French President on Nationalism Versus Patriotism
In World War I remembrance, France’s Macron denounces nationalism as a ‘betrayal of patriotism’ Source: The Washington Post The French president’s remarks at a solemn ceremony in Paris could be […]
Will Europe fold under US sanctions against Iran?
KAMRAN GASANOV Published November 7, 2018 Europe’s stance on the U.S. sanctions against Iran will reveal whether the continent can be independent from Washington or not and, secondly, will […]
PM Imran Khan expected to address the nation today: sources / and postponed …
PM Imran Khan expected to address the nation today: sources Web Desk On Nov 11, 2018 ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan is expected to address the nation today, ARY News […]
Windsor Muslims promote peace & love
By Paul PedroNovember 9, 2018 @PaulPedroNews Windsor’s Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama`at community has stepped up for Windsor Regional Hospital, while promoting world peace. Members are pledging $1 million over 10 years […]
The Father of Algebra: Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times There are about 750 verses in Quran urging Muslims to make use of reason to understand nature and […]
Dr. Abdus Salam: Islam and Science Concordance or Conflict?
By Dr Abdus Salam, Nobel Laureate in Physics A semi-quantitative measure of this is given by George Sarton in his monumental History of Science. Sarton divides his story of the […]
A Pope Francis gargoyle now watches over Cologne cathedral
Source: Religion News Service By Tom Heneghan PARIS (RNS) — It took about a week for visitors to the massive Catholic cathedral in Cologne, Germany, to notice a small addition […]
Letter shows a fearful Einstein long before Nazis’ rise
Source: Associated Press By ARON HELLER 1 of 3 FILE – This June, 1954, file photo shows renowned physicist Albert Einstein in Princeton, N.J. More than a decade before the […]
Overcoming Islamophobia in UK
My Salam Is For Everyone Source: Patheo By Farouq Peru I am your Muslim neighbour in London. As there are almost a million of us here (almost one in eight […]
Bermuda’s government fights against same-sex marriage in Court of Appeal
Source: CNN By Esan Swan Linda Bogle-Mienzer is one of the few Bermudians to have married someone of the same sex. Story highlights Same-sex marriage was legalized in Bermuda, then […]
Exclusive: ‘Can’t eat, can’t sleep’ – Rohingya on Myanmar repatriation list
Source: Reuters By Ruma Paul COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) – For Nurul Amin, a Rohingya Muslim living in a refugee camp in Bangladesh, the days since learning he and his […]
Tibetan dies of self-immolation in protest of China
Source: Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — A Tibetan man set himself on fire and died in a protest earlier this week calling for the return of the region’s exiled Buddhist […]
Melbourne attack: Suspect was inspired by ISIS but had no direct contact, police say
Source: CNN By Joshua Berlinger, CNN (CNN)A man who stabbed three people after his pickup truck burst into flames in a Melbourne street was known to authorities for his radical views […]
Kristallnacht anniversary: France warns of steep rise in anti-Semitism
Source: BBC News On the 80th anniversary of the Nazi Kristallnacht attack on Germany’s Jews, French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe has revealed a 69% increase in anti-Semitic incidents this year. […]
Merkel marks Nazi ‘Kristallnacht’ against Jews with synagogue speech
Source: Reuters BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany has a moral duty to fight rising anti-Semitism, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday in an emotional speech at a Berlin synagogue to mark […]
Factbox – The knowns and unknowns of U.S. Iran oil sanction waivers Business
Reuters International Nov 9, 2018 – 02:15 FILE PHOTO: Gas flares from an oil production platform at the Soroush oil fields in the Persian Gulf, south of the capital Tehran, […]
Why world powers are unlikely to start another great war
by Andrew Hammond The US mid-term elections occupied many of the political headlines last week, but another landmark event awaited Donald Trump as he headed to Europe at the weekend. […]
Political links before railway
Nov 10,2018 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL Israel is busy marketing a master plan to link itself by rail with neighbouring Arab countries, notably Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the Arab Gulf […]
Floods ‘only beginning’ of severe climate change impacts on Jordan
By Hana Namrouqa – Nov 11,2018 – JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — As Jordan was still licking its wounds after last month’s Dead Sea tragedy, flashfloods struck again this weekend, claiming new lives in what experts on climate change described as “only the beginning” of severe manifestations of climate change […]
Middle East: Rail tracks for regional peace?
Nov 10,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Fares Braizat Despite the deep sense of pessimism in the region about a peace deal between the Israelis and the Palestinians, the Israelis are proposing […]