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 This time, the Modi government superseded two lieutenant generals – Praveen Bakshi and Mohamed Ali Hariz – to elevate Bipin Rawat as army commander-in-chief.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 […]
Source: The New York Times By LONNIE ALI On an afternoon in 1958, near the shopping district at Walnut and Fourth Streets in Louisville, Ky., Thomas Merton was moving about […]
Source: The Guardian By Helen Davidson Anti-racism campaigners have called for the return of an Australia Day billboard in Melbourne which was taken down after the company allegedly received threats over […]
Source: Associated Press By BRIAN ROHAN CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian authorities have placed one of the country’s all-time greatest soccer players on a terror watch and no-fly list, over accusations […]
Source:Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s foreign minister said Wednesday that the Organization of Islamic Cooperation is expected to call for a halt to violence against Myanmar’s Rohingya […]
Source: The Seattle Times A homeless man suspected of setting fire to a Bellevue mosque early Saturday morning was charged with second-degree arson Tuesday by the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s […]
Source: The Guardian By Ryan Schuessler When Alyssa Haughwout heard the news that Donald Trump had become the president-elect of the United States, her first thought was about the century-old mosque […]
Source: The Huffington Post By Elyse Wanshel Associate Editor, Trends, The Huffington Post The American Muslim Community Center in Orlando, Florida, has converted an old doctor’s office into a free clinic […]
Source: BBC By Leo Kelion Technology desk editor Scientists have built a DNA-analysing smartphone attachment that is a fraction of the cost of lab-based kit. The creators of the phone-powered […]
Source: BBC By Simon Copland 18 January 2017 This month Finland is embarking on a radical economic experiment. Its government is giving 2,000 people free money for two years, guaranteeing […]
Source: BBC Rescuers have removed three bodies from a hotel engulfed by an avalanche in central Italy as a desperate search for up to 35 other people continues. Heavy snow […]
Source: Time By Justin Worland “We have one last opportunity to greatly reduce or even eliminate the human threats to primates and their habitats” Nearly two-thirds of primate species face the […]
Source: NPR By ZAHRA NOORBAKHSH When I was a kid, Mom used to say, “You know you’ve become an infidel when you forget the Fatihah.” The Fatihah is the preamble to […]