Sep 08,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – JONATHAN POWER The French ambassador to the US from 1902 to 1924, Jean-Jules Jusserand, observed that distant powers could not easily threaten the US because “on the north, she has a weak neighbour; on the south, another weak neighbour; on the east fish and […]
Sep 22,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – JONATHAN POWER Russia recently announced that it has decided to go where angels fear to tread: into the whirlpool of negotiations between Palestine and Israel. Long a preserve of the Americans and the French, the attempt to bring peace between the two and to […]
Sep 22,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – MICHAEL JANSEN US President Barack Obama should give back the Nobel Peace Prize he was awarded a few months after taking office in 2009. Instead of making peace, he has waged war in this region and the Indian subcontinent, and sold more arms to […]
Sep 22,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMI G. KHOURI Many dramatic, significant, even historic events have occurred in the world in the last few days, including barbaric wars, broken ceasefires, terrorism in several American and Middle Eastern cities, global summits on refugees and migrants, and other such scourges. So why […]
Any settlement in Syria will probably look more like the Russian version (with a weakened Assad) than the Western version (without him). This has nothing in common with the era of the Cold War; far more with the shifting sands of the Middle East today Mary Dejevsky @IndyVoices A […]
What, the Saudis must be asking themselves, has happened to the fawning leaders who would normally grovel to the Kingdom? Robert Fisk @indyvoices Iran boycotted the Hajj, the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, this year after rising tensions between the nations AP The Saudis step deeper into trouble almost by the […]
Source: The Guardian Pontiff says journalists must go the extra mile to seek the truth and ensure they don’t spread rumours which can ‘kill a person with your tongue’ Journalism […]
Guardian: The caretaker stares at the wrought iron door and its four ancient locks with a gleam in his eyes. Outside, the Moroccan sun shines down upon the ornate coloured tiles of Khizanat al-Qarawiyyin, located in the old medina of Fez. This, it is widely believed, is the oldest library […]
In youtube search daily show, Colbert, Seth Meyers and SNL to continue to laugh all the way to November 8th, the day of election in USA.
By Prof. Muhammad Sharif Khan Since 1963, when I started working in field of herpetology, I enjoyed support of my family. None except me, were lovers of frogs and lizards, especially my late wife Rashida Tasnim (Professor of Persian language), with neat and clean habits, tolerated the smell of formalin, […]
Source: The Local AfD candidate Kay Nerstheimer was elected on Sunday to Berlin’s state parliament, but quickly came under pressure over controversial posts he made on Facebook as well as his background as a former member of the far-right German Defence League. After labelling Syrian refugees “disgusting worms” last year, […]
Source: The Local According to the Washington Post’s database of fatal police shootings, 990 people were killed in 2015. In Germany, ten people were killed by police last year, according to a report on Thursday by publishing groupFunke Mediengruppe, citing figures from the German Police University. That means that while […]
ARAB NEWS | Published — Saturday 17 September 2016 The expansion of the holy mosques takes into account the expected surge in Muslim population worldwide by 2030. (AN photo by Ahmed Hashad) RIYADH: A government proposal to extend the Umrah season from the current eight months to 10 is […]
September 20, 2016 TEHRAN – Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei on Tuesday underscored the importance of unity across the Islamic world, calling on the Shiite Muslims to avoid making vituperative comments about the Sunni figures. The Supreme Leader made the remarks as he received thousands of people from all walks […]
September 21, 2016 TEHRAN – The Center for Scriptural Heritage Studies of Iran and Islam was inaugurated in the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg on Tuesday. The ceremony, which took place in the Green Hall of the institute, was attended by the […]
Source: Aljazeera BY Teo Kermeliotis A group of Ghanaian academics, students and artists is calling for the removal of a statue of Mahatma Gandhi from a university campus, saying that the […]
Source: Aljazeera Feelings of frustration, disgust and fear are mounting among US voters, a poll has found, as many Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump supporters say their presidential choice is […]
September 21, 2016 | by Rabwah Times | Iran has slammed the decision by United Nations to appoint Asma Jahangir as special rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran and called her out as a ‘Qadiani’, a derogatory term used for members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Sect. Pakistani Lawyer and Human […]
Source: The Guardian By Paul Karp A poll showing almost half of Australians surveyed want to ban Muslim immigration shows Australian leaders have not done enough to foster cohesion, the Labor […]
Source: The Guardian A senior Catholic church figure has admitted giving conflicting accounts of what he meant in a diary entry he made about paedophile priest John Farrell and child […]