Hurricane Matthew: Haiti south ‘90% destroyed’
Source: BBC Nearly 900 people are known to have been killed by Hurricane Matthew in Haiti, with aid officials saying up to 90% of some areas have been destroyed. Some […]
US election: Donald Trump says he will not quit over video
Source: BBC US presidential candidate Donald Trump has said he will not withdraw from the race in phone interviews with US media. Mr Trump has been under pressure after a tape of him making lewd sexual comments and bragging about groping and kissing women emerged on Friday. He told the […]
Jihadi bride who fled Syria uses life on probation as lesson
WORLD by LORI HINNANT, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Posted Oct 8, 2016 Laura Passoni talks during an interview with the Associated Press in an hotel in Brussels on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016. Passoni, a Belgian woman who joined Islamic State with her 4-year-old son and later escaped has written a book […]
Sky’s Sam Kiley reports from Iraqi Kurdistan
UK,Thursday 06 October 2016 Video:Plans to launch a final assault on Mosul, the biggest city held by the so-called Islamic State, risk being undermined by Iraq’s Kurds, who have told Sky News they intend to keep the land they have captured. SOURCE: http://news.sky.com/video/skys-sam-kiley-reports-from-iraqi-kurdistan-10606616
Iraqi Couple Saving Yazidi Girls from ISIS to Receive Human Rights First Award
New York City – Human Rights First will honor Iraqi human rights activists Khaleel Aldakhi and Ameena Saeed Hasan with its 2016 Human Rights First Award. The husband and wife activists are being recognized for their courageous work rescuing Yazidi women and girls enslaved by ISIS. The organization will present the […]
Defence ministers see emergence of Daesh-like entity in Southeast Asia
Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia to mount joint air patrols to guard against common threats Image Credit: AP U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, left, and Delfin N. Lorenzana, right, Republic of the Philippines, Secretary of National Defense pose for a group picture after the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) […]
FBI: Minnesota mall attacker newly interested in Islam
Source: Associated Press By AMY FORLITI ST. CLOUD, Minn. (AP) — The man who stabbed 10 people at a Minnesota mall had become interested in Islam in the last several […]
15 years on, the Afghan war still defies US timelines
October 7, 2016 View photos Afghans gather around an unexploded missile near the Aghna city of Jalalabad on October 14, 2001 (AFP Photo/) More Washington (AFP) – Fifteen years after the US invasion of Afghanistan, President Barack Obama and the American military have dug in for a long campaign that […]
Mormon videos spur question: Should aging LDS apostles be able to retire?
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune By PEGGY FLETCHER STACK The recently leaked videos of Mormon authorities discussing sometimes-thorny issues behind closed doors exposed no stunning secrets or unexpected statistics. But […]
Exclusive: Dozens of Afghan troops AWOL from military training in U.S.
Thu Oct 6, 2016 1 of 1Full Size By Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Forty-four Afghan troops visiting the United States for military training have gone missing in less than two years, presumably in an effort to live and work illegally in America, Pentagon officials said. Although the number of […]
Ahmadiyya Caliph criticizes ‘extremist mullahs’
The true teaching of Islam has been misinterpreted by clerics, says the leader of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community. His Holiness Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the Caliph of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at s gives a Friday sermon at the International Centre. (HINA ALAM /TORONTO STAR) by Hina Alam, Staff Reporter The […]
Experience Ottoman-style living in small Turkish towns
SENA ALKAN@senaalkan ISTANBUL Beypazarı Ottoman-style towns in Turkey are perfect for those who want to discover the old spirit of Turkey, small-town style Even in 2016, there are still small towns around Turkey where you can experience the lifestyle of the Ottomans, evident in both the architecture and slow-paced lifestyle […]
‘Al-Aqsa in Danger’: Muslim leaders call for unity to solve Israel-Palestine conflict
ANADOLU AGENCY ISTANBUL Gazans praying at Al-Aqsa mosque. (AFP Photo) More than 500 Muslim leaders and clerics from 30 countries met in Istanbul on Friday to warn that the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam’s third holiest site that is located in Jerusalem, is in danger. The religious and political leaders, representing at […]
World War Three will be ‘extremely lethal’: US Army bosses prediction for terrifying war with Russia or China
Mirror By Anthony Bond With tensions high over Syria and increasing attacks from terrorists, the threat of war is never far away. © Provided by MirrorAnd now, US military bosses have revealed how they think a war between the world’s most powerful countries would play out. They say the […]
No self respecting woman can vote for Trump, after he brags in 2005 video, he has license to grope women
Trump recorded having extremely lewd conversation about women in 2005 Source: Washington Post By David A. Fahrenthold October 8 at 12:44 AM Donald Trump bragged in vulgar terms about kissing, […]
‘We live in an information society, not a society of culture’
CHARLES DUTOIT AT 80 By Rodrigo Carrizo Couto, Morges CULTURE OCT 7, 2016 – 20:00 Charles Dutoit: “I am not interested in anyone dedicating a street in my name or erecting a statue in a square” (Reuters) Swiss conductor Charles Dutoit rarely gives interviews. But on the occasion of his 80th […]
Scale of sexual abuse in UK universities likened to Savile and Catholic scandals
theguardian: by Sally Weale and David Batty — Stories of more than 100 women shared with Guardian expose pattern of harassment which remains largely hidden Have you been affected by sexual harassment at university? Female academics, undergraduates and PhD students all contacted the Guardian with reports of abuse by predominantly […]
‘Racist’ Gandhi statue banished from Ghana university campus
theguardian: by Jason Burke — Accra academics win removal of Mahatma sculpture after petition denouncing Indian leader and saying African heroes ‘come first’ The Ghana university Gandhi statue, a focus for claims that the Indian leader was racist towards black South Africans. Photograph: Christian Thompson/AP A statue of Mahatma Gandhi […]
CALIPHATE IN THE LATTER DAYS PANEL: MUSLIMM NEWS
CASTRO VALLEY LIBRARY – Interfaith America here hosted Sunday August 28 hosted a panel discussion on ‘ CALIPHATE IN THE LATTER DAYS – an exploration of the reasons of the acts of ISIS in Iraq, Syria and beyond and the possible solutions. Top San Francisco Bay Area panelists Prof. Abdul […]
Polygamy – equal treatment ?
My (senior) wife came across the following story on ‘social media’ and could not refrain from reading it to me: ” Haji Ali had two wives. He tried his level best to treat them both equally. It so happened that by chance both of them died on the same day. […]