Source: Associated Press By AL-EMRUN GARJON and TOFAYEL AHMEDo COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (AP) — The Bangladeshi prime minister was traveling Tuesday to struggling refugee camps that have absorbed hundreds of […]
Source: BBC News By Richard Gray 12 September 2017 What was the last thing you did before drifting off last night? You were probably on a device: reading emails, surfing […]
Source: BBC News The United Nations has imposed a fresh round of sanctions on North Korea after its sixth and largest nuclear test. The measures restrict oil imports and ban textile exports – an attempt to starve the North of fuel and income for its weapons programmes. The US had […]
Source: BBC News More than 100 prisoners escaped when Hurricane Irma hit the British Virgin Islands, Foreign Office minister Sir Alan Duncan has confirmed. He told MPs there had been […]
SINGAPORE: tribune.com.pk A Muslim Malay, Halima Yacob is set to be formally nominated as Singapore’s first female president on Wednesday. Halimah Yacob, a former speaker of parliament from the city-state’s Muslim Malay minority, will be the first woman to hold the largely ceremonial role if – as expected. But the 63-year-old […]
Brampton (Ontario), September 12 http://tribuneindia.com/news/diaspora/hate-is-wrong-says-canadian-sikh-politician-after-racist-heckling/465920.html Indo-Canadian politician Jagmeet Singh has opened up on his reaction, which earned him plaudits, after a video, showing a heckler spewing ugly remarks at him during a meet and greet event, went viral. The New Democratic Party (NDP) leadership contender explained what was going through his […]
Source: CNN Consider these stats from CNN’s meteorology team: Irma is the strongest Atlantic basin hurricane ever recorded outside the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea It spent three days as a Category 5 hurricane, the longest Category 5 hurricane since satellite storm-tracking began No storm on record has […]
The Local news@thelocal.de 8 September 2017 File photo of the job centre in Leipzig: DPA. When dealing with inquiries, employees at job centres in Germany tend to discriminate against people with names that sound foreign, according to a report released on Friday. Researchers from the Social Science Research Centre in […]
Photo: kagemusha/Depositphotos Hostility and discrimination towards Muslim people in Switzerland is on the rise, the Federal Commission against Racism (FCR) said on Monday during a conference at the University of Fribourg. The conference, organized by Fribourg University, religion researchers at the University of Lucerne and the Swiss Centre for Islam […]
O Bedouin! I wonder how you can reach the Ka‘bah, When the road you have taken leads to Turkistan. The laxity, lack of concern, and neglect shown these days by our brothers in faith—the Muslims—with regard to fulfilling their religious obligations, fostering brotherhood among Muslims, and nurturing nationalsympathy, is such […]
Source: The Local Alice Weidel is supposed to be the moderate face of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. But newspaper Welt am Sonntag claims to have seen an email which shows her true face.The Welt am Sonntag reports that a former associate of Weidel’s forwarded them an email […]
Source: Quartz It has been 16 years since New York City woke up to a terror attack that changed America and the world. Less than a week after the attacks […]
Source: The Guardian BY Charles Kaiser Sunday 10 September 2017 13.29 BSTLast modified on Monday 11 September 2017 14.33 BST Parvez Sharma is a proud gay Muslim whose first film, A Jihad For Love, was the first ever […]
Europe hopes that the fates of African migrants will soon be decided at facilities in Chad or Niger. It is a wonderful idea, but also a misleading illusion. In truth, Europe’s primary focus is on shutting down the Mediterranean route. By Mirco Keilberth, Peter Müller and Maximilian Popp […]
Migrants who make it across the Mediterranean to Italy dream of continuing on to northern Europe. Most, though, are unable to make it past the Brenner Pass. A visit to Europe’s waiting room. By Fiona Ehlers Photos Gianmarco Maraviglia / DER SPIEGEL September 07, 2017 The train station […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomed with reverence singer Adnan Sami along with his wife Roya and daughter Medina, who was born in May this year. The Sami family met the Indian Prime Minister on Friday. They also gifted Arab sweets to him which they had bought from the city of […]
Source: BBC News A facial recognition experiment that claims to be able to distinguish between gay and heterosexual people has sparked a row between its creators and two leading LGBT […]
Source: Huffington Post By Melissa Jeltsen ANDY CAMPBELL/HUFFPOST Mary Woods holds her head in her hands as she shows off some of the damage Harvey left at the domestic violence shelter she […]
September 11, 2017 States must focus more effort on fully implementing the landmark Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), which was adopted four years ago, Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter said on Monday. “Over the past two years there has been progress [regarding the ATT],” Burkhalter told an audience of officials […]
It’s no secret that journalism is a difficult career in the Arabic world – but Al Jazeera changed things, and if it folds now, we could see the whole of the Middle East go backwards Fatima el Issawi The newsroom at the headquarters of the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera satellite channel in […]