Menekse Tokyay | Published — Monday 15 January 2018 ANKARA: Turkey reacted with undisguised anger on Sunday to plans by the US-led coalition against Daesh to establish a 30,000-strong Kurdish-led […]
By: Zubair Khan Pictures: Shaikh Fatehudin. The New Delhi World Book Fair (NDWBF), held for the past 45 years, is a major calendar event in the publishing world. NDWBF 2018 was scheduled from 6 to 14 January 2018 at the centrally located Pragati Maidan, New Delhi. The Fair was organised […]
Humanity as a whole is being set back just because of one single Person. Where is the world supposed to start again if it manages to survive Donald Trump? […]
Frank Kane | Published — Saturday 13 January 2018 Much like the now-obsolete art of “Kremlinology” — the study of the inner workings of the Soviet political system via analysis of announcements and reports — there is now a growing field I like to call “Aramcology.” The forthcoming initial public […]
JEDDAH: Tough new sanctions imposed by US President Donald Trump on 14 Iranian individuals and organizations are a political blow and a warning to the regime in Tehran, a leading analyst told Arab News on Saturday. Among those targeted are the powerful politician Ayatollah Sadeq Larijani, the head of Iran’s […]
Reuters International This content was published on January 12, 2018 Khawlah Noman, 11, speaks to reporters at Pauline Johnson Junior Public School, after she told police that a […]
in depth: Asylum in Switzerland https://tp.srgssr.ch/p/inline?urn=urn:swi:video:43794798&locale=en Embed code This content was published on January 11, 2018 5:00 PMJan 11, 2018 – 17:00 Tama Vakeesan was born in Switzerland to Tamil parents from Sri Lanka. This week she visits the ‘Klipp und Klang’ radio school. The students, who are refugees, conduct radio […]
Source: The New York Times By ARIEL DORFMAN SANTIAGO, Chile — On Monday, Pope Francis begins a four-day visit to Chile. For his trip to be successful, he must confront the scandalous […]
Source: Associated Press By NINIEK KAMINI JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Muslim hard-liners marched in Indonesia’s capital on Friday to protest Facebook’s blocking of accounts belonging to their group. About 200 […]
Source: The Week By Damon Linker Catholic anti-liberalism is back. Of course, it never really went away. The norms, practices, and beliefs that prevail and thrive in liberal democracies have never perfectly […]
Source: Associated Press By PHILIPPE SOTTO PARIS (AP) — A French labor court was unable to agree Thursday whether four Muslim security guards were unfairly fired from their jobs at […]
Source: The Washington Post By Sarah Larimer A Catholic high school in Virginia has launched an investigation after a student appeared in a video using a racial slur. Administrators at Paul VI […]
52% of U.S. Muslims say that traditional understandings of Islam must be reinterpreted to address modern-day issues https://t.co/wNfbp5ctzu pic.twitter.com/VohmHPlyHH — Pew Research Fact Tank (@FactTank) January 12, 2018 Suggested reading […]
İBRAHIM KALIN @ikalin1 Rohingya Muslim refugees take shelter from the rain during a food distribution, Nayapara refugee camp, Ukhia, Bangladesh, Oct. 6, 2017. Being civilized is not tied to material possession or technological gadgets. It is about being human in the most fundamental sense of the term The last […]
Shortly before Kushner accompanied Trump on his first diplomatic trip to Israel in May, his family real estate company received about $30m in investments from Menora Mivtachim, one of Israel’s largest […]
Source: The Washington Post Francisco Merlos is still haunted by the image of Geneva Gomez’s lifeless body covered in blood — his ex-girlfriend’s arms spread out as though she had been crucified, […]
JAN 12, 2018 11:20 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER3 COMMENTS Non-Muslims paying for the upkeep of Muslims is a Qur’anic dictate: “Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they […]
Source: The Guardian By Dan Collyns in Lima and Piotr Kozak in Santiago Pope Francis in St Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. Activists in Chile have promised to protest every day of his visit. Photograph: Andrew Medichini/AP Pope Francis leaves Rome this weekend for a tour of Chile and Peru amid renewed […]
Source: Wall Street Journal By Michael Rothfeld and Joe Palazzolo Updated Jan. 12, 2018 3:13 p.m. ET A lawyer for President Donald Trump arranged a $130,000 payment to a former adult-film star a month before the 2016 election as part of an agreement that precluded her from publicly discussing an alleged […]
Source: Time By RYAN TEAGUE BECKWITH and MAYA RHODAN 12:57 PM EST President Donald Trump’s “shithole countries” comments ricocheted around the world, spurring criticism from U.S. allies, rebuttals from Americans with roots in those […]