Source: The Guardian By Martin Chulov Islamic State fighters have killed scores of alleged spies or battlefield deserters in the past week and are dispatching boys as young as 12 to the frontlines with suicide belts as the group’s enemies advance on its last major strongholds. Witnesses in Raqqa and Mosul […]
Source: BBC Next time you’re doing your grocery shopping and put a bunch of bananas in your trolley, spare a thought for the journey they’ve been on. Many will have […]
Source: BBC US President-elect Donald Trump has said he is open to leaving intact key parts of President Barack Obama’s healthcare bill. Mr Trump, who has pledged to repeal the 2010 law, said he will keep the ban on insurers denying coverage for pre-existing conditions. He told the Wall Street […]
Source: The Washington Post By Derek Hawkins and Fred Barbash A student at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette fabricated a story that she was attacked and had her hijab rippped off, police said Thursday. The attack was one of several reported in the wake of Donald Trump’s election victory. […]
Source: Reuters By Jon Herskovitz A U.S. Muslim civil rights group said on Thursday it was monitoring reports of several incidents targeting Muslims in the United States since Republican Donald Trump’s victory on Tuesday and called on the president-elect to denounce the attacks. The reports included at least two assaults […]
Source: RNS By Josephine McKenna ROME (RNS) President-elect Donald Trump will uphold Christian values, a prominent U.S. cardinal has said. In an interview published in the Italian conservative daily Il […]
Source: The Guardian By Peter Beaumont in Jerusalem Israeli government ministers and political figures are pushing the US president-elect, Donald Trump, to quickly fulfill his campaign promise to overturn decades of US […]
Source: BBC By Bryan Lufkin 10 November 2016 In the deserts of the United Arab Emirates, one of the most futuristic, fantastical technologies could find footing at last. Hyperloop, the […]
Source: CNN By Reed Alexander, CNN Updated 0547 GMT (1347 HKT) November 11, 2016 Hong Kong (CNN)The fossilized remains of a new species of winged dinosaur have been discovered in […]
Source: RNS By Kimberly Winston (RNS) For the last decade, atheists, humanists and others secularists have worked hard to organize a “secular vote” that would counter the political clout of […]
Source: RNS By Adelle M. Banks RNS) Back when so many thought Hillary Clinton would be the next president, two dozen African-American leaders wrote to the Democratic nominee asking her […]
Source: CNN By Daniel Burke, CNN Religion Editor 3 mosques with many concerns about the rhetoric of 2016 02:51 (CNN)Dilshad Ali had never felt the fear. Not when Donald Trump proposed banning Muslims from entering the United States, a plan his own running mate called “offensive and unconstitutional.” Not when […]
In his victory speech early Wednesday morning, Donald Trump pledged that he “will be president for all Americans,” and he asked those who did not support him “for your guidance and your help so that we can work together and unify our great country.” Here’s some guidance right off the […]
Ilham Omar, who escaped Somalia and spent years in a Kenyan refugee camp, thanked her grandfather who taught her the importance of democracy. Thu, November 10, 201 clarionproject.com Making U.S. election history, a Somali-American was elected to public office as a Democratic state legislator in Minnesota. Ilhan Omar, […]
BY NEWS STAFF POSTED NOV 10, Toronto, November 10, 2016 4:51 PM ESThttp://www.citynews.ca/2016/11/10/police-confirm-two-missing-oakville-brothers-drowned/ Peel Regional Police have confirmed that the bodies pulled from a Mississauga pond on Tuesday night are those of two missing Oakville brothers. An autopsy conducted on the bodies of 22-year-old Hamza Khan and 20-year-old Shahruka Khan showed […]
Caliph Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad says Trump’s anti-Muslim talk was likely campaign rhetoric CBC News Posted: Nov 09, 2016 Caliph Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, leader of the world’s Ahmadiyya Muslims, says he thinks Donald Trump’s anti-Islam rhetoric was simply a campaign tactic. (Kate Adach/CBC) Related Stories ‘It’s very scary’: Election […]
Source: The Daily Beast Khizr Khan, the father of slain Muslim-American U.S. Army Captain Humayun Khan, had some advice for Donald Trump on Thursday. Khan, who has been outspoken about his contempt for Trump throughout the presidential race, said the president-elect would have to “earn” his position in the White House […]
Source: CNN A suicide car bomb targeted the German consulate in Afghanistan’s northern Balkh province on Thursday, according to local police and officials. Monir Ahmad Farhad, a provincial spokesman, said Friday four people were killed and more 100 people were injured when the attack happened at 10:45 p.m. in Mazar-e-Sharif, the […]
k Khaleejtimes.com Web Report/New Delhi Filed on November 11, 2016 Assuring people that their hard earned money is safe, the Finance Ministry on Friday said there is no need to panic and depositing junked Rs 500/1,000 notes of up to Rs 2.50 lakh in bank accounts will not be reported to the […]
The Canadian Press Published Wednesday, November 9, 2016 7:43PM EST CALGARY — A prominent Muslim leader is urging calm after Donald Trump’s surprise U.S. election win. Caliph Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad told reporters Wednesday he does not believe the Republican president-elect will go ahead with a campaign promise to crack […]