Source:CNN A modest office block squeezed between a doctor’s surgery and a south London housing project is an unlikely setting to find a man described on Time’s most recent 100 List as “an inspiration to thousands.” Yet there is much about Biram Dah Abeid, a prominent anti-slavery activist from the […]
Source: CNN Ancient Egyptians and their modern counterparts share less in common than you might think. That is, at least genetically, a team of scientists have found. Researchers from the University of Tuebingen and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, both in Germany, have […]
Source:CNN A landslide in southwest China’s Sichuan province buried more than 40 houses, the Chinese state-run broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) reported Saturday. More than 100 people were unaccounted for after the landslide, which happened at 6 a.m. local time in Xinmo village in Mao County, Aba Prefecture, CCTV said. […]
Source> CNN Saudi security forces on Friday prevented an imminent attack on the Grand Mosque in Mecca, the country’s Interior Ministry said on state-run TV. A suspect planning an attack on the mosque blew himself up in a nearby neighborhood when security forces surrounded a home where the man was […]
Source: CNN By Gul Tuysuz, CNN Istanbul, Turkey (CNN)Turkish high school students will no longer be taught the theory of evolution. The subject has been cut from the curriculum under […]
Far-right groups have invited the Jewish Defence League to join them in marching in the Toronto Pride parade on Sunday, carrying Islamophobic signs and “severed heads,” according to a public video posted on Facebook. http://torontoist.com/2017/06/anti-muslim-hate-groups-plan-march-toronto-pride-parade/ The video, posted to the personal Facebook page of the leader of the JDL’s Toronto chapter, Meir HaLevi (also known […]
As we all know the bad news reaches the media much easier than the good news. Recently we have read about an Ahmadiyya Mosque in Indonesia being sealed by authorities […]
Source: Pew Research Center Varied views on whether Quran should influence laws in countries BY JACOB POUSHTER As strife in the Middle East continues to make headlines, from the militant […]
Source: BBC News By Lennox Morrison 21 June 2017 As he back-flipped into an ice hole cut into the Baltic sea, Didrik Dege Dimmen drew gasps from onlookers in Oulu, […]
Source: Time Dr. Sandro Galea Jun 22, 2017 IDEAS Galea is Dean of Boston University School of Public Health. Last month, the Congressional Budget Office released its evaluation of the […]
Source: Time By Steven Levingston Jun 20, 2017 Before dawn, on Wednesday, October 26, 1960, Martin Luther King Jr. was sleeping in a prison cell in DeKalb County, Georgia, when […]
Source: The Guardian Australia’s advanced intelligence-gathering P-3 Orion aircraft will be flown over the southern Philippines to help in the fight against Islamic State-affiliated terrorist groups. The defence minister, Marise […]
Source: Reuters A man suspected of driving a van at Muslim worshippers leaving a London mosque has been charged with terrorism-related murder and attempted murder, British police said on Friday. […]
Source: Reuters By Christian Lowe | MOSCOW The likelihood that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed is close to 100 percent, Interfax news agency quoted the head […]
Source: ABC News By MICHAEL EDISON HAYDEN This week’s terrorist attack targeting people leaving a London mosque after Ramadan prayers is part of a wider phenomenon, in which Muslims are […]
Source: Associated Press By MARK SHERMAN Today WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has almost certainly decided what to do about President Donald Trump’s travel ban affecting citizens of six […]
Source: RNS According to canon law, a marriage is not valid if one of the partners was previously married and the spouse is still alive and the previous marriage has not been annulled by the church. Thus, when Newt Gingrich decided to marry his Catholic inamorata Callista Bisek, he obtained annulments of his […]
Source: abna24.com At least 12,000 Qatari-owned camels and sheep have been ordered out of Saudi Arabia as both sides in the Persian Gulf diplomatic crisis refuse to back down. Temporary shelters, water and food have been set up for 7,000 camels and 5,000 sheep forced to trek back to the […]
Source: abna24.com Austria’s Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz has called for the shutting down of Islamic kindergartens in the country. The comment was made at a public event set up by Kurier newspaper. “Of course, we don’t need them. There should be no Islamic kindergartens,” Kurz said when asked whether he […]
Source abna24.com 18 Israeli fighter jets along with two Gulfstream aircraft landed in Saudi Arabia on Thursday to prevent any hostile or military moves by former Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef bin Abdulaziz who was replaced with Saudi King Salman’s son. Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz announced on Wednesday his decision […]