Source: The Washington Post By Liz Sly and Mustafa SalimJuly 17Email the author BAGHDAD — The Islamic State is creeping back into parts of central Iraq just seven months after the government declared victory […]
Source: Reuters BY Sai Sachin Ravikumar, Tanvi Mehta NEW DELHI (Reuters) – When Akhilesh Godi was depressed and contemplated suicide while questioning his sexuality, he could not bring himself to see […]
Source: The New York Times By Ben Hubbard LARNAKA, Cyprus — They eat falafel, live on the Mediterranean and worry that a new war could erupt across the hostile border […]
Source: The Guardian By Calla Wahlquist A Victorian judge has banned a woman whose husband is facing terrorism charges from wearing a niqab in court, saying it posed a potential security […]
Source: Reuters BY Thu Thu Aung, Aye Min Thant YANGON (Reuters) – A Reuters reporter on trial in Myanmar said the police questioning after he and a colleague were arrested in […]
Source: WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO By Kate Archer Kent University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers are working to expand newborn genetic screening for Wisconsin’s Amish and Old Order Mennonite, collectively known as Plain sect communities. […]
19 July 2018 https://emp.bbc.com/emp/SMPj/2.21.4/iframe.html Media captionDawn boss Hameed Haroon says the ‘deep state’ is influencing Pakistan’s election A BBC interview with the boss of Pakistan’s leading English-language newspaper has stirred […]
Israel’s parliament has passed a controversial law characterising the country as principally a Jewish state, fuelling anger among its Arab minority. The “nation state” law says Jews have a […]
By Ahmed Bani Mustafa – Jul 19,2018 – JORDAN TIMES A view of the site where the oldest remains of bread were found in north Jordan (Photo courtesy of PNAS […]
DAILY SABAH WITH WIRES ISTANBUL File Photo The Jewish nation-state bill passed by the Israeli parliament early Thursday disregards the norms of universal law and the rights of Palestinian-origin Israeli […]
Jul 18,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Michael Jansen The most positive statement by US President Donald Trump at the news conference following his one-on-one meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin […]
Source: South China Morning Post In a west China city, Muslim children have been banned from religious activity, while authorities have curtailed the number of people over 16 allowed to […]
Source: The Economist As Donald Trump stormed through Brussels this week, alternatively dishing out anti-European tirades and paeans of fawning praise, he had little time to mingle with the city’s […]
Source: Foreign Policy By Emily Schultheis Relatives of people killed during the anti-drug operation participate in a Catholic-led protest in Manila on November 5, 2017. (NOEL CELIS/AFP/Getty Images) MANILA, Philippines […]
Source: NPR BY Shankar Vedantam ,Laura Kwerel,Tara Boyle ,Rhaina Cohen,Parth Shah,Lucy Perkins and Jennifer Schmidt Let’s take a moment to go back in time. For most of human history, we […]
Source: The Washington Post Recent years have witnessed a surge of interest in political Islam and jihadist violence. An array of commentators have sought to link contemporary groups such as […]
Source: Time By Tariq Ali Bakhiet Ambassador Tariq Ali Bakhiet is the Director General of Political Affairs for the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the second-largest intergovernmental body in the world; […]
Source: Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Thousands of Russian pilgrims have walked in a procession marking the 100th anniversary of the execution of Czar Nicholas II and his family. Russia’s […]
Source: Religion News Service BY Rosalie Chan (RNS) By now it is abundantly clear that religious groups have taken a stand on the moral necessity of combating climate change. Pope […]
Source: The New York Times By Shannon Sims Photographs by Nichole Sobecki JUMBI, ZANZIBAR — “People have tried to stop me from playing,” said Riziki Abdallah, sitting in her mother’s […]