Source: BBC Saudi Oil Minister Khalid al-Falih has told the BBC’s Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet he is pleased that US President Donald Trump plans to pursue a more fossil fuel-oriented energy policy. He insisted he was unconcerned by Mr Trump’s promise to pursue energy independence and said Saudi Arabia had […]
Morocco’s king hails ‘return home’ to African Union after 33 years By AFP – Jan 31,2017 – Moroccan King Mohammed VI delivers a speech to the assembly of the African Union heads of state and government in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Tuesday (Anadolu agency photo) ADDIS ABABA — […]
Source: The Local A top economic adviser to US President Donald Trump bashed Germany for exploiting an undervalued euro to take advantage of its trading partners, the Financial Times reported Tuesday. The public rebuke of a major trading partner is the latest example of the brash tactic that has become […]
Source: The Local American President Donald Trump’s travel ban initially looked to block more than 100,000 German dual citizens from entering the US, but now the two allies say they have found a solution. Acting commissioner of US Customs and Border Protection, Kevin McAleenan, said on Tuesday that travelers would […]
Reuters International FEB 1, 2017 – An Afghan policeman keeps watch in front of shipping containers that blocked streets leading to Kabul’s government and diplomatic area in Kabul, Afghanistan May 16 , 2016. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani (reuters_tickers) By Josh Smith KABUL (Reuters) – The Afghan government controls less than 60 percent […]
Reuters International FEB 1, 2017 – Azzedine Najd (R) and his wife Fadwa Achmaoui look at the memorial near the site of a fatal shooting at the Quebec Islamic Cultural Centre in Quebec City, Canada January 31, 2017. REUTERS/Mathieu Belanger (reuters_tickers) By Kevin Dougherty QUEBEC CITY (Reuters) – In […]
Reuters International FEB 1, 2017 – JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s highest Muslim clerical council is to issue an edict, or fatwa, declaring the spreading of fake news un-Islamic, the organisation’s chairman said on Wednesday. Indonesia has one of the world’s highest number of Facebook and Twitter users, and the biggest […]
NOUREDDINE FERJANI By Abdelhafidh Abdeleli FEB 1, 2017 “The role of mosques is to call to reason, to guarantee social cohesion and to call the faithful to set an example in society,” says imam Noureddine Ferjani. (Keystone) A recent opinion survey revealed that two-thirds of the Swiss refuse to recognise […]
The Prime Minister’s approach to international affairs is becoming increasingly clear: she wants to cosy up to the US, sell arms to despotic regimes, and cast us away from Europe Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas Yesterday afternoon, just before the Government made a statement in the House of Commons about Donald Trump’s barbaric […]
Photo: The Guardian President Muhammadu Buhari. OPINIONBy Israel Ebije The extent to which Nigerians have fragmented along ethno-religious components can only be measured in the direction of wish list drafted along unfortunate cleavage based perspectives. The nation is balkanised, serially polarised and dangerously fired up with hate agenda […]
by Alanna Petroff @AlannaPetroff January 31, 2017: 5 stunning stats about IKEA Ikea plans to roll out a new range of rugs and textiles made by Syrian refugees in 2019. The initiative is expected to create jobs for about 200 Syrian refugees living in Jordan, most of them women. “The […]
12/30/2011 08:50 am ET | Updated Feb 29, 2012 Carlo StrengerProfessor of Psychology and Philosophy, Tel Aviv University It is time to have a clear-headed, hard look at reality: the two-state solution is dead. Early in this fateful year 2011, leading Palestinian intellectual and President of Al Kuds University Sari […]
Reuters International JAN 31, 2017 – 17:59 FILE PHOTO: Francois Fillon, former French prime minister and member of Les Republicains political party, delivers his speech after partial results in the second round for the French center-right presidential primary election in Paris, France, November 27, 2016. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer/File Photo (reuters_tickers) PARIS […]
Holy Quran on Praying Regularly Five Times a Day The Ahmadiyya Gazette, September/October 1996 “Verily, Prayer is enjoined on the believers to be performed at fixed hours.” (4:104) Commentary A Muslim should start praying when he is seven years old. At the age of ten, prayer becomes obligatory. Anyone who […]
Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as Ahmadiyya Gazette, Acceptance of prayer is proved by valid instances as part of the law of nature and God sets up living models in every age. That is why He has taught the prayer: Guide us along the straight path, the path of those […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times I would suggest a letter by Martin Luther King Jr. from Birmingham jail, as possible insight to […]
Sen. Elizabeth Warren makes an emotional plea to the Senate to overturn President Trump’s executive order to ban certain immigrants from entering the US. http://cnn.it/2jNyyGK Full speech:
Source: BBC Texas mosque has received nearly $1m (£800,000) in donations after it was destroyed in a fire over the weekend. More than $900,000 had been raised to rebuild the […]
Source: BBC By Tessa Wong A woman has filed a complaint with German police alleging she was told to squeeze her breast at airport security to prove she was lactating. […]
Source: Time By Kay Armin Serjoie / Tehran Zeinab’s son Bahman has been studying for a PhD in Virginia since 2014. So when the chance came to visit him this January, […]