Source: BBC 2016 has been a momentous year. The UK’s Brexit vote and the election of Donald Trump confounded the expectations, while the wars in Syria and Yemen caused more bloodshed. BBC Radio 4’s Today programme asked top historians for their assessment of the year. The nearest historical equivalent for the […]
Source: CNN This was a year when predictions were shattered, polls discredited, facts eschewed and rationality dismissed. “Populism” spread like wildfire across the West, thumbing its nose at elites seen by so many voters as complacent and self-serving. The liberal international order built after 1945, triumphant when the Berlin Wall […]
Source: CNN On June 28, 1914, a 19-year-old Serbian nationalist named Gavrilo Princip fired into an open-top car traveling through the streets of Sarajevo, carrying Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Austria-Hungarian Empire. Within a month, the assassination set off a chain reaction that unleashed World War […]
Source: The Local Police now have the man in custody who they believe drove the truck into the crowd at Breitscheidplatz under the capital’s iconic Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church shortly after 8pm on Monday evening, killing at least 12 people. Reports on Monday evening stated that the man fled in the direction of […]
The Muslim Sunrise Team has categorized various internet links related to the May 28, 2010 terrorist attacks on Ahmadi Mosques in Lahore, Pakistan, as well as other acts of violence against Ahmadi Muslims. The categories are as follows: • Urdu Text Links • English Text Links • Urdu Video Links • English Video Links […]
Suspect fired shots at worshippers at Zurich Islamic centre before fleeing scene, leaving victims seriously wounded. Switzerland, a country of some eight million people, reportedly has around 450,000 Muslims [EPA] A man burst into a Muslim prayer hall in the Swiss city of Zurich on Monday and started shooting, injuring […]
Jordan to send ambassador to Iraq, as Baghdad intends to open border for trade By JT – Dec 20,2016 – AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah on Monday discussed political and security developments in Iraq with Iraqi political leaders at Al Husseiniya Palace, according to a Royal Court statement. The […]
AFP/DPA/The Local news@thelocal.de 19 December 2016 Photo: DPA At least nine people have died and more than 50 were injured after a truck drove into a Christmas market in Berlin on Monday night. We are shutting down the live updates for the evening. Here’s what we know so far: A […]
سعودی مفتی نے قادیانیوں کو مسلم قرار دیدیا، پاکستانی دیوبندی کہاں کھڑے ہونگے؟ کیٹیگری سعودی عرب Monday, 19 December 2016 Urdu.shiitenews.com شیعیت نیوز: پاکستان میں آئینی سطح پر غیر مسلم قرار دیئے جانے والے قادیانیوں کو سلفی و تکفیری اسلام کے مرکز سعود ی عرب نے بین الاقوامی اسلامی کانفرنس میں شرکت […]
Source: BBC Evacuation of the last rebel enclaves in eastern Aleppo surrounded by Syrian forces has restarted. Among those to have left is seven-year-old Bana Alabed, who had tweeted about […]
Source: BBC By Melissa Hogenboom 19 December 2016 A bite from a tsetse fly is an extremely unpleasant experience. It is not like a mosquito, which can furrow its thin […]
Source: Nekkei Asian Review TOKYO — The Japanese government on Friday roughly doubled its estimate of the total cost of decommissioning the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant and compensating victims of […]
Source: Nikkei Asian Review President-elect’s Twitter outburst sets the stage for tense relations NAOYA YOSHINO, Nikkei staff writer © Reuters WASHINGTON — U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday accused China […]
Source: The New York Times By RACHEL L. SWARNS New York Life, the nation’s third-largest life insurance company, opened in Manhattan’s financial district in the spring of 1845. The firm […]
Source: The New York Times Love was in the air at President-elect Donald J. Trump’s summit meeting last week with tech executives. Alphabet, Google’s parent company, was really feeling it, […]
Source: Aljazeera The Crusades: An Arab Perspective is a four-part documentary series telling the dramatic story of the Crusades seen through Arab eyes, from the seizing of Jerusalem under Pope […]
Source: Aljazeera With Russia’s support, unanimous vote to monitor evacuations from Syrian city marks rare agreement between world powers. Evacuees from east Aleppo arrived at rebel-held al-Rashideen [Ammar Abdullah/Reuters] With […]
Source: Aljazeera Russia’s ambassador to Ankara has been shot and killed in a gun attack in the Turkish capital, Russia’s foreign ministry said. Andrey Karlov was several minutes into a […]
Source: Aljazeera Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir – On a wintry November morning in Srinagar, the largest city in Indian-administered Kashmir, Mohammad Abdullah sits on the carpeted floor in his living room, with […]
By Rabbi Hershy Z. Ten http://hamodia.com/2016/11/15/donald-trumps-early-thanksgiving/ Tuesday, November 15, 2016 at 11:57 pm | י”ד חשון תשע”ז Donald Trump’s plane. (Mark Kauzlarich/Reuters) With the Jewish New Year just over a month behind us, and the long nights of winter closing in, Jewish communities throughout the world have begun their new cycle of the […]