Source: Time By Feliz Solomon The two countries have strengthened ties since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau assumed office last year A fresh border agreement between Canada and China would speed up […]
Source: Time BY Frank Luntz Frank Luntz is a news analyst and contributor to CBS News and the Fox News Channel Apologize and attack Mr. Trump: I’ll be blunt. Never before […]
Report by Abdus Salam M, Zonal Qaid MKA, South Karnataka, India [Pictures posted below] By the grace of Almighty Allah and by the support of the prayers of Hudhur Anwar (Ayyadallahu Ta’la) and with the approval of Sadr Saheb Majlis Khuddamul Ahmadiyya Bharat, the 12th Annual Ijtema of Majlis Khuddamul […]
Source: Time By Phuong Le & Gillian Flaccus / AP (BURLINGTON, Wash.) — The 20-year-old suspect in the deadly Washington state mall shooting said nothing and appeared “zombie-like” when he was arrested by authorities nearly 24 hours into an intense manhunt, authorities said. Island County Sheriff’s Lt. Mike Hawley said he […]
Source: Time By Maya Rhodan @m_rhodan & Katie Reilly @katiemacreilly President Barack Obama praised the coexistence of “protest and love of country” on Saturday during the opening of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, an occasion marked by reflections on the current racial tensions across the country. “This is […]
Source: Time By Hannah Beech / Shanghai Infertility stalks up to 15% of Chinese couples China is looking for quality sperm. Ever since the nation loosened its one-child family-planning policy […]
Source: The Guardian The opening of the National African American History and Culture Museum, part of the Smithsonian, was heralded on Saturday by the tolling of bells across the US […]
Source: Arab News: The Prime Minister spoke at length about secularism, balanced and inclusive growth and need for electoral reforms. At the meet, he also announced that India will ratify the Paris climate deal on Oct. 2, the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. Modi made the announcement at a meeting […]
Source: Arab News: RIYADH: Crown Prince Mohammed bin Naif, minister of interior, will travel to Turkey and meet with top Turkish officials including President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Binali Yildirim on Thursday for the first time since the attempted coup in Turkey in July. The crown prince will […]
Source: Asia Times. One of the most colorful figures of the Afghan jihad, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, recently signed a peace deal with Kabul which is also seen as a back-to-back US-Pakistan deal. Hekmatyar, who lives in Pakistan with his family, is known for his anti-Indian views. As India openly supports Baluchi nationalists in […]
Source: Asia Times. A gunman shot dead Jordanian writer Nahed Hattar on Sunday outside the court where he was to stand trial on charges of contempt of religion after sharing on social media a caricature seen as insulting Islam, state news agency Petra said. Hattar, a Christian and an anti-Islamist activist […]
Source: BBC This is it – the final stretch of the US presidential race. After a campaign that started back in the innocent days of 2015, we’re now just six […]
Source: BBC The hilltop medieval village of Riace on Italy’s south coast was almost a ghost town 15 years ago. Houses were derelict and the local school was near to closing. The village was in danger of becoming extinct as residents disappeared to northern Italy, and abroad, for jobs during […]
Source: Thecitizen.in : It’s a powerful film, ‘Tiryaaq’, which literally means an antidote. It’s a narrative that is meant to reach out to regular people and the patriarchal powers of polity, clergy and family with the intention of not just unravelling the insidious functioning of caste patriarchy and religious fundamentalism […]
Source: Herald Immediately after the horrific Quetta terror attack on August 8, 2016, Dr Danish, a television anchorperson, tweeted pictures of Asma Jahangir with a caption in Urdu which translates as: “When lawyers were being killed in Quetta, the so-called leader of the lawyers was enjoying herself in the northern […]
WSJ: Saudis sent telegrams to the king on Sunday pressing the monarchy to end male guardianship rules for women, the culmination of an unprecedented months long effort to abolish the system. By Sunday evening, activists estimated hundreds of people had sent a copy of the same message to the royal […]
Posted Sep 21, 2016 A Muslim teen has issued a passionate appeal to the organization that oversees the creation of emojis, proposing a number of symbols that represent her faith, including a man wearing a keffiyeh (headscarf) and a woman wearing a hijab. By Billy Hallowell, Deseret News A […]
Mosques are part of our suburban landscape and have a crucial role to play in overcoming fears about Islam. The Conversation By Sam Bowker, Charles Sturt University PHOTO: A ‘humble outback structure’: a former Afghan cameleer’s mosque in Bourke NSW.(Flickr: Iain Davidson) I presented a slide of an Afghan cameleer’s […]
An Iraqi government soldier celebrates in front an Islamic State group flag covered in graffiti in the town of Sharqat, around 80 km (50 miles) south of Mosul, Iraq, on Friday. | AFP-JIJI WORLD Iraq oil fires could jeopardize mission to retake Mosul from Islamic State forces AP SEP 24, […]
Christians, Jews in Turkey Growing More Fearful of Islamic Extremism By Uzay Bulut and Kasim Cindemir Posted 2016-09-25 (VOA) — Threatened by Islamic extremism, Christian and Jewish groups in Turkey are growing more fearful amid increasing terror attacks and the government’s state of emergency following a failed coup attempt, representatives […]