Mediator seeks ‘relaunch’ of UN-led Syrian talks
UN Photo/Violaine Martin Staffan de Mistura, United Nations Special Envoy for Syria briefs the press on the last day of the 8th round of the Intra-Syrian talks, Geneva. 14 December […]
Army Service Could Be the Answer to Europe’s Integration Problem
Source: Foreign Policy Argument The EU’s defense forces are struggling to recruit, and immigrants are often eager to serve. By Elisabeth Braw France’s Foreign Legion is the stuff of military […]
Integration of migrants: Commission and OECD publish check list to support local, regional and national authorities
European Commission – Press release Brussels, 18 April 2018 Today the European Commission and OECD are publishing a report that identifies the main challenges to the integration of migrants […]
Jewish women ‘stand shoulder to shoulder’ with Muslim women over Islamophobic abuse
It will be sent on the eve of Sunday’s Nisa-Nashim national conference, the largest-ever gathering of Jewish and Muslim women in Europe Nisa Nashim members at an event (Photo: Yakir […]
Human rights commission says Pakistan failing Shias, Ahmadis, Christians
The Human Rights Commission at the launch of its annual report, State of Human Rights in 2017 — dedicated to the late activist Asma Jahangir says people continue to […]
Austrian PM Kurz threatens to close mosque, urges stricter funding for Muslim organizations
DAILY SABAH WITH AGENCIES ISTANBUL Austria’s Chancellor Sebastian Kurz attends a news conference after a cabinet meeting in Vienna, Austria (Reuters Photo) Austria’s anti-Turkey Chancellor Sebastian Kurz threatened […]
The Power of the Algorithms Pedro Domingos on the Arms Race in Artificial Intelligence
In an interview, best-selling author and machine-learning expert Pedro Domingos discusses the global competition to take the lead in artificial intelligence, the advance of autocrats and the threats modern technology […]
The Windrush scandal hasn’t come about by accident – this is what happens when you let dog whistle racism go mainstream
Voices How much are the goings on at the Home Office motivated by some people seeing members of the Windrush generation as not quite British? James Moore @JimMooreJourno The Windrush […]
Palestinian children still in jail in violation of int’l law
Apr 18,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Daoud Kuttab Palestinians make special efforts to bring attention to their own who are suffering restriction in Israeli jails. April 17 marks the Palestinian […]
Iraq must not be repeated in Syria
Apr 18,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Michael Jansen The western missile attacks on alleged Syrian chemical sites pre-empted the visit to the town of Douma, east […]
Humanity First cum Ahmadiyya project in Kosovo
By Zubair Khan On, 18th April 2018, by the mercy and blessings of Allah the Almighty, a computer lab was inaugurated in the Gymnasium High School Naim Frasheri” in Shtime. It is 26 km from Pristine, the capitol of Kosovo. Computers for the lab were donated by Humanity First Germany. […]
Harvard Press’ Book Review: How Islam Shaped the Enlightenment
Source: The New Republic By Jacob Soll A new book recovers the work of scholars who helped establish greater understanding between religions. In 1698, the noted Arabic scholar and Catholic […]
Senators leave classified briefing on Trump’s Syria policy ‘very unnerved’
By Nicole Gaouette, Ted Barrett and Richard Roth, CNN April 18, 2018 Source: CNN Senators ‘unnerved’ by Trump’s Syria policy 01:30 Washington (CNN)Lawmakers emerged from a classified administration briefing […]
A 10-Minute Trial, a Death Sentence: Iraqi Justice for ISIS Suspects
Source: The New York Times By MARGARET COKER and FALIH HASSAN BAGHDAD — The 42-year-old housewife had two minutes to defend herself against charges of supporting the Islamic State. Amina Hassan, a Turkish woman in a flowing black abaya, told the Iraqi judge that she and her family had entered Syria and Iraq […]
Visiting LDS president salutes Kenya’s Mormon ‘pioneers’
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune By Bob Mims LDS Church President Russell M. Nelson assured throngs of Kenyan Mormons that they share the pioneering spirit of faith with Latter-day Saints who settled Utah’s Salt Lake Valley nearly two centuries ago. “You perhaps don’t think of yourself as pioneers, but you’re […]
With Jews largely gone from Iraq, memories survive in Israel
Source: Reuters By Maher Chmaytelli, Jeffrey Heller, Stephen Farrell BAGHDAD/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Behind the high concrete walls of Baghdad’s Jewish cemetery, Violette Saul lies at rest under a weathered and cracked tombstone, one of the last memorials to an ancient community that is now all but extinct. A Torah scroll is seen […]
Police fire teargas at Shi’ite Muslim protesters in Nigerian capital
Source: Reuters BY Abraham Achirga, Afolabi Sotunde ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigerian police fired teargas at hundreds of Shi’ite Muslim protesters on Tuesday during a second day of clashes in the capital Abuja over the imprisonment of their religious leader, Reuters witnesses said. The protesters are demanding the release of Ibrahim Zakzaky, […]
Pope meets father of British toddler at center of battle
Source: Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The father of a terminally ill British toddler met Wednesday with Pope Francis and begged him to make another bid for his son’s life, after an appeals court ruled that the child cannot be taken to Italy for further medical treatment. Francis obliged, […]
Britain urges Nigeria, others to legalise same-sex marriage
Source: The Guardian By Azimazi Mimoh Jimoh (Abuja), Seye Olumide and Chris Irekamba (Lagos) British Prime Minister, Theresa May, has called for same-sex marriage in Nigeria and all other countries within the Commonwealth. At the first joint forum at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Westminster yesterday, the prime minister […]
Germany’s Merkel condemns attack on 2 Jewish men in Berlin
Source: Associated Press By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday sharply condemned a street assault in Berlin on two young men wearing Jewish skullcaps that […]