Bankruptcy attorney named US ambassador to Israel, to help ‘strive for peace in the Middle East’ Image Credit: Bloomberg David Friedman with US President-elect Donald Trump. Published: 06:01 December 16, 2016 AFP U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will nominate attorney David Friedman as U.S. ambassador to Israel, the transition team […]
Collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times, with special enthusiasm, as he does share the middle name with the President.
Even a few lines scribbled on a beach have a purpose and a writer, but, our complex universe, which we can barely explain with the help of complex mathematics and […]
Source: BBC Residents of a Texas city have been warned by officials not to drink or bathe in the tap water because of a chemical contamination. Wednesday’s advisory applies to […]
Source: BBC Hundreds of people have been evacuated in buses and ambulances from a besieged rebel-held enclave in the Syrian city of Aleppo. The International Committee of the Red Cross […]
Source: Yahoo News By Mike Smith Amona Outpost (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – Residents of a wildcat Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank on Thursday rejected a proposal to leave […]
Source: Reuters By John Miller | ZURICH Switzerland’s highest court on Wednesday blocked efforts to ban a state-funded Islamic-focused academic centre at a Swiss university, ruling that an anti-immigration political […]
Source: RNS By Tom Heneghan (RNS) France will soon create a new crime that will make someone running an anti-abortion website as liable to a lawsuit as a protester blocking the door […]
Source: The New York Times By ADAM NOSSITER STRASBOURG, France — One was a well-liked elementary school assistant. Another was a hard-working cargo handler. The third was a friendly grocer. […]
Source: Sun Times The world’s largest hotel company will no longer place Bibles or the Book of Mormon in rooms of its newly constructed and to-be constructed hotels. In its […]
Source: RNS By Mark Silk It is amusing, if you’re into gallows humor, to find Family Research Council Tony Perkins with his knickers in a twist over President-elect Donald Trump’s […]
Source: BBC By Matt Walker 15 December 2016 Watch the moment when Sir David Attenborough and BBC filmmakers filmed the extraordinary tricks some penguins play on each other. Even better, […]
On February 10, 2015, Suzanne Barakat’s brother Deah, her sister-in-law Yusor and Yusor’s sister Razan were murdered by their neighbor in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The perpetrator’s story, that he […]
Source: CNN Before President-elect Donald Trump heads to the White House on January 20, he will find himself back in the witness chair for questioning in his ongoing contractual dispute with celebrity chef, Jose Andres. DC Superior Court Judge Jennifer A. Di Toro ruled Wednesday that Trump must sit for a […]
Source: The Local Awaiting the men were Afghan police officers and refugee ministries officials, as well as representatives of the International Organization for Migration (IOM).The mood was sombre among the deported men. Some were sad, others were angry.Babur Sedik said that he had spent four years in Germany and had […]
Source: The Local The doctor’s practice is in the vicinity of the town’s central train station, which police evacuated in the early afternoon due to a “threatening situation.”The emergency call came in after several witnesses heard gunshots at around 12.50pm in the building in which the practice is based.At the […]
Source: Business Standard Sources have also said that General Bajwa was definitely not the choice of General Raheel Sharif, who over the years, had emerged as a larger than life personality, an image created by an overactive Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), revered by the ordinary Pakistani and supported by the […]
What is to be made certain here is that Jordan’s king is not our friend, in fact he and his regime are a part of the problem. Jordan’s King Abdullah speaks at the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, February 12, 2016. (photo credit:REUTERS) The recent United Nations Educational, Scientific […]
Robert Wright is an American journalist, scholar, and prize-winning author of best-selling books about science, evolutionary psychology, history and religion. Samuel Benjamin “Sam” Harris (born April 9, 1967) is an […]
Source: Religion News Service By Tahir Nasser is a physician, an Ahmadi Muslim and a regular contributor and commentator in British media. Find him on Twitter: @TahirNasser (RNS) From East […]