Vatican delegation tours Kingdom’s Christian holy sites
AMMAN — A Vatican delegation is currently on a four-day visit to Jordan to become acquainted with the Kingdom’s tourist and historical sites. The delegation —hosted by Royal Jordanian (RJ), […]
Saudi Arabia: Massive Cabinet shake-up
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman announced a massive Cabinet reshuffle on Thursday, appointing Azzam Al-Dakhil, new education minister, Ahmed bin Aqeel Al-Khateeb new health minister, Adel Al-Toraifi, minister of culture and information and Abdul Lateef bin Abdul Malik Al-Asheikh new minister of municipal and rural affairs. King […]
Saudi Arabia: 65 husbands jailed for contempt of court
RIYADH: DINA FOUAD Published — Friday 30 January 2015 Courts in Riyadh have sentenced more than 65 men to prison terms ranging from 2 days to three months for their refusal to implement court rulings in favor of their former wives, the Ministry of Justice announced. The rulings made recently […]
Robert Fisk: Isis hostage crisis: The prisoner swap has only one purpose for the militants – recognition its Islamic State exists and that foreign nations acknowledge its power
The Jordanian pilot, the failed Iraqi suicide bomber and the Japanese journalist are all part of Isis’s frontier re-drawing in the Middle East – whether they realise it or not […]
Fox News: Your Apology Won’t Do
Source: The Huffington Post By Qasim Rashid, Lawyer, Speaker, Best-Selling Author of “EXTREMIST” One of history’s most deceptive, barbaric, and inhumane dictators once said, “Make the lie big, make it simple, keep […]
POLICYWATCH: A War Like No Other: Israel vs. Hezbollah in 2015
Jeffrey White January 29, 2015 Current expectations that the two sides can manage escalation may not hold true, and a new war would be more intense and destructive than in 2006. On January 27, Hezbollah killed two Israeli soldiers in retaliation for the January 18 airstrike against its operatives in […]
363. Commandment – And give not to the foolish your property which Allah has made for you a means of support; but feed them therewith and clothe them and speak to them words of kind advice.
363. Commandment – And give not to the foolish your property which Allah has made for you a means of support; but feed them therewith and clothe them and speak to them words of kind advice [4:6] And give not to the foolish your property which Allah has made for […]
U.S. jobless claims drop sharply to near 15-year low
(Reuters) – The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits tumbled last week to its lowest level in nearly 15 years, adding to bullish signals on the labor market. Though the decline probably exaggerates the jobs market’s strength given a holiday-shortened week, Thursday’s report suggested the economy was […]
London Museum’s ‘Dippy’ dinosaur makes way for blue whale
Source: BBC By Jonathan Amos, Science correspondent, BBC News The exchange will not happen overnight: the complex logistics involved mean it will be 2017 before the great cetacean is hanging from […]
Egyptian poet to face charges; REUTERS
Prominent Egyptian poet Fatima Naoot is pictured in Cairo in this file photo taken on September 24, 2008. REUTERS/Al Youm Al Saabi Newspaper Prominent Egyptian poet Fatima Naoot is pictured in Cairo in this file photo taken on September 24, 2008. CREDIT: REUTERS/AL YOUM AL SAABI NEWSPAPER RELATED NEWS Egypt […]
A 70-year-old message
Source:ET Zakopane… a picturesque little town at the foot of the Tatra Mountains in Poland and it is Christmas, 1990. An old mate and I used to escape the madness of Christmas in the UK in those days, and take ourselves off for a week somewhere cold, snowy and good […]
Governor Punjab Chaudhry Sarwar resigns after making anti-govt remarks
Source: ET Governor Punjab Chaudhry Sarwar resigned from his post on Thursday following a conversation with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif over statements the governor had made regarding the government’s foreign policy. Sources in the PM House told The Express Tribune the premier had principally decided to remove Sarwar owing to multiple reasons […]
Another Mullah admits Ahmadiyya too powerful?
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Kobani in ruins after Kurds drive out IS
AFP | Jan 28, 2015 | JORDAN TIMES KOBANI, Syria — Pulverised buildings, heavily armed fighters roaming otherwise deserted rubble-strewn streets: the ferocious battle for Kobani has left the Syrian […]
Israel: Skull discovery suggests location where humans first had …
Skull discovery suggests location where humans first had sex with Neanderthals Skull found in northern Israeli cave in western Galilee, thought to be female and 55,000 years old, connects interbreeding and move from Africa to Europe Human skull found western Galilee Views of the human skull, with missing jaw, found […]
National heritage: The house that Dr Abdus Salam called home
ET: LAHORE: Since 1981, a small 400-square foot house comprising two rooms in Mohalla Dawood Nagar in Jhang tehsil has been designated a ‘national monument’. This is the house where Pakistan’s first Nobel Laureate in Physics Dr Mohammad Abdus Salam was born in 1926. Today marks what would have been Dr […]
Fear of Islam not a major motivation for German ‘Islamisation’ protesters, study finds
Telegraph: Fear of Islam and concern over the “Islamisation” of Europe is not a major motivation for those taking part in a series of protests that have gripped Germany in […]
Switzerland: Religious Divide: Initiative launched against Fribourg Islamic Centre
The Fribourg branch of the conservative right Swiss People’s Party launched an initiative on Wednesday to close down the Centre for Islam and Society, which it suspects will become a […]
‘Illegal mosques, madressahs caused Rs1.1 billion loss’
Dawn: ISLAMABAD: The illegal construction of madressahs and mosques in Islamabad caused a loss of Rs1.1 billion to the public exchequer. This was disclosed in an audit report of financial affairs of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) for the fiscal year 2012-2013 during the meeting of Public Accounts Committee (PAC) […]
Robert Fisk: An old hand is at work in Yemen
Yemen is not Syria. But America’s skewed comprehension of the Middle East has now produced a remarkably similar scenario It’s all about the Saudis. No matter how complex the new Yemeni civil war may appear – nor how powerful the Houthi rebels have become in the capital of Sanaa – […]