Mosul becomes ‘graveyard’ for foreign extremists
By AFP – Jul 09,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Members of the Iraqi federal police pose for a picture with an upside down Daesh group flag in the Old City […]
Gloomy scenario
Jul 08,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Walid M. Sadi On the occasion of his 75th birthday, the internationally famed physicist and astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, of Cambridge University, expressed gloom and doom about the future of planet Earth and the people living on it. In a rare television interview conducted with him […]
A Decent Computer for $35: Raspberry Pi 3
Tiny & cheap: Raspberry Pi wins top UK engineering award Source: Bangkok Post The tiny Raspberry Pi computer won the most prestigious engineering prize in Great Britain this week. The tiny computer was first launched in […]
Facebook meets with Chaudhry Nisar Over Blasphemy Death Sentence
Source: Pakistan Today BY SYED M MURTAZA Pakistan’s social media crack-down is officially aimed at weeding out blasphemy and shutting down accounts promoting terrorism, but civil rights activists say it […]
Sarah Jessica Parker Selects Novel About American Muslims For Her New Literary Imprint
Source: Huffington Post The novel by an up-and-coming writer tells the story of an Indian-American family in California. Sarah Jessica Parker has chosen a novel by an emerging Desi writer […]
122 Countries Approve First-Ever Treaty to Ban Nuclear Weapons
Source: Time BY Edith M. Lederer / AP Jul 07, 2017 (UNITED NATIONS) — More than 120 countries approved the first-ever treaty to ban nuclear weapons Friday at a U.N. […]
The worrying effects of working more and sleeping less
Source: BBC News “Back in the 1940s people were sleeping on average just a little bit over eight hours a night, and now in the modern age we’re down to […]
Battle for Mosul: IS defeat imminent, says state TV
Source: BBC News So-called Islamic State (IS) defences in the Iraqi city of Mosul are collapsing fast and troops expect to take full control in the next few hours, state […]
Young unemployed people are twice as likely to suffer mental ill health
Source: BBC News Tomasz Frymorgen If you are young and unemployed, you’re more than twice as likely to report having poor mental health, a new UCL study has shown. In a […]
‘How To Be A Muslim’ Author On Being A Spokesperson For His Faith
Source: NPR Growing up in New England as a first-generation Pakistani-American, Haroon Moghul was taught that practicing his Islamic faith would make life his better. What he didn’t anticipate was […]
Cardiff Imam jailed for 13 years for sexually abusing girls
Dawn.com July 08, 2017 An Imam has been jailed for 13 years reportedly for indecent and sexual assaults in Cardiff, the Guardian reported on Friday. Mohammad Haji Saddique, an Imam at a […]
Is Ahmadiyya included in Incomplete Atlas of Self-Proclaimed Messiahs?
Source: The Cable Mirza Ghulam Aḥmad, who lived in British India in the 19th century and founded the Ahmadiyya movement, which has millions of present-day adherents. Abu Isa. This eighth-century self-proclaimed Jewish prophet led a rebellion against the caliph of Persia and was killed shortly thereafter. His followers believed he […]
Highlighting Indonesian culture by revisiting the past, glimpsing the future
ART & CULTURE TUNGGUL WIRAJUDAA MEDIA PRACTITIONER FOR OVER 10 YEARS IN BOTH TV AND PRINT. Jakarta | Fri, July 7, 2017 | A female visitor marveling at one of T. Sutanto’s works. (JP/Tunggul Wirajuda) The figure sat atop the horse, both man and beast resplendent in their rich […]
G20 communique agreed apart from climate issue: EU officials
Delegates attend the official dinner at the Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall during the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany July 7, 2017.REUTERS/Kay Nietfeld By Paul Carrel and Noah Barkin | HAMBURG World leaders meeting for a summit in Germany have agreed every aspect of a joint statement apart from the section on […]
Post-deadline Gulf crisis
KILIÇ BUĞRA KANAT@KilicKanat The Trump administration seems to be taking some initiatives now that the deadline has passed in the Gulf crisis Articles COLUMNSThe future of Qatar crisis remains vague COLUMNSAre Gulf states on the same side as the US in the Qatar rift? COLUMNSUrgent need for active […]
Turkey takes control of nearly 1,000 companies since failed coup – deputy PM
Reuters International JULY 7, 2017 ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish authorities have seized or appointed an administrator to 965 companies with total annual sales of some 21.9 billion lira (£4.7 billion) in the year since an attempted coup in July 2016, Deputy Prime Minister Nurettin Canikli said […]
UNHCR chief urges Myanmar to grant Rohingya citizenship
Reuters International JULY 7, 2017 UNHCR High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi gestures during a news conference at a hotel in Bangkok, Thailand, July 7, 2017. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha (reuters_tickers) By Donna Airoldi BANGKOK (Reuters) – The head of the U.N. refugee agency urged Myanmar on Friday to grant citizenship […]
We should have learned after Iraq – but Brexit shows we are still willing to blindly follow politicians into disaster
Sir John Chilcot’s new comments on Tony Blair relying on ‘belief rather than fact’ has chilling parallels with our present day political dilemma James Moore @JimMooreJourno In a wide ranging interview with the BBC, Sir John Chilcot said Tony Blair was “not straight with the nation” and relied on belief rather than fact […]
Here in Iraq, Isis is being defeated – but with US policy in disarray, it doesn’t feel any safer
‘We don’t have a policy in Syria,’ one former US State Department official told me. ‘Everybody in the Middle East knows that whatever is said by the Pentagon, State Department or National Security Council lacks authority because whatever assurances they give may be contradicted within the hour by a presidential tweet or […]