The problem has four syllables: Debaltseve. German Chancellor Angela Merkel can now pronounce it without difficulties, as can French President François Hollande. Debaltseve proved to be one of the thorniest […]
Manama: A solidarity walk will be held in Doha on Sunday for the three Muslim students shot dead in the US last week. “In response to the terrorist act committed against three American Muslim students in Chapel Hill in North Carolina in the United States last week, Qatar Foundation calls […]
The proportion of refugees with a B or F permit dependent on social welfare decreased in 2013 compared to the year before. However, the overall number receiving welfare payments increased […]
Marian Reid explores the country’s desert towns, where 3,000 years of generations have adapted to the harsh environment to create a beautiful and timeless world. By Marian Reid In the […]
Danish police have said three officers were shot and wounded at blasphemy debate in Copenhagen where the French ambassador was speaking. Two gunmen are said to be still at large. Reports say up to 40 shots were fired outside the venue in the Danish capital. Controversial Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, […]
One person is confirmed to have been killed after shots were fired at a meeting held in a Copenhagen cafe to discuss free speech. Three police officers are understood to have been injured in the attack on Krudttoenden cafe in the north of the city on Saturday afternoon. The event had […]
Six Banned Middle Eastern Books You Should Read September 23, 2014, By Alexia Underwood, From the column ‘The VICE Reader’ Photo via Wikimedia Since the dawn of the written word, governments and leaders across the world have worked both openly and subversively to keep the views and opinions of writers […]
Source: Huffington Post CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Thousands of people gathered at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Wednesday to pay tribute to the three young Muslims […]
Source: BBC A former US soldier who allegedly formed an international band of snipers as mercenaries has confessed to a murder plot in New York. Joseph Hunter, nicknamed Rambo after the hero of the 1980s action films, pleaded guilty to conspiring to kill a federal agent and an informant. The […]
The first in-depth study of racist and xenophobic attitudes in Switzerland has revealed that one in four people has negative opinions of foreigners in general, one in five is hostile to Muslims and one in ten is anti-Semitic. In a series of face-to-face interviews conducted between 2010 and 2014, gfs.bern […]
TULKAREM: Israel freed on Friday a 14-year-old Palestinian schoolgirl, whose jailing six weeks ago for planning to attack Israelis became a focus for anger over the arrest of children in […]
BY ROBERT FISK, THE INDEPENDENT Mohamed Fahmy, Al-Jazeera’s Canadian-Egyptian television bureau chief freed on bail by an Egyptian judge on Thursday, last night angrily attacked Canada for mistakes which he said have left him trapped in Egypt and alleged “epic negligence” on the part of his television employer. Speaking emotionally […]
More than 20 years ago, Walid Jumblatt, the Lebanese Druze leader, admitted to a Swedish diplomat that he hid a Soviet spy – a Swedish intelligence officer – near his […]
BY ROBERT FISK, THE INDEPENDENT Vladimir Putin arrived in Egypt last night for talks with his Egyptian opposite number on new roubles-only trade deals, the sale of billions of dollars’ […]
BULLDOZING MECCA FOR LUXURY CONDOS BY NICOLE PANOC Most of Mecca’s historic sites have been razed, replaced by new hotels, luxury malls, and high-rises. Here, a glance at the “merchandizing […]
ET: PARIS: In its annual evaluation, the watchdog group Reporters Without Borders ranked Pakistan 159 out of 180 countries where media freedom suffered a “drastic decline” in 2014. World media freedom suffered due to the insurgence of extremist groups such as the Islamic State and Boko Haram, the evaluation found. “There […]
Huff Post: The rise of Islamist fundamentalism in Britain and worldwide, and attempts to impose elements of Sharia law in the UK and many other nations, has reinvigorated support for […]
europarl.europa.eu: The European Parliament, – having regard to its previous resolutions of 11 March 2014 on Saudi Arabia, its relations with the EU and its role in the Middle East and […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor’s note: This post was made in 2015. It was promoting a post in KashifMD.com. The website has since gone down. Therefore, I am using it share […]
Afghan Driver in crash that killed Bob Simon reportedly had ‘dead’ left arm and 9 license suspensions Published February 13, 2015 FoxNews.com, Facebook177 Twitter152 livefyre965 Email Print BobSimon1.jpg In this April 7, 2014 file photo, Bob Simon of “60 Minutes” attends the New York premiere of “The Railway Man” in […]