Ghosts of Mosul stalk Iraq’s fleeing children
By AFP – Apr 02,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Displaced Iraqi people who fled their homes stand in a queue to receive aid in the city of Mosul, Iraq, on […]
Croydon ‘hate crime’: Teenage girl among three more arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after attack on asylum seeker boy
The 17-year-old among three more people picked up by police, bringing the total number of arrests to nine Chantal Da Silva @chantaladasilva A teenage girl was among three more people arrested over a “brutal” suspected hate crime which left a teenage asylum seeker with a fractured skull and a blood […]
What life is like for Isis’s 400,000 ‘human shields’ in west Mosul
Endgames: inside Iraq In an exclusive dispatch on the climax of the battle for Mosul, Patrick Cockburn speaks to one of 400,000 desperate civilians for whom the besieged city has become like an underground prison Patrick Cockburn Irbil, Iraq @indyworld Isolated in their houses and short of food and water, […]
Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior
Book by Prof. Bart Ehrman Book review from Amazon The bestselling author of Misquoting Jesus, one of the most renowned and controversial Bible scholars in the world today examines oral […]
Pakistan: Tired of abuse, women ride bikes to claim public space
REUTERSPUBLISHED ABOUT 2 HOURS AGOhttps://www.dawn.com/news/1324403 0 COMMENTS EMAIL PRINT Women ride bicycles while taking part in Girls on Bike rally in Islamabad. ─Reuters Dozens of women took part in female-only […]
One-state solution would ruin Israel
One-state solution would ruin Israel By Staff Reports – 3/15/17 6:55 PM The simmering conflict between Israelis and Palestinians has been a thorn in every American president’s side since Truman, and there is no reason to assume that will change under the Trump administration. The president’s recent comments in a […]
‘No reasonable alternative’ to the two-state solution says Merkel to Abbas
Source: i24NEWS La Chancelière allemande Angela Merkel, le 19 mars 2017 à Hanovre Merkel says Palestinians also adding to lack of progress in peace process by ‘unilaterally denouncing’ Israel In […]
Pakistan Sufi shrine: 20 murdered in Punjab
Source: BBC Twenty people have been murdered and others wounded at a Sufi shrine near the city of Sargodha, in Pakistan’s Punjab province, police say. Deputy police commissioner Liaquat Ali […]
The small Scottish isle leading the world in electricity
Source: BBC By Karen Gardiner 30 March 2017 The Scottish island of Eigg has a precarious connection to the outside world – which I experienced first-hand when a storm forced […]
TURKISH VOTERS IN SWITZERLAND: Erdogan: a hero for some, a dictator for others
By Peter Siegenthaler APR 1, 2017 The well-protected Turkish embassy in Bern. The green container on the left is where voters have to identify themselves(Keystone) He’s brought the country […]
Jordan: How to end ’honour’ killings in Jordan
Apr 01,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – EDITORIAL “We want to send a strong message to the people that killing women in the name of family honour will no longer be […]
IOM expects to fly up to 10,000 migrants out of Libya in 2017
Libya is main departure point for Europe By Reuters – Apr 01,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Illegal African migrants arrive at Mitiga International Airport before their voluntary return to their […]
Refugee children in Sweden are falling into coma-like states on learning their families will be deported
Resignation syndrome, or uppgivenhetssyndrom, has been diagnosed in 60 children this year Will Worley @willrworley Police stand with refugee children in Sweden. The country has for years experienced the unique […]
How will Turkey change if it votes ‘Yes’ on April 16?
Compare current structure of executive, judiciary and legislative branches with what they might become after referendum. Umut Uras, Yarno Ritzen | 02 Apr 2017 Turkish citizens will vote on April […]
Abdus Salam: The real story of Pakistan’s Nobel prize winner
PUBLISHED 2 DAYS AGO https://www.dawn.com/news/1311473 A star is born Abdus Salam’s birth certificate. — ICTP Photo Library On the Jan 29, 1926, Chaudhry Muhammad Hussein and Bibi Hajira Hussien had a baby boy at their two-bedroom abode in Jhang. They named him Abdus Salam — ‘servant of peace’. I was born […]
Praise for a story of hope, faith and commitment that built a children’s hospice
Source: Slough Observer The battle to get a children’s hospice for Berkshire has been praised as ‘an incredible story of hope, faith and commitment’. The comment was made by Cllr […]
Vandals desecrate 80% Jewish graves at small French cemetery
Source: http://www.rt.com The Jewish community of France has expressed “anger” over the toppling of some 40 headstones at an ancestral Jewish cemetery in Waldwisse, the same burial ground that already […]
The US-Mexico border wall: What’s at stake?
Source: Aljazeera By Massoud Hayoun Throughout his 2016 election campaign, PresidentDonald Trump called for the construction of a bigger, more impenetrable border wall along the US border with Mexico. He also […]
Article 50: What will be negotiated?
Source: Aljazeera By Shafik Mandhai British Prime Minister Theresa May has invoked Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty to leave the European Union and now has two years to finalise the […]
Egypt ‘one of the biggest prisons for journalists’
Source: Aljazeera One hundred days after the arrest of Mahmoud Hussein, Egyptian authorities continue to crackdown on the media. Journalist holds a sign that says ‘Journalism is not a crime’, […]