Image copyrightREUTERSImage captionMr Jammeh had said there were irregularities in the presidential election The Gambia’s long-term leader Yahya Jammeh says he will step down, after refusing to accept defeat in elections. In an announcement on state TV, he said it was “not necessary that a single drop of blood be […]
Source: New Age Islam By Krithika Varagur January 17, 2017 When Ulil Abshar-Abdalla was a teenager in Pati, Central Java, he placed first in an Arabic class held at his […]
Source: Time By Katie Reilly President Barack Obama published a thank you letter to the American people on Thursday, his last day in office, encouraging them to stay active in democracy […]
Source: CNN By Daniel Burke, CNN Religion Editor (CNN)A pastor with a long history of inflammatory remarks about Muslims, Mormons, Catholics and gays preached at a private service for President-elect […]
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer The morning after he becomes president of the United States, Donald Trump will hear prayers at Washington National Cathedral from more than two-dozen […]
Source: USA Today By Paul Singer , USA TODAY If Donald Trump’s inaugural address is anything like his predecessors’, there will be a lot of God in it. A new interactive built […]
Source: NPR Imam Khalid Latif is one of the people profiled in The Secret Life of Muslims, a digital series about Islamophobia. He is also the first Muslim chaplain at New York University. TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I’m Terry Gross. My guest is the second ever Muslim […]
Source: The New Yorker By Eyal Press Every year around the anniversary of Roe v. Wade—January 22, 1973—protesters from across the country gather in Washington, D.C., for the March […]
Source: The New York Times By IAN FISHER and ISABEL KERSHNER JERUSALEM — It started, as it has in American presidential races for decades, as a campaign line, one that […]
Source: The Local A new poll ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration shows that most Germans are pessimistic about what he will bring to Europe. According to the poll released on Friday by opinion research group Civey, very few Germans have anything positive to say about Trump. Just 5.2 percent of […]
Image copyrightGETTY IMAGES Image captionNews of Adama Barrow’s presidency was met with celebrations in the Gambian capital Banjul West African leaders have given Yahya Jammeh a final opportunity to relinquish power after Senegalese troops entered The Gambia. Mr Jammeh has been given until noon on Friday to leave office or […]
By AFP – Jan 18,2017 – JORDAN TIMES In this February 2, 2002 file photo, a detainee from Afghanistan is carried on a stretcher before being interrogated by military officials at the detention facility Camp X-Ray on Guantanamo Bay US Naval Base in Cuba (AP photo) WASHINGTON — […]
Jan 19,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Jonathan Power When President Barack Obama leaves office, will the world be better or worse than eight years ago? Taking the big picture, so often obscured by the wars and uprisings that dominate the front page, more often than not he has resisted the foreignpolicy […]
Source: ET Like it or not Donald Trump is going to be sworn in as President of the United States of America tomorrow, Friday 20th January 2017. He comes into office with the lowest approval rating of any president since Adam was a lad. Some of the scandals that dog […]
Source: ET India has twice made exceptions of not appointing the senior-most lieutenant general for the covet post of chief of army staff in 33 years. This time, the Modi government superseded two lieutenant generals – Praveen Bakshi and Mohamed Ali Hariz – to elevate Bipin Rawat as army commander-in-chief. […]
Joining the ranks of women cabbies in pink scarves you see at Dubai airport, Uber Dubai got its first female limo driver yesterday. The driver Fritzie Castro, 43, a Filipina, has been in Dubai for seven years. She works the 4am-4pm shift, waking up six days a week at 2 […]
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Source: The New Yorker Essays by Toni Morrison, Atul Gawande, Hilary Mantel, George Packer, Jane Mayer, Jeffrey Toobin, Junot Díaz, and more. A DEMOCRATIC OPPOSITION By George Packer Four decades […]
Source: Motto By Amanda MacMillan Acupuncture may help babies who cry too much, according to a new study published in the journal Acupuncture in Medicine. Infants with colic—crying for more than […]
Source: NPR Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich says that for Mormon women living in 19th century Utah, “plural marriages” were empowering in complicated ways. TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is […]