Source: Time By Chris Wilson Take this quiz to find out In the land of “two Americas,” it turns out Republicans and Democratsdon’t even like the same foods. Using exclusive data provided by Grubhub, an online food delivery service that partners with restaurants all over the country, we examined the […]
Source: Time By Simon Shuster The motivation of the man who killed 9 people in Munich is still up for debate Hubertus Andrae, the Munich chief of police, shook his […]
Source. TOI BERLIN: A 21-year-old Syrian refugee killed a woman with a machete and injured two other people on Sunday before being arrested in the southern German city of Reutlingen, a police spokesman said. The asylum-seeking Syrian man had been involved in previous incidents causing injuries+ to other people, he […]
Source. BBC The UK’s vote to leave the European Union heightens risks for the world economy, finance chiefs have said at the end of the G20 summit in China. The outcome of last month’s referendum “adds to the uncertainty” for the global economy, the group of the world’s 20 largest […]
Source. BBC Russia will not receive a blanket ban from Rio 2016 following the country’s doping scandal. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will leave it up to individual sports’ governing bodies to decide if Russian competitors are clean and should be allowed to take part. The decision follows a report […]
Source. Republican White House nominee Donald Trump has said that France, Germany and other nations hit by recent terror attacks had only themselves to blame ”because they allowed people to come into their territory.” More.
Source. The Daily Beast MOSCOW — That the Russian Federal Security Service, the famous FSB, is out of control is not a surprise to many people here. But the damage it’s doing to Russia’s standing in the world — and to itself — is really quite extraordinary. The most recent […]
Source. The Daily Beast On the first day of the Republican National Convention congressman Steve King suggested that white people had been responsible for humanity’s greatest achievements including, among other things, the spread of Christianity. It came about during an appearance on MSNBC when a panelist commented on the lack […]
Source. The Local “All those who criticise Erdogan are immediately considered supporters of Gülen or the PKK [the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party],” said a leader of the opposition Greens party, […]
Source. The Local The 18-year-old gunman, a German-Iranian named David Ali Sonboly, also used the internet to plan and carry out his crime, in which he killed nine people and wounded 16 others. Nevertheless, the social networks provided a valuable source of information and solidarity for the city’s frightened population […]
Source. ET More than a month has passed since the Orlando shooting revealed an exploitable defect inAmerican gun laws. What it also exposed, was a structural bias against a peaceful community that has existed for a long time. On June 12, 2016, Omar Mateen – later identified as a young Muslim […]
Source.ET NOUAKCHOTT: Arab foreign ministers vowed on Saturday to “defeat terrorism”, as they gathered for a regional summit just over a week after a jihadist-claimed truck attack in the French Riviera left 84 people dead. In a statement, they also called for a “definitive solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as Arab […]
Source. ET BERLIN: The head of the Protestant Church in Germany has called for Islam to be taught in state schools across the country as a way to make young Muslims impervious to the ‘temptation of fundamentalists’. Bishop Heinrich Bedford-Strohm told the Heilbronner Stimmenewspaper that teaching Islam in schools nationwide would […]
Source: Religion News Service By Fredrick Nzwili NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) Muslims in Nigeria are celebrating a court ruling that lifted a ban on girls in public school wearing the hijab […]
Source: The Guardian By Richard Luscombe in Miami ‘We thought it’d be great to invite the community at large to visit us,’ the Islamic Center of Boca Raton’s president said. Photograph: […]
Source: The Guardian Tom Phillips in Beijing The Global Times, a Communist party-run tabloid, said Xiaoshan, a district in south-east Hangzhou where the G20 meeting will be held, had outlawed […]
Source: BBC By Eric Weiner Although many countries are saddled with stereotypes, in Switzerland’s case they’re dead on. The alpine nation really is highly efficient. And meticulously punctual. Clean, too. […]
Source: BBC The 18-year-old gunman who killed nine people in Munich was obsessed with mass shootings but had no known links to the Islamic State group, German police say. Written […]
Source. The Daily Beast At least 80 people were killed and another 231 wounded Saturday after an explosion tore through a protest in Kabul by minority Shiite Hazaras, Reuters reported. “Opportunist terrorists” took advantage of the protest to kill and wound “a number of our countrymen, including security and defense […]
Epigraph: Every human life is sacred and precious; killing one is like triggering a genocide. (Al Quran 5:32/33) Source. The Local Europe reacted in shock to the third attack on […]