Source: Huffington Post By Antonia Blumberg It’s easy to write off belief systems that may seem strange or foreign. But perhaps there’s something even the most devout among us can […]
by Jackie Wattles @jackiewattlesFebruary 18, 2017: Bill Gates in 83 Seconds Bill Gates says it’s time to redirect some of the money the world spends on weapons to prepare for a looming threat: terrorists with pathogens. He’s warning that the threat of bio-terrorism is “right up there with nuclear […]
Matt Agorist February 19, 2017 Harold James received his PhD from Cambridge in 1982. He then received the Ellen MacArthur Prize for Economic History and the Helmut Schmidt Prize in Economic History. While teaching and studying at Princeton for the last three decades, James also serves on the editorial committee of the […]
FEB. 13, 2017 (File) RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — The medical condition of 15-year-old Ahmad al-Khadour has seriously deteriorated while being held in Israel’s Ofer detention center, according to a lawyer for the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs, Luay Ukka. Ukka said Sunday that Ahmad, who is from the town of Beituniya […]
FEB. 19, 2017 (File) AMMAN (Ma’an) — King Abdullah II of Jordan said on Sunday that any move to relaunch serious negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians should be in accordance with the two-state solution, which he called the only way to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Abdullah made his statement during […]
Reuters International FEB 20, 2017 – U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis (L) receives a gift from Iraq’s Defence Minister Erfan al-Hiyali during a visit to Baghdad, Iraq February 20, 2017. REUTERS/Stringer (reuters_tickers) By Phil Stewart BAGHDAD (Reuters) – The U.S. military is not in Iraq “to seize anybody’s oil”, […]
Source: Independent Debenhams is soon to become the first major UK department store to sell hijabs as part of a new range of Muslim clothing. London-based clothing brand Aab, which is […]
REFUGEE FEE FEB 19, 2017 – Many foreigners are fleeing the US for Canada, sometimes straight into the arms of Canadian police at the border. (Keystone) Rather than blocking their entry, nations should charge migrants a fee for being taken in, suggest two Swiss economists in a joint opinion […]
Source: BBC A famine has been declared in parts of South Sudan, the first to be announced in any part of the world in six years. The government and the United Nations report that some 100,000 people are facing starvation, with a million more on the brink of famine. A […]
Source: The Daily Best President Donald Trump’s attorney hand-delivered a “peace plan” from a Ukranian lawmaker to the White House that would let the U.S. lift sanctions on Russia if it were enacted, The New York Times reported. Michael Cohen, Trump’s personal attorney who delivered the document, said the goal is […]
Source: Asia Times: SOUTH CHINA SEA (NNS) — Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 1, including Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 1’s Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG 108), and aircraft from Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 2, began routine operations in the South […]
Source: Asia Times: The Israeli-Palestinian issues – settlements, ‘two-state solution’ and the American embassy’s relocation to Jerusalem, etc. – hogged the attention during Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting with President Donald Trump in the White House on Wednesday. The Iran question became a sub-text. This was rather odd, but not […]
Source: Independent and Youtube By Jack Shepherd @JackJShepherd Last year, the BBC aired Planet Earth II, a sequel to the highly successful documentary series of the same name, narrated by […]
Epigraph: Indeed, Allah commands you to make over the trusts to those entitled to them, and that, when you judge between men, you judge with justice. And surely excellent is […]
Abdel Moein and his family were among hundreds of Syrian refugees whose lives were put on hold after an executive order, since stayed, suspended U.S. resettlement. By: Lisa Abou Khaled | 16 February 2017 | Français | عربي Abdel Moein Al Abed, his wife Fatima, eight-year-old twins Mohamad and Jomaa, and daughter, Shahd, […]
By Abdullah Ayasun It is not an easy task to campaign against a change that proponents argue will spawn a better era. In Turkey, campaigners for yes to a constitution that will expand presidential powers designed their strategy to herald a much better, stronger and prosperous country. Campaigning against this […]
Published on 4 January 2017 in Report Yasser Rayes (author) Mohanned, 5 years old, lies on a bed in the Abs hospital in Hajjah, a governorate in Yemen which has some of the highest numbers of severely and acutely malnourished children. (Photo © UNICEF/Fuad) Hunger is the most dominant thought […]
Source: Huffington Post By Antonia Blumberg A new survey asked Americans to rate different religious groups on a “feeling thermometer” from zero to 100. The results revealed that Americans are […]
Millionaire businessman Firoz Merchant helps debt-ridden inmates start a new life Firoz Merchant in his office.Image Credit: Virendra Saklani/Gulf News Firoz Merchant interacting with prisoners.Image Credit: Virendra Saklani/Gulf News ( 1 of 2 ) ‹› Published: 20:00 February 18, 2017 Shafaat Shahbandari, Staff Reporter Dubai: A man who came […]
Source: Catholic News Agency By Hannah Brockhaus Vatican City, Feb 17, 2017 / 04:02 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Nur Essa, a Muslim Syrian woman whose family was brought to Rome from […]