Airlines are now allowing people to enter the US from the affected countries Justin Carissimo New York A federal judge in Seattle has temporarily blocked PresidentDonald Trump’s executive order banning entry into the United States from seven Muslim-majority countries. US District Judge James Robert, who was appointed by President George Bush […]
Source: BBC A US judge in Seattle has issued a temporary nationwide block on President Donald Trump’s ban on travellers from seven mainly Muslim nations. Federal Judge James Robart ruled […]
Source: Pew Research Center Parents of young children support measles, mumps and rubella vaccine requirements but rate the risks higher, the benefits lower. There are not major partisan divisions on […]
Source: Aljazeera The Trump administration said on Thursday that Israel’s building of new settlements and expansion of existing ones in the occupied territories may not help to achieve peace with […]
Source: BBC The Trump administration is imposing sanctions on Iran following its recent ballistic missile test. The US Treasury Department announced the measures against 13 people and a dozen companies […]
Source: The Washington Post By Samantha Schmidt February 3 at 9:32 AM Kellyanne Conway’s erroneous ‘Bowling Green massacre,’ explained In an interview with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews on Feb. 2, White […]
Source: The Washington Post By Mark Maske The NFL Players Association expressed its support Thursday for Muslim players in the league amid the controversy generated by President Donald Trump‘s immigration order. […]
Source: CBS News By Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus, Kabir Khanna and Anthony Salvanto Two weeks into Donald Trump’s presidency, the country remains sharply divided along partisan lines. […]
Source: The Guardian Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent Friday 3 February 2017 11.50 GMTLast modified on Friday 3 February 2017 14.35 GMT More than 150 mosques around the UK will open their doors […]
Source: CNN The US Special Forces raid in central Yemen on January 29 is further evidence of two things: al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) remains a formidable, resilient enemy — and is more deeply entrenched in Yemen’s tribal society than ever. The raid, in the province of al-Bayda, […]
Source: The Daily Beast Israel hit back at President Trump on Friday after the White House warned that new settlement construction might threaten the chances of peace in the region. An unexpected statement released by the Trump administration on Thursday said that expanding Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem and the […]
Source: The Daily Beast The men who came ashore from the Mexican Navy’s landing ship Papaloapan wore blue jerseys over their uniforms emblazoned with a single word in big white letters. “MARINA” They were Mexican Marines, landing in Mississippi in September of 2005 to assist in the aftermath of Hurricane […]
Source: BBC A French soldier guarding the Louvre in Paris has shot a man who tried to attack a security patrol with a machete shouting “Allahu Akbar”, police say. The […]
Reuters International FEB 3, 2017 – FILE PHOTO – Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak arrives for a news conference at a mosque outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, July 5, 2015. REUTERS/Olivia Harris/File Photo (reuters_tickers) By Rozanna Latiff KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak on Friday sent off a […]
Switzerland: ASYLUM POLITIC FEB 2, 2017 – No more automatic entry for Eritreans illegally fleeing (Keystone) A Swiss court has ruled that the nation’s policy toward Eritrean refugees needs tightening. The Federal Administrative Court’s decision handed down on Thursday says Switzerland will no longer recognize Eritreans as refugees solely […]
IMMIGRATION BAN By John Heilprin FEB 3, 2017 – A group of women in New York participate in evening prayers as people gather for a rally against the new ban on Muslims from certain countries (Keystone) An Iranian scientist who lives in Switzerland is suing US President Donald Trump and […]
Modern Greece and its crises were shaped by the legacy of a violent conflict in the post-war years – an atrocity long forgotten as the fight to stabilise the Middle East distracts our leaders Robert Fisk @indyvoices Thursday 2 February 2017 184 https://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FTheIndependentOnline%2F&width=450&layout=button&action=like&size=large&show_faces=false&share=false&height=35&appId=235586169789578 Click to follow The Independent Online Golden Dawn supporters […]
Source: Mother Jones By Katie Rose Quandt On Wednesday, Maryam Mirzakhani became the first woman in 78 years to be awarded the prestigious Fields Medal, considered the highest honor in mathematics. She was selected for “stunning advances in the theory of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces.” The Fields Medal […]
Please refer to the video showing the President of Myanmar opening the Book Fair: Report from the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Myanmar: “The Glad Tiding Literature” run by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, Myanmar had successfully put up a 3 days book stall at the Nobel Myanmar Literary Festival […]
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL File Photo A group of researchers headed by Wits University geologist Professor Lewis Ashwal have revealed that a lost continent is buried under the island of Mauritius. Their new study, which focused on the break-up process of the continents to understand the planet’s geological history, was published […]