Source: Associated Press SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — A religious rights organization has filed a complaint with federal authorities against Southwest Airlines for what the group says was racial and […]
Source: Philly.com By Michael Matza, Staff Writer Ez-Zohra Baidouri, 73, emigrated from Morocco in 1986, settled with her family in Northeast Philadelphia, and embraced U.S. citizenship 15 years ago. On […]
Source: The Washington Post By Sarah Pulliam Bailey Using just nine words from the Bible, Democratic vice-presidential candidate Tim Kaine condemned Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s comments that he wanted to […]
Source: Yahoo News Oslo (AFP) – Norway’s right-wing government on Wednesday announced plans to ban the full-face Islamic veil from classrooms and university lecture halls. Education Minister Torbjorn Roe Isaksen, […]
Epigraph: It is Allah Who created you in a state of weakness, and after weakness gave strength; then, after strength, caused weakness and old age. He creates what He pleases. […]
Column: Politics Seymour Hersh has risked much over his decades of journalism. He is a true journalist who has been attacked, slandered, and shunned by all sides simply because he seems to resist taking any side. When he reported on US atrocities in Vietnam, he was first attacked and denounced […]
By GPD on June 17, 2016 The Zionist intelligence Chief, Major General Herzi Halevy, said that the last three months have been the most difficult for ISIS since its inception.In […]
Source: CNN Former Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Guterres is set to become the next United Nations secretary-general, after the 15 Security Council members agreed to put his name forward to a formal vote. Guterres, who was head of the UN’s refugee agency for 10 years until 2015, emerged as the Security […]
Source: The Daily Beast At least 44 Afghan troops who were in the U.S. for military training have gone missing in the last two years, Pentagon officials said. About 2,200 Afghans have come to America to work with the military since 2007. A Pentagon official told Reuters that the number, […]
Source: The Daily Beast Poland has overwhelmingly rejected a proposal for an absolute ban on abortion in the country in a 352-58 vote. The measure would have banned abortion even in the case of rape and resulted in prison terms as a consequence for violating the law. A citizens’ initiative […]
Source: ET We — and I still volunteer in the aid and development sectorsperiodically — are the unarmed soldiers on the frontlines these days. Most of us make informed decisions about going into harm’s way. Polio vaccinators are more likely driven to the job by poverty rather than the humanitarian […]
Source: ET A powerful Iranian general has been quoted suggesting that Saudi Arabia’s deputy crown prince is so “impatient” he may kill his own father to claim the throne, Associated Press reports.His comments come as Saudi Arabia conducts naval drills in the strategic Strait of Hormuz. Unforgiving rhetoric has been common between the two countries since […]
A poll carried out by Forsa and published by Stern magazine on Wednesday showed that if federal elections were to be held on Sunday, 13 percent of Germans would vote for the AfD. That was a one percent loss since a Forsa poll carried out last week.“The refugee debate has taken […]
Source: The Local Petry gave a speech in Stuttgart on Monday for German Unity Day in which she predicted a “Darwinistic” conflict between Europe’s residing “transfer payment recipients” and immigrants from the “lumpenproletariat Afro-Arabian world,” the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) reported.Petry also condemned the notion that Germany is a diverse […]
Source:TQA Algeria’s Minister of Religious Affairs and Wakfs, Mohamed Aissa, says in coming days he’ll work hard to prosecute the members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community the Algerian Security Service have arrested last Friday for performing Friday prayers at a private villa. The arrests were made under the pretext of ‘public […]
Epigraph: They ask thee concerning wine and the game of hazard. Say: ‘In both there is great sin and also some advantages for men; but their sin is greater than […]
OCT. 4, 2016 Israeli security forces tend to an injured soldier next to the body of a slain Palestinian in the southern occupied West Bank on Oct. 16, 2015. (AFP/Hazem Bader, File) By: Chloe Benoist BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — In October 2015 began what has been in turn called a wave […]
JAEGER-LECOULTRE By Anand Chandrasekha OCT 4, 2016 Could the face that launched several Indian films also be the one painted on an iconic Swiss watch? (Nikhil Dhanrajgir) Sébastien Marcel is an unlikely judge of beauty queens, but his face recognition expertise could finally solve the identity of an Indian woman […]
Oct 05,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – MICHAEL JANSEN Damascus is an island of relative normality at the centre of a storm. While most of its suburbs have been cleared of insurgents by the army, there is still fighting in Al Hami, 8.5 kilometres from the capital, and a standoff at […]
Oct 05,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – DAOUD KUTTAB The American Noble Energy Company signed a 15-year agreement with the National Electric Power Company to ensure its supply with natural gas at the cost of $10 billion. The gas will be coming from the newly discovered huge gas wells in the […]