By Jo Fahy FEB 3, 2017 – Switzerland has jumped on board a late-night comedy trend, peddling its ideas of why the country could be an appealing place to the new president of the United States, Donald Trump. Following the lead of a Dutch TV programme, a late night show […]
Under the codename of Silver, Bhagat Ram Talwar spied for Britain, Germany, Russia, Japan and Italy in the space of five years during the Second World War, but author Mihir Bose uncovers how his true loyalties lay with Indian independence Kim Sengupta Thursday 2 February 2017 With a basic education and speaking only broken […]
INTERNATIONAL | Saturday, 02.04.2017, Iraqi children stand behind the doors of their home during a fight with ISIS. -Reuters MOSUL —Yousef, 14, pushes a wheelbarrow through a sprawling camp in Iraq running errands for pennies, the only source of income for his family of 11. On a good day, he […]
|Saturday, 02.04.2017 WASHINGTON – The Department of Homeland Security will stop flagging travelers from certain countries targeted by an executive order from President Donald Trump, a spokeswoman said on Saturday, in order to comply with a federal court ruling. The Justice Department intends to file an emergency stay of the […]
Clinton’s supporters in Michigan knew they had a problem when Bernie Sanders pulled off the electoral primary and beat her by 17,000 votes in March 2016. More important still, Bernie won the Arab-American majority districts by two-to-one Robert Fisk @indyvoices Thursday 19 January 2017 Trump may not have won if […]
REPORT from International Organization for Migration Published on 24 Jan 2017 —View Original Undocumented migrant children in Thailand often lack access to basic services like education Thailand – Vulnerability assessments conducted by IOM and partner organizations have found that Myanmar Muslims in Thailand and disadvantaged Thais lack access to basic […]
RFA Saturday 28th January, 2017 Lacking adequate food, shelter and sanitation, many Rohingya Muslim refugees who fled into Bangladesh from Myanmar are marrying local men in the hope of achieving citizenship and basic services. Such marriages are illegal, and often involve polygamy, child marriage or abandonment, BenarNews, an RFA-affiliated online […]
CRANBROOK, B.C. — A B.C. Supreme Court judge found two people guilty Friday of taking a girl into the United States for a sexual purpose. by: Canadian Press CRANBROOK, B.C. — A B.C. Supreme Court judge found two people guilty Friday of taking a girl into the United States for a sexual purpose. Justice […]
The Review of Religions is pleased to present the following article by Shroud photographer Barrie Schwortz, which was originally published in The City in Spring 2016 and is reprinted here with permission. At first glance, I might seem to be the least likely candidate to be writing an article […]
Source: The Daily Beast According to a report in The Washington Post, Eric Trump went to Uruguay in early January for a trip to promote the Trump Organization. It ended up costing U.S. taxpayers nearly $100,000 in hotel rooms for Secret Service and embassy staff. During the trip, Trump reportedly […]
Source: The Daily Beast Iran’s military defied new U.S. sanctions by reportedly holding a military exercise on Saturday. President Trump’s administration imposed sanctions on individuals and entities linked to the Revolutionary Guards on Friday, following a recent Iranian ballistic missile test. Trump had warned Tehran of being put “on notice” […]
By Sir Mohammed Zafrullah Khan You may read it here in a PDF file: Gardens of the Righteous ENJOY!
FEB. 3, 2017 HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities Friday reopened a road in the southern occupied West Bank district of Hebron after a two year closure. A local bulldozer was allowed by Israeli authorities to remove dirt mounds and reopen the road after two years of it being closed […]
Source: Asia Times: Although Pakistan has said nothing about the immigration ban, its actions suggest that it got the message from the White House. After years of prevaricating, Pakistani authorities finally arrested the radical Muslim cleric Hafiz Saeed, accused of planning the 2008 Mumbai massacre carried out by Pakistani jihadists. Through […]
JAN. 29, 2017 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces and settlers detained two Palestinians teens at gunpoint on Sunday near an illegal Israeli settlement east of Qalqiliya in the northern occupied West Bank,according to reports from Israeli media, which alleged that the two Palestinians approached the settlement intending to carry out an […]
İBRAHIM KALIN@ikalin1 Published January 21, 2017 Migrants walking through a field to cross the border from Greece to Macedonia near the Greek village of Idomeni, Aug. 29, 2015. (AFP Photo) Given the crisis-ridden and weakened state of politics in the world today, we have to examine how countries from east to […]
Reuters International FEB 3, 2017 – United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi attends a news conference in Beirut, Lebanon February 3, 2017. REUTERS/Aziz Taher (reuters_tickers) BEIRUT (Reuters) – The head of the United Nations refugee agency said on Friday that safe zones would not work inside Syria for […]
Source: The Local Ted Malloch, President Donald Trump’s reported choice of US ambassador to the EU, predicts “seismic shifts” in transatlantic ties and the bloc’s disintegration, in comments to a German news weekly published Friday. After last year’s Brexit vote for Britain to leave the EU, he told Der Spiegel […]
İBRAHIM KALIN@ikalin1 AFP Photo. Al-Ghazali, who lived in the intellectual and spiritual world of the Quran and the Sunnah and enriched it with his own enduring contributions, was a devoted soul and body for attaining true knowledge, wisdom and virtue At a time when it is easy to confuse knowledge […]
By Katy Romy FEB 3, 2017 – Iva Petrusic wanted to become Swiss so she can take part in votes and elections (swissinfo.ch) About 25,000 third generation immigrants could benefit from facilitated citizenship if voters approve a reform on February 12. Iva Petrusic, whose grandfather came from Croatia to […]