Guardian: They call diphtheria the “strangling disease”. Parents have to watch helplessly as it slowly clogs the throat and chokes the life out of their children. Thankfully, vaccination has wiped it out in most parts of the world. But not in Yemen. Not this past year. Hundreds of children have been […]
Source: BBC News By Michelle Roberts Health editor, BBC News online Image copyrightSCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARYImage captionAlzheimer’s disease brain (left) compared to normal (right) Four dementia scientists have shared this year’s 1m […]
Source: Time By JENNIFER CALFAS March 5, 2018 You’re not great, and you’re certainly not as great as you think you are. That’s according to Elan Gale, a producer on ABC’s The […]
Source: The New York Times By ADAM BAIDAWI and DAMIEN CAVE Photo Cardinal George Pell arrived at the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Monday for a hearing. Cardinal Pell, the church’s No. 3 official, […]
Source: Associated Press By ZARAR KHAN ISLAMABAD (AP) — A woman from Pakistan’s marginalized Hindu minority has been elected to the senate for the first time ever in an election […]
Source: MISSISSIPPI NEWS NOW Posted by Symphonie Privett, Anchor/Reporter JACKSON, MS (Mississippi News Now) – Members of a Jackson Sikh Temple demand answers in the shooting death of 45-year-old Sukhjinder Singh. Singh […]
Source: Associated Press ATHENS (AP) — About 2,000 people have marched to the Greek parliament to protest new school books they claim endanger faith in Orthodox Christianity, Greece’s official religion. […]
Source: The Economist By H.G. and ERASMUS AFTER nearly 17 years on the road, the Interfaith Amigos are a trio (an imam, a rabbi and a Christian pastor, to be […]
Source: The New York Times By PAUL MOZUR Photo China is using its status as home to the world’s largest population of internet users to help get what it wants outside […]
Source: The Guardian Agence France-Presse Debate focused on media’s role in fostering national unity in a country that has four official languages Swiss federal councillor Doris Leuthard, the head of […]
Source: Independent BY Jane Dalton Human-rights activists are celebrating after the world’s longest-imprisoned journalist was freed after 19 years in jail in Uzbekistan. Yusuf Ruzimuradov was tortured and underwent a bogus trial on […]
The Preacher’s Pulpit Needs to Be Cleansed from Profanity منبرِ رسول دشنام طرازی سے پاک کرنا ہوگا باسل حجازی، نیوایج اسلام گزشتہ سال اکتوبر کے مہینے میں مصر کے دار الحکومت قاہرہ میں قتل کی ایک مخصوص واردات ہوئی جو نا ہی اپنی نوعیت کی پہلی واردات تھی […]
Source: New Age Islam A conference was held today (1st March 2018) at New Delhi’s Vigyan Bhawan on ‘Islamic Heritage: Promoting Understanding and Moderation’. The Prime Narendra Modi attended the […]
Source: Miami Herald Florida International University is getting a spanking new center dedicated to all things Muslim. Philanthropists Mohsin and Fauzia Jaffer, longtime supporters of Middle Eastern studies and other […]
Source: Dawn By Muhammad Imran Senior lawyer and expert on law affairs Akram Shaikh on Friday told the Islamabad High Court (IHC) that a constitutional court has the authority to […]
By Rizwan Shehzad Published: February 28, 2018 PHOTO: EXPRESS ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court on Tuesday ordered the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to submit the travel history of people who changed their religious status from ‘Muslim’ to ‘Ahmadi’, as listed in an earlier report compiled by the National Database and Registration […]
Reuters International This content was published on March 2, 2018 BERLIN (Reuters) – German authorities registered at least 950 attacks on Muslims and Muslim institutions such as mosques in 2017, the Neue Osnabrueckner Zeitung reported in Saturday editions, citing data provided to lawmakers by the Interior Ministry. The ministry […]
By Julia Crawford March 2, 2018 Restituted funds will be used to finance Nigeria’s National Social Safety Net Project, which involves cash transfers to Nigerians living below the poverty line. (Keystone) A recent Swiss agreement with Nigeria and the World Bank to return hundreds of millions in so-called “Abacha funds” is […]
Reuters International This content was published on March 5, 2018 International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Yukiya Amano gestures during an interview with Reuters at the IAEA headquarters in Vienna, Austria September 26, 2017. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger (reuters_tickers) By Francois Murphy VIENNA (Reuters) – A collapse of the Iran nuclear […]
By Reuters – Mar 05,2018 – JORDAN TIMES Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi welcomes Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Salman at Cairo Airport, Egypt, March 4, 2018 (Reuters photo) CAIRO/RIYADH – […]