Soruce: Al Jazeerah Ex-serviceman who built communications infrastructure for US drone programme in Afghanistan speaks out against it. Norma Costello | 13 Apr 2016 07:39 GMT A US Air Force pilot […]
Apr 17,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL Pope Francis’ brief meeting with US Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders Saturday at the Vatican may have been short in time but was long in symbolism and meaning. Sanders was at the Vatican to attend a conference at the Pontifical Academy of Social Justice, […]
Researcher Shiraz Maher wrote he does not ‘regard Ahmadis as Muslims’ Came days after man admitted killing Asad Shah for ‘disrespecting’ Islam Glasgow shopkeeper Mr Shah was part of the the Ahmadiyya community Maher has apologised for remarks which are being investigated by King’s College London By JULIAN ROBINSON FOR […]
Huff Post: by Taylor Pittman — According to a new study, men are more likely to be creepy than women Good news, ladies. A new study has confirmed what you’ve probably thought all along: some men can be pretty creepy. For a study titled “On the nature of creepiness,” Knox […]
If the semi-autonomous government goes bankrupt, the war against the caliphate could go belly-up. Iraqi Kurdistan’s fight against ISIS has for many Kurds been an existential battle central to their survival and that of their autonomous region in Iraq. However, with ISIS prevented from embarking upon Kurdistan’s major towns and […]
FINANCIAL TIMES: Inside Isis Inc: The journey of a barrel of oil Isis controls most of Syria’s oil fields and crude is the militant group’s biggest single source of revenue. Here we follow the progress of a barrel of oil from extraction to end user to see how the […]
Source: Pew Research Center More countries restrict women’s ability to wear religious symbols or attire than require women to dress a certain way In many countries around the world, women’s […]
A group of youths took eggs to a Turkish bath where Nasrudin was expected. When he came into the steam-room where they were sitting, they said: ‘Let us imagine that we are fowls, and see whether we can lay eggs. The one who fails shall pay the bath fee for […]
The Cambridge student had spotted that trade unionism is the greatest threat to dictatorship Robert Fisk @indyvoices Saturday 16 April 2016 We’ve all grown so used to the “Muslim terror” […]
BY ALAN COOPERMAN According to Miss Manners, polite people do not bring up religion in social conversations. Of course, if Americans stayed away from allthe topics the etiquette columnist deems taboo in polite company – including politics, money, sex, illness and what people are wearing – a lot of dinners […]
Source: The Guardian By Dave Hill Dave Hill has been writing for the Guardian since 1984 and its award-winning London commentator since 2008 We’re at that seductive stage in many election […]
Source: BBC By James Gallagher Health editor, BBC News website Doctors have expressed “huge concern” that super-gonorrhoea has spread widely across England and to gay men. The new superbug prompted […]
Source: BBC By Amanda Ruggeri Once a centre of power and one of the holiest places in Britain, today Bardsey Island has only four year-round residents – and no electric […]
Source: BBC By Maria Atanasov Self-confidence is good, but arrogance could be your downfall. Here’s how to deal with people who are just too full of themselves. Feeling brash and […]
Source: Huffington Post By Ariel Edwards-Levy Staff Reporter and Polling Director, The Huffington Post No other 2016 candidate loves citing polls as much as Donald Trump, but Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders might […]
Source: Business Insider Produced by Delano Samuels Scientific research has proven that some vegetarians can produce omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids, because of gene mutation that happened over centuries. Researchers reported that people with the gene mutation are from a lineage of ancestors whose diet consisted of mostly plants. Watch […]
Source: Mail Online Italy’s coastguard said Tuesday it had rescued some 4,000 migrants in the past two days, adding to fears of a fresh push to reach Europe via that […]
Source: CNBC By Javier E. David Big multinational companies that shelter overseas profit from federal taxation cost the U.S. economy more than $100 billion a year by withholding more than […]
Source: The Guardian By Spencer Ackerman As Barack Obama prepares to visit Saudi Arabia, the Saudi royal family has taken custody of nine longtime Guantánamo Bay detainees, bringing Obama closer to […]
Source: CNS News By Lauretta Brown (CNSNews.com) – A new study released Tuesday found that Pakistan’s public school textbooks negatively portray the country’s religious minorities, including Hindus, Christians and Ahmadis, as “untrustworthy, […]