This plant just made a mistake
Source: BBC By Yao-Hua Law 11 October 2016 Grubs gnaw roots, maggots munch fruits and caterpillars chew leaves. In textbook food chains, animals eat plants, not the other way round. […]
Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan Bury the Hatchet in an Istanbul Meeting
Source: Time By Jared Malsin/Istanbul The leaders are on different sides in Syria’s civil war but share an interest in getting past the 2015 shoot-down crisis Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan […]
What to Know About Donald Trump’s Unaired Apprentice Tapes
Source: Time By Melissa Chan Reality show creator Mark Burnett said Monday that he cannot release any unaired recordings of Donald Trump from the Republican presidential candidate’s long-running show The Apprentice as attention rises on what other private tapes of the businessman might reveal. A former producer of the NBC reality […]
How to Wake Up Happy
Source: Motto By Stacey Griffith Ever wonder how that person in your life that always seems positive and motivated in the mornings does it? Do you think he or she […]
Let’s Talk About All That Anti-Muslim Garbage In Your Newsfeeds
Source: The Huffington Post By Christopher Mathias National Reporter, The Huffington Post As Donald Trump and other public figures have ratcheted up their anti-Muslim political speech this election cycle, you’ve probably […]
Oklahoma governor to revise ‘Oilfield Prayer Day’ decree
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A proclamation by Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin inviting Christians to pray for the oil and natural gas industry will be amended to be more inclusive of […]
Allies Saudi Arabia, Egypt in rare public spat over Syria
By AP – Oct 10,2016 – JORDAN TIMES In this March 28, 2015 file photo provided by Egypt’s state news agency MENA, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi (right) talks with Saudi King Salman after the king arrived in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt (AP photo) CAIRO — Close allies […]
Russia, Turkey sign pipeline accord after crisis
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 […]
After failed coup, what sort of Turkey does Erdogan want?
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, […]
Managing a multipolar Europe
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 […]
Why did President Erdogan restart the battle with the Kurdish PKK?
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 […]
Fact check: Donald Trump made 33 false claims at second debate
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 […]
Bashir Ahmad Rafiq, the former Imam of the London Mosque passed away
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 […]
Seth Meyers Rips Into Donald Trump: ‘The Pervert on the Bus’
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 […]
Air strike on funeral may galvanize anti-Saudi forces in Yemen
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 […]
What’s God Got to Do With It?
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 […]
Sikh group calls for hate-crime charges in East Bay attack
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 […]
Heart of darkness: Shia resistance and revival in Pakistan
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, […]
Why so many Americans oppose immigration
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. […]