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Mazhar Abbas November 18, 2018 Pakistani media must learn lessons from the Trump-CNN row Trump and Acosta: Bigger news than the mid-term polls. As I watched on TV the […]
Pakistan and Its Militants: Who Is Mainstreaming Whom?
By Dr. James M. Dorsey November 18, 2018 Imran Khan image by Usman Malik via Flickr CC https://besacenter.org/mideast-security-and-policy-studies/pakistan-militants/Mideast Security and Policy Studies No. 158, November 18, 2018 EXECUTIVE […]
US Has Killed Half Million and Spent $6 Trillion on War Since 9/11 – Report
По admin – 18.11.2018 0 1 In the aftermath of the deadly 9/11 terrorist attacks, the US has spent over $5.9 trillion on wars abroad that have resulted in […]
Ahmadiyya Muslims in Bensheim Germany arranged Podium-Discussion on Islam and Populism
By Zubair Khan, the Muslim Times’ Editor for Germany Pictures by Mobashar Khan Dialogue is the most effective means of eliminating misunderstandings and countering prejudices. Therefore, members of the Ahmadiyya […]
Early Benchmarks Show ‘Post-Millennials’ on Track to Be Most Diverse, Best-Educated Generation Yet
Source: Pew Research Center BY RICHARD FRY AND KIM PARKER (Mark Boster/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) As a new generation of Americans begins to take shape and move toward adulthood, there is […]
‘The right time to die’: Canada’s law allowing physician-assisted suicide faces criticism over restrictions
Source: The Washington Post By Amanda Coletta November 15 TORONTO — Nearly three years into her battle with terminal breast cancer, Audrey Parker, a 57-year-old former television makeup artist who loved […]
Italy’s bishops respond to long-ignored clergy sex abuse
Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD VATICAN CITY (AP) — Italy’s Catholic bishops are declaring a new era of transparency and truth about clergy sex abuse, as awareness of the […]
Bishop reported missing amid Beijing-Vatican reconciliation
Source: Associated Press By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN BEIJING (AP) — A bishop who has resisted demands to join China’s Communist Party-controlled church body has been taken into custody, a Catholic news […]
Malaysia says no ‘U-turn’ in death penalty abolition
Source: AlJazeera By Kate Mayberry Malaysia’s government says it will abolish the death penalty in a rare move against capital punishment in Asia [File: Vincent Thian/AP] Kuala Lumpur, […]
Saudi women in ‘inside-out abaya’ protest
Source: BBC News Some Saudi women have launched a protest against the abaya – a long loose-fitting robe used to cover their bodies in public – by saying that they […]
Australia, Malaysia trade words over Israel embassy shift
Source: Associated Press By TREVOR MARSHALLSEA SYDNEY (AP) — A top Australian official seized Friday on past comments from Malaysia’s prime minister seen as anti-Semitic, amid a diplomatic war of […]
‘Love will prevail’: Costa Rica’s same-sex couples can marry in 2020
Source: Reuters By Alvaro Murillo SAN JOSE (Reuters) – Same-sex couples in Costa Rica will have the right to get married by mid-2020, the nation’s constitutional court has ruled, a first […]
UN committee criticizes human rights violations in Iran
Source: Associated Press By EDITH M. LEDERER UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A U.N. committee on human rights approved a resolution Thursday urging Iran to stop its widespread use of arbitrary […]
Khmer Rouge leaders found guilty of Cambodia genocide
Source: BBC News For the first time, two leaders of Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia have been convicted of genocide. His deputy Nuon Chea, 92, and head of […]
Myanmar holds 106 Rohingya aboard boat to Malaysia, official says
Source: Reuters BY Shoon Naing, Simon Lewis KYAUKTAN, Myanmar (Reuters) – Myanmar immigration authorities detained 106 Rohingya Muslims aboard a boat off Yangon on Friday, officials said, raising fears of a […]
Bangladesh admits no Rohingya willing to take repatriation offer
Source: The Guardian By Hannah Ellis-Petersen, Shaikh Azizur Rahmanand Michael Safi Bangladesh has conceded that it will be unable to voluntarily repatriate Rohingya refugees to Myanmar as it had planned because it cannot […]
‘This is not all of us.’ Call to remove Muslim from post divides Tarrant Republicans
Source: Star Telegram BY ANNA M. TINSLEY There’s a clear division in the Tarrant County Republican Party. At a time when many want to focus on the 2020 election, in […]
What you don’t know about America’s Islamic heritage
Source: USA Today BY Kim Hjelmgaard WASHINGTON — One of the greatest stories rarely told about the long history of Muslim immigration to the United States stretching back hundreds of […]
An 11-year-old girl had her hijab pulled off at school. This Utah group is now asking districts to update their bullying policies.
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune By Courtney Tanner Maram Al-Shammari was playing outside during recess when she felt a tug on the back of her head. She turned around […]
‘I Don’t Want to Go Anywhere Else but Home.’ How Residents Will Rebuild a Paradise Destroyed by Wildfire
Source: Time By TARA LAW November 15, 2018 Brenda Howell is glad her father isn’t alive to see Paradise, Calf., today. He was the longtime fire chief of the mountain town […]