Source: USA Today By Gregory Korte WASHINGTON — Public health officials said Monday they’ve learned a lot more about Zika since the White House asked Congress for $1.9 billion to combat the mosquito-borne […]
Source: The Guardian By Patrick Kingsley Fewer than 0.1% of Syrians in Turkey currently stand to gain the right to work under much-vaunted Turkish labour laws, undermining EU claims that the […]
Source: BBC By Vivien Cumming If climate change continues, we can expect a large rise in sea level this century, and it will only get worse in the centuries to […]
Source: BBC US Secretary of State John Kerry has spoken of the personal impact that his historic visit to the Hiroshima memorial in Japan has had on him. He is the first US secretary of state to ever visit Hiroshima, where around 140,000 were killed when the US dropped an […]
Source: BBC US President Barack Obama has said failing to prepare for the aftermath of the ousting of Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi was the worst mistake of his presidency. […]
Source: Time By David Johnson Fifty years after TIME posed the question Is God Dead? on the cover of the magazine, Americans’ belief in a supreme deity appears to be declining. The article, which focused on a group of Christian theologians grappling with the idea of a world without an active […]
Source: Time By Rafiq Maqbool (MUMBAI, India) — The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge paid their respects at one of the sites of the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks Sunday as they began a weeklong visit to India, their first royal tour in two years. Prince William and his wife, the former […]
Source: The Telegraph A PEACE conference in Bradford heard today that the religious hate killing of a shopkeeper in Glasgow must be a wake up call for people to stand […]
Source. TOI AMRITSAR: Finally, the arduous journey of 13 years of a Pakistani bride of making rounds to ‘babu’s offices’ seeking Indian citizenship came to a pleasant end after she received a much sought after communique from Department of Home Affairs and Justice directing Gurdaspur administration to issue her a […]
Source: International Business Times By Tom Porter Leaflets calling for members of the Ahmadi Muslim community to be killed have allegedly been distributed in universities, mosques and shopping centres in London. Followers of the Muslim Ahmadi sect, which preaches a message of peace and tolerance, have long been subject to […]
Source: Foreign Policy By Robert Zaretsky, who is a professor of history at the University of Houston’s Honors College. A militant form of laïcité has taken hold in France, backed by […]
Washington Post: Officially, Sweden doesn’t keep a record of the languages its inhabitants speak. That fact was infuriating to Mikael Parkvall, a linguist at Stockholm University, so he decided to find out for himself. What is the most popular non-Swedish language in Sweden? After poring over various statistics and studies, Parkvall came to […]
Apr 10,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah has issued a Royal Benefaction (makruma) to provide for the restoration of Jesus’ Tomb in the Church of […]
Apr 10,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Aseel Ghaben Besides of the joy travel brings to one’s heart, each destination is also an eye-opener. When getting out of one’s environment, one starts wondering whether he/she would still have the same values, beliefs and norms. Moreover, one would also learn tolerance and acceptance. […]
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Source. BBC News. Leaflets calling for the killing of a sect of Muslims have been found in a south London mosque. Piles of the flyers, which say Ahmadis should face death if they refuse to convert to mainstream Islam, were displayed in Stockwell Green mosque. The leaflet was authored by […]
Source: BBC By David Robson How do you tell a patient that their paralysis, blindness, or seizures are “all in the mind”? As the doctor Suzanne O’Sullivan explains to BBC Future, our thoughts and feelings can move the body in mysterious ways that are just as frightening as any physical […]
Source: The Clarion Project By Codi Robertson Westerners tend to regard wearing a hijab as a form of oppression, as French women’s rights minister says, but are things really as […]
Source: The Guardian By Libby Brooks Glasgow’s Ahmadiyya community have called on all Muslim leaders and imams in Britain to publicly condemn Asad Shah’s killer, who defended the fatal stabbing […]
Source: The Guardian By Saad Hammadi in Dhaka, Aisha Ganiin London and agencies Nazimuddin Samad, whose family live in London, was hacked to death by at least four assailants after […]