Reuters International DEC 22, 2015 – SWISSINFO.CH By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights told the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday that a Saudi-led coalition’s military campaign in Yemen appeared to be responsible for a “disproportionate amount” of attacks on civilian areas. Speaking […]
Source: BBC An Islamist insurgency has kept about one million children out of school in Nigeria and three neighbouring states, the UN children’s agency has said. More than 2,000 schools […]
Source: BBC Iraqi government forces are advancing into the centre of the city of Ramadi, which is controlled by jihadist group Islamic State (IS), officials say. Security sources told the […]
Could ‘resurrection plants’ be the future of food? Source: BBC When she was a child, Jill Farrant, a molecular physiologist based at the University of Cape Town, came across an […]
Source: Yahoo News Clark Moffatt, 35, says he dreamed of a career in criminal justice when he graduated from San Diego’s Thomas Jefferson School of Law in 2006. But since […]
Source: The Guardian More than a million people have now reached Europe through irregular means in 2015, the International Organisation for Migration has announced, in what constitutes the continent’s biggest […]
Source: CNN (CNN) We can blame the Internet for plenty: the proliferation of porn, our obsession with cat videos, the alleged rise of teen trends like – brace yourself – […]
The Muslim Times’ Chief Editor’s comment: We all pray to and believe in God the Father in the Christian tradition and so did Jesus. Source: CNN (CNN) – Pope Francis surprised […]
Source: BBC Prominent Chinese human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang has been released from detention after receiving a suspended jail sentence. Mr Pu was found guilty by a Beijing court earlier […]
Source: Tribune Mumtaz Qadri appealed to the courts recently to spare his life after he was sentenced to death for taking the life of Punjab governor, Salmaan Taseer in 2011. […]
Source: The Globe and Mail For writer Raihan Abir and his pregnant wife, Samia Hossain, the morning commute by motorcycle meant weaving through the clogged roads and crawling traffic of […]
theguardian: by Joe Williams, Tshepo Mokoena, Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, Homa Khaleeli and Nosheen Iqbal Chi Onwurah Chi Onwurah. Photograph: James Drew Turner The MP for Newcastle upon Tyne Central joined the shadow cabinet following Jeremy Corbyn’s victory: she had nominated him for the Labour leadership, but you wouldn’t call her […]
Epigraph: “Christians and Muslims are brothers and sisters, and we must act as such.” Pope Francis Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Most […]
Salon: Has World War III begun? Some world leaders and journalists seem to think so. For example, Jordan’s King Abdullah recently said at a news conference that “we are facing a Third World War against humanity,” and that we must “act fast to tackle the response to interconnected threats.” Similarly, […]
Foreign Policy: Since the Dec. 16, 2014, school massacre in Peshawar, Pakistan, the government in Islamabad has taken robust steps to crack down on internal militancy. As Sameer Lalwani recently explained, these steps go well beyond merely targeting anti-state terror outfits such as the Pakistani Taliban. With terrorist violence down […]
BBC: A group of Kenyan Muslims travelling on a bus ambushed by Islamist gunmen protected Christian passengers by refusing to be split into groups, according to eyewitnesses. They told the militants “to kill them together or leave them alone”, a local governor told Kenyan media. At least two people were […]
Huff post: This weekend myself and sixty other young British Muslims helped the victims of the recent floods in Cumbria. We travelled from all over the UK, each volunteer adorned with a jumper that read ‘Muslims for Humanity’ and hi-vis vests draped with our ‘Love for all, hatred for none’ […]
Source: Sputnik International 21.05.2015; it is an old news Athens plans to hold parliament voting on recognition of the State of Palestine because the new Greek government does not want […]
By AFP – Dec 21,2015 – JORDAN TIMES A soldier loyal to Yemen’s government uses binoculars as he takes position near Al Jadaan area, which was taken by the pro-government army from Houthi rebels, in the country’s central province of Marib, on Monday (Reuters photo) ADEN — A ceasefire in […]
By AFP – Dec 21,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – A girl runs past damaged buildings in the rebel-controlled area of Maaret Al Numan town in Idlib province, on Monday (Reuters photo) BEIRUT — After years of waning influence, Russia and Iran made a dramatic comeback in the Middle East in […]