Russian Warships in Mediterranean Prompt Fears Among Syrian Rebels
Source: Time By Jared Malsin / Istanbul As rebels hope to hold onto their half of Aleppo A fleet of eight Russian warships that entered the Mediterranean on October 26 […]
Donald Trump More Trustworthy Than Hillary Clinton, Poll Finds
Source: Time By Melissa Chan More voters trust Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton, according to a new tracking poll released Wednesday. The Republican presidential nominee leads his Democratic rival on honesty and trustworthiness by eight points in a Washington Post-ABC News poll, which found 46% of likely voters saying Trump is […]
President Obama Criticizes FBI Chief on Disclosure of New Hillary Clinton Email Probe
Source: Time By Maya Rhodan “We don’t operate on leaks. We operate based on concrete decisions that are made,” Obama said President Obama offered his first public comments on the FBI […]
The benefits and downsides of building into the sea
Source: BBC By Bianca Nogrady 1 November 2016 All around the world, cities are edging further into the sea. Plans are afoot to build huge islands and giant constructions in […]
US election: The state that defines the American divide
Source: BBC By Katty KayPresenter, BBC World News Derwin Gray won’t say which way he is voting. The charismatic, former NFL-playing pastor of Transformation Church doesn’t want to upset the carefully choreographed racial balance of his evangelical congregation in Charlotte, North Carolina. But as an African-American man, he sympathises with black […]
What really happened to mammoths and other ice age giants
The Muslim Times has the best collection of articles about guided evolution. Read a book online: A New Book: The Quran and the Biological Evolution. Source: BBC By Niki Rust […]
FBI Releases 17-Year-Old Records From a Bill Clinton Presidential Pardon Investigation
Source: Time By Stephen Braun (WASHINGTON) — Only days before the presidential election, the FBI released a 17-year-old archive of documents from a long-closed investigation into Bill Clinton’s presidential pardon of a fugitive financier, prompting questions from Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign about its timing. The release comes amid the bureau’s controversially […]
Science Says This Is the Best Motivation to Exercise
Source: Time By Mandy Oaklander People primed to be competitive went to 90% more classes than those who weren’t If you play well with others, then it might be time to […]
What really happened to mammoths and other iceage giants
Source: BBC By Niki Rust Scientists have known for a century that there was a global extinction of large animals at roughly the same time as humans expanded around the […]
Harvard Divinity School: The Medieval Islamic Hospital: Medicine, Religion, and Charity
Book written by Ahmed Ragab PhD, École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris MD, Cairo University Ahmed Ragab is the Richard T. Watson Assistant Professor of Science and Religion at […]
Why Christianity’s holiest shrine is guarded by two Muslim families
Source: The Washington Post By Ishaan Tharoor; who writes about foreign affairs for The Washington Post. He previously was a senior editor at TIME The Church of the Holy Sepulchre […]
Israeli authorities demolish graves in East Jerusalem cemetery
NOV. 1, 2016 JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israeli Nature and Parks Authority forces demolished several graves inside a Palestinian cemetery in occupied East Jerusalem on Tuesday morning, according to local sources. […]
Israel bans 5 year-old Palestinian boy from visiting father in prison
OCT. 30, 2016 (File) RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities have banned 5-year-old Ibrahim from visiting his father, Palestinian Muhammad Ahmad Abd al-Fatah Abu Fanunah, in prison, Abu Fanunah’s wife said to Voice of Prisoners (Sawt al-Asra) radio on Sunday.Umm Mahmoud told the radio station that she has also been banned […]
Ahmadiyya Muslims find freedom from oppression in Canada
SHERRILL SUTHERLAND The Globe and Mail Published Tuesday, Nov. 01, 2016 For the past month, the leader of the world’s Ahmadiyya Muslim community has been visiting Canada and Canadian leaders […]
Ahmadiyya Caliph says new mosques will be open to people of all religions
Windsorstar.com: The spiritual leader of the world’s Ahmadiyya Muslims says the new mosques in Saskatoon and Regina will be open to people of all religious groups. The Caliph, Hazrat Mirza Masroor […]
Ahmadiyya Caliph to meet with faithful, Syrian refugees in Saskatoon visit
THIA JAMES, SASKATOON STARPHOENIX Published on: November 1, 2016 Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, The Caliph of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community, speaks at the International Centre part of the Jalsa Salana Annual Convention in Toronto on Oct. 7, 2016. DAVE ABEL / DAVE ABEL/TORONTO SUN SHAREADJUSTCOMMENTPRINT The head of the world’s Ahmadiyya […]
Islamic exhibition to visit Gisborne (New Zealand)
Published: November 2, 2016 Movement advocating peace, tolerance, love and understanding will be here on Saturday. AN ISLAMIC religious movement advocating peace, tolerance, love and understanding will be coming to Gisborne to exhibit the Muslim holy scripture, the Quran. Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at describes itself as a revival movement within Islam […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim leader denounces extremism, promotes tolerance
Caliph Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad touring western Canada this month By Jason Warick, CBC News Posted: Nov 01, 2016 Play Media Caliph Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad denounces extremism 3:20 Muslim leaders are not doing enough to denounce extremism, says the head of the world’s Ahmadiyya Muslims. “We need the message of […]
Court says remains of former Burundi king can stay in Geneva
FAMILY TUSSLES NOV 1, 2016 After a Hutu-led coup in October 1965, King Mwambutsa IV of Burundi withdrew to Switzerland, where he spent the rest of his life and died in 1977 (Keystone) A Geneva court has ruled that the remains of the former king of Burundi, Mwambutsa IV, can stay […]
The $100bn gold mine and the West Papuans who say they are counting the cost
Grasberg mine in the Indonesian province has been a source of untold wealth for its owners, but local communities say it has brought poverty and oppression The delta of West Papua’s Aikwa river, on Kamoro tribe land. Papuans claim tailing sediment from the mine has suffocated the fish and shrimp […]