The same old enemies are clanking around the black mountains of Karabagh: Russian power, Turkish expansionism and Armenian nationalism Robert Fisk @indyvoices The weariness with which the media reported the latest battle for Nagorno-Karabagh was all too evident during al-Jazeera’s first news reports. Blaming Stalin for the Armenian-Azerbaijan war, the […]
A neighbour asked Mulla Nasrudin to stand by him in a case of disputed possession of some grain. ‘Did you see the transaction?’ the judge asked Nasrudin. ‘Yes, I distinctly saw the sacks of barley change hands.’ ‘But this case is concerned with sacks of WHEAT, not barley!’ That is […]
Source: RNS By Aysha Khan (RNS) The Muslim Council of Britain is rejecting the minority Ahmadiyya sect, less than two weeks after an Ahmadi shopkeeper was stabbed to death in Scotland. “Muslims […]
Posted by Madeeha Bakhsh On April 09, 2016 For the very time ever, in the history of the country, three Christian women have been recruited in the Tribal police. These three Christian women, who have been short- listed from 15 Christian women, who had sent in applications for the vacancy. […]
RADICALISATION Minister vaunts Swiss model to halt extremism By Simon Bradley, Geneva APR 8, 2016 – 14:22 Burkhalter and Ban see eye to eye on the issue of how to prevent violent extremism (Keystone) Switzerland’s federal structure and urban planning can help prevent the creation of ghettos and thus close […]
Source: CBS News BEIRUT— The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has released most of the 300 cement workers it abducted near Damascus after questioning them to find out who were Muslims and killing four who were members of the minority Druze sect, a Syrian opposition monitoring group […]
Source: BBC By Jennifer Keishin Armstrong Two light-haired, deadly serious anchors sit behind a news desk, delivering the latest on the race for the US presidential nominations in Finnish, with […]
Source: BBC The US has warned its citizens of “credible threats” to tourist areas in Turkey, particularly in Istanbul and the southern resort city of Antalya. Both the Islamic State […]
Source: BBC Wearing the hijab is a legal requirement for women in Iran. But a controversial Facebook campaign is calling on female tourists visiting the country to post pictures […]
Source: BBC By David Robson Soon after Suzanne O’Sullivan had left medical school in Dublin, she met a patient named Yvonne, whose mysterious illness appeared to bear little relation to […]
Source: BBC By James Gallagher Health editor, BBC News website Scientists have made a significant leap towards mass producing platelets – the part of the blood that forms clots. The […]
By Simon Bradley, Geneva APR 8, 2016 – Young activists set up tents outside the UN in Geneva last month to highlight the cost-of-living problems (@UNPAIDisUNSEEN) The plight of unpaid interns hit the headlines last year amid uproar over a United Nations intern living in a tent in Geneva. Seven […]
Politics April 9, 2016 TEHRAN – Professor Farhang Jahanpour, a former senior research fellow at Harvard University, says, “One school of thought that may come close to explaining most of the dominant forms of politics in the Middle East is Machiavellianism.” “While Machiavelli’s ‘The Prince’ was supposed to be a […]
Source. The Guardian Tributes left at a memorial for Asad Shah, who was killed in what police are treating as a ‘religiously prejudiced’ attack. Photograph: John Linton/PA Libby Brooks Some of Samia Sultan’s neighbours don’t greet her any more, and sometimes it’s hard for her to understand why. Sultan, a […]
As the British royal couple arrive in India on Sunday, they’ll attend a grand ball where cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar and Bollywood actors, including Shah Rukh Khan are among the guests invited. Share on Facebook VIEW 2 PHOTOS zoom TOBY MELVILLE / AP Britain’s Prince William, right and Kate, the […]
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The bridge, which will be named after King Salman, aims to boost trade between the two countries A route of the proposed King Salman Bridge linking Saudi Arabia and Egypt, […]
Nasruddin had a buffalo whose horns were very wide apart. He had often thought that if he could mount between them, it would be just like sitting on a throne. One day the animal sat down near him and he simply had to sit between the horns. He could not […]
Source: Washington Post By Max Bearak Last month, after being offended by a tweet, Tanweer Ahmed traveled 200 miles in an Uber car from Bradford, in England, to Glasgow, in Scotland. The seemingly innocuous, […]