China accuses US of ‘Cold War mentality’ over nuclear policy
Source: BBC News China has urged the US to drop its “Cold War mentality” after Washington said it planned to diversify its nuclear armoury with smaller bombs. “The country that […]
Plan to save Europe’s synagogues receives high-profile backing
Source: The Guardian BY Harriet Sherwood Simon Schama, Howard Jacobson and Natasha Kaplinsky among supporters of campaign to protect Jewish heritage Its gothic twin turrets and stained-glass window featuring a […]
German women in fear: New anti-rape pants sell out very quickly
By VOICE OF EUROPE 3 February 2018 Image: CEN TwitterFacebookPrintMore950 Oberhausen – A bitter experience got entrepreneur Sandra Seilz (42) the idea of a device that might protect women from sexual assault in the future. Whilst out jogging, Sandra was attacked by three drunk men, who tried to tear her pants off. The brave […]
Réunion island and the ‘stolen children’ of France
In March 2018, a French government-appointed commission will outline what happened to more than 2,000 children at the hands of the French state between 1963 and 1982. These children, from the island of Réunion, a French overseas department, were resettled in rural parts of France where populations were in decline. […]
Gunman targets African migrants in Italy’s Macerata
Crime scene investigators at work after a shooting in Macerata, Italy [Carotti Nest/EPA] A gunman has injured six African migrants in the Italian city of Macerata in a series of […]
‘Russian pilot killed after Syria rebels down plane’
By AFP – Feb 03,2018 – JORDAN TIMES This photo taken on Saturday shows smoke billows from the site of a downed Sukhoi-25 fighter jet in the Syrian city of […]
global training: Switzerland pledges extra funds for education in developing world
This content was published on February 3, 2018 4:06 PMFeb 3, 2018 – 16:06 Knowledge is power: a classroom in the Philippines. (Keystone) Switzerland has announced it is stepping […]
Separatist push deepens fault lines in war-hit Yemen
By AFP – Feb 03,2018 – JORDAN TIMES DUBAI — An independence push by southern separatists, who have seized the Yemeni government’s de facto capital, has laid bare deepening fault […]
Being Selective in What We Watch
Epigraph: And come not near unto adultery; surely, it is a foul thing and an evil way. (Al Quran 17:32/33) Say to the believing men that they restrain their eyes […]
German court bans mosque’s outdoor call to prayer
Source: Straits Times BERLIN (REUTERS) – A mosque in northwest Germany may no longer broadcast its Friday midday call to prayer by loudspeaker for now after a local court upheld […]
India: The Qur’an Puts No Bar Against a Muslim Woman from Leading Friday Prayers
The Qur’an rules out any notion of spiritual or cognitive inferiority of women to men By Muhammad Yunus, New Age Islam 03 February 2018 (Co-author (Jointly with Ashfaque Ullah Syed, Essential Message of Islam, Amana Publications, USA, 2009) This article follows up on Syeda Hameed’s article, ‘A Woman Can Lead […]
India: A Woman Can Lead Friday Prayers, It’s Not against Tenets of Islam
By Syeda Hameed February 01, 2018 I was a member of the National Commission of Women in 1998 when I met Daud Sharifa, who was building a mosque for women at Puddokotai, Tamil Nadu, since women were denied entry into mosques there. Last week, I read reports that a woman in […]
Israel says Poland agrees to talks in WWII legislation spat
Source: Associated Press By JOSEF FEDERMAN JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday night that Israel and Poland have agreed to hold talks seeking to resolve the uproar […]
Vatican, Eager for China Ties, Asks ‘Underground’ Bishops to Step Aside
Source: The New York Times BEIJING — In a move that has upset many in the Roman Catholic Church, the Vatican asked two “underground” bishops in China to surrender their […]
How to control a machine using your mind
Source: BBC News By Emma Woollacott Technology of Business reporter Image copyrightGETTY IMAGESImage captionBrainwave patterns can now be measured and interpreted by software as instructions Imagine being able to make […]
John McCain blasts memo controversy, Trump for ‘doing Putin’s job’
Source: CNN By Devan Cole (CNN)Sen. John McCain blasted President Donald Trump on Friday for approving the release of the highly controversial GOP-Nunes memo, saying “if we continue to undermine […]
Federal judge: Florida’s felon voting restoration flawed
Source: Associated Press By GARY FINEOUT TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — In a ruling that could reverberate in this year’s crucial elections, a federal judge ruled that Florida’s system of restoring […]
Donald Trump Is Playing a Dangerous Game of Nuclear Poker
Source: Time By W.J. HENNIGAN February 1, 2018 At a vast tract of uninhabited desert in southern Nevada, hundreds of moonlike craters dimple the wasteland, remnants of Cold War nuclear explosions […]
How Amazon Will Drastically Change Health Care, According to Futurists
Source: Time By PAUL SCHRODT February 1, 2018 Amazon made an announcement Tuesday that sent shockwaves through the health care industry and caused insurers’ stocks to plummet: The technology company is joining Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase to […]
Sources Shared on Twitter: A Case Study on Immigration
Source: Pew Research Center An analysis of 9.7 million tweets reveals that news organizations played the largest role in which content was linked to compared with other information providers BY GALEN […]