82 Killed After Saudi-led Coalition Airstrike Hits Yemen Funeral
Source: Time By Ahmed Al-Haj / AP (SANAA, Yemen) — A senior health official in Yemen says an airstrike by a Saudi-led coalition that targeted a funeral hall packed with mourners […]
Triple talaq not integral part of the religion: Centre in Supreme Court
Source: The Indian Express Written by Utkarsh Anand | New Delhi | Updated: October 8, 2016 8:32 am The Centre said these practices “cannot be regarded as essential or integral […]
How Sweden became an exporter of jihad
Source: BBC By Yalda Hakim BBC News. Gothenburg Sweden is a peaceful democratic state that has long been a safe haven for those fleeing conflict. Yet many young people whose families took refuge there are now turning their back on the country. More than 300 people have gone to fight […]
Russia deploys nuclear-capable missiles in Kaliningrad
Source: BBC Russia has deployed nuclear-capable Iskander missiles in its Kaliningrad region, bordering Poland and Lithuania. Linas Linkevicius, foreign minister of Nato-member Lithuania, said that the aim of the move […]
Hillary Clinton’s Wall St speeches published by Wikileaks
Source: BBC Transcripts of private speeches by US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton have been released by the whistle-blowing site Wikileaks. In one of the extracts, Mrs Clinton told bankers […]
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, […]