allafrica.com: China’s economy faces a slowdown in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to between 2.4% and 5% next year, well below the current 7% IMF estimate, unless the government takes more decisive policy action – warns the Overseas Development Institute, the UK’s leading think-tank on development issues. The report Developing Countries and […]
Gunfire and air strikes have been reported in Libya’s second city, Benghazi, amid an offensive to drive out Islamist militias. The offensive is said to involve forces loyal to ex-general Khalifa Haftar, who is also reportedly backed by the army. READ MORE…
Metro UK: The National Health Service of UK is under ‘intolerable strain’ as almost 10 million admissions in England last year were related to alcohol. Treatment costs the taxpayer £2.8billion, which is why the government is being urged to tackle the ‘public health crisis’. Jackie Ballard, of Alcohol Concern, which […]
Source: MSN News Courtesy: Dr. Hameed A. Mirza, Canada Malala Yousafzai may have won the Nobel Peace Prize, but she remains an object of hate for many Pakistanis who view her […]
Epigraph: And if Allah did not repel some men by means of others, there would surely have been pulled down cloisters and churches and synagogues and mosques, wherein the name […]
From Twitter: An Ahmadi Latif Alam Butt Sahib has been shot dead near his home coming back from his shop in Kamra (Attock) at 7.30 pm this evening. 15th October 2014
Telegraph: European Banking Authority says use of role-based allowances constitutes breach of EU rules, and orders banks to change pay policies . European regulators have launched a clampdown on banks using “role-based allowances” to sidestep an EU cap on bonuses, saying that dozens of banks have breached the cap. The […]
Telegraph: Public Health England extends ebola screening to two more terminals at Heathrow airport for passengers returning to Britain from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. Screening for ebola at Heathrow airport has been extended to terminals two and five, Public Health England said. Travellers arriving at terminal one from Liberia, […]
Source: 3news.co.nz IS – ISIS or ISIL – has been described as being so extreme, even Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda – which carried out the September 11 attacks – has rejected […]
Source: huffingtonpost.com Dear fellow Muslims, You’ve likely heard the old saying, “You can’t wake up someone pretending to be asleep.” This thoughtful proverb crossed my mind as I read new atheist […]
Source: pressking.com This week marks the 32nd national annual youth conference of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community’s 7 to 40 year age group with a series of competitively played classic Australian sports […]
Source: huffingtonpost.com/kashif-n-chaudhry I was born in Pakistan, completed my medical school there and then moved to the United States for higher medical training. I also moved to escape the horrid persecution my Islamic […]
http://www.cnn.com/video/api/embed.html#/video/health/2014/10/15/newday-cohen-second-healthcare-worker-texas-ebola.cnn (CNN) — A second health care worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital who cared for Thomas Eric Duncan has tested positive for Ebola, health officials said Wednesday — casting […]
266. Commandment to spy not [49:13] O ye who believe! avoid most of suspicions; for suspicion in some cases is a sin. And spy not, nor back-bite one another. Would any of you like to eat the flesh of his brother who is dead? Certainly you would loathe it. And […]
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Listen to author’s interview in NPR Thomas Jefferson had a vast personal library reflecting his enormous curiosity about the world. Among his volumes: a Quran purchased in 1765 that informed […]
Courtesy of Hanif Koya, California Author: Denise Spellberg Introduction In this original and illuminating book, Denise A. Spellberg reveals a little-known but crucial dimension of the story of American religious freedom—a […]
Kids Behind Bars: Israel’s Arbitrary Arrests of Palestinian Minors By Julia Amalia Heyer Jonas Opperskalski / DER SPIEGEL Last year, approximately one thousand Palestinian children were arrested by Israeli forces, […]
Switzerland plans to allocate an average of CHF30 million ($31.5 million) a year towards humanitarian aid and development programmes in the Occupied Palestinian Territory for the 2014-17 period. This support […]
By Shireen T. Hunter (source: LobeLog) Throughout the recent handwringing about how the US and other Western countries failed to foresee the emergence of ISIS, one factor has been totally ignored, either intentionally or inadvertently: the impact of Washington’s hostility towards Iran, especially its persistent tendency to treat any anti-Iranian […]