Oct 16,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Amer Al Sabaileh More than six years into the Syrian crisis, it appears that neither a political nor a military solution is unattainable. Still, the military situation is not completely against the Syrian army and its Russian ally. Strategically, the real change on the ground […]
Oct 16,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Simplice A. Asongu Development economists often differ with one another, but they agree on this: the knowledge economy will be the foundation of every nation’s progress in the 21st century. Yet, while East Asia and other regions have been making substantial gains in building a […]
His Majesty receives 2015 human rights report By JT – Oct 16,2016 -JORDAN TIMES His Majesty King Abdullah receives the 2015 human rights report from NCHR President Mohammad Al Bakhit (Photo courtesy of Royal Court) AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah on Sunday received a copy of the […]
Religious leaders highlight site’s spiritual, historical significance By Suzanna Goussous – Oct 16,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Religious leaders and visitors tour the site of the Moses Memorial on Mount Nebo on Saturday (Photo by Suzanna Goussous) MADABA — Officials, church representatives, tourists and pilgrims on Saturday attended the […]
October 14, 2016 SHAFAQNA IN COLLABORATION WITH THE WORLD SHIA FORUM – The following is the transcript of an interview which was conducted with al-Azhar’s most senior authority: Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyib with Al Neel Egyptian TV channel. In the interview Dr al-Tayyib rejects the notion of takfir in reference to Shia […]
Source:ET First, when all of America becomes Muslim, it would be their prerogative right to elect one of their own. Second, when all of the values, principles, beliefs and rights America stands for can only be found in someone who is a Muslim, then a Muslim should be the President […]
A Monumental Moment in Canadian History: The Caliph, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, to speak at Parliament Hill tomorrow. #CaliphInCanada Ahmadiyya Ottawa, CBC Ottawa, Ottawa Citizen and 7 others WATCH: The Caliph is set to deliver an address at Parliament Hill today – here's what you need to know. #CaliphInCanada 🇨🇦 | RT & Share! […]
“A wife is expected to be with the family of the husband after the marriage.” A Hindu son can divorce his wife for the cruelty of trying to pry him away from his “pious obligation” to live with his aged parents and provide shelter to them, the Supreme Court has […]
Source: BBC By Peter Cumpson From The Conversation 14 October 2016 One of the most tantalising questions in science is whether there is or ever has been life on Mars, […]
Source: BBC By Katty KayPresenter, BBC World New I really hoped I wouldn’t have to write another article about sexual abuse during this presidential campaign. But the latest allegations against Donald Trump have prompted an important national conversation about the wider abuse of women. It’s a conversation that is long past […]
PUBLISHED: 8:30 PM, OCTOBER 16, 2016 GOA, India – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday he hoped the United States and its allies would do their best to avoid civilian casualties in an attack on Mosul, the stronghold of the Islamic State militant group in Iraq. REUTERS SOURCE: http://www.todayonline.com/world/putin-says-hopes-us-will-seek-avoid-civilian-casualties-mosul
Source: The Daily Beast In 79 C.E. Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying the nearby cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in thick layers of volcanic ash. There was no time to suffocate; most died not from the poisonous gas but were instead flash-heated into immediate rigor mortis. The eruption froze the final […]
Source: BBC By Renuka Rayasam 12 October 2016 About fifteen years ago, when entrepreneur Michael Stausholm started a business with a friend, his partner painted a rosy picture of the […]
Source: Time The pioneers are daring to cross boundaries, forge new paths, take their crafts to unexpected places—and also improve the world. These are TIME’s 2016 Next Generation Leaders 2016 […]
Source: Time By Zeke J Miller Trump has said the election is “rigged” against him by “globalist elites” Speaker of the House Paul Ryan issued a rebuke of GOP presidential nominee […]
Source: T of Israel A US defense official said the altercation took place starting around 1930 GMT. It was unclear how many of the surface-to-surface missiles were fired at the USS Mason, USS Nitze and USS Ponce.The USS Mason destroyer, which was sailing in international waters off Yemen’s coast earlier […]
Source: T of Israel Various Israeli assessments say that the organization that calls itself the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant — Islamic State for short — has lost more than one-third of its fighting members over the past 18 months. Israeli and other Western officials estimated the number […]
Source: Times of Israel GOP nominee suggests Democratic rival was ‘pumped up’ on performance-enhancing narcotics in last face-off, casts himself as victim of ‘smear campaign. More:
by GRAIN Staff, originally published by GRAIN | JUL 13, 2016 Eight years after releasing its first report on land grabbing, which put the issue on the international agenda, GRAIN publishes a new dataset documenting nearly 500 cases of land grabbing around the world. In October 2008, GRAIN published a […]
The 39th president of the United States, humanitarian and peanut farmer talks about money and politics, race relations and marriage By Charles Green, AARP Bulletin, June 2015 Last October, you […]