Chinese staff forced to drink urine and eat roaches
Source: BBC News Managers at a Chinese firm have been jailed for making staff who failed to reach sales targets drink urine and eat cockroaches, local media report. Police took […]
Prescription Doses of Fish Oil May Lower Heart Attack and Stroke Risk
Source: Time By ALICE PARK November 10, 2018 Omega-3 fatty acids, abundant in fish oil, are known to be good for the heart. Studies have shown that people who eat more […]
Is It Right to Blame World War I’s Treaty of Versailles for the Rise of Hitler?
Source: Time By STEVEN WOODBRIDGE, KINGSTON UNIVERSITY / THE CONVERSATION Just over a week after the beginning of World War II in September 1939, a letter appeared in the Richmond Herald — a […]
An ancient community in Pakistan fades as conversions to Islam rise
Source: The Washington Post By Haq Nawaz Khan BUMBURET, Pakistan — For centuries, a small community of fair-skinned, blue-eyed people known as the Kalasha have inhabited a remote valley in northwest Pakistan, […]
Under the shadow of Asia Bibi; Life as a Christian in Pakistan
Source: CNN Rawalpindi, Pakistan (CNN) It is a chilly winter’s morning and a weak blue fog has settled over Rawalpindi as we arrive at the city’s St. Joseph’s Cathedral. A security […]
Rohingya flee refugee camps in Bangladesh, as Myanmar prepares for first returnees
Source: Reuters By Ruma Paul, Poppy McPherson, Shoon Naing COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh/YANGON (Reuters) – Dozens of Rohingya Muslim families on a list of refugees set to be repatriated to Myanmar later this week […]
Death toll from Somali bomb blasts rises above 50
Source: The Guardian Somali hospital and police sources say the death toll from a string of bombings near a popular hotel in Mogadishu has risen to 53 with more than […]
Morrison urges Muslim community to be more ‘proactive’ in tackling terrorism
Source: The Guardian By Paul Karp Scott Morrison has said the Muslim community in Australia must be more “proactive” in tackling the threat of terror attacks because “in many cases” imams […]
Sikh soldier memorial statue in Smethwick vandalised
Source: BBC News A memorial commemorating 100 years since the end of World War One has been vandalised days after being unveiled. The work, which includes a 10ft (3m) statue […]
LGBT+ rights take center stage in Mexico’s new Congress
Source: Reuters By Oscar Lopez MEXICO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A bill passed this week in Mexico’s Senate granting same-sex couples equal social security benefits as heterosexuals now moves to […]
Woman who bore rapist’s baby faces 20 years in El Salvador jail
Source: The Guardian BY Nina Lakhani A rape victim is facing 20 years in jail charged with attempted murder, after she gave birth to her abuser’s baby in a latrine […]
American Jews Face a Choice: Create Meaning or Fade Away
Source: The New York Times By Gal Beckerman When a gunman slaughtered 11 worshipers in a Pittsburgh synagogue on a Shabbat morning last month, American Jews were left with a […]
Saudi Arabia Is Misusing Mecca
Source: The New York Times In the aftermath of the Jamal Khashoggi murder, the kingdom has exploited the podium of the Grand Mosque in Mecca by using its imams to […]
Humanity First with Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association USA is responding to California Wildfire
Dear Friends, Over the past several weeks, wildfires in California have devastated more than two hundred fifty (250) thousand acres of land including thousands of homes and businesses. More than […]
Govt’s botched handling of Aasia Bibi protests is ‘divine justice’: PML-N senator
Dawn.com | Nadir Guramani Updated November 12, 2018 The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government on Monday once again came under fire in the Senate from opposition lawmakers over its handling of protests by religious parties against the acquittal of Aasia Bibi, with PML-N’s Mushahidullah Khan claiming that the ruling party […]
Crown Prince’s wings clipped as Khashoggi death rattles Riyadh
Fallout from killing has weakened Prince Mohammed and given second wind to old guard of elders Martin Chulov Middle East correspondent Mon 12 Nov 2018 Turkey alleges Crown Prince […]
How a female artisan became the Arab world’s top jewelry designer and captured a cult following in Hollywood
Azza Fahmy is the first woman to ever train with a master goldsmith in Egypt. Over the past 50 years, she’s built a global artisanal jewelry brand. From pharaconic collars […]
Should Pakistan revisit its Israel policy?
By Kamran Yousaf Published: November 12, 2018 On October 25, a tweet from an Israeli journalist caused uproar in Pakistan. Avi Scharf, Editor of the English edition of the […]
Buying a second passport changed our lives: UAE expats
This is how much UAE expats spend to travel freely around the world Published: November 11, 2018 Cleofe Maceda, Senior Web Reporter UAE expatriate Belal Nasser goes on a holiday […]
Sanctions on Iran likely to boost Turkey-Iraq commercial ties
DAILY SABAH WITH AA ISTANBUL While the implications of the second round of U.S. sanctions against Iran on the regional economy are being discussed, experts said that Turkish goods could dominate the Iraqi market with the decline in imports of Iranian goods due to the sanctions. Turkey-Iraq Business Council Chairman […]