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ASEEL BASHRAHEEL | ARAB NEWS STAFF | Published — Thursday 1 March 2018 Black Saudi model Faisal Falattah was raised by a single mother from the age […]
Source: CNN News By Sherisse Pham The Netflix of China is ready for Wall Street. Video streaming site iQiyi is getting ready for an IPO on the Nasdaq under the […]
RUBA OBAID | Published — Thursday 1 March 2018 In this file photo, African pilgrims are seen in Mina, in the holy city of Makkah. Through the centuries, many […]
Source: BBC News Russia has developed a new array of nuclear weapons that are invincible, according to President Vladimir Putin. Mr Putin made the claims as he laid out his […]
Source: The Washington Post By James McAuley WARSAW — On any given Friday night, the only synagogue in this city to survive the Holocaust draws enough worshipers for a minyan, the obligatory […]
Source: Reuters By Clare Baldwin, Andrew R.C. Marshall KUTUPALONG REFUGEE CAMP, Bangladesh (Reuters) – The first Rohingya refugees who arrived on Jorina Katun’s farmland in Bangladesh last year were worn out and traumatized after fleeing violence in neighboring Myanmar. They wept and begged to stay, and Katun, moved by their plight, […]
Source: Wall Street Journal By Ben Otto and Anita Rachman Updated Feb. 28, 2018 12:51 p.m. ET JAKARTA—Two Indonesian Christians were publicly whipped for gambling, a rare case of non-Muslims being punished […]
Source: BBC News A Hindu temple ritual in which boys aged between five and 12 years are pierced with metal hooks is stirring controversy in India after a senior police […]
Source: BBC News About 700 churches have been closed down in Rwanda for failing to comply with building regulations and for noise pollution. Most of them are small Pentecostal churches. […]
Source: Reuters BY Antonio De la Jara SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Archbishop Charles Scicluna, who is in Chile investigating accusations that a bishop had covered up the sexual abuse of minors, […]
Source: Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — A Swiss government spokesman says Pope Francis will visit Geneva in June. Federal Council spokesman Andre Simonazzi says details of the June 21 visit […]
Source: Associated Press By NEBI QENA JERUSALEM (AP) — The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem reopened early on Wednesday after Israeli officials suspended a plan to impose taxes […]
Source: The Guardian BY Simon Tisdall A bold plan to draw the Taliban into a binding peace process looks like a last, desperate gamble by Ashraf Ghani, Afghanistan’s embattled president, to […]
Source: Reuters BY Hamid Shalizi, James Mackenzie KABUL (Reuters) – Afghan President Ashraf Ghani offered recognition of the Taliban as a legitimate political group on Wednesday as part of a proposed […]
Rahimullah Yusufzai | Published — Thursday 1 March 2018 Though the Afghan government has offered unconditional peace talks to the Afghan Taliban in the past, President Ashraf Ghani was more specific with this week’s announcement as he mentioned a number of steps Kabul would take once prospective negotiations begin and […]
AFP | Published — Thursday 1 March 2018 LONDON: Prince William will be the first senior British royal to make an official visit to the Palestinian Territories and Israel, […]
New York: The city of New York has agreed to pay $180,000 (Dh661,000) to three Muslim women forced by police to remove their headscarves to have mug shots taken, officials said Wednesday. Each of the women is to receive $60,000 after the settlements were finalized in a Brooklyn federal court […]
In 2003, the Armenian newspaper Agos, whose editor Hrant Dink was assassinated outside his office in 2007, reported that the Turkish government was secretly coding minorities in registers Robert Fisk […]
By AFP – Feb 28,2018 – JORDAN TIMES Tehran, Iran — President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday said Iran is ready to discuss regional security issues with its Gulf Arab neighbours […]