AFP news.france@thelocal.com @thelocalfrance 10 February 2018 Screenshot from a video Mennel Ibitssem posted to Facebook. A French Muslim singer who became an overnight star after dazzling judges on a TV […]
Source: The Conversation by Kim Haines-Eitzen Professor of Early Christianity, Cornell University In today’s world, loneliness seems to have reached epidemic proportions. Countless studies have highlighted the serious and negative impact that […]
Source: The Atlantic BY CAROLINE KITCHENER Nearly half a century after Mao Tse-Tung banned religion in China, the country is home to an estimated 72 percent of the world’s religiously unaffiliated […]
Source: The Atlantic BY RACHEL DONADIO PARIS—The Polish scholar Jan T. Gross, an expert on the country during World War II, didn’t mince words when I asked him about Poland’s […]
Source: NPR BY GUSTAVO ARELLANO The connection between Middle Eastern and Mexican food goes all the way back to the Moors, and is well-known in culinary circles. Al pastor tacos are […]
Source: The Guardian By Rose Hackman Bay View is for many an idyllic community – but a lawsuit will test its rule that only practicing Christians can own property Prospective homeowners, […]
Source: Associated Press By ADAM KEALOHA CAUSEY OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma university cancelled a planned speech by the founder of a Kentucky museum dedicated to creationism after the […]
Source: BBC By James Gallagher, Health and science correspondent, BBC News Human eggs have been grown in the laboratory for the first time, say researchers at the University of Edinburgh. […]
Reuters International This content was published on February 10, 2018 The remains of an F-16 Israeli war plane are seen near the Israeli village of Harduf, Israel February 10, […]
DAILY SABAH WITH REUTERS ISTANBUL U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson steps off his plane as he arrives to the presidential hangar in Mexico City, Mexico February 1, 2018. (Reuters […]
ŞEYMA NAZLI GÜRBÜZ, MEHMET ÇELIK ISTANBUL A US military vehicle= drives near the village of Yalanli, on the western outskirts of the northern Syrian city of Manbij, on March 5, […]
COMPILED FROM WIRE SERVICES ISTANBUL Lebanese President Michel Aoun, center, speaks during the signing ceremony with an international consortium to start exploratory offshore drilling for oil and gas in […]
GERMAN PRESS AGENCY – DPA BERLIN Some 800 women who had joined Daesh are being detained in the Kurdish regions of northern Syria with their children, German newspaper Die Welt reported on Saturday, citing a terrorism expert from Human Rights Watch (HRW). Among the 800 were 15 German women, […]
Sitagu Sayadaw’s Case for Mass Killing By Matthew J. Walton Since late August, more than 600,000 Rohingya have left Myanmar, fleeing a state-led campaign of violence against them. The Rohingya […]
Faisal Mahmood- Dhaka, Bangladesh – A court in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, has sentenced former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia to jail in a corruption case. Judge Md Akhtaruzzaman of the Special Court-5 on Thursday sentenced the two-time former prime minister to five years rigorous imprisonment. He read out selected parts of the 632-page […]
Families allege thousands of Yemeni Jewish children were abducted after state’s founding Oliver Holmes in Jerusalem Children were allegedly stolen and given to Jewish families of western origin in Israel […]
By Reuters – Feb 08,2018 – JORDAN TIMES Members of the self-styled Libyan National Army, loyal to the country’s east strongman Khalifa Haftar, patrol the roads leading into the eastern […]
Source: The Guardian A bitter legal row over a mosque in an affluent New Jersey town shows the new face of Islamophobia in the age of Trump. By Andrew Rice Forty […]
Source: The New Yorker By Robin Wright It was the quietest protest Iran has ever witnessed. Vida Movahed, a thirty-one-year-old mother of a toddler, stood atop a large utility box on Tehran’s busy Enghelab […]
Source: The New York Times BY Yi-Zheng Lian On Feb. 1, the same day that new repressive regulations of religion went into force in China, the Vatican took a deep bow […]