Leading Christian cleric joins Palestinian prisoners’ hunger strike
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL A leading Christian cleric in Jerusalem announced he will join hunger strike on Monday in support of 1,500 Palestinian prisoners who are on the 21st day of […]
Allah the Creator, the Maker and the Fashioner: Flowers in the Desert
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Sir David Attenborough has scores of beautiful documentaries, bringing the awe inspiring beauty of all forms of […]
ESPN host Virk confident NHL, NFL can work in Las Vegas
ESPN’s Adnan Virk moderated “Making It In the Major Leagues: How A Viral Video on Funny or Die Became the IFC Series ‘Brockmire’” at the NAB Show in Las Vegas. By Adam Candee (contact), LasVegas Sun Saturday, May 6, 2017 | 2 a.m. Adnan Virk’s professional history places him in the middle of […]
HINDU NATIONALISTS ARE PROTECTING COWS OVER PEOPLE IN INDIA
Source: World Religion News VIGILANTES KILL TO PROTECT COWS IN INDIA Hindu nationalists are accused of vigilantism to forcefully promote their distorted Hindu vision of India. The cow, which is […]
THE UNIQUE TRENDS BEING EMBRACED DURING RAMADAN 2017
Source: World Religion News BY ALISON LESLEY Ramadan is celebrated during the ninth month of the Islamic calendar and Muslims worldwide fast (Sawm) as a way of celebrating the receiving […]
Christianity’s most important church?
Source: BBC Disaster struck twice over the centuries, causing extensive damage to Jerusalem’s most important church – but restoration has finally been completed. Original Story
France chooses Macron as new president
Source: BBC By Patrick Jackson, Tom Spender, Henri Astier and Roland Hughes Summary France chooses Emmanuel Macron as next president, projections say Emmanuel Macron, 39, is head of centrist party […]
The Case For Drinking Coffee Is Stronger Than Ever
Source: Time BY Alice Park There are few things more more ritualistic—and to many, more sacred—than a morning cup of joe. 64% of Americans drink at least one cup a […]
Venezuelan Women March on Caracas Against ‘Repression’
Source: Time BY Hannah Dreier / AP (CARACAS) — Women banged on pans and some stripped off their white shirts Saturday as they protested Venezuela’s socialist government in an event the […]
French Cybersecurity Agency to Investigate Emmanuel Macron Election Hacking
Source: Time Philippe Sotto, John Leicester, Raphael Satter / AP Updated: May 06, 2017 4:55 PM ET (PARIS) — France’s election campaign commission said Saturday “a significant amount of data” […]
The 25 Suburbs Where Millennials Are Moving
Source: Time David Johnson May 03, 2017 Thousands of millennials are moving to the suburbs of Riverside, Calif., San Antonio, Texas and Orlando, Fla. The burbs of those three metro […]
India: Rajasthan dairy farmers selling cow dung cakes on Amazon
Jaipur, May 7http://tribuneindia.com/news/nation/rajasthan-dairy-farmers-selling-cow-dung-cakes-on-amazon/403491.html Three young entrepreneurs from Rajasthan’s Kota city — otherwise known as an education hub — have taken their 15-year-old dairy farming family business to the next level and are now selling cow dung cakes on e-tailing site Amazon. (Follow The Tribune on Facebook; and Twitter @thetribunechd) “We found potential in this business. […]
US sends new military convoy to support YPG after Turkish airstrikes
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL PublishedMay 6, 2017 Some 250 U.S. soldiers and 48 military vehicles have entered the town of Malikiyah in Eastern Syria, near the Turkish border, to support the outlawed terrorist group PKK’s Syrian offshoot Democratic Union Party (PYD), the Syrian Local Coordination Committee (LCC) reported Friday. According to […]
BBC Debate: The Best Coverage for Counter Terrorism?
If you want to see the video in the YouTube: The Muslim Times has the best collection of articles on the theme of counter terrorism Suggested Reading Defensive War […]
In the crosshairs: Ahmadi gunned down in Rahim Yar Khan district
THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE By Rana Tanveer Published: May 5, 2017 PHOTO: REUTERS LAHORE: An Ahmadi man was shot dead on Wednesday night in the Saddar area of Rahim Yar Khan district. Basharat Ahmad, 61, was on his way to his house in Green Town from his own petrol pump on […]
Egypt’s Al-Azhar university replaces head in apostasy row
Reuters International MAY 6, 2017 – General view of Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt, April 17, 2016. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany (reuters_tickers) CAIRO (Reuters) – The head of Egypt’s Al-Azhar […]
LIES! CAMPAIGN Zurich opposes Koran distribution by Salafist group
MAY 5, 2017 The Koran distribution campaign “Lies!” (Read!) originated in Germany.(Keystone) Zurich cantonal authorities say they have concrete indications that actions by the Salafist group ‘True Religion’ are aimed […]
The Westphalian model to resolve Mideast conflicts
Raghida Dergham | Published — Saturday 6 May 2017 The prestigious German think-tank Korber-Stiftung recently raised a question regarding whether the Westphalian model can be implemented in the context of peacemaking efforts in Middle Eastern conflicts, while surveying the identities of the local, regional and international players and their roles, […]
Cheating Britain out of Europe
May 06,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Jacek Rostowski Several months ago, I predicted that British Prime Minister Theresa May’s government would fall by next month, when the British people realised that the “soft Brexit” they had been promised was impossible. How wrong I was! May has now called an early election, […]
Some deal for Syria, finally?
May 06,2017 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL The endorsement of a plan to establish four major deescalation zones in Syria by the sponsors of the Astana peace talks on the Syrian […]