How Your Birth Order Affects Your Odds of Success
Source: Motto By Jeffrey Kluger You’ve probably never been asked if you’re an only child in a job interview—but whether you have siblings, how many you have and where you […]
Obama More Popular Than Presidential Candidates, Poll Shows
Source: Time By Katie Reilly The President is viewed more favorably than any of the presidential candidates A new poll shows that President Barack Obama’s approval rating has increased and he […]
Sowing the seeds of Syria’s future
Apr 09,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – GORDON BROWN We are at risk of producing a lost generation of young Syrians. Nearly six years of civil war have displaced them from their homes, denied them the chance to plan for their future and stolen their hopes. And in hopelessness, as we […]
Refreshingly fair
Apr 09,2016 -JORDAN TIMES – EDITORIAL Of all US presidential candidates, be they Democrat or Republican, ironically, the Jewish senator from Vermont seems to have the most balanced position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Bernie Sanders has made no secret of his belief that Israelis and Palestinians can and should coexist […]
Greece condemns Macedonia’s use of tear gas, rubber bullets on migrants
Reuters International APR 10, 2016 – 17:37 By Stoyan Nenov IDOMENI, Greece (Reuters) – Dozens of migrants and refugees were wounded on Sunday when Macedonian police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at crowds on the Greek side of the border, aid workers said, an act condemned by Greece as […]
Muslims: The Ahmadi Versus non-Ahmadi struggle in UK
Asad Shah Murder Sparks Sectarian Row As Muslim Council Of Britain Rejects Ahmadi Source: Huffington Post By Steven Hopkins The murder of a Glasgow shopkeeper has reignited a sectarian argument […]
Sectarian Leaflets Call For Death Of Moderate Muslims At London Universities
Source.Bereitbart.com A Muslim hate group has distributed leaflets at leading London universities and on public streets calling for moderate Ahmadiyyahs to be killed, bringing Pakistani sectarian hate on to the streets of the UK capital. The revelation follows the brutal murder Asad Shah, an Ahmadiyya Muslim from Glasgow, Scotland who had […]
Echoes of Stalinism abound in the very modern Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict
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 […]
Let it be wheat
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 […]
British Muslim group criticized for rejecting Ahmadi Muslim sect
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 […]
Peshawar: First time ever, three Christian women recruited in tribal police
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. […]
Minister vaunts Swiss model to halt extremism
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 […]
ISIS decides fate of 300 abducted workers after questioning their religion
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 […]
How comics around the world view Donald Trump
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 […]
Turkey warning: US advises of threats to Istanbul and Antalya
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 […]
Tourists join bareheaded protest against Iranian clothing laws
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 […]
The very real pain of ‘imaginary’ illnesses
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 […]
Huge leap to mass produced platelets
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 […]
WORKING FOR FREE: Is the situation picking up for unpaid UN interns?
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 […]