Reuters International This content was published on October 25, 2017 1:08 AMOct 25, 2017 – 01:08 FILE PHOTO: International passengers arrive at Washington Dulles International Airport after the U.S. […]
Reuters International This content was published on October 25, 2017 An Iraqi Kurdish man holds a Kurdish flag in Erbil, Iraq October 4, 2017. REUTERS/Azad Lashkari (reuters_tickers) CAIRO […]
By AFP – Oct 24,2017 – JORDAN TIMES KUWAIT CITY — Kuwait, the main mediator in a near-five- month political crisis between Qatar and its Gulf rivals led by Saudi […]
Mohammed bin Salman tells the Guardian that ultra-conservative state has been ‘not normal’ for past 30 years The Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, told the Guardian the rigid doctrines […]
Born in 1952, Abadi lived in exile for much of Saddam Hussein’s rule By AFP – Oct 24,2017 – Last updated at Oct 24,2017 1 0 googleplus0 0 0 This […]
Eric Rosand Thursday, October 19, 2017 Observing recent developments in the United States, one might assume that countering/preventing violent extremism (CVE or PVE) is a quickly disappearing policy fad of the Obama administration. These efforts encompass a range of law enforcement and non-law enforcement means to prevent individuals from […]
Source: Time By Samantha Cooney After dozens of women came forward with accounts of sexual harassment and assault against producer Harvey Weinstein (who denies some, but not all, of the claims), more women are speaking out about their own […]
Source: The New Yorker By Joan Acocella Luther’s reforms succeeded because of his energetic, charismatic personality. Illustration by Nick Little Clang! Clang! Down the corridors of religious history we hear this sound: […]
Source: Huffington Post By Doha Madani Justin Trudeau might be admired around the world, but that doesn’t make him immune to mistakes. People are upset with the Canadian prime minister […]
Source: The Wall Street Journal By Alan Jacobs Oct. 20, 2017 10:41 a.m. ET Last year, as the fire and fury of the presidential election were intensifying and people all […]
Source: Associated Press SITTWE, Myanmar (AP) — Hundreds of hard-line Buddhists protested Sunday to urge Myanmar’s government not to repatriate the nearly 600,000 minority Rohingya Muslims who have fled to […]
Source: The Star By JENNIFER YANG Identity and Inequality Reporter Sun., Oct. 22, 2017 Ayman Elkasrawy got the phone call late on a Sunday night in February. An incredulous friend was on […]
Source: Los Angeles Times By Shashank Bengali Contact Reporter Dozens of men gathered in a dust-blown graveyard Saturday to pay their last respects to 83-year-old Karbalai Mohammad Anwar Noori, one of […]
By Naghmeh Mizanian October 23, 2017 TEHRAN – Every morning I wake up with my heart full of love. I have an enthusiasm to make new dolls, says Bibi Hazer […]
Faraj Fund thanks donors for their support Published: 18:09 October 23, 2017 Staff Report Abu Dhabi: A charity has secured the release of 7,000 inmates from various jails in the UAE since its inception in 2009. In a press release issued on Monday, Dr Nasser Lakhrebani Al Nuaimi, […]
Mohammed Hanif OCT. 19, 2017 KARACHI, Pakistan — This country has a poor record of protecting its religious minorities, but we outdo ourselves when it comes to Ahmadis. Members of the sect insist on calling themselves Muslims, and we mainstream Muslims insist on treating them like the worst kind of […]
EMRE GÖNEN The best advice for both the EU and Turkey is that threatening each other with punitive measures has never been a good idea in international relations in […]
Oct 23,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Jawad Anani Some Israeli likudniks and ultra-right-wingers are asking for a conference to create a Palestinian state on the East Bank of the River Jordan (or Jordan); that calls for a revision of Jordan’s stand on the Palestinian issue as a whole. In 1967, […]
By Simon Bradley This content was published on October 23, 2017 Rohingya Muslim children, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, wait for food handouts at Thaingkhali refugee camp, Bangladesh on October 21, 2017 (Keystone) Switzerland has announced additional money to help Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, taking its total contribution […]
October 17, 2017 11:00 AMOct 17, 2017 – //tp.srgssr.ch/p/swi/embed?urn=urn:swi:video:43582180 Researchers at the University of Fribourg hope to reveal more about the Middle Ages by piecing together fragments of manuscripts. (RTS/swissinfo.chexternal link) In medieval times, the vellum of discarded manuscripts was not thrown away, but reused as bookbinding material to strengthen or decorate new […]