AFP | Feb 12, 2015 | Jordan Times UNITED NATIONS — Secretary General Ban Ki-moon appealed to the UN Security Council Thursday for action to halt Yemen’s slide towards anarchy, warning it was “collapsing before our eyes”. The UN chief was reporting to the 15-member council following his visit to […]
by Laila Azzeh | Feb 12, 2015 | Jordan Times A makeshift memorial is on display, Wednesday, at the University of North Carolina School of Dentistry in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in remembrance of Deah Barakat, Yusur and Razan Abu Salha, who were killed on Tuesday (AP photo) AMMAN — […]
Around 5,500 mourners pay tribute to Deah Barakat, Yusor Mohammed Abu-Salha and Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, gunned down in their apartment At least 3,000 people attended a candlelit vigil Nicky Woolf […]
Kurdish militia fighters took back control of the town from the jihadist group Islamic State (IS) on 26 January. Hundreds of Kurds died in the fighting and more than 1,000 IS fighters perished, activists say. An initial assessment of the satellite pictures by the UN’s Operational Satellite Applications Programme (Unosat) […]
Indonesia: Female Students Barred From Graduating If They Fail Virginity Test The Indonesian city of Jember is introducing compulsory virginity tests for high school girls Indonesia: Female Students Barred From Graduating If They Fail Virginity Test Ludovica Iaccino By Ludovica Iaccino February 10, 2015 The Indonesian […]
By Pallab Ghosh, Science correspondent, BBC News Continue reading the main story in BBC Related Stories Alien hunters: An array of hope Alien hunters: What if ET ever phones our home? […]
By Andrea Huncar, CBC News Posted: Feb 12, 2015 4:44 AM MT Last Updated: Feb 12, 2015 8:17 AM MT A man who moved from Ottawa to Fort McMurray less than a month ago was shot dead in his Alberta apartment on Monday, his family told CBC News. Mustafa Mattan, […]
11 FEBRUARY 2015 | ANALYSIS | BY ASSOC PROF RODGER SHANAHAN In this Lowy Institute Analysis Rodger Shanahan examines changes in Iranian foreign policy under President Rouhani. He argues that while the Iranian President has changed the tone of Iranian foreign policy, changing the substance will prove much more difficult. […]
Toronto Star: With the maple leaf flag celebrating its 50th anniversary this weekend, the Star visited Library and Archives Canada to take a peek at the flag submissions that didn’t […]
World Bulletin / News Desk Police say a dispute over a parking space spurred the murder Tuesday of three North Carolina college students, but the Muslim father of two of […]
RT: Russia’s Supreme Court has ruled to uphold the ban of Muslim headgear in schools introduced last fall by authorities in the Republic of Mordovia. Wednesday’s verdict by the Supreme […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community spread message of peace through the event titled ‘Muhammad, the messenger of peace’. Source: getwestlondon.co.uk A message of peace saw people from all religious walks of life attend […]
BY ROSS DOUTHAT, THE NEW YORK TIMES FEBRUARY 10, 2015 In my Sunday column on the controversy surrounding President Obama’s National Prayer Breakfast speech, I tried to explain what I saw as the problems with the president’s “high horse” references to Western Christian sins without letting the column get sucked […]
Source: USA Today Three Muslim students, who were honored by thousands in a candlelight vigil at Chapel Hill, N.C., will be buried Thursday in Raleigh as authorities try to determine […]
Source: NY Times: MINSK, Belarus — A renewed cease-fire and an overall agreement to end the war in Ukraine was announced here on Thursday by the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France after marathon overnight bargaining that nearly collapsed at the very end. The cease-fire is scheduled to begin […]
The Telegraph: by Padraig Reidy — Is slaughter made more or less awful if we more strictly categorise the perpetrator Deah Shaddy Barakat, his wife Yusor Mohammad and her sister Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha. Craig Hicks has been charged with their murder Stephen Hicks, the man charged with the murder of young […]
The New York Times — It is important to remember that the hangings, burnings and dismemberments of black American men, women and children that were relatively common in this country between the Civil War and World War II were often public events. They were sometimes advertised in newspapers and drew […]
Epigraph: They ask thee concerning wine and gambling. Say: ‘In both there is great sin and also some advantages for men; but their sin is greater than their advantage.’ (Al […]
More than 400 rabbis from Israel, Britain and around the world have called on Benjamin Netanyahu to stop the demolition of Palestinian homes. By IMEMC News | February 10, 2015 […]
by Michael Young, The Daily Star, Lebanon Summary Today, even Arab countries opposed to Assad have made the campaign against ISIS a priority, undermining the primacy of the struggle against a brutal Syrian regime. Terrorism is the new catchword and has fragmented those opposed to Assad. President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi has […]