Over (only) 8,000 polygamy applications given green light since 2010: Malaysia Published 7:05 AM, MARCH 20, 2017 KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysia’s Shariah courts have allowed 8,808 cases of Muslim husbands who […]
APR 7, 2017 – US President Donald Trump announcing the missile strike on Thursday (Keystone) Switzerland has urged the international community to tackle the escalating Syrian crisis through diplomatic means rather than military confrontation. The statement follows United States missile strikes on a Syrian airfield suspected of launching an earlier […]
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL A French woman successfully gave birth mid-flight with the help of the cabin crew on a Turkish Airlines flight on Friday as the aircraft was on its […]
ARDA SAYINER@ardasayiner ISTANBUL Çemberlitaş Bath From the conquest of Constantinople on, the Ottoman Empire built thousands of public baths in every corner of the city as well as in Anatolian […]
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL The deal Exxon Mobil and Qatar Petroleum signed with Greek Cyprus was construed as the unilateral utilization of the island’s resources by Turkey, hence not acceptable. (Reuters […]
Source: Independent President Donald Trump had little option but to order a missile strike against a Syrian airbase after holding Syria responsible for that poison gas attack on Khan Sheikhoun that killed 80 civilians. He had criticised President Obama for being weak, slow and indecisive when facing similar challenges, so he […]
Source: The Sun By Neal Baker, Tom Gillespie and Mark Hodge PRESIDENT Trump’s missile attack on the Syrian regime has caused a spike in tension between the United States and […]
The pictures out of the town of Khan Sheikhun are terrifying, but Trump and his Secretary of State Rex Tillerson have the thorny problem of working out how to deal with Russia […]
Russian Foreign Ministry says Moscow is suspending memorandum with US that prevented incidents and ensured flight safety in Syria in response to Trump-ordered air strikes May Bulman @maybulman Russia has said it is suspending a deal with the US to prevent mid-air collisions over Syria in response to US air strikes […]
Source: BBC A Tunisian court has sentenced a British DJ to a year in jail after he played a dance remix of the Muslim call to prayer. London-born Dax J, […]
Source: Associated Press By IAN DEITCH JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s former chief rabbi on Thursday compared the atrocities in Syria to the killing of Jews in World War II and […]
Source: The Guardian BY Julia Lovell In the spring of last year, Xi Jinping – China’s paramount leader – presided over a national conference on religion. He seized the opportunity […]
Source: BBC By Amanda Proença Santos & Rodolfo Contreras Pious history Armenia is a small country in south-west Asia with a population of only 3 million people. But it […]
Source: Religion News Service By Lauren Markoe (RNS) Jonathan Berman was 3 years old when he first regaled his extended family with the Four Questions at their seder, the ritual meal […]
Source: Politico By MATTHEW NUSSBAUM After announcing that he’d ordered U.S. missile strikes on a Syrian airfield in response to a chemical weapons attack on civilians, President Donald Trump closed […]
Source: BBC Police in northern India are searching lists of missing children to try to identify a girl believed to have been living with monkeys. The little girl, aged between […]
Source: BBC Norway is taking radical steps to try and make a hazardous stretch of coastline safer, by building a tunnel big enough for ships. Original Story
Source: http://www.Wlbz2.com By Dustin Wlodkowski, WCSH PORTLAND, Maine (NEWS CENTER) — For the second time in less than six months, the University of Southern Maine is investigating anti-muslim graffiti found on […]
Source: The Mercury News The rulers of Pakistan have stepped up a campaign against blasphemy. That’s frightening news from an Islamic nation where insulting the official religion is a capital […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia — The transgender Muslim women gazed around the reception room with wonder. It was loaded with lavish tributes from foreign rulers: gold filigreed swords from Kuwait, elaborately painted Chinese urns and elegantly framed Quranic verses. Finally the host, Sinta Nuriyah, 69, breezed into the room in her wheelchair, […]