ARAB NEWS | Published — Sunday 25 December 2016 An artist’s impression of the Makkah train station that will be the costliest of the Haramain trains stations. MAKKAH: The Haramain high speed train will start operating gradually in six months, with the first trip departing from Makkah to Madinah […]
Dec 24,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Javier Solana As 2016 comes to an end, the outlook for 2017 is shrouded in uncertainty. Tensions in the Middle East are rising, and populist movements have appeared in Europe and the United States. In the Middle East, the tragic conflict in Syria continues, despite […]
US abstains as Security Council passes resolution condemning Israeli settlements By AFP – Dec 24,2016 – JORDAN TIMES OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israel scrambled Saturday to contain the fallout from a […]
BY MARK STEELE, THE INDEPENDENT You expect lies, but usually they’re found out once a war is over. But in this war the lying is so inept that it gets […]
Source: The News By Ansar Abbasi ISLAMABAD: United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) in its Annual Report 2016 called upon US administration to press Pakistan for the repeal […]
Source: Prince Of Wales website In London recently I met a Jesuit priest from Syria. He gave me a graphic account of what life is like for those Christians he was […]
Source: CBC News Regina Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at members are donating hundreds of kilograms of food to the Regina Food Bank today as a thank-you for their new place of worship. While the […]
Source: Vanguard •To say Muslims are terrorists is balderdash’ •Why I risked my life to talk sense into Boko Haram leaders •Praises Ahmadiyya for laudable achievements Former President Olusegun Obasanjo […]
Source: RNS By John Bacon (USA Today) The Islamic State is urging its followers to attack U.S. churches and has published names and addresses of thousands of prospective targets, according […]
Source: Fox News Americans have less faith in organized religion than they did nearly a decade ago, a new study shows. A staggering 21 percent of those surveyed said they don’t practice a “formal religion”— up from the 15 percent who said that in 2008, according to Gallup. “Religion is […]
Source: BBC January: Tim Peake’s spacewalk In the 1960s, writes Catherine Ingram, space travel had a different colour. As the US artist Andy Warhol described it, back then “silver was […]
Source: BBC The Nigerian army has driven Boko Haram militants from the last camp in their Sambisa forest stronghold, President Muhammadu Buhari has said. “The terrorists are on the run […]
Source: Science Daily Date:December 23, 2016 Source:Boyce Thompson Institute Summary:Researchers have sequenced the genome of the dry jujube. They identified the genomic region that underlies the sugar and acid content […]
Source: Time By Alice Park Brazil has undeniably been the country hardest hit by the latest epidemic of Zika virus; it leads the world in confirmed cases of infection with nearly […]
Russia is established in the Middle East and Assad is back in control in Syria. Whatever happened to the Arab Spring? Robert Fisk @indyvoices Just as the catastrophic Anglo-American invasion of Iraq brought an end to epic Western military adventures in the Middle East, so the tragedy of Syria ensures […]
FRIDAY, 23 DECEMBER 2016 Statement by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community: “The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community strongly condemns the attacks that have taken place around the world, including recent attacks in Berlin, Zurich and Turkey in which dozens of innocent people have been mercilessly killed. “The victims of these cruel attacks and […]
Reuters International DEC 23, 2016 – Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov lies on the ground after he was shot by Mevlut Mert Altintas at an art gallery in Ankara, Turkey, December 19, 2016. Hasim Kilic/Hurriyet via REUTERS (reuters_tickers) By Tuvan Gumrukcu SOKE, Turkey (Reuters) – Those in the small […]
Source / Courtesy: YourHoustonNews.com By Saadia Faruqi, guest columnist Growing up in a Catholic convent school in a Muslim country I remember being immersed in the Spirit of Christmas every […]
Source: China Daily By Pang Zhongzhing, who is a professor of international political economy at Renmin University of China and a distinguished professor of Global Studies at Zhejiang Normal University. […]
ASSOCIATED PRESS LAGOS Gambian President Yahya Jammeh listening to one of his aides in Banjul, during the closing rally of the electoral campaign. (AFP Photo) The head of a West African regional bloc says leaders will send troops into Gambia if its longtime president who lost elections does not step […]