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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Source: Pew Research Center Partisan, age gaps in views of government help for younger people Majorities of Americans say the federal government does not provide enough help for older people […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY KRISTEN BIALIK President Donald Trump will deliver his first State of the Union address on Jan. 30 in the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol. (Brooks […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY RICHARD FRY American adults are increasingly sharing a home with other adults with whom they are not romantically involved. This arrangement, known as “doubling up” or […]