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 […]
theguardian: by Aina Khan — I thought my degree would be a passport to a dream job, but in Bradford the ladder of social mobility was always out of reach Bradford, Yorkshire. ‘Not only are Muslim women subject to high levels of unemployment and poverty, but discrimination on the basis […]
NABEEL ANWAR DHAKKU — CHAKWAL: Built in 1860, a historic mosque in Dulmial village was rechristened a ‘place of worship’ in 1974, when Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s government declared Ahmadis to be non-Muslim. The building, which saw mob violence on Dec 12 that left two dead and three injured, may now […]
FRENCH PRESS AGENCY – AFP TUNIS The Tunisian government on Sunday said that foreigners were behind the murder of a Tunisian engineer, after the Palestinian resistance group Hamas said Israel was behind his death. “The investigations concerning the assassination of Tunisian citizen Mohamed Zaouari and the latest findings have proven […]
‘We never thought about using weapons of mass destruction,’ former Iraqi ruler told CIA Will Worley The US “got it wrong” about Saddam Hussein and Iraq, the CIA analyst who interrogated the former dictator has said. John Nixon had numerous conversations with the deposed leader and now says that America was critically […]
Source: THE DAILY SABAH The Eurasia Tunnel, one of Turkey’s most visionary mega projects, which will allow automobiles to pass beneath Istanbul’s Bosporus Strait, opens Tuesday on Dec 20, 2016, […]
By Mohammad Ghazal – Dec 19,2016 – JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — The bus driver was supposed to show up at 7:30am on Sunday to pick up a group of tourists from Amman to Karak. He was late because of a technical problem, which made the tourists a little upset. […]