Source: The Washington Post By Ruth Eglash JERUSALEM — Aziz Abu Sarah’s bid to become mayor of Jerusalem was doomed from the start. A Palestinian businessman and activist born and raised in […]
Source: Reuters By Stephen Farrell, Suleiman Al-Khalidi MAJDAL SHAMS, Golan Heights (Reuters) – Hundreds of Druze Arabs, some carrying Syrian flags, gathered outside the gates of a polling station on the […]
Source: The Guardian By Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Shaikh Azizur Rahman Myanmar and Bangladesh have agreed to start the repatriation of Rohingya refugees next month, less than a week after UN investigators warned that a genocide […]
Source: Reuters By Krishna N. Das NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling Hindu nationalist party has been turning up the heat on some controversial and potentially […]
Source: The New Yorker By Andrew Marantz A woman stands at a memorial outside the Tree of Life synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, on October 27th, after a […]
Qatar: Gulf’s First Refugee Asylum Law Positive Step, But Unnecessary Rights Restrictions (Beirut) – Qatar’s emir signed into law in September 2018 the Gulf region’s first law setting out […]
Source: The Economist WHEN it comes to basic principles of free speech and freedom of belief, do the nations of Europe form a coherent bloc, determined to apply those principles […]
By AFP – Oct 29,2018 – JORDAN TIMES People hold posters picturing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and lightened candles during a gathering outside the Saudi Arabia consulate in Istanbul on […]
Oct 31,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – OSAMA AL SHARIF The four-way summit that was held in Istanbul on Saturday on Syria was extraordinary in more than one way. Turkish President […]
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL Turkish drilling vessel Fatih started drilling first well Alanya-1 in offshore Antalya, a Mediterranean coastal province, Oct. 30. Turkish drilling vessel Fatih began its first well-drilling operations […]
Pakistan Web Desk October 31, 2018 ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Wednesday acquitted Asia Bibi of blasphemy charges, declaring the death penalty handed down to her by a trial […]
Source: CT (Photo: Unsplash/Marc A Sporys) New research reveals that marriages are quantifiably happier if the couple had fewer sexual partners prior to their wedding day. Writing at the Institute for Family Studies Monday, University of Utah sociologist Nicholas Wolfinger explained that the majority of Americans who have only had sexual […]
Source: Dawn The Supreme Court on Wednesday acquitted Asia Bibi, a Christian woman condemned to death on blasphemy charges after accepting her 2015 appeal against her sentence. A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar, Justice Asif Saeed Khosa and Justice Mazhar Alam Khan Miankhel […]
Source: The Washington Post By James McAuley October 28 PARIS — Jewish children slaughtered in school. Jewish customers shot in a kosher supermarket. Elderly Jewish women beaten in their apartments, then thrown […]
Source: Reuters By Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM (Reuters) – An Israeli cabinet minister’s visit to Abu Dhabi’s grand mosque gave more momentum on Monday to Israel’s diplomatic push in the Gulf, […]
Source: Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Protesters on Saturday set fire to a Hindu religious center in southern India for supporting a Supreme Court decision allowing women of menstruating […]
Source: Associated Press By PHILIP ISSA and HADI MIZBAN KARBALA, Iraq (AP) — Millions of Shiite Muslims from around the world are making their way this week to their sect’s […]
Source: Wall Street Journal By Francis X. Rocca Updated Oct. 27, 2018 6:26 p.m. ET ROME—Pope Francis told a gathering of bishops from around the world that the Catholic Church […]
Source: Reuters VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – A major meeting of Catholic bishops ended on Saturday with a call for women to play a greater role in Church decision making as […]
Iraqi minority shuns children born of IS rape, enslavement Source: Associated Press By HAMZA HENDAWI, QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and SALAR SALIM DAHUK, Iraq (AP) — The 26-year-old Yazidi mother faces a […]