Source: Time For Presidents’ Day, put your knowledge of American history to the test With all eyes on the people running to replace President Barack Obama in the White House (and the annual holiday celebrating our Presidents around the corner), now’s as good a time as any to test your […]
Source: Time Clinton has strong support from black voters in the state Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are leading their respective primary rivals in South Carolina by wide margins, according to a new poll. The billionaire businessman is currently the top choice among likely Republican primary voters in the state, […]
Source: The Guardian Blood and organ donation is a Christian duty and congregations should be encouraged to act, a motion to a three-day general assembly of the Church of England […]
Source: Independent By Mariam Hakim Monday 15 February 2016 17:12 BST There are references to sex slavery in the Quran – but when you read them in context, the meaning […]
Published on: Feb 14 2016 | by Billy Solomon Protests over the proposed return of “Baby Asha” to Nauru, the fate of 267 asylum seekers also facing removal, and Australia’s offshore processing regime in general, continued across the country on Saturday. The 12-month-old, Darwin-born daughter of Nepalese asylum seekers was […]
. View photo Presidential Council meeting headed by Libyan businessman Fayez al-Sarraj (C) is held in the capital Tripoli on February 4, 2016 (AFP Photo/) Skhirat (Morocco) (AFP) – Libya’s UN-backed council announced the formation of a revised national unity government on Sunday, with the internationally-recognised parliament to vote on […]
Source: Salon If the vague, yet oft-touted, religiosity of presidential wannabes remains a factor in elections these days, there may be a good historical explanation for why that is, beyond […]
Source: Independent It’s not only massive oil companies Shell and BP that have been forced to cut jobs because of low oil prices. Now even Isis fighters are feeling the […]
Source: Daily Mail Aiman Mazyek, the chairman of the Central Council of German Muslims, said that immediate changes need to be made to the asylum system to protect children and […]
Source: CNN Yunnan, China (CNN)If there’s a downside to visiting Yunnan, it’s that one trip simply isn’t going to be enough. China’s southwestern province is its most ethnically diverse. It’s […]
Source: BBC Ehud Olmert has begun a 19-month jail sentence, becoming the first former Israeli prime minister to go to prison. Olmert was handed a six-year sentence in 2014 after […]
Source: BBC Hundreds of letters and photographs that tell the story of Pope John Paul II’s close relationship with a married woman, which lasted more than 30 years, have been […]
Thousands of pamphlets and leaflets were distributed in many languages by the Ahmadiyya members from the three main wings of the community, MajlisAusarullah (Ahmadi elders), LajnaImaillah (Ahmadi ladies), and Khuddamul […]
By NATALIYA VASILYEVA, ASSOCIATED PRESS UROZHAYNE, Crimea — Feb 15, 2016 Elnara Asanova lives alone with her four small children because her husband, an ethnic Tatar, is in jail. Last April, when she was seven months pregnant, police grabbed him from the streets of their village because he had taken […]
Following the death of Lord Eric Avebury on Sunday the 14th of February 2016, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Washington’s Birthday is a United States federal holiday celebrated on the third Monday of February, meaning it […]
By swissinfo.ch and agencies FEB 12, 2016 – 10:52 Asylum seekers outside a welcome centre for migrants in canton Vaud on February 11 (Keystone) An initiative to deport criminal foreigners will not result in more asylum seekers being sent home – the current law already authorises their expulsion for serious […]
Plans to turn a vacant church in a Chicago suburb into a mosque have been the target of anonymous flyers. Ray Hanania | 12 Feb 2016 In a Chicago suburb, a Muslim society wants to turn a vacant church into a mosque [Ray Hania/Al Jazeera] Proposals to convert an abandoned […]
By AFP – Feb 14,2016 – JORDAN TIMES OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Construction started on 1,800 units for Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank last year, 265 of them in wildcat outposts, settlements watchdog Peace Now said Sunday in its annual report. The overall number of starts was down […]
By AFP – Feb 14,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Turkish forces’ armoured vehicles patrol at the southeastern town of Nusaybin, Turkey, near the border with Syria, where Turkish security forces are battling militants linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), on Sunday, a day after Turkish media reports said a […]