of ‘collective punishment’ Aviva Stahl in New York Sat 30 Nov 2019 A New Yorker […]
Editor’s Note: This article is from last year, we are bringing it now for you to understand the previous article better. Michala Bendixen From a niqab clampdown to circumcision […]
FOR A SO-CALLED ghetto, Mjolnerparken seems rather pleasant. The public-housing complex in Copenhagen contains well-tended playgrounds full of cavorting children and their Somali- and Pakistani-Danish mothers. But it is a […]
Nov 27, 2019 – swissinfo.ch By Robin Emmott BRUSSELS (Reuters) – NATO is expected to ask a group of “wise persons” to help reform the alliance after U.S. President Donald […]
Source: Telegraph Raf Sanchez, middle east correspondent Dominic Nicholls, defence and security correspondent Harry Yorke, political correspondent Benjamin Netanyahu has suggested Israel may halt its intelligence cooperation with the UK if Jeremy Corbyn […]
Nov 29, 2019 – swissinfo.ch The second week-long round of talks in Geneva on Syria’s constitution ended on Friday with the Syrian government and opposition co-chairs unable to reach consensus […]
Nov 29, 2019 Bags of plants with weight and ordinal numbers written on them are seen before being transported for planting along the pilgrimage route between Iraqi Shi’ite Muslim holy […]
With the German church’s global influence, a meeting of bishops and laypeople to take up hot-button topics has led to warnings of a new schism, originating in the home of […]
Epigraph: Every human life is precious and sacred and killing one is like triggering a genocide. (Al Quran 5:32/33) Source: BBC A number of people have been stabbed and a […]
Collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times We can read John Makdisi’s magnum opus by ordering the North Carlina Law Review article from a Library or by […]
Source: BBC Almost a quarter of young people are so dependent on their smartphones that it becomes like an addiction, suggests research by psychiatrists. The study, from King’s College London, […]
Source: Swiss Info By Abdelhafidh Abdeleli A decade ago, a majority of Swiss voters backed a people’s initiative banning the building of minarets in the country. What has changed since? […]
By Domhnall O’Sullivan Nov 29, 2019 – swissinfo.ch Three years after voting to leave the European Union, the United Kingdom is still polarised over Brexit. Would a second referendum heal […]
How come the institutional memory fails the right wing so badly in modern politics? Did all these soldiers, women as well as men, die for Canada and its allies […]
‘We’re not big on clothing police here,’ Pallister says on eve of campaign’s launch Source: CBC The Manitoba government is taking out newspaper and electronic advertisements in Quebec that welcome civil servants there to move to Manitoba if they feel threatened by their province’s ban on religious symbols in the […]