How feeling bad changes the brain
Source: BBC News By Melissa Hogenboom 15 January 2018 In Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel A Handmaid’s Tale, the many wrongs that befall Offred strike a chilling chord among most readers. […]
I’m a Republican. What on Earth Is Wrong With My Party?
Source: Time By ELISE JORDAN January 15, 2018 IDEAS Jordan is an NBC News/MSNBC political analyst and a TIME columnist I am a Republican in the era of Donald Trump, and […]
Olympic Champion Simone Biles Says She Was Also Sexually Abused by Team Doctor
Source: Time By ALICE PARK January 15, 2018 In a tweet hashtagged #MeToo, reigning Olympic all-around champion Simone Biles revealed that she was a victim of sexual abuse by team doctor Larry Nassar. […]
Saudi Prince Salman conveys details of ‘Deal of Century’ to Palestine
ANADOLU AGENCY RAMALLAH, Palestine Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman attends the Annual Horse Race ceremony, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, December 30, 2017. (Reuters Photo) The Palestinian leadership […]
Annexation of the West Bank Would Lead to Endless Civil War
Opinion Israel’s right, which prides itself on its realism regarding the peace process, has become surprisingly optimistic about the possibility of coexistence Gadi Taub Jan 17, 2018 Israeli soldiers deploy following a protest against U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as lsrael’s capital, Hebron, Friday, Dec. 15, […]
NATO says wasn’t consulted before announcement of YPG army, understands Turkey’s concerns
DAILY SABAH WITH ANADOLU AGENCY ISTANBUL NATO Secretary-General Stoltenberg NATO’s Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said late Tuesday that the organization wasn’t consulted before the U.S. announced its plans to form […]
Pakistan clerics issue fatwa against “un-Islamic” suicide bombings
Reuters International This content was published on January 16, 2018 ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – More than 1,800 Pakistani Muslim clerics have issued an Islamic directive, or fatwa, forbidding suicide bombings, a book due to be unveiled by the government on Tuesday says. The South Asian nation has for years been […]
Kosovo Serb leader assassinated in divided town of Mitrovica
Summary Kosovo Serb leader Oliver Ivanovic, who was standing trial over the killings of ethnic Albanians during the 1998-99 war, was shot dead Tuesday in what Serbia called an […]
Why are doctors in the Middle East cosying up to foreign armies?
Jonathan Whittall of Medecins Sans Frontieres scathingly attacked what he called ‘stethoscopes for hire’, those who operated ‘as contractors driven by profit rather than the principles that guide humanitarian action […]
The Differences Between God and Jesus Christ from the Sayings of Christ Himself
Author of the book: Abdulmujeeb Busari, Nigeria This booklet takes into consideration the differences between God Almighty and Jesus Christ, from the sayings of Jesus Christ himself. This work makes […]
What is South America Telling Organized Religion?
Religion in Latin America: Widespread Change in a Historically Catholic Region Source Pew Research Center Latin America is home to more than 425 million Catholics – nearly 40% of the world’s total […]
Religious Freedom Day Today and the Real Meaning of the Separation of Church and State
Source: Time By James Lankford, who is a U.S. Senator from Oklahoma; and Dr. Russell Moore is the President of the Southern Baptist Convention Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. We […]
Toronto: A Hijabi hoax that fooled Canada
http://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/fatah-a-hijabi-hoax-that-fooled-canadaKhawlah Noman, 11, is accompanied by her brother Mohammad Zakarijja and their mom Saima Samad as she recalls a man slicing her hijab as she and her sibling walked to Pauline Johnson Public School in Scarborough on Friday, Jan. 12, 2018.Stan Behal/Toronto Sun/Postmedia Network By Tarek Fatah The moment the […]
Erdogan: we will ‘strangle’ U.S.-backed force in Syria “before it’s even born”
Ellen Francis, Ezgi Erkoy BEIRUT/ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey’s Tayyip Erdogan threatened on Monday to “strangle” a planned 30,000-strong U.S.-backed force in Syria “before it’s even born,” as Washington’s backing for Kurdish fighters drove a wedge into relations with one of its main Middle East allies. The United States announced its […]
Why is Britain keeping quiet about Pakistan’s assault on free speech?
Source: Guardian By Jon Boone In recent times Pakistani social media activists of a liberal, secular persuasion have been abducted by agents of the state, tortured then released after a […]
Jalsa Salana Qadian – An Islamic convention of love, peace and religious harmony in India
Written by Kashif Khalid, Qadian, Gurdaspur, Punjab Email: kashifqdn@gmail.com Jalsa Salana or Annual Gathering is one of the oldest conventions of India conducted by Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. The founder of the community His Holiness Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (pbuh) initiated it in the year 1891. This year the convention was held […]
The young German socialist who would ruin Angela Merkel’s plans
Source: BBC Advocates of a closer European Union shouldn’t uncork the champagne quite yet. The blueprint for a potential new coalition government in Germany may well involve a significant push for more European integration. But at the same time, an upstart wing inside one of the political parties negotiating to […]
In Chile, pope met with protests, passion and skepticism
Pope Francis waves to followers on his way to the Apostolic Nunciature in Santiago, Chile, Monday, Jan. 15, 2018. (Natacha Pisarenko/Associated Press) By Nicole Winfield and Eva Vergara | AP January 15 […]
Qatar’s fallout with its neighbours was sparked ‘when they refused to hand over the wife of an Emirates opposition leader after he fled to Britain’
Tuesday, Jan 16th 2018 Qatar says the pair fled the UAE in 2013 to escape political arrests The woman’s activist husband was granted indefinite leave to remain in the UK […]