Officials say damage to Iraq’s own dams and other infrastructure makes water supplies more irregular By Thomson Reuters Foundation – Dec 12,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Displaced Iraqi children who fled […]
Dec 12,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Ramzy Baroud Now that US President Donald Trump has fully adopted the Israeli right-wing political discourse on Palestine, the Palestinian Authority is in a […]
Refugee School Fund in Malaysia Share Tweet I’m a Canadian teacher working in an international school for the past 2 years in Malaysia. Since my time here, I […]
Source: Reuters BY Roli Srivastava MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – “Flash mobs” of young women have taken to the streets in southern India to protest against the online trolling of […]
Source: The Atlantic BY JAMES PARKER In the beginning was … well, what? A clap of the divine hands and a poetic shock wave? Or an itchy node of nothingness inconceivably scratching […]
Source: The Washington Post By Eli Rosenberg December 11 at 11:38 PM Nathan Mathis holds a picture of his daughter outside a Roy Moore rally in Midland City, Ala. (@VaughnHillyard/Twitter) Perhaps it […]
Source: The Guardian Police officers stand outside a home in Brooklyn on Monday. Public records showed that an A Ullah had been registered at an address in Kensington. Photograph: Justin […]
Source: Independent Posted a day ago by Narjas Zatat in news The origin story for modern humans goes that Homo Sapiens evolved in Africa and then migrated out of the continent to the Asian continent in […]
Source: Daily Times By Yasser Latif Hamdani His Highness Aga Khan-IV, the hereditary imam of the Ismaili Aga Khani community, is on a visit to Pakistan. To my mind he represents […]
Source; Pew Research Center BY KIM PARKER, JULIANA MENASCE HOROWITZ AND RENEE STEPLER The public has very different views about what society values most in men and what it values in women. While […]
Source: Time By SAMANTHA COONEY Updated: December 11, 2017 11:44 AM ET Samantha Holvey, who said last year that Donald Trump personally “inspected” herbefore the Miss USA pageant a decade earlier, said […]
Source: Time By MELISSA CHAN Updated: December 11, 2017 10:47 AM ET Authorities said a 27-year-old man set off an explosive device that was strapped to his body at New York City’s Port […]
Source: The Guardian BY Harriet Sherwood Prince Charles during a visit to Castell Coch, near Cardiff. Photograph: PA Prince Charles’s accession to the throne could trigger a national debate about the […]
Source: NPR BY TOM GJELTEN Twitter President Trump announced Wednesday that the U.S. views Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, a controversial move that complicates Middle East politics. Gali Tibbon/AFP/Getty […]
Source: The New York Times By DAVID M. HALBFINGER DEC. 9, 2017 JERUSALEM — This is a tense city on a good day. You feel it behind the wheel: The traffic signals […]
Silence of the Lambs Anwaar Hussain November 16, 2017 Disclaimer: The Eqbal Ahmad Centre for Public Education (EACPE) encourages critical and independent thinking and believes in a free expression of one’s opinion. However, the views expressed in contributed articles are solely those of their respective authors and do not necessarily reflect […]
Holly Young news@thelocal.de @holly_young88 5 December 2017 How clerics are using an ancient privilege to fight the German state on refugees Authorities in Bavaria have started to act against the church when it shields people the state wants to deport. But clerics say they are unbending in their determination to […]
U.S. President Donald Trump prides himself on being a deal-maker. But his decision to relocate the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem will produce only losers. It is time […]
By Reuters – Dec 11,2017 -JORDAN TIMES Lebanese demonstrators march with a model of the Dome of the Rock, along with their national flags and Palestinian flags as well as […]
A sweeping roundup last month of Saudi princes and businessmen aimed at purging corruption has caused initial concern among potential investors, but many viewed this as a positive development. Minister […]