Great Pyramid of Giza is one of the seven wonders of the ancient world It has three known chambers and was built as a Pharaohs tomb Experts have now confirmed the existence of hidden space in the pyramid using radiography scanning By AFP and LIBBY PLUMMER FOR MAILONLINE PUBLISHED: 14:52 GMT, 15 […]
OIC secretary-general Iyad Madani resigns following Egypt row Al AhramThe secretary-general of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Iyad Bin Amin Madani has resigned from his post for health reasons, a statement on the OIC’s official website read on Monday. The resignation of the OIC secretary general comes only few […]
ANADOLU AGENCY WEST BANK PublishedNovember 3, 2016 A picture taken on November 3, 2016 shows a partial view of the Jewish settlement of Gilo in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem. (AFP PHOTO) The Israeli authorities have approved construction of 181 new settlement units in occupied East Jerusalem, a Palestinian expert on Israeli […]
Source: Hindustan Times The top boss of the Islamic State — who on Thursday denied the terror group was on the brink of losing control in the besieged northern Iraqi city of Mosul — has himself fled, Britain’s Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Boris Johnson said on Friday.The Foreign […]
Designed to house 20,000 people, the bunker was built in and over two motorway tunnels. Photo: Unterirdisch Ueberleben Published: 20 Oct 2016 Opened 40 years ago at the height of the Cold War, the Sonnenberg bunker in Lucerne was one of the largest public fallout shelters in the world and […]
SINEM CENGIZ | Published — Saturday 5 November 2016 Sinem Cengiz Last month, while referring to Turkey’s concerns regarding the situation in Iraq to Crimea, Syria to Cyprus, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said: “Turkey is not just Turkey… it is also responsible to the hundreds of millions of our […]
Reuters International NOV 4, 2016 – Police detain Sebahat Tuncel, co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Regions Party (DBP), during a protest against the arrest of Kurdish lawmakers, in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir, Turkey, November 4, 2016. REUTERS/Sertac Kayar (reuters_tickers) DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) – Turkish authorities arrested the leaders of […]
FINAL VERDICT NOV 4, 2016 – 14:51 The Imam Centre in Volketswil, canton Zurich was the planned site of a kindergarten that was denied its operating permit by Switzerland’s highest court (Keystone) Switzerland’s highest court has ruled that canton Zurich correctly denied an Islamic society’s request to open a […]
Nov 03,2016 -JORDAN TIMES – Jonathan Power Many African leaders have been angry for a number of years because the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the affiliated Rwanda and Sierra Leone war crimes courts appear to have focused exclusively on African war criminals — in Rwanda, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Congo, Ivory […]
By JT – Nov 04,2016 – JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — At least two US flight instructors were killed in a shooting at the gate of the King Faisal Airbase in Jafer, Maan, on Friday while they were in a car about to enter the premises, the Jordan News Agency, […]
Our whitewashed history ignores the heroic role of people of colour in the war. By Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, IBTimes.co.uk This week, I passed the four lovely Portland stone pillars near Hyde Park corner in a taxi. These are Memorial Gates dedicated to the South Asian, African and Caribbean soldiers who fought in […]
Source: The Daily Beast The fight for Mosul heated up Friday as Iraqi forces announced they had recaptured six districts in the eastern portion of the city occupied by ISIS militants. According to the military’s statement, government forces took back from ISIS the neighborhoods of Malayeen, Samah, Khadra, Karkukli, Quds, […]
Source: The Daily Beast ROME — It is a terrifying sensation when your home starts to shake and your furniture starts to shimmy—especially when you don’t consider your address to be in a high-risk seismic zone. But for the last three months, starting on August 24 and ending, oh, at […]
Source: Dawn The leader of the opposition took it a bit too far when he said that Mr Khan’s shenanigans actually empower Nawaz Sharif; in fact the manner in which the PML-N and the PTI have gone at it over the past few years has empowered the men in khaki […]
Source: The Local More than 30 police joined the raids on ten rooms in several accommodation facilities in the towns of Nagold and Wildberg in the southwestern state of Baden-Wurttemberg, said police.”The Afghan asylum seekers are suspected of having raped a 17-year-old Iranian asylum seeker several times and of having […]
Source: The Local The young man’s lawyer described his arrest as a “scandal” in an interview with Spiegel. Prosecutors had only presented judges with minimal evidence which had clearly not convinced them, the lawyer said. Federal prosecutors also confirmed that the judge did not consider the evidence presented as sufficient “for an […]
Source: The Local The survey showed that 65 percent of German respondents answered that they would feel “afraid” if Trump were to become president of the United States, YouGov reported on Wednesday.Market research firm YouGov surveyed 2,068 German adults between October 20th and 25th, and also polled residents of the […]
In the village of Soran, near Hama, and the surrounding area, civilians speak of their loss as part of one battle in Syria’s larger civil war, writes Robert Fisk Robert Fisk Soran, near Hama, Syria @indyvoices Thursday 3 November 2016 The Hamdo family collect what is left of their home Nelofer Pazira […]
Source: The Guardian By Harriet Sherwood Martin Luther’s burning of the Papal Bull excommunicating him in 1520 led to five centuries of religious division in Europe. Photograph: Getty A simple act, it […]