US to work with private firms on Mars plan
Source: BBC President Barack Obama says the US will work with private companies on its plan to send humans to Mars in the 2030s. President Obama announced his proposals for […]
US election: Obama blasts Trump with 7-Eleven jibe
Source: BBC President Barack Obama has blasted Donald Trump’s recent remarks about women, saying they would be intolerable even for someone applying for a job at a 7-Eleven convenience store. At a rally supporting Hillary Clinton, Mr Obama also urged senior Republicans to formally withdraw their endorsement of Mr Trump […]
How ISIS Twisted the Meaning of ‘Caliphate’
Source: Time By Hugh Kennedy Kennedy is a professor of Arabic at SOAS, University of London, and the author of Caliphate What is caliphate? What does the term mean? What […]
Sports Illustrated Partnering to Produce First Complete Mt. Everest Climb in Virtual Reality
Source: Time Sports Illustrated will partner with Endemol Shine Beyond USA to produce the first documentary series of a complete climb of Mt. Everest to be presented in virtual reality. The […]
Video: Obama Breaks Down How Republicans Ended Up With Trump
President Obama explains how the behavior and rhetoric of the Republican party over the last decade has left the country with an ignorant Republican nominee for the President of the […]
Russian Government Officials Told To Immediately Bring Back Children Studying Abroad
by Tyler Durden Oct 12, 2016 In Europe, when it gets serious, you have to lie… at least if you are an unelected bureaucrat like Jean-Claude Juncker. In Russia, however, when it gets serious, attention immediately turns to the children. Which is why we read a report in Russian website […]
Trump would be ‘dangerous’ if elected: UN rights chief
Source: MSN The UN’s rights chief warned Wednesday that Donald Trump’s statements pointed to a “dangerous” figure emerging on the world stage if he won the US presidency. At a […]
Dr Moiz Shams, eye doctor who has performed 1000 free eye surgeries
By Shaheen Nazar, Aligarh India AN eye-specialist by training and a campaigner against blindness by choice, Dr. Abdul Moiz Shams is an Aligarian and a true follower of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan. In an age when the medical profession has become highly commercialized and doctors have generally become money-minting machines, […]
Obama vows to send people to Mars by the 2030s
Source: MSN.com (Reporting by Susan Heavey; Editing by Doina Chiacu) U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday vowed to help send people to Mars within the next 15 years, pledging to […]
Joke of the day: Giving Sad News To A Troop and … an Eagle was sitting on a tree
The Captain called the Sergeant in. “Sarge, I just got a telegram that Private Jones’ mother died yesterday. Better go tell him and send him in to see me.” So the Sergeant calls for his morning formation and lines up all the troops. “Listen up, men,” says the Sergeant. “Johnson, […]
World faces cold-war-era threat levels, says former MI6 chief
Sir John Sawers says Moscow has shifted balance of power but criticises Boris Johnson’s call for demo outside embassy Sir John Sawers: ‘We are not treating Russia and China as major powers that can cause us a great deal of damage.’ Photograph: Elyse Marks/Edelman/PA Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor Wednesday 12 […]
20-year-old Palestinian shot dead by Israeli forces during clashes in Silwan
OCT. 12, 2016 20-year-old Ali Atef Shyoukhi (Photo: Wadi Hilweh Information Center) JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — A 20-year-old Palestinian was shot and killed by Israeli forces Tuesday night during clashes that erupted in the town of Silwan in occupied East Jerusalem just south of the Old City, amid ongoing violent police […]
Israelis perform religious rituals at Al-Aqsa Mosque compound ahead of Yom Kippur
OCT. 11, 2016 JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Scores of Jewish Israelis entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Tuesday and performed religious rituals on the occasion of the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur.The Islamic Endowment (Waqf) in charge of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound reported that 156 Israelis escorted by Israeli police toured […]
WW3: Russian-Islamic Alliance described in Holy Quran?
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Turkish army says Islamic State putting up ‘stiff resistance’ in Syria
Reuters International OCT 12, 2016 A Turkish Army military vehicle, with the Syrian town of Kobani in the background, patrols on the Turkish-Syrian border in Suruc in Sanliurfa province, Turkey, June 26, 2015. REUTERS/Murad Sezer (reuters_tickers) ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Islamic State militants in northern Syria are putting up “stiff […]
Don’t let the Tories tell you that making women show their passports while giving birth will save the NHS
You can’t have an isolationist policy on climate change, global terrorism, weapons deals, international cyber-crime, the Zika virus epidemic or the refugee crisis – and you can’t have an isolationist policy on birth Holly Baxter @h0llyb4xter 28 comments It is pointless for Theresa May’s Government to demand passports before giving […]
Putin ups the stakes in Syria
Oct 11,2016 -JORDAN TIMES – OSAMA AL SHARIF Russia is playing a dangerous game in Syria and it is raising the stakes there so hastily that pundits are now talking about a sharp dip, and heightened tension, in US-Russian ties, the kind of which we have not seen since the […]
Was a women’s boat an existential threat?
Oct 11,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMZI BAROUD The Israeli official narrative regarding its conflict with the Palestinians is deliberately confounding because a muddled up discourse is convenient. It allows the narrator to pick and choose half-truths at will in order to create a falsified version of reality. For instance, […]
The Sykes-Picot ‘curse’
Oct 11,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – HASAN ABU NIMAH Analysts often refer to the 100-year-old Sykes-Picot agreement as the underlying cause of the problems the Arab world has been facing for decades. While they condemn the agreement that divided the Arab world and imposed artificial lines between the states that […]
US election should be scrapped!
LINDA HEARD | Published — Tuesday 11 October 2016 Linda Heard The upcoming US presidential election needs a redo. Both candidates are generally disliked and both are embroiled in various kinds of scandals. Neither is of the caliber to lead America, never mind the so-called free world. In a perfect […]