Source: BBC Malaysia’s top prosecutor has cleared Prime Minister Najib Razak of corruption in a long-running financial scandal that has gripped the nation. The attorney-general’s office said the $681m (£479m) […]
Source: BBC “In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” That much everybody knows for sure. Earlier transatlantic travellers may have beaten him to it, of course: the Vikings almost certainly […]
Source: ET VATICAN CITY: A homeless woman gave birth on a cardboard box just outside St Peter’s Square early on Wednesday in near-freezing temperatures and later received an offer of one year’s hospitality in a Vatican institution. Police said the 35-year-old Romanian woman had gone into labour at about 2.30am in an […]
Algerian pilgrim Ahmed Al-Qairawani, right. YUSUF MOHAMMED Published — Monday 25 January 2016 MADINAH: Performing tawaf (circumambulation) around the Kaaba was “a dream come true” for Algerian pilgrim Ahmed Al-Qairawani, who is in the Kingdom for the first time. “It cannot be described in words. I cried once I entered […]
PETER APPS Published — Tuesday 26 January 2016 For years, skeptics warned of multiple threats to the European project. The strains of the single currency, they said, would rip it apart. Excessive regulation was another concern, along with lack of democratic accountability. Some felt Europe’s different peoples were just too […]
Source: The Daily Beast. Three years after her divorce from Russia’s president, the former first lady has shacked up with a new guy—in the Putins’ old apartment. Vladimir Putin has been replaced—in the heart of his ex-wife. The former Lyudmila Putina has reportedly re-married to a man 21 years her […]
Source: The Daily Beast. Vladmir Putin’s reported assassination program is growing ever more blatant, but the KGB has been running devilish plots to kill dissidents in Britain for decades. LONDON — Britain has formally warned the United States and its global network of allies to be on the lookout for […]
Jan 25,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – JAWAD ANANI Amman has changed so much since my childhood, about 60 years ago. How happy my siblings and I were when the snowflakes fell down like a gymnast’s ribbon, dancing and twisting their way to their destination. We would huddle, cramming our cheeks […]
By Jordan Times – Jan 25,2016 – AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah on Monday urged the creation of a climate that is conducive to breathing life into the moribund […]
Posted by: Oneindia Staff Writer Updated: Tuesday, January 26, 2016, 12:29 [IST] New Delhi, Jan 26: The historic Rajpath is all decked up to showcase India’s military might and other achievements on the occasion of 67th Republic Day celebrations on Tuesday. Here are the live updates of 67th Republic Day […]
By Jordan Times – Jan 22,2016 – AMMAN — Although Jordan appreciates the international support it has received to cover the cost of hosting refugees, the needs far outpace and outweigh the assistance provided, according to Her Majesty Queen Rania. In an interview with British Channel 4 News, conducted by […]
By THE EDITORIAL BOARDJAN. 25, 2016 The government of Myanmar’s departing president, Thein Sein, oversaw the systematic persecution of the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority — a human rights debacle that […]
By THE EDITORIAL BOARDJAN. 26, 2016 The Pentagon is ramping up intelligence-gathering in Libya as the Obama administration draws up plans to open a third front in the war against the Islamic State. This significant escalation is being planned without a meaningful debate in Congress about the merits and risks […]
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD JAN. 22, 2016 Given the brittle relations between the Obama administration and Israel, even truth-telling can ignite a firestorm. That happened this week when Daniel Shapiro, Washington’s ambassador in Tel Aviv, delivered a speech that drew unfair rebukes from Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his right-wing […]
Epigraph: “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of […]
Epigraph: “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of New Zealand has chosen Khilafat (Caliphate) as the theme for their upcoming Annual Convention to promote the true Islamic Caliphate as a divine guidance for peace […]
Huff Post: David Cameron saying that “Muslim women must learn English” makes a catchy headline. Something that made everyone stop in their tracks and listen to what he had to say, no matter what side of the argument you are on. But when you go into the depths of what […]
Review on Urdu book Salaam Abdus Salam (Tribute to Abdus Salam) 2015 Even though Dr Abdus Salam passed away 19 years ago in November 1996, he is still remembered the world over. In 2012 after the discovery of Higgs boson, and the contributions Dr. Salam had made towards this discovery, […]
Posted about 2 hours ago | 0 comment A tiny Indonesian province has banned a minority Islamic sect from conducting religious activities, a move activists say raises concerns over intolerance in the Muslim-majority nation. The move by Bangka-Belitung, made up of two main islands off South Sumatra, is the latest […]