Mob in Myanmar blocks relief supplies while fatal road accident hits truck carrying food to refugees in Bangladesh. Rohingya refugees wait for aid in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh [Danish Siddiqui/Reuters] Police in Myanmar have clashed with a mob blocking an aid shipment in Rakhine state while nine people have died in […]
Source: BBC News BY Matt McGrath Environment correspondent The succession of intense and deadly tropical cyclones that have barrelled across the Atlantic in recent weeks have left many people wondering if a […]
Source: The Guardian Huizhong Wu in Ahmedabad Wednesday 20 September 2017 05.00 BSTLast modified on Wednesday 20 September 2017 05.52 BST A police escort is a must when travelling in the Karwan-e-Mohabbat, or “Caravan of […]
By Ilaf Esuf | Senior Staff “If we don’t push Muslim creatives into the space, who’s going to write our story? Are we just going to let someone else write our narrative?” Abbas Mohamed, one of the GAMA (Gathering All Muslim Artists) directors, asked the sold-out crowd at Alena […]
Source: The Guardian Beyond the Sun, to be released at Christmas, tells story of children searching for God, with proceeds going to charity Pope Francis is expected to attend the […]
Source: The Guardian Religious beliefs are typically incompatible with scientific evidence and observable reality, but aren’t considered to be delusions. Why not? There’s nothing to be concerned about, in the […]
Source: The Guardian Shantanu Bhowmick attacked with sticks outside Agartala two weeks after high-profile murder of another journalist indi Indian journalists at a road blockade set up over the killing of […]
Source: The Guardian Study for EU’s fundamental rights agency finds 30% say they have been insulted and 2% physically assaulted in past 12 months Nearly 40% of women who wore […]
Macron Is Strengthening Haftar By Jalel Harchaoui On July 25, at peace talks in Paris convened by French President Emmanuel Macron, the leaders of Libya’s two main factions—Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj of the internationally recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) in Tripoli and Marshal Khalifa Haftar of the self-styled Libyan […]
Source: BBC News Police in Myanmar’s Rakhine state have fired warning shots to disperse a Buddhist mob trying to block a boat carrying aid, reports say. The boat was bound […]
Source: Life Site By Dorothy Cummings McLean September 19, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — In a recent interview, Bishop Athanasius Schneider said that some of the “ambiguous affirmations” in Amoris Laetitia are “causing a […]
By Reuters – Sep 20,2017 – JORDAN TIMES KIRKUK, Iraq — Visitors to Kirkuk in northern Iraq are greeted by an imposing statue of a Kurdish Peshmerga fighter with a gun slung over his shoulder, a reminder of tensions building in the hotly-contested city ahead of a referendum on Kurdish […]
Sep 20,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Benjamin J. Cohen For nearly a century, the US dollar has been viewed as the financial world’s ultimate safe haven. No other currency has promised the same degree of security and liquidity for accumulated wealth. In past times of trouble, skittish investors and prudent […]
Source: Independent By Robert Fisk I do recall another man who used the ‘Free French’ resistance parallel from the Second World War. He was trying to prove that Muslims had the right to resist the United States. His name was Osama bin Laden When, oh when, will our politicians/statesmen/dictators – mad […]
Source: The Washington Post By Sarah A. Harvard September 20 at 6:00 AM Actor Mahershala Ali, winner of the Best Supporting Actor award for “Moonlight,” poses with his Oscar as he arrives […]
Source: Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer The synagogue members hammered stakes into the ground on a hot September afternoon, then draped each one with a t-shirt bearing the name of a […]
Source: The Daily Texan BY TEHREEM SHAHAB The nation’s first professional Muslim sorority, Mu Delta Alpha, has established a beta chapter at UT and started rush week Monday. The University of […]
Source: BBC News Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi is facing mounting international pressure for her handling of violence in Rakhine state and the Rohingya refugee crisis. In a speech on Tuesday, […]
Source: CNN By Katie Hunt, CNN Yangon, Myanmar (CNN)One public servant skipped work. A butcher shut up her store for the day. A noodle seller watched on his phone. They […]
Source: NPR By LEAH DONNELLA Last time I worshipped in a synagogue was Sept. 5, 2014. And I won’t be going today. That might surprise my friends, who put up with […]