It’s World Penguin Day, and penguins are facing extinction
April 25 is World Penguin Day. Around the globe, penguins are at risk of extinction due to overfishing and man-made changes to their breeding grounds. See pictures in CNN
Oil-reliant Saudi Arabia agrees on economic reform plan
Source: Aljazeera Saudi Arabia’s cabinet has agreed on a broad-based economic reform plan, known as Vision 2030, revealing how the oil-reliant state plans to diversify its economy over the next 14 years. Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the deputy crown prince, said on Monday that the country was building up the […]
Germany’s BDS movement and the paradox of anti-Semitism
Source: ALjazeera BY Yermi Brenner Berlin, Germany – When Sophia Deeg, a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, was protesting on the streets of Berlin in support of the Palestinian cause, one passer-by spat in her face. Others shouted,”How can you do this?” and accused her of being […]
Hindu festival of colour kicks off in Pakistan
Source: Aljazeera Hindus across Pakistan celebrated the religious festival of colours on Thursday that is now officially marked in the Muslim-majority country as a public holiday. Holi, which is celebrated with the onset of spring and is widely recognised for the throwing and applying of coloured powders on friends and […]
Beans And Rice For Passover? A Divisive Question Gets The Rabbis’ OK
Source: NPR By Maria Godoy As a Latina who married into a Jewish family, I’ve long lobbied my in-laws to include beans and rice on the Passover menu. The holiday […]
New York Times: Inshallah Is Good for Everyone
Source: The New York Times By Wajahat Ali, who is the author of the play “The Domestic Crusaders” and creative director of Affinis Labs, a hub for social entrepreneurship and innovation […]
China’s Xi warns against religious infiltration from abroad
Source: Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping says that China must be on guard against nefarious religious influences from abroad. His comments over the weekend follow a tightening of religious space that has seen bans on the wearing of veils and beards in the predominantly Muslim region […]
Leading Israeli Rabbis: Time for Messiah to Come
Monday, April 25, 2016 Topics: Bible Just a day before the start of Passover last week, two of Israel’s most prominent rabbis got together to discuss the delayed coming of the Messiah. Rabbi Moishe Sternbuch is head of the Rabbinical Court and a leader of one of Israel’s largest and […]
How a Nobel prize-winner thinks
Source: BBC Get an insight into the mind of leading scientist Andre Geim, in this interview covering the beauty of complexity, what makes humans unique, and more. Nobel prize-winner Andre Geim at the University of Manchester is known for creating one of the most promising new materials of the 21st […]
If cryonics suddenly worked, we’d need to face the fallout
Source: BBC By Rachel Nuwer 25 April 2016 Right now, in three facilities in the US and Russia, there are around 300 people teetering on the cusp of oblivion. They […]
Women roll infants in roses to keep them fresh and healthy
April 25, 2016 Women in different parts of Damghan county, northern Semnan province, roll their infants below one year of age in pink roses, believing that it will keep them fresh and healthy. They perform a ritual called Gol Ghaltan (literally meaning rolling in flowers) in April-May when roses bloom […]
The Muslim Council of Britain is failing Ahmadis like Asad Shah
Source: The Guardian By Tahir Nasser These are difficult times in the UK for Ahmadi Muslims as some seek to demonise us – and the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) […]
U.S. volunteers seek adventure fighting Islamic State alongside Kurds
MAKHMOUR, IRAQ | BY STEPHEN KALIN Towering over his Kurdish partner at a checkpoint in northern Iraq, U.S. volunteer John Cole cuts an unusual figure on the road to the newest front in the war against Islamic State. Seven feet (2.1 meters) tall and holding his assault rifle upside down, […]
Encryption hindering efforts to stop Islamic State, intelligence director says
New, commercially available encryption software ‘had and is having major, profound effects on our ability’ to collect intelligence, ‘particularly against terrorists,’ James Clapper told reporters at a Monitor-hosted breakfast. By Anna Mulrine, Staff writer APRIL 25, 2016 Save for later Michael Bonfigli /The Christian Science Monitor View Caption WASHINGTON — […]
Saudi Arabia, 9/11, and the secret papers that could ignite a diplomatic war
The Independent Kim Sengupta Twenty-eight secret pages of a report locked away in a room in the Capitol in Washington lie in the centre of a crisis between America and Saudi Arabia which threatens to have severe and widespread repercussions. The US Congress is considering legislation which would enable the […]
Swiss solar plane crosses Pacific into California
Photo: Josh Edelson/AFP Published: 25 Apr 2016 12:33 GMT+02:00 Solar Impulse 2, the Swiss-based plane attempting to be the first aircraft to circumnavigate the globe on solar power, has landed in California after crossing the Pacific from Hawaii. Swiss pilot Bertrand Piccard completed the 62-hour leg of the journey on […]
Obama, UN envoy voice alarm at ‘fraying’ Syria truce
Syria has been rocked by fighting in recent weeks, particularly around the city of Aleppo. Photo: AFP Obama, UN envoy voice alarm at ‘fraying’ Syria truce Published: 24 Apr 2016 08:57 GMT+02:00 Syria’s fragile ceasefire is in grave peril, US President Barack Obama and the UN’s special envoy warned, as […]
IN THE SHADOWS : Fewer clandestine immigrants in Switzerland
APR 25, 2016 – 14:24 Many of the clandestine immigrants from Europe work in seasonal agricultural jobs (Keystone) According to a report released by the State Secretariat for Migration on Monday, the number of clandestine immigrants residing in Switzerland is estimated to have decreased over the last decade. The authorities […]
The migration superpowers
Apr 24,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – MARK LEONARD We have entered the age of migration. If all the people who live outside the country of their birth united to form their own — a republic of the rootless — it would be the fifth-largest country in the world, with a […]
Vaisakhi celebrations in Toronto 2016
Thousands take to downtown streets for annual festivities CBC News Posted: Apr 24, 2016 11:00 AM ET Last Updated: Apr 24, 2016 4:34 PM ET Thousands took to the streets this afternoon as the Khalsa Day parade moved through downtown Toronto, commemorating the Sikh new year. More than 85,000 people were expected […]