AFP news@thelocal.ch 17 June 2017 The talks are aimed at ending a war that has killed more than 320,000 people since 2011. Photo: Delil Suleiman/AFP A fresh round of UN-sponsored Syria peace talks will begin on July 10th in Geneva, the UN envoy said Saturday, amid slim hopes for progress […]
Dr. Rana Dajani is Associate professor of Molecular Biology in Jordan University. The Muslim Times has the best collection of articles about biological evolution and religion. This provides for the most […]
Jia Jiang adventures boldly into a territory so many of us fear: rejection. By seeking out rejection for 100 days — from asking a stranger to borrow $100 to requesting […]
Source: Associated Press By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER BERLIN (AP) — Seyran Ates’ vision of a liberal mosque where all Muslims can pray together — women and men, Sunni and Shiite, straight […]
Source: The Guardian BY Kate Connolly in Berlin The Nicht Mit Uns – or Not With Us – march has been planned as opposition to violence in the name of […]
Source: The New York Times By ELLEN BARRY and SUHASINI RAJ NEW DELHI — India’s Supreme Court on Thursday called on the government to answer charges that stringent new restrictions […]
Source: Reuters By Dmitry Solovyov and Ahmed Rasheed | MOSCOW/BAGHDAD Moscow said on Friday its forces may have killed Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in an air strike in […]
Source: Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A Florida man already charged with leaving recorded threatening messages at a mosque will also be charged with a federal hate crime. Court records […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times I have great respect for Javed Ahmad Ghamidi for his moderate views on host of issues. Only […]
Source: Religion News Service By Josephine McKenna | June 15, 2017 VATICAN CITY (RNS) Several progressive Catholic groups are launching an initiative aimed at giving lay Catholics and clergy across […]
Source: Chron By L.M. Sixel Questback opened its The Woodlands office August 5. From left: CEO Frank Møllerop, President of North America Carol Lee Andersen and Chairman Terje Bakken. At […]
Source: Time BY Lisa Eadicicco Updated: Jun 16, 2017 11:44 AM ET Amazon announced on Friday that it will acquire upscale food market chain Whole Foods for $13.7 billion, giving […]
Source: Time BY Mark Leftly / London Jun 16, 2017 Hundreds, if not thousands, of protesters will descend upon Westminster Friday evening calling for justice for the victims of the […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times I am a theist and so emotionally with Lennox. Yet, happy to report that Dawkins, at least knocks […]
Mistrial declared in Bill Cosby’s criminal trial as jury deadlocks Source: CNN Norristown, Pennsylvania (CNN)[Breaking news update, posted at 10:52 a.m. ET] The judge in the Bill Cosby trial declared […]
President Obama and Naturalist Sir David Attenborough sit to discuss and contemplate the natural world at the White House in 2015.
Source: Vancour Sun By Douglas Todd Creationism, a religious world view that adamantly rejects Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, is on the rise among evangelical Protestants and most of the […]
Fifteen years after her gang rape by a local clan in her village in Pakistan, Mukhtar Mai is reliving her ordeal, but also her courage, through a US opera inspired by her story. The opera, by composer Kamala Sankaram and librettist Susan Yankowitz, recounts Mai’s 2002 rape and her decision […]
Source: Dawn WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said on Friday that he was under investigation for firing the former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The probe seeks to determine whether the former FBI chief James Comey was fired to stop him from holding an inquiry into alleged Russian […]
Source: The Local A large majority of Europeans have a positive view of Germany, while seeing Berlin as still having too much power in EU affairs, a new survey shows. The Pew Research Centre study released on Thursday showed that 71 percent of respondents outside of Germany had a favourable view of […]