Source: Reuters By Felix Onuah and Ahmed Kingimi | ABUJA/MAIDUGURI, NIGERIA Boko Haram militants have released 82 schoolgirls out of a group of more than 200 whom they kidnapped from […]
Source: Reuters Reporting by Bate Felix; Editing by Geert De Clercq Paris’ main Mosque said on Sunday that the election of centrist Emmanuel Macron as France’s next president over far-right […]
Source: Reuters By Lawrence Hurley | RICHMOND, VA. President Donald Trump’s temporary ban on travelers from six Muslim-majority countries faces a key legal test on Monday before a U.S. appeals […]
Source: Associated Press By TODD RICHMOND MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin-based atheist group has filed a lawsuit asking a federal judge to strike down President Donald Trump’s order easing […]
Source: BBC The video shows tarsiers hunting for prey. Tarsiers are the only carnivorous primates on earth. They have huge eyes which can see the faintest of light. Tarsiers are […]
Source: BBC A state of emergency has been declared in the Canadian city of Montreal due to flooding caused by torrential rains and melting snow. The measure was declared on […]
Source: Independent By Harriet Marsden The rising rates of depression, anxiety and suicide in the UK are extremely worrying. Current health secretary Jeremy Hunt appeared on today’s Andrew Marr Show to discuss […]
Source: The Daily Star CAIRO: The head of Egypt’s Al-Azhar university, one of the world’s leading Islamic seats of learning, has been replaced after labeling a controversial Muslim reformer an […]
AFP news@thelocal.it 7 May 2017 swiss guardsvatican Share this article Swiss Guards at the swearing-in ceremony on May 6th. Photo: Tiziana Fabi/AFP Forty new Swiss Guards were sworn in at […]
//tp.srgssr.ch/p/swi/embed?urn=urn:swi:video:43164502 https://tp.srgssr.ch/p/inline?urn=urn:swi:video:43164502&locale=en EMBED CODE MAY 8, 2017 – 11:18 By a traditional show of hands at an outdoor assembly, voters in Glarus on Sunday voted against a proposal to ban the burka in public places in the mountain canton. (SRF/swissinfo.ch) The plan was backed by the right-wing Swiss People’s Party, […]
Source: The Point The Police in the Kanifing Municipality have averted “a serious confrontation” between the Muslims and Ahmadis of Tallinding on Saturday, the police spokesman said. PRO Inspector Foday Conta said the confrontation was due to the burial rite of a deceased Ahmadiyya man of Tallinding who died in […]
Source: Dawn SEVENTY-ONE deaths in 27 years. According to data collected by Al Jazeera, that is the estimated number of people killed in violence connected to blasphemy allegations. It includes the 12-year-old who lost his life in the town of Hub on Thursday, after a mob resorted to aerial firing […]
Ultra-nationalist Buddhist group Ma Ba Tha has been spreading anti-Muslim rhetoric across Myanmar for years. Cosmopolitan Mandalay is at the heart of this hostility – which many fear is here to stay In a cluttered room in a monastery in Mandalay, Myanmar’s second city, a group of crimson-robed monks and […]
Epigraph Blessed is He in Whose hand is the kingdom, and He has power over all things;Who has created death and life that He might try you — which of […]
Source: The Local The Interior Minister has come under fire for his statements explaining what Germany’s ‘Leitkultur’, or “guiding culture”, should be amid discussions of immigration and integration. Here’s a taste of how his critics have responded. Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière wrote in Bild’s Sunday publication ten theses describing […]
Source: The Local Angela Merkel. Photo: DPA. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives secured a strong win Sunday in state polls in northern Germany, preliminary results showed, giving a boost to her bid to retain power in national elections in September. Voters in the small, northern state of Schleswig-Holstein handed her CDU […]
Source: The Local The top brass of the German military has ordered an inspection of all of its barracks after discovering Nazi-era memorabilia at two of them, the defence ministry said on Sunday. “The inspector general of the Bundeswehr (Germany’s armed forces) has ordered an inspection of all of its […]
Source:CNN The relationship between French President-Elect Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Trogneuxhas captivated the world. There is nothing cliche about their story, which began when a 15-year-old Macron took part in a school play directed by Trogneux, 24 years his senior. Trogneux went from being Macron’s teacher to his […]
Source: CNN France has chosen the independent centrist Emmanuel Macron to be its next president, ending a tumultuous campaign that had undermined the euro and raised real doubts over its continued survival. Macron captured an estimated 65% of the vote on Sunday, easily defeating the far right populist Marine Le Pen, […]
John R Campbell, SOAS “Already, I’m informed by very well informed guys and girls who are working on the area, and in the area at the moment, that there’s potentially […]