ARAB NEWS | Published — Saturday 22 October 2016 This file photo shows the Pentagon in Washington. (AP) Just like misinformation led to a Saudi-led coalition plane targeting a funeral hall — and ultimately killing Yemeni civilians — earlier this month; yesterday’s airstrike on a Shiite shrine near the […]
ABDULRAHMAN AL-RASHED | Published — Saturday 22 October 2016 Abdulrahman Al-Rashed Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey Numan Kurtulmus recently warned against the risks of disagreements over the battle of Mosul. He said that this could even mark the beginning of World War Three. Despite the sectarian and ethnic nature of […]
Source: TOI “My Social Security payroll contribution will go up, as will Donald’s, assuming he can’t figure out how to get out of it,” she said. The reference was obvious. If Trump wriggled out of paying taxes before, he could most certainly do it with Social Security taxes in the […]
Source: TOI The helicopter was flying from the Siberian region of Krasnoyarsk to the town of Urengoy in the Yamalo-Nenetsky region when it crashed Friday between 1400 and 1500 GMT, investigators said. The regional branch of the emergencies ministry said it had been informed that a helicopter made a hard landing […]
Source: The Local The survey by Berlin startup Dalia published this week found that 5.9 percent of Europeans identify as LGBT when offered a choice between heterosexual or LGBT. The proportion was highest in Germany, where 7.4 percent of respondents identified as LGBT, and lowest in Hungary, at 1.5 percent. But […]
Source:ET “The government has not yet decided [as to who will be the new army chief] but is likely to announce his name in week or ten days’ time,” said Chaudhry said in response to a question asked during a news conference which he addressed together with PML-N leader Daniyal […]
Source:ET A Swiss school has rejected the appeal of a Muslim schoolboy who refused to shake hands with female teachers on religious grounds.“The boy was one of two teenage brothers at a high school in Therwil who caused a nationwide furore earlier this year when they said shaking hands with […]
Source: ET A young Muslim man on his way to deliver a Friday prayer sermon was punched near a train station in Washington, DC on Friday.The 27-year-old was punched in his collarbone and believes he was targeted because of how he was dressed. “I think a lot of Muslim men […]
Apparent racist attack on London Underground @BTP: hope perpetrator is found & faces justice for this despicable unprovoke assault pic.twitter.com/2lbiQffLmf — Miqdaad Versi (@miqdaad) October 18, 2016 Source: Twitter […]
by Tahir Nasser (RNS) This week, the assault on Mosul — the last stronghold of ISIS — began. As a student of religious history, it reminded me of the battles and horrors of first-century Judea. In 66 A.D. began a series of wars between the Jewish tribes of Judea and the superpower […]
Reuters International OCT 21, 2016 Iraqi army gather after the liberation of a village from Islamic State militants, south of Mosul, during an operation to attack Islamic State militants in Mosul, Iraq, October 21, 2016. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudan (reuters_tickers) By Michael Georgy QAYYARA, Iraq (Reuters) – Islamic State launched a […]
Friday 21st October, 2016 Militants armed with assault rifles and explosives have attacked targets in and around the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk in an assault claimed by the extremist Islamic State (IS) group. The October 21 attack comes as the Iraqi government and Kurdish forces are making a major […]
Kathleen Elkins Mansa Musa, as depicted on a 1375 Catalan Atlas, one of the most important world maps of Medieval Europe.Wikimedia Commons African King Musa Keita I is thought to be the richest person of all time — “richer than anyone could describe,” reports Time. Literally. His fortune was incomprehensible, […]
Source: CNN By Daniel Burke, CNN Religion Editor Donald Trump was ashamed — contrite even — as he spoke to Paula White hours after the video of him bragging about groping women was released. “I heard it in his voice,” said White, a Florida pastor who, outside of Trump’s family, […]
Source: Yahoo News By Amy Sullivan Senior editor Well, that was awkward. If you’ve ever squirmed through a mean-spirited, ill-advised wedding toast delivered by somebody’s inappropriate, drunk uncle, then you’ll have some sense of the feeling in the room at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria hotel on Thursday night, where Donald Trump and […]
Source: Los Angeles Times By Mark Z. Barabak No religious group has been more reliably Republican than members of the Mormon faith, who routinely vote in landslide numbers for […]
Source: BBC By Bryan Lufkin 19 October 2016 If you’re boarding a plane, chances are you’ll be bringing a phone aboard with you. But the technological sophistications of phones have […]
Source: Time BY Hillary Clinton Clinton is a former Secretary of State and the Democratic Party nominee for President. ‘America is indispensable—and exceptional—because of our values’ There’s always been something […]
Source: Washington Post EFRAT, West Bank — The gathering wasn’t exactly unprecedented. Jewish settlers and their Palestinian neighbors have met quietly before, many times. But not like this. This meeting, […]
Source: Time By Eric Barker Eric Barker writes Barking Up the Wrong Tree. Experts bet you encounter a psychopath more often than you think I know what some people are thinking: I’m never going to deal with psychopaths. This is just more sensational clickbait junk. Wrong. The experts are betting you […]