It’s Time to End Mammograms, Some Experts Say
Source: Time By ALICE PARK December 6, 2017 TIME Health For more, visit TIME Health. Prevention is the best medicine, doctors say, and nowhere is that truer than in cancer. Picking up […]
Book Review: The Thirteenth Tribe : The Kazar Empire and Its Heritage – by Arthur Koestler
The Thirteenth Tribe: The Kazar Empire and Its Heritage Paperback – June 1, 1978 by Arthur Koestler (Author) 4.2 out of 5 stars 142 customer reviews See all 4 formats […]
Book Review: Man’s Search for Meaning
Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl’s memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and […]
The New Great Game moves from Asia-Pacific to Indo-Pacific
Source: Asia Times In the context of the New Great Game in Eurasia, the New Silk Roads, known as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), integrates all of China’s instruments of national power – political, economic, diplomatic, financial, intellectual and cultural – to shape the 21stcentury geopolitical/geoeconomic order. BRI is […]
Border guard convicted of failing to help pregnant refugee in distress
The Local news@thelocal.ch @thelocalswitzer 7 December 2017 A border guard in Switzerland has been convicted of charges relating to the stillbirth of a baby born to a refugee who was sent back to Italy. A military court on Wednesday convicted the guard of causing bodily harm through negligence, attempting […]
Anti-Radicalization: Zurich announces plans to tackle violent extremism
This content was published on December 7, 2017 Thomas Würgler, head of canton Zurich police, explains the strategy next to Mario Fehr, head of security in the cantonal […]
Lebanon’s economic dependence on Saudi Arabia is dangerous
By Hannes Baumann December 7 2017 Lebanese President Michel Aoun, right, speaks with Prime Minister Saad Hariri at the presidential palace Tuesday in Baabda, east of Beirut. (Dalati Nohra/Lebanese government/AP) […]
Donald Trump says recognising Jerusalem as the capital of Israel will bring peace – it will do quite the opposite
Trump has turned away from any notion of fairness in peace negotiations and run with Israel’s ball Robert Fisk Middle East Correspondent @indyvoices Thursday 7 December 2017 Israeli flags fly […]
Queen Victoria and Munshi Abdul Karim – a true story (in Urdu)
http://niazamana.com/2017/12/queen-victoria-and-munshi-abdul-karim/ By Zakaria Virk, Toronto ستمبر2017ء میں برطانیہ کینیڈا اور امریکہ میں ایک ڈاکو منٹری وکٹوریہ اینڈ عبدل کے نام سے ریلیز ہوئی تھی۔ اس ڈاکو منٹری کو ہندوستانی قلم کار مس شرابانی باسو کی کتاب وکٹوریہ اینڈ عبدل کی بنیاد پر بنا یا گیا تھا۔ یہ کتاب2010میں پہلی بار […]
SPD leader Schulz calls for ‘United States of Europe’ by 2025
Source: The Local The head of Germany’s Social Democrats, Martin Schulz, a potential future governing partner of Chancellor Angela Merkel, called Thursday for the creation of a “United States of Europe” by 2025. Schulz delivered a passionate plea for a more united and federal Europe at an SPD party congress […]
General Electric to shed 12,000 jobs
Source: BBC News General Electric is to cut 12,000 jobs in its power business, 18% of the division’s global workforce. The US industrial group expects the “painful but necessary” job […]
Video: A closer look at ‘3.67m-year-old’ human skeleton
Source: BBC News It took 20 years to excavate, clean and put together Little Foot, whose skeleton was found in caves north of Johannesburg. Its exact age is debated, but […]
Outside the Supreme Court, demonstrators on both sides of cake case fear for their freedoms
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer December 5 Jack Phillips, center left, the baker who refused to make a cake for a gay couple, waves to supporters as he walks out […]
Of Course Jerusalem Is Israel’s Capital
Source: The New York Times By Shmuel Rosner Photo CreditOded Balilty/Associated Press JERUSALEM — How long do you think there has been a Jewish temple on Temple Mount in Jerusalem? […]
How the Babri mosque destruction shaped India
Source: BBC News On this day, 25 years ago, right-wing Hindu mobs razed to the ground the 16th Century Babri mosque, claiming that it was built on the site of […]
U.N., European Union and Pope Criticize Trump’s Jerusalem Announcement
Source: The New York Times By JASON HOROWITZ ROME — Pope Francis said, “I cannot remain silent.” The United Nations secretary general spoke of his “great anxiety.” The European Union expressed […]
Why Jews and Muslims Both Have Religious Claims on Jerusalem
History Stories By Becky Little // December 7, 2017 7 ” /> Jerusalem Although Israel’s official capital is Tel Aviv, the country has long considered Jerusalem as its unofficial capitalJerusalem, […]
Muslims from disputed new London mosque donate blood at synagogue for Jewish day of actionMuslims from disputed new London mosque donate blood at synagogue for Jewish day of action
Thousands of people across the UK took part in the interfaith day encouraging good deeds Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith Muslims planning to open a new mosque in a traditionally Jewish north London community have joined people at their local synagogue to give blood as part of a national drive to help those […]
The Future of Muslims in the West
Written by Tariq Ramadan SOURCE: https://tariqramadan.com/english/the-future-of-muslims-in-the-west/Muslims in the West bear an enormous responsibility, and it falls to them to commit themselves to building their future. There is no doubt that some […]
Clerics Who Accuse Ahmadis of Being “non-Muslim” Are Abetting Violence & Discrimination
Qasim Rashid December 6th, 2017 On November 26, Pakistani clerics held public rallies against Ahmadi Muslims, demanding even harsher and more violent laws against them. For decades, Pakistan has legislatively […]