Source: The Local EU Council president Donald Tusk’s office has floated the idea of a “flexible” extension of up to a year, with an option for London to leave earlier if it finds a way through, but there is no agreement on this. Ahead of talks between May and French […]
Source: AT The Supreme Court in Indonesia has ruled in favor of upholding an 18-month prison sentence for a woman convicted of blasphemy charges last year. Meiliana, a 44-year-old ethnically Chinese Indonesian, was accused of making remarks about the loudspeakers of a mosque in Tanjung Balai in North Sumatra in 2016. […]
Catholic missionaries are evangelizing on college campuses and trying to bring back the ‘nones’ Source: The Conversation More than 20% of all adults and over a third of millennials in the […]
Source: TOI Who is propagating and encouraging terrorism in today’s world? Who wanted to use ISIS (the Islamic State group) as a tool?” Rouhani asked, saying that the US is harboring the leaders of the jihadist organization. “Even now America is hiding the heads of ISIS, even now they are […]
Source: CT At present, husbands and wives are able to challenge an application for divorce that has been initiated by their spouse. That will no longer be the case when the changes come into effect a few months from now in what is the most radical shake-up of British divorce […]
Source: HP BROOKLYN, N.Y. — This two-block commercial strip of the Midwood neighborhood features a mosque, halal markets and restaurants, and tailor shops with colorful shalwar kameez pantsuits, all catering to the Pakistani immigrant community wedged between a Jewish neighborhood and a Mexican enclave on Coney Island Avenue. Fear and […]
Source: HP The U.S. State Department has publicly identified 16 people it says had “roles in the murder of Jamal Khashoggi,” the Saudi journalist who was killed in Turkey in October. The 16 people and their immediate family members are now banned from U.S. soil, the State Department said in […]
Source: Dawn ONCE again, as the state rolls up its sleeves to rid society of militancy, plans beyond the conventional security operations are under the spotlight. And this includes figuring out how to deal with militants. In this regard, words such as ‘deradicalisation’ are being bandied about; but it is […]
Source: BBC By George Wright Floating cities have long seemed like a utopian pipedream based on little more than fantasy. But this week the concept appeared to take a step […]
THIS CONTENT WAS PUBLISHED ON APRIL 8, 2019 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (C), chief of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Amit Shah (2-R), India’s Home Minister Rajnath […]
Focus on extreme poverty, orphans, widows, homeless and the disabled in Pakistan Published: April 08, 2019 19:21Falah Gulzar, Social Media Journalist Imran KhanImage Credit: AP Pakistan PM released poverty eradication […]
Twenty years after the end of NATO’s intervention in the Balkans, the relationship between Serbia and its former province of Kosovo remains tense. Senior figures are talking about shifting Kosovar borders, setting […]
Ismira Lutfia Tisnadibrata and Ahmad Syamsudin Jakarta 2019-04-08 Supporters of Prabowo Subianto display a huge Indonesian flag during a rally for the opposition presidential candidate at Gelora Bung Karno Stadium […]
Apr 08,2019 – JORDAN TIMES – JAMES J. ZOGBY The New York Times headline on April 4 was simple enough, “After 37-Year Search, Israel Recovers Body of a Fallen Soldier”, but […]
Apr 08,2019 – JORDAN TIMES – EDITORIAL It came as no surprise when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during an interview on Israel’s Channel 12 on Saturday that he […]
Joint session votes against inheritance rights to grandchildren born to female children By JT – Apr 09,2019 – JORDAN TIMES Deputies and senators take part in a joint session under […]
April 08, 2019 at 01:00 pm | NEWS ELIZABETH OFOSUAH JOHNSON | Staff Writer FULL BIOCLOSE April 08, 2019 at 01:00 pm | NEWS Elizabeth Johnson is a Ghanaian –Nigerian […]
Source: The Guardian Dream McClinton puts herself on the line to report Black women in the US marry less than others – and the numbers are even lower for darker skinned […]
Legislation is a smokescreen, an avoidance strategy which means we avoid confronting how exploitation has been woven into the very fabric of society Alicia Kidd, Elizabeth A Faulkner, Lorena Arocha The […]