Source: The Local Angela Merkel’s main rival in the upcoming election opened up this week in an interview about the balance between freedom and security, as well as about what Europe’s military strategy should be. Six weeks before Germany’s national election in which Merkel will seek a fourth term, her main […]
Source: The Local Germany on Wednesday urged North Korea and the United States to show “restraint” after apocalyptic threats from President Donald Trump and Pyongyang in their mounting war of words. “We are watching the increasing rhetorical escalation regarding the Korean Peninsula with the greatest concern,” foreign ministry spokesman Martin Schäfer told […]
Source: The Local Lightning strikes in Bavaria and Saxony overnight between Wednesday and Thursday sent several houses and buildings up in flames. In the eastern Saxon town of Lauta, lightning hit a house and set the roof truss on fire, according to police. The same happened in Thalmässing, Bavaria near Nuremberg. Also […]
Source: Washington Post By Amy B Wang To the untrained eye, the area west of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya appears to be barren of anything but rocky hills and […]
Reuters International THIS CONTENT WAS PUBLISHED ON AUGUST 9, 2017 An Iraqi boy sells water in front of destroyed houses on a street in Western Mosul, Iraq August 7, 2017. Picture taken through a glass window. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem (reuters_tickers) By Raya Jalabi MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) – Abu Ghazi stood […]
Reuters International THIS CONTENT WAS PUBLISHED ON AUGUST 8, 2017 FILE PHOTO: Shahbaz Sharif, Chief Minister of Punjab Province and brother of Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, gestures after appearing before a Joint Investigation Team (JIT) in Islamabad, Pakistan June 17, 2017. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood/File Photo (reuters_tickers) By Mubasher Bukhari […]
There are still honourable Israelis who demand a state for the Palestinians; there are well-educated Saudis who object to the crazed Wahabism upon which their kingdom is founded; there are millions of Americans, from sea to shining sea, who do not believe that Iran is their enemy nor Saudi Arabia […]
THIS CONTENT WAS PUBLISHED ON AUGUST 9, 2017 In the documentary The Poetess, Hissa Hilal always wears a niqab.(pardo.ch) The screening of a documentary film in Locarno about a Saudi poetess criticising patriarchal Arab society became embroiled in polemics when the woman featured in the film, The Poetess, covered […]
SEBASTIAN SYME 02 AUGUST 2017 WWW.GRAPHIC.COM.GH His Holiness Ahmad presenting an award to one of the female Ahmadi students The worldwide leader of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community, His Holiness Mirza Masroor Ahmad, has delivered a message of peace and empowerment to women of the Islamic faith, at the […]
Suggested Reading Stephen Hawking: ‘There is no heaven; it’s a fairy story!’ Surah Waqi’ah (The Event or the Resurrection) Human Soul: The Final Frontier? A recent non-denominational commentary of the Quran claims: We […]
KOTA KINABALU, Aug 8 — The Sabah state fatwa council has today banned 16 “deviant teachings”, which not only included hardliners Hizbut Tahrir and the minority Shiites and Ahmadis, but also “liberalism” and “pluralism”. Assistant minister in the Chief Minister’s Department Datuk Mohd Ariffin Arif said the 16 teachings were […]
Aug 08,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Hasan Abu Nimah The visit of His Majesty King Abdullah to Ramallah, the temporary seat of the Palestinian Authority, two days ago, is by no means an ordinary step. Coming at this critical moment, the visit sends a very important message of support to all […]
By ILO News – Aug 09,2017 – JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — The General Federation of Jordanian Trade Unions (GFJTU) has begun issuing the Arab region’s first non-employer and non-position-specific work permits for Syrian refugees since the Syrian crisis erupted in 2011. The temporary permits are issued for a minimal […]
Source: Associated Press By BRADY McCOMBS SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Mormon church leader was removed from his post and kicked out of the religion Tuesday for the first […]
Source: The Washington Post By Sarah Pulliam Bailey August 9 at 11:28 AM President Trump, left, greets pastor Robert Jeffress on July 1 during the Celebrate Freedom Rally at the John F. […]
Source: Independent Trump still hasn’t said anything about the bombing, which tore through part of the mosque on Saturday while people were arriving for prayers. Posted on August 9, 2017, at […]
Source: BBC News Iran President Hassan Rouhani has appointed three women as vice-presidents and one as a civil rights assistant following criticism of his all-male cabinet. Iran’s 12 vice-presidents run […]
Source: Reuters By Malini Menon NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India and China will have to resolve their prolonged military standoff in a remote Himalayan region through talks, the Dalai Lama […]
Source: BBC News By Sherie Ryder BBC News Image copyrightREUTERS Image captionThe niqab is worn by many women in Saudi Arabia Some may not be surprised to see a strict […]
Source: Time BY Emily Dixon Aug 09, 2017 IDEAS Dixon is a post-graduate Fellow in Narrative Nonfiction at the Columbia Journalism School. The biggest lie about Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is that it’s funny, […]