By AFP – Oct 10,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (right) talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin during the opening ceremony of the 23rd World Energy Congress in Istanbul, Turkey, on Monday (AFP photo) ISTANBUL — Russia and Turkey on Monday signed an agreement to […]
Reuters International OCT 11, 2016 – 13:16 Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and his wife Emine Erdogan attend Democracy and Martyrs Rally, organized by him and supported by ruling AK Party (AKP), oppositions Republican People’s Party (CHP) and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), to protest against last month’s failed military coup attempt, […]
Oct 10,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – MARK LEONARD People used to think that the most important decisions affecting Europe were made in Paris, Berlin or Brussels. But in recent months, as the European Union has confronted the refugee crisis, and the Syrian conflict that is fuelling it, Moscow and Ankara […]
The democratic Kurdish parties are dwarfed by this battle, which consumed the centre of Diyabarkir last winter and early spring, and then Cizre – and then Nusaybin Robert Fisk in Nusaybin @indyvoices The PKK enlists women and men as suicide bombers and rifle-carrying suicide guerrillas in its battle against the Turkish […]
Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton had their second presidential debate on Sunday night in St. Louis. We tallied their false claims. The totals: 33 false claims for Trump, five false claims for Clinton – a near-identical margin to the first debate two weeks ago, whenwe found Trump made 34 […]
Source: Munir Rafiq It is with deep sadness that I wish to inform you that my beloved father Bashir Ahmad Rafiq, the former Imam of the London Mosque passed away […]
Source: The Daily Beast BY MATT WILSTEIN The ‘Late Night’ host kicked off his week in D.C. with—what else?—a takedown of Donald Trump’s terrible weekend. Seth Meyers could not be […]
Middle East & North Africa Air strike on funeral may galvanize anti-Saudi forces in Yemen 7:45pm BST – 01:32 Anti-Saudi forces in Yemen appear to be galvanizing after an apparent Saudi-led air strike on a funeral kills 140 Yemenis, while Reuters discovers that U.S. officials warned the Obama administration the […]
Source: The New York Times By Molly Worthen Chapel Hill, N.C. — The first debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump featured plenty of magical thinking, but it was a […]
Source: SF Gate By Jenna Lyons As a practicing Sikh, Khalsa said his hair is sacred, and when a group of men attacked him in Richmond and slashed his locks […]
Source: Dawn Ahsan Mahboob stares at the sky. It is the colour of molten silver — dark and mournful. Out of the grey firmament drop flakes of white snow, light as leaves, ominous as bad tidings. In the predawn twilight of November, Quetta’s Alamdar Road looks like a frozen lake, […]
Source:Dawn Why do so many Americans oppose immigration, and why has it become a central issue in the American presidential campaign? A growing body of research suggests that the answer isn’t economic anxiety, or concerns about public spending, or even general nationalism. It is more specific — and more disturbing. […]
Source: The Local Merkel also underscored the need to “establish coherent cooperation” in development policy and military support in Mali, her first port of call. “The military cannot alone bring security and peace,” she said, addressing a news conference with Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita. “It is important that Africa does not […]
Source: USA Today By Mary Bowerman , USA TODAY Network During the presidential debate Sunday, Donald Trump encouraged Muslims to report suspicious behavior when they see it happening. Trump made the comments when asked […]
Source:ctvnews.ca MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Hundreds of refugees from Syria were able to experience religious freedom for the first time in years as they gathered at a conference of 25,000 Ahmadiyya Muslims in Mississauga, Ont., this weekend. Wissam Alburaki, 41, brought his wife and three children to Canada as refugees last month, […]
Source: Politico By BURGESS EVERETT Idaho GOP Sen. Mike Crapo isn’t the type to make intraparty waves — so his decision to un-endorse Donald Trump cemented the Mormon insurrection against […]
Source: Time (STOCKHOLM)—British-born Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom of Finland won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their contributions to contract theory, shedding light on how contracts help people deal with conflicting interests. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said their theories “are valuable to the understanding of […]
Source: BBC Indian police are investigating the parents of a 13-year-old girl who died last week after undertaking a religious fast for 68 days. Police in southern Hyderabad city told […]
Source: BBC German police say a Syrian man arrested after a two-day manhunt probably had links to so-called Islamic State (IS). Jaber al-Bakr, who arrived in Germany as a refugee, […]