September 29, 2016 Said Alam Khan PESHAWAR – The UNHCR has formally inaugurated its second Voluntary Repatriation Centre (VRC) at Azakhel in Nowshera district on Wednesday to facilitate safe and dignified return of Afghan refugees. The opening of new centre would enable UNHCR to facilitate return of up to […]
y Reuters /Iraq Filed on September 28, 2016 (Reuters) The pace of daily burials rose to 150-200. The rate was 80-120 a day previously The world’s largest cemetery, in Iraq’s holy city of Najaf, is expanding at double its usual rate as they bury their dead from the war against […]
Donald Trump says the Fed is playing politics. But as Christine Romans explains, the Central Bank was designed specifically to be independent from the branches of government.
Critics argues laws are anti-constitutional and unfairly target Muslims in Italy. By Ludovica Iaccino September 29, 2016 12:37 BST , Updated 6 hr ago The Italian region of Liguria has passed a controversial set of regulations that restrict the freedom to construct new religious buildings in its territory. The laws do not specifically limit the […]
City Council offers support to Muslim community Ken Mann September 28, 2016 07:44 pm, http://www.64toronto.com Hamilton’s mayor says an “attack against any one of us is an attack against us all”. Fred Eisenberger’s motion of solidarity with the city’s Muslim community has been approved unanimously by City Council. The move […]
Source: BBC Samsung has confirmed it is in talks with US consumer watchdogs after a lawsuit against the firm over “exploding” washing machines. The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) warned […]
Source: BBC Russia is moving towards banning “baby boxes” – the hatches introduced in many countries where desperate mothers can safely abandon an unwanted infant. But there has been sharp […]
Source: BBC “Part of the beauty of me is that I’m very rich,” Donald Trump once said, but according to Forbes magazine he’s much less rich than a year ago. […]
Source: BBC At least one person has been killed and dozens injured, some of them critically, after a commuter train crashed into a railway station in the US state of […]
Source: Time BY Alexandra Sifferlin A new report look at the “revolving door” between the FDA and drug companies People who work at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as […]
Source: BBC By Jane Wakefield Technology reporter The world’s biggest technology companies are joining forces to consider the future of artificial intelligence. Amazon, Google’s DeepMind, Facebook, IBM and Microsoft will […]
Source: BBC By James Gallagher Health and science reporter, BBC News website A 10th of children have a “monkey-like” immune system that stops them developing Aids, a study suggests. The […]
Source: BBC India’s army says it has carried out “surgical strikes” against suspected militants along the de-facto border with Pakistan in Kashmir. The operation was aimed at preventing attacks being […]
Source: Huffington Post BY Ellen Wulfhorst NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – New York City kicked off a social media advertising campaign on Monday to combat negative perceptions of Muslims and counteract increasing instances of threats and violence, officials said. Showing an array of photographs of Muslim men and women, […]
Source: CNN By Daniella Diaz, CNN Washington (CNN)President Barack Obama has taken a lot of criticism from political opponents over his rhetoric when it comes to terrorism. But on Wednesday […]
Source: Naya Zamana or New Age By Prof. Kamran Siddiqui, Western University Recently, a Canadian Newspaper Globe and Mail covered a story of Muslim families in a Toronto neighborhood demanding […]
by DAVID SWANSON My remarks are related to the problem of media as a factor in the war system but not focused primarily on that. I have experienced first hand as a journalist and as an author how the corporate news media hews to a set of well-delineated lines in […]
Reuters International SEP 29, 2016 – Indian army’s director general of military operations Lt General Ranbir Singh speaks during a media briefing in New Delhi, India, September 29, 2016. REUTERS/Stringer (reuters_tickers) By Sanjeev Miglani and Asad Hashim NEW DELHI/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – India said on Thursday it had conducted “surgical strikes” […]
AGENCIES | Published — Thursday 29 September 2016 NO TO WAR: Pakistani activists condemn the rising tensions between Pakistan and India during a protest in Lahore on Wednesday. (AP) NEW DELHI: A key South Asian summit was postponed Wednesday after India and three other countries pulled out following a […]
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said earlier this week that his nation may speed the construction of new hydropower plants along three rivers that flow into Pakistan – a move that would certainly be harmful for Pakistan. By Amanda Hoover, Staff SEPTEMBER 27, 2016 Save for later Danish Ismail/Reuters View […]