Secret convoy let hundreds of IS fighters escape
13 November 2017 The BBC has uncovered details of a deal that let hundreds of IS fighters – including foreign militants – and their families escape from Raqqa in Syria, […]
Australia says yes to same-sex marriage in historic postal survey
Source: The Guardian By Paul Karp Marriage equality could be legal by Christmas after 61.6% of participants in the voluntary survey approve a change to the law. Marriage equality advocates in […]
Pakistani police clash with protesters at anti-blasphemy sit-in
Source: The Guardian Capital on near lockdown after rally in support of cleric Khadim Hussain Rizvi in row over electoral oath wording Members of the Tehreek-e Labaik Pakistan party shout […]
Assaults against Muslims in U.S. surpass 2001 level
Source: Pew Research Center BY KATAYOUN KISHI The number of assaults against Muslims in the United States rose significantly between 2015 and 2016, easily surpassing the modern peak reached in 2001, […]
Medical first: Doctors attempt to gene-edit a living patient’s DNA
Source: CNN By Susan Scutti (CNN)A man may soon be forever free of the previously incurable disease he was born with 44 years ago. On Monday, in a medical first, […]
Pakistan: NA passes Elections (Amendment) Bil 2017 to strengthen Khatm-i-Nabuwwat clauses
separate voters list shall be created for Ahmadi The National Assembly on Thursday passed the Elections (Amendment) Bill 2017 to restore Khatm-i-Nabuwwat laws to their original form and make sections relating to it “more effective.” The bill was tabled by Law Minister Zahid Hamid, who assured the house that he […]
The capital under siege
Source: Dawn FOR the past one week, Islamabad has been virtually under siege with the followers of a radical cleric blocking the expressway connecting the city to the airport. The administration’s move to enclose the Red Zone with containers has added to the chaos. While the clerics blast the civil […]
Man forgets where he parked car, reunited with it 20 years later
Source: The Local In 1997 a now 76-year-old man reported his car as missing to the police in Frankfurt. On Wednesday city authorities reported that it had been found. The vehicle was found in the garage of a building which was to be demolished, city authorities confirmed. The car was […]
Asgardia, the world’s first ‘space nation’, takes flight
Source: CNN On November 12, Asgardia cemented its presence in outer space by launching the Asgardia-1 satellite. The “nanosat” — it is roughly the size of a loaf of bread — undertook a two-day journey from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, the United States, to the International Space Station […]
Pope Francis gets a snazzy new Lamborghini — and auctions it off
Source: CNN Rome (CNN)The two struck a striking figure: the Pope in his white cassock and his snazzy new ride with its white gleam. This photo was taken Wednesday at the Vatican as Pope Francis was gifted with a special edition Lamborghini Huracan. It shows the Pope signing the hood […]
People for sale
Source: CNN Tripoli, Libya (CNN) — “Eight hundred,” says the auctioneer. “900 … 1,000 … 1,100 …” Sold. For 1,200 Libyan dinars — the equivalent of $800. Not a used car, a piece of land, or an item of furniture. Not “merchandise” at all, but two human beings. One of […]
No end in sight for Saudi-Iran proxy war
Mohamad Bazzi For The Straits Times Published The Middle East suddenly hurtled towards a regional conflict over the past week, after Saudi Arabia charged that a missile fired at its capital from Yemen was provided to rebels by Iran and constituted “an act of war”. “Iran cannot lob missiles at […]
A Saudi prince is shaking up the Middle East — and may be pushing it toward war
Recent moves by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, have exploited and exacerbated the Middle East’s deep sectarian divides. Laura King and Nabih BulosContact Reporter From the rocky Mediterranean coast […]
Divided Srebrenica awaits Mladic verdict 22 years after massacre
Reuters International This content was published on November 15, 2017 FILE PHOTO: Bosnian Serb wartime general Ratko Mladic appears in court at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former […]
With just one mosque, Belgrade’s Muslims are forced to improvise
Reuters International This content was published on November 15, 2017 Muslims attend evening prayer at the Bajrakli mosque in the district of Dorcol in Belgrade, Serbia July 9, 2013. REUTERS/Marko […]
Pakistan’s long-persecuted Ahmadi minority fear becoming election scapegoat
Source: Swiss Info By Saad Sayeed RABWAH, Pakistan (Reuters) – Crammed into buses and mini-vans, more than 10,000 Pakistanis travelled to a mosque on the outskirts of the small Punjabi […]
Khawaja Muhammad Asif : India-Pakistan conflict taints Swiss honorary doctorate ceremony
This content was published on November 15, 2017 5:08 PMNov 15, 2017 – 17:08 Pakistan’s foreign minister was not diplomatic about India in his acceptance speech (Geneva School of Diplomacy) While accepting an honorary doctorate from the Geneva School of Diplomacy, Pakistan’s foreign minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif called India […]
Welcome to the new Zimbabwe!
Ben De Pear 15 Nov 2017 Welcome to the new Zimbabwe! It’s a lot like the old one from before – so said a friend in Harare as news spread that what is called a “bloodless correction” has restored Zimbabwe’s Chimurenga – struggle or war vet generation to supremacy. The […]
A moral obligation
Nov 15,2017 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL Even though the plight of the Palestinian refugees gets at times forgotten amidst the growing refugee crisis worldwide, they cannot forget their predicament, and neither should the international community whose complicity or inaction gave rise to their dispossession. It is the West that robbed […]
Alliances, interests and fate of some countries
Nov 15,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Michael Jansen Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent visit to Tehran was a show of solidarity with Iran at a time the country is facing […]