Tensions between the US, Russia, China and North Korea continue to escalate By Neal Baker, Tom Gillespie and Mark Hodge 7th July 2017, TENSIONS between the US, Russia, China and North Korea continue to escalate, with each power refusing to back down. And after Kim Jong-un tested the […]
Published time: 8 Jul, 2017 21:13 Get short URL Former President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev © Odd Andersen / AFP Donald Trump’s positive impressions about his “tremendous” first meeting with Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit in Hamburg is a good thing, but concrete steps are now needed […]
Catherine Shakdam is a political analyst, writer and commentator for the Middle East with a special focus on radical movements and Yemen. A regular pundit on RT and other networks her work has appeared in major publications: MintPress, the Foreign Policy Journal, Mehr News and many others.Director of Programs […]
They were promised asylum somewhere closer to home. Then they were discarded — often in a war zone. BY ANDREW GREEN JUNE 27, 2017 KIGALI, Rwanda — The man picked Afie Semene and the 11 other Eritreans on the flight from Tel Aviv out of the stream of disembarking passengers as […]
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL U.S. President Donald Trump, Interpreter Emrah Kale, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu talk during the working session at the G20 leaders summit in Hamburg, Germany, July 7, 2017. (Reuters Photo) Several news websites including Wall Street Journal have mistaken Presiden Recep Tayyip […]
Reuters International JULY 8, 2017 French-Jewish writer Marek Halter (2nd R), Imam Hassen Chalghoumi (L) and other Imams, are seen during the start of a European tour to the […]
Jul 08,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Helle Thorning-Schmidt Almost a decade ago, facing a near-collapse of the financial system and the risk of a depression, the world needed a new form of leadership to navigate and restore confidence in the global economy. That is why, in 2009, at his first global […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]