Nov 22,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Ramzy Baroud Fear and trepidation are slowly building up, as US President-elect Donald Trump is fortifying his transitional team with people capable of bringing about a nightmare scenario, not only for Americans but for the rest of the world as well. For Palestinians, the signs […]
AFP by Joe Dyke © Provided by AFP The minaret of a mosque and the Dome of the Rock are seen in a Palestinian neighbourhood in east Jerusalem’s Old CityIt is 4:30 am and Mufeed Shawana is rushing to Al-Aqsa Mosque, as the first Muslim call to prayer of the […]
The leaders of the European Parliament’s two largest groups have called for the European Union to halt membership talks with Turkey because of its post-coup purges. Key points: Leaders say human rights, democracy are non-negotiable to be part of EU The EU has promised to speed up talks in exchange […]
POVERTY CONFERENCE NOV 22, 2016 – Making ends meet can be hard in an expensive country (Keystone) Although Switzerland has a reputation for being exceptionally wealthy, more than half a million people in the country are affected by poverty. A national conference to try and stop the number growing took […]
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WASHINGTON, DC – Today, President Barack Obama named 21 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the Nation’s highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or […]
By: Zubair Khan. Pictures: Basil Ahmad Bhatti It was a great day for Ahmadiyya and Humanity First Croatia. In a festive ceremony, eyeglasses were handed over to children who are patients cum students in Special Hospital/School located in city part of Golijak Zagreb-Croatia. Mr Davor Bernardic, member of Croatian National […]
Source: ABC News By J.J. GALLAGHER The number of Syrians living under siege has doubled in just the past six months and now totals nearly one million, the United Nations‘ humanitarian chief said on Monday. Stephen O’Brien, the U.N.’s Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, told the United Nations Security Council that […]
Source: ABC News By GENEVA SANDS Thousands of Green Cards have been mishandled over the past three years, according to a new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Inspector General report. Electronic system errors have caused at least 19,000 cards to be issued as duplicates or with incorrect information, such as […]
Source: ABC News By FRANK BAJAK, ASSOCIATED PRESS All along the winding Rio Grande, the people who live in this bustling, fertile region where the U.S. border meets the Gulf of Mexico never quite understood how Donald Trump’s great wall could ever be much more than campaign rhetoric. Erecting a […]
Source: BBC The Chinese government will rejoice to hear Donald Trump promise that the US will quit the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) on his first day in the White House. For […]
Source: Aljazeera By Christa Blackmon A media analyst and digital anthropologist. “ISIS is not Islam!” declared many Muslims on social media after the attack on the mosque holding the final resting place of the Prophet Muhammad in Medina during the holy month of Ramadan. Popular social justice figure and New York […]
Source: Aljazeera by Tallha Abdulrazaq Tallha Abdulrazaq is a researcher at the University of Exeter’s Strategy and Security Institute. Last week, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, was quoted as saying that religious leaders should “stand up and take responsibility for the actions of those who do things in the name […]
Source: Aljazeera by Patrick Strickland FAST FACTS: HOMELESSNESS IN PORTLAND There are at least 4.000 homeless people sleeping on the streets of Portland on any given night But the true number could be much higher as the city only records the homeless on one night of the year Between 2014 and […]
Source: Time By Mahita Gajanan Donald Trump released a video on Monday to detail his policy plans for his first 100 days in office, including withdrawing from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. In the short message released online, Trump rehashed some of his campaign promises. Among the plans he addressed, Trump […]
Source: Time (ANKARA, Turkey)— Turkey’s government on Tuesday dismissed a further 15,000 people from the military, police and the civil service as part of an ongoing investigation into the failed military coup in July. The government also shut down some 500 associations, 19 health establishments and nine media outlets within […]
Source: Time (BUFFALO, N.Y.) — Education Secretary John B. King Jr. is urging governors and school leaders in states that allow student paddling to end a practice he said would be considered “criminal assault or battery” against an adult. King released a letter Tuesday asking leaders to replace corporal punishment […]
Source: Time BY Josh Sanburn The day after Donald Trump was elected president, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray visited a local school. Many of the students, he says, were Latino, undocumented and upset about the new president-elect, who vowed during the campaign to deport millions of people just like them. In the […]
Source: BBC US President-elect Donald Trump will not pursue a further investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails, to help her “heal”, his spokeswoman has said. A Trump spokeswoman said he would back down from his pledge to appoint a special prosecutor to look into the former Secretary of State. Mr Trump […]
Source: BBC Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim has withdrawn a bill that pardons men convicted of sex with underage girls if they have married them. The bill, part of a […]