Source: The Local Party leaders have been wrangling for months over whom to nominate as a potential successor to President Joachim Gauck, a 76-year-old former pastor from the ex-communist East Germany who is stepping down due to his advanced age. On Monday, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) agreed on […]
Source: BBC By Dave Seminara 8 November 2016 For travellers accustomed to picking up at the drop of a hat and jetting off to Rio or Riyadh without a care […]
Source: The Local While leaders of Germany’s traditional political parties reacted to Trump’s victory with “shock”, and the far-right with glee, German media took on a more foreboding tone. The cover of Der Spiegel’s weekly edition, released this weekend, shows a giant meteor in the shape of Trump’s head, hurtling […]
Source: BBC Russia’s Economy Minister Alexei Ulyukayev has been accused of taking a bribe to endorse a state takeover. Russia’s main anti-corruption body, the Investigative Committee (SK), said he received a payment of $2m (£1.6m). Mr Ulyukayev is the highest-ranking Russian official held since the 1991 coup attempt in what […]
Source: The Local The group, called The True Religion (Die wahre Religion), is now also banned, Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said. German officials consider the group to be unconstitutional and against the principle of having understanding among different nations, according to DPA information.”Across the country, jihadist Islamists came together […]
Source: The New York Times By SALMAN MASOOD ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A powerful bomb blast ripped through a Sufi shrine in southwestern Pakistan on Saturday evening, killing at least 52 people and wounding at least 100 others, officials said. The bombing, believed to have been carried out by a suicide […]
Source: the Washington Post By Sudarsan Raghavan November 13 at 5:39 PM An Egyptian Coptic Christian woman sits in the rubble of a makeshift chapel that was torched a few […]
Source: Detroit Free Press Ann Arbor police are looking for a man who demanded that a University of Michigan student remove her hijab, a headscarf often worn by Muslim women, or be set on fire with a lighter. The woman complied, according to a crime alert from the university’s division of […]
Source: The New York Times By SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN MINNEAPOLIS — Emma Blom grew up in the Scandinavian heartland of rural Minnesota, reliably attending her small town’s Lutheran church. She […]
Donald Trump was facing angry demands on Monday to reverse his appointment of a man accused of fanning the flames of neo-Nazism and white supremacy as his White House chief strategist. The selection of Stephen Bannon, the executive chairman of the far-right website Breitbart News and the CEO of Trump’s presidential campaign, […]
Source: Bloomberg By Susan Decker @sudecker1 President-Elect Donald Trump said the issue of marriage equality in the U.S. is settled Supreme Court law and he’s “fine with that,” yet pledged to support overturning the 1973 high court decision that a woman has a right to choose to have an abortion. Speaking […]
Source: BBC We asked the iconic natural history presenter to describe the one technological revolution that he hopes will save humanity. Watch the video above to see his answer. David […]
Russia Today: German police have launched a large-scale operation targeting Islamists across ten German federal states, the country’s Interior Ministry (Bundesministeriums des Innern) reported on Tuesday.According to the German media, […]
Huff Post: by Alanna Vagianos — “Locker room talk” will not silence our voices. RICH POLK VIA GETTY IMAGES “I’ve been asking myself this simple question: Will our girls finally be the ones to have workplaces free from sexual harassment?” Carlson wrote in a recent essay I want to do […]
theguardian: by Richard Holoway — There are as many expressions of religious faith as there are of gender and sexuality Preaching to the converted: Graham Chapman in Monty Python’s Life of Brian, 1979. Photograph: Python Films/Rex/Shutterstock SOME PEOPLE ARE GAY. GET OVER IT.’ That slogan was posted on London buses […]
By Khalid Baig Neither love nor hatred can be allowed to compromise justice. There is one word that captures the essence of all Islamic laws and all Islamic teachings; one […]
Published November 13th, 2016 via SyndiGate.info While Italy has not enacted an official ban on the hijab, Italian law requires that people uncover their head and face in a public place. (File photo) A Muslim woman of Albanian origin has been fined 30,000 euros in Italy for refusing to remove […]
STUART WILLIAMS | Published — Tuesday 15 November 2016 Turkey is heading to a referendum on granting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan new powers as early as next spring, ratcheting up tensions amid a crackdown on dissent and pro-Kurdish politicians, analysts say. The courts have arrested over 35,000 people under a […]
RAMZY BAROUD | Published — Tuesday 15 November 2016 Ramzy Baroud As I was growing up, I was always reassured by the sound of the “Muadhin” making the call for prayer in our refugee camp’s main mosque in Gaza. For the refugees in my camp, the dawn prayer meant that […]
Nov 14,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL According to the recently published Fragile States Index, on which the Fund for Peace ranks 178 nations based on their levels of stability and the pressures they face, Jordan ranks 77th, four places lower than last year. This drop is attributed in no small […]