By AFP – May 12,2016 -JORDAN TIMES Palestinians stand atop a damaged building as they wait for their relatives to return to Gaza from Egypt through the Rafah border crossing, after it was opened by Egyptian authorities on Wednesday for two days for the first time in three months, […]
WEATHER, AMMAN Today, May 13, 2016 By Reuters – May 12,2016 -JORDAN TIMES ANKARA — Iranian Muslims will miss the annual Hajj (the greater Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca) in September, media reported on Thursday, as Tehran and Riyadh traded blame over a failure to agree organisational details. The […]
May 12,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Guy Verhofstadt Europe’s refugee crisis is far from solved, but there are signs that the agreement finalised by the European Union and Turkey on March 18 is reducing the flow of refugees and migrants from Turkey to Greece. According to Frontex, the European border-management agency, […]
May 12,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMI G. KHOURI We are into the season when you will be flooded with articles and analyses on the 100-year anniversary of the Sykes-Picot agreement that was signed on May 18, 1916. That agreement between Great Britain and France, with Russian acquiescence, defined how […]
May 12,2016 -JORDAN TIMES – George S. Hishmeh This time around, presidential candidates from both parties in the US seem to attach as much importance to foreign policy as to local. Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, the presumptive Democratic and Republican nominees respectively, have demonstrated their discredited positions on the […]
Cardinal Dominik Jaruslav Duka, the Archbishop of Prague, demeans Muslims and claims the Pope’s efforts are ‘just a gesture’ Robert Fisk @indyvoices 46 comments Being a Merseyide Anglican, my Dad […]
When you read this, you will never think of Thunderstorms the same way again. This should make you smile!!! A Child’s View of Thunderstorms A little girl walked to and from school daily. Though the weather that morning was questionable and clouds were forming, she made her daily trek to school. […]
Source: BBC BY Justin Rowlatt Can the sacred but toxic River Ganges be cleaned up? Justin Rowlatt travelled its length, from the Himalayas to the Bay of Bengal, to see […]
Source: BBC A deal to allow Turks visa-free travel within Europe will collapse if Turkey does not fulfil its commitments, the European Commission president has said. Jean-Claude Juncker said changes […]
Source: The New York Times By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR Five million years ago, a massive sea monster may have eviscerated sharks and whales using gigantic teeth like this. Murray Orr, […]
Source: Time By Alex Fitzpatrick Nearly three years ago, technology billionaire Elon Muskproposed a radical idea: Why not create a transportation system that involved putting people-filled pods in low-pressure tubes, then […]
Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad interviewed by Sweden’s Sveriges Television On 11 May 2016, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad was interviewed by Sveriges Television (Swedish TV) at the Mahmood Mosque in Malmo, Sweden. During the interview, His Holiness […]
Source: Time By Rana Foroohar TIME’s assistant managing editor in charge of economics and business. How Wall Street is choking our economy and how to fix it A couple of weeks […]
Source: Patheos by Qasim Rashid by Zahid Mian Did you hear about the Mexican who was arrested for saying “hasta la vista”? Apparently someone nearby thought he was an illegal […]
Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad makes remarks during interview with Skansa Dagbladet newspaper in Sweden On 11 May 2016, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad was interviewed by the Skansa Dagbladet newspaper at the Mahmood Mosque in Malmo, Sweden. […]
Source: Huffington Post Steven Hopkins News Reporter MI5 has raised the threat level to Great Britain from Northern Ireland-related terrorism from moderate to substantial, Home Secretary Theresa May has said. The Security Service increased the level from moderate to substantial – which is the third most serious category out of […]
Source: BBC Untouchability is worse than slavery, said Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar, one of India’s greatest statesmen and the undisputed leader of the country’s Dalits. Dalits (formerly known as untouchables) are […]
Source: Religion Dispatches BY JONATHAN SHEEHAN What do you know about theology and where did you learn it? Most of you will answer, “not very much,” and “at home” or […]
Source: The Express Tribune By Farooq Mahmood Sadiq Khan is now the mayor of London. There are countless reasons to celebrate this feat. On a personal level, it is indeed a […]
Source: Time President Obama will end his Presidency pretty much the same way he began it: with a call to the world to rid itself of nuclear arms—this time at Hiroshima, the site of the first atomic weapon used in war. Too bad he did so little to reach that […]