Video: Security forces working to free hostages, with a reported 63 evacuated so far French gendarmes tend to a wounded man in the surrounding of the hotel Splendide and the café Cappuccino durinImage Credit: AFP Vehicles on fire outside Splendid Hotel in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.Image Credit: REUTERS Published: 08:54 January […]
Kerala-born young entrepreneur Mustafa is expanding his company by bringing Indian cuisine to the Middle East P.C. Mustafa.Image Credit: Courtesy: Mustafa Masala Dosa, Indian FoodImage Credit: Supplied ( 1 of 2 ) ‹› Published: 19:22 January 15, 2016 By Archisman DindaCorrespondent Kolkata: It is a proverbial rags to riches story. […]
Schroeder: Some states back terrorists ‘directly or indirectly’ By M.A. Saki and Negar Asadi TEHRAN – Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has said that some countries support the terrorist groups “directly or indirectly”. Speaking in an exclusive interview with the Tehran Times in the German embassy in Tehran on Tuesday, […]
Iranian-made Fateh 110 (Conqueror) (L) and Persian Gulf (R) missiles are seen next to a portrait of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at a war exhibition held by Iran’s revolutionary guard on September 23, 2011. (Reuters file photo) ARAB NEWS Published — Friday 15 January 2016 TANOUMA: Iran is […]
By AP – Jan 15,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Israeli soldiers stand around near the scene where a Palestinian was shot dead in the West Bank village of Aseera Ashamaliya near Nablus, on Thursday (Reuters photo) OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israelis troops on Thursday killed two Palestinians who attacked soldiers with knives […]
Jan 15,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMI G. KHOURI Many analysts this week have marked the five years since the fall of former Tunisian president Zine Al Abidine Ben Ali, the first of several Arab dictators who were toppled from office by a wave of spontaneous street demonstrations across Arab […]
Source: Yahoo News The world breathed a sigh of relief on Jan. 14, 2016, as a two-year Ebola epidemic that killed 11,000 and triggered a global health alert was declared […]
Jan 14,2016 – JORDAN TIMES His Majesty King Abdullah speaks to CNN’s Wolf Blitzer in Washington this week (Photo courtesy of Royal Court) Following is the full text of His Majesty King Abdullah’s interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, which was broadcast late on Wednesday. Question: As we speak, 10 American […]
By JT – Jan 14,2016 – JORDAN TIMES His Majesty King Abdullah is interviewed by CNN’s Wolf Blitzer in Washington DC on Wednesday (Photo courtesy of Royal Court) AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah has said that war against the khawarej (the outlaws of Islam) is a global struggle that […]
Source: Al Jazeera Toronto, Canada – A small, hungry crowd gathers at First Unitarian Congregation of Toronto, laying out a festive potluck feast. The folding tables overflow with samosas and […]
Source: Al Jazeera Akre, Iraq – For Hanan, who’s more familiar with conflict than anyone her age should ever be, it’s the chance to create beauty that helps the most. […]
Source: Al Jazeera The world should be worried about an open conflict between Iran and Saudi Arabia, a former adviser to the Saudi Arabian royal family has told Al Jazeera. […]
Source: Gulf News SAN FRANCISCO: Former US president George W. Bush may no longer be able to change the course of history — but it has not stopped others trying […]
Source: Gulf News JAKARTA: Army trucks thundered through Indonesia’s capital Friday as authorities boosted security at possible terror targets and probed the suspected Daesh terror cell blamed for Jakarta’s deadly […]
Source: Independent Turkey claims to have killed nearly 200 Isis fighters in a series of retaliatory attacks after the deadly suicide bombing in Istanbul. While there was no immediate claim of […]
Source: BBC In 1979, a secret memo from the tobacco industry was revealed to the public. Called the Smoking and Health Proposal, and written a decade earlier by the Brown […]
Source: The New York Times LONDON — Global markets sank sharply on Friday, as crude dipped below$30 a barrel on concerns about China’s health and a potential flood of new oil […]
Source: BBC Two months after the Paris attacks, Belgium is in the midst of an anguished debate about Islamist radicalisation. There’s anger in Molenbeek – the Brussels district that was […]
Source: The Wall Street Journal BEIJING— General Electric Co. agreed to sell its appliance unit for $5.4 billion to Chinese manufacturer Haier Group, which is looking to expand its products […]
Epigraph: O mankind, We have created you from a male and a female; and We have made you into tribes and sub-tribes that you may recognize one another. Indeed, the […]