Kazuo Ishiguro wins Nobel Literature Prize
Source: BBC British writer Kazuo Ishiguro has won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature. The novelist was praised by the Swedish Academy as a writer “who, in novels of […]
Why Did the Islamic State Claim the Las Vegas Shooting?
Assessing the group’s puzzling statement Steve Marcus / Las Vegas Sun via Reuters This morning, the Islamic State’s semi-official news agency, Amaq, took credit for the Las Vegas massacre, which killed 58 and wounded another 515. The likely killer, identified by police as 64-year-old Stephen Paddock of Mesquite, Nevada, was […]
17-year-old Pakistani student’s physics paper surprises older scientist
By News Desk Published: October 5, 2017 PHOTO: FACEBOOK A Pakistani high school students’ physics paper has managed to stun an older scientist at the International Young Physicists’ Tournament. When certain kinds of electrically charged particles travel between a pointy electrode and a flat one, but bump into a puddle […]
Iranian foreign minister urges regional cooperation after returning from Oman, Qatar
Reuters International This content was published on October 3, 2017 FILE PHOTO: Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif listens to anchor Charlie Rose, at an event held in conjunction with the 72nd United Nations General Assembly in Manhattan, New York, U.S., September 27, 2017. REUTERS/Bria Webb (reuters_tickers) BEIRUT (Reuters) – […]
Your gilded chariot awaits – Brunei sultan celebrates 50 years in power
Reuters International This content was published on October 5, 2017 Brunei’s Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah waves to people as he passes in a procession to mark his golden jubilee of his […]
Germany redeploys anti-Isis surveillance jets to Jordan
Source: The Local Germany on Wednesday moved four Tornado jets flying surveillance missions against the Islamic State group to Jordan after withdrawing them from Turkey amid a bilateral dispute, the defence ministry said. Berlin decided in June to pull out the contingent after Ankara repeatedly denied German lawmakers the right […]
Deadlock over Bundestag seating, as liberals refuse place next to AfD
Source: The Local The seating order in the 18th Bundestag (2013-2017) was simple. Die Linke, the successor party to the East German communists, went on the far left. The Social Democrats sat next to them, the Greens went in the middle, and Angela Merkel’s conservative Christian Union went on the […]
The changing reasons why women cheat on their husbands
Source:CNN More women than ever are cheating, she tells us, or are willing to admit that they are cheating — and while Perel spends much of her book examining the psychological meaning, motivation, and impact of these affairs, she offers little insight into the significance of the rise itself. So […]
India’s economy in ‘downward spiral.’ What did Modi get wrong?
Source: CNN India’s economy, once hailed as a global bright spot, is down in the dumps. Growth in the South Asian nation fell during the first six months of 2017 from 7% to 5.7%, its slowest pace in three years, and analysts say the road to recovery is steep.”We’re on […]
How America Changed Its Approach to Political Islam
Source: The Atlantic BY SHADI HAMID, PETER MANDAVILLE, AND WILLIAM MCCANTS Sometimes Islamist groups succeed. Sometimes they underperform. But they almost always matter. This means that the United States needs answers for […]
What if Stephen Paddock Were al Qaeda?
Source: Wall Street Journal By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. Oct. 3, 2017 6:56 p.m. ET Those who say gun control is the answer to massacres like Sunday’s in Las Vegas […]
Santa Claus’s tomb may have been uncovered beneath Turkish church
Source: The Guardian BY Kareem Shaheen in Istanbul Turkish archaeologists have dashed the hopes of millions of children by claiming to have uncovered the likely burial place of Saint Nicholas. Surveys […]
British captain honoured for rescuing 907 refugees in Mediterranean
Epigraph: Whoever saves a life, it would be as if he or she has saved the whole of humanity. (Al Quran 5:32/33) Source: Independent Captain Jamie Wilson’s crew found two […]
Aung San Suu Kyi’s stripped of ‘Freedom of Oxford’
Source: BBC News An honour granting Aung San Suu Kyi the Freedom of Oxford has been withdrawn by the city’s council because of her response to the Rohingya crisis. The […]
Netanyahu backs annexation of 19 West Bank settlements
Source: The Guardian By Peter Beaumont in Jerusalem Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has backed legislation that would in effect annex settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories that are home to between 125,000 […]
Danish minister reposts insulting cartoon of Prophet Mohammad on Facebook
REUTERS COPENHAGEN September 26, 2017 Denmark’s immigration minister on Tuesday posted a screenshot of her iPad showing an insulting drawing of the Prophet Muhammad on Facebook, one of the satirical cartoons that caused outrage among Muslims around the world more than a decade ago. The Facebook post comes as a […]
France approves tough new anti-terror laws
Source: BBC News France’s lower house of parliament has approved a new anti-terrorism law intended to bring an end to a nearly two-year-long state of emergency. The law will incorporate […]
Muslims, Jews gather in Metro Detroit to forge bonds
Source: The Detroit News As hate crimes targeting Muslims and Jews rise across the United States, according to advocacy groups, the key to sparking change in Metro Detroit lies in […]
Santa Claus’ untouched grave may be beneath church in Turkey’s Antalya, archaeologist says
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL AA File Photo Related Articles Turkey Archeologists hunt for St. Nicholas’s remains Minorities The saint who inspired Santa Claus remembered in his hometown Archaeologists […]