By MARTIN SELSOE SORENSEN, New York Times COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Denmark’s immigration minister, who last year celebrated the country’s increasingly strict entry laws by posting a Facebook picture of herself with a cake, has suggested that Muslims fasting for Ramadan should stay home from work “to avoid negative consequences for […]
Source: Reuters By Ezgi Erkoyun ALANYA, Turkey (Reuters) – Turkey’s $26 billion tourism industry has been battered by security fears and political disputes in recent years but one corner of […]
Source: BBC News Saudi Arabia has reportedly arrested three more women’s rights activists in a crackdown launched just weeks before a ban on women driving will be lifted. Human rights […]
Source: Associated Press By ROD McGUIRK CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An Australian archbishop said Wednesday that he will stand aside but does not intend to resign after becoming the most […]
Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis urged Chinese Catholics on Wednesday to show they are in full communion with the Holy See, amid what […]
Source: BBC News A former Georgia lawmaker and author has taken a major step towards becoming the first ever African-American female governor of a US state. Stacey Abrams won the […]
Source: BBC News After a stranger exposed himself to her on a train, photojournalist Margaret Wroblewski created the Instagram project I Was On The Metro When…to document the accounts of […]
Source: Time By KRISTEN BAHLER May 17, 2018 Sarah Wilson wears the same gym clothes every morning. She always wakes up at 6 am, promptly changes out of her pajamas, and […]
Source: Time By ERROL MORRIS May 22, 2018 Morris is an Academy Award–winning filmmaker and the author most recently of The Ashtray (Or the Man Who Denied Reality). How many times have I […]
Source: Slate By RUTH GRAHAM On June 1, the Mormon church will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the “revelation” that black men should be allowed to be full members of the church. […]
Source: The New York Times By Douglas Martin Bernard Lewis, an eminent historian of Islam who traced the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, to a declining Islamic civilization, a […]
Source: The New York Times By Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura CARRIGTWOHILL, Ireland — When it comes to the Roman Catholic Church, Judy Donnelly has been something of a rebel over the […]
Source: The New York Times By Stephen Castle LONDON — Ken Livingstone, once a leading political figure and a former mayor of London, on Monday quit Britain’s opposition Labour Party more than two years after being suspended over comments that fueled claims of anti-Semitism within the party. Mr. Livingstone, an ally of Labour’s […]
Men rescued off the coast of Brazil after 35 days at sea tell of harrowing journey that force some to drink urine to survive Dom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro […]
In an interview with DER SPIEGEL, former German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer talks about the danger of war against Iran, the deterioration of trans-Atlantic relations under U.S. President Donald […]
By Rohit Jain This content was published on May 16, 2018 “There was a colonial history behind the India-Switzerland Friendship Treaty that the Swiss public is not aware […]
By Simon Bradley May 22, 2018 The Jacobs Foundation – one of the biggest in Switzerland with CHF7 billion in assets – funds activities such as research into […]
This content was published on May 22, 2018 May 15, 2018 marked the 70th anniversary of what the Palestinians call the “nakba,” or catastrophe, when hundreds of thousands of people […]
on May 21, 2018 By SUNDAY OJEME With the level of poverty in the country spreading fast and becoming unbearable for a segment of Nigerians, the time has come to set religion aside and embrace Islamic insurance. SUNDAY OJEME writes Earlier in the year, precisely in February, another opportunity […]
Weekday and Monki come out on top. By Tahmina Begum Muslim women are spending more than £32 billion on fashion a year, yet many large brands, from luxury designers to the high street, […]