Source: Time By Justin Worland More than 170 countries agreed early Saturday morning to limit emissions of key climate change-causing pollutants found in air conditioners, a significant step in the international effort to keep global warming from reaching catastrophic levels. The deal reached in Kigali, Rwanda, comes after years of wrangling […]
File photo: Martin Abegglen Published: 12 Oct 2016 The Swiss people will go to the polls next February to vote on whether it should be easier for third generation immigrants […]
Excuse me, friends, I must catch my jet I’m off to join the Development Set; My bags are packed, and I’ve had all my shots I have traveller’s checks and pills for the trots! The Development Set is bright and noble Our thoughts are deep and our vision global; Although […]
ISLAMIC STATE OCT 15, 2016 – Since 2001, 77 Swiss have left the country for conflict regions to take part in jihad (Keystone) According to Markus Seiler, head of the Federal Intelligence Service (FIS), hardly anyone from Switzerland wants to join the Islamic State (IS) anymore. In an interview with […]
By AFP – Oct 14,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Members of Iraqi security forces gesture as a convoy advances on the outskirts of Mosul, to fight against the Daesh terror group militants in Kirkuk, Iraq, Wednesday (Reuters photo) BAGHDAD — The Iraqi foreign ministry summoned the Turkish ambassador on […]
The city of Gaziantep and the ‘Liberation’ mosque is a milestone on the journey between one great crime of the 20th century, and another seen during the Second World War Robert Fisk Gaziantep @indyvoices The ‘Liberation’ Mosque is a fine, neo-classical, almost Gothic construction with striped black-and-white stone banding, unusual […]
Source: The Local The threat from Volker Kauder, a key member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party, follows a similar warning by Justice Minister Heiko Maas, in a growing sign of German politicians’ frustration with such websites.”The time for round-tables is over. I’ve run out of patience,” said Volker Kauder, chairman […]
Source: The Local She hosted Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, having also met Chad’s head of state Idriss Deby two days earlier following a three-day whirlwind tour of Mali, Niger and Ethiopia, the seat of the African Union. As Germany, Europe’s top destination for people fleeing war and misery, looks to chair […]
Source: Dawn THE corps commanders have spoken. They have expressed concern over the “feeding of a false and fabricated story” that appeared in Dawn on Oct 6 as a breach of national security. At the same time, the government “as a gesture of goodwill” has removed the travel ban on […]
Pakistan’s Blasphemy Laws Chapter 1 – Origin Story of 295C from Pakistans Blasphemy Laws on Vimeo. Source: Dawn BY ARAFAT MAZHAR A few days ago, a video of erstwhile pop icon […]
Source: ET It’s a sad little word ‘tawdry’. Dictionaries, my own old-fashioned print variety and the online version all concur — cheap shoddy and tasteless they say. I got 90 minutes of full-on tawdry last Monday morning when I grumped before the TV set with my cereal and the first […]
It was just one year after the second world war ended, which brought death and destruction over Europe, when three young Muslim Missionaries from British India, arriving via England, stopped over in Switzerland on 13th October 1946. The actual destination was Germany, but at that moment the entry was […]
Source: Huffington Post By Craig Considine; Sociologist at Rice University As an advocate of interfaith dialogue, particularly between Christians and Muslims, I’m often faced with the issue of conversion. People […]
Following news item was sent The Muslim Times by Haider Qureshi, a renowned author, poet, and literary critic. Many students have written their masters, doctoral thesis on his work. “The formation of Urdu ghazal: the origins of the genre” is the first attempt by a Russian scholar to analyze the initial […]
“Donald, seriously, you know about sexual predators and things like that, I mean…” Donald Trump’s numerous interviews with Howard Stern over the years appear to be coming back to haunt him. Follow Sid Verma @_SidVerma Here is Donald Trump’s response to suggestions he is a “sexual predator” 1:09 PM – 13 […]
14 Oct 2016 BANGKOK POST Privy Council president Prem Tinsulanonda has been named Regent pro tempore following the passing of His Majesty the King on Thursday, NLA vice-president […]
But RCMP say they have no evidence that the Bashaw fire and the graffiti are linkedThis is a screenshot from a video of the fire that destroyed the Bashaw Motor Inn early Sunday morning. (Facebook/Brian Cabelka) Racist graffiti was found at the scene of a deadly fire that burned a central […]
President Obama Campaign Rally for Hillary Clinton in Cleveland, Ohio (10/14/2016) Incidentally, the chief Editor of the Muslim Times, Zia Hussain Shah, shares the middle name with the President
Source: BBC Israel has frozen co-operation with the UN’s cultural agency, accusing it of denying Judaism’s connections to the religion’s holiest sites. Its education minister said a Unesco draft decision […]
Source: BBC By Melissa Hogenboom 14 October 2016 Astronomers have spotted some ancient stars, known as RR Lyrae. They are at least 10 billion years old and were found hiding […]