Courtesy of Wasem Sayed, USA Written by Helena Gustavsson Translated from Swedish newspaper It’s been a year since the marathon bombing killed three people and injured hundreds. Boston’s residents have gathered […]
by Urs Geiser, swissinfo.ch April 15, 2014 – 16:24 The success of the mission by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe is measured by whether it is able to help de-escalate the situation in Ukraine, according to the Swiss ambassador to the OSCE, Thomas Greminger. In a syndicated interview with […]
Online videos show Syrian rebels using what appear to be U.S. anti-tank rockets, weapons experts say, the first significant American-built armaments in the country’s civil war. The rebel faction shown […]
STORY SUMMARY by Rami G. Khouri One of the most fascinating, if problematic, recent incidents relating to the extent of allowable free speech in the United States took place this week when Brandeis University withdrew an invitation to the Somali-Dutch-American anti-Islamic firebrand Ayaan Hirsi Ali to give a speech and […]
Source: New York Times By David Brooks Over the past few weeks, I’ve found myself in a bunch of conversations in which the unspoken assumption was that the main goal of […]
Source: press@amjinternational.org On 14 April 2014, the Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the Fifth Khalifa, addressed the concluding session of a week-long moral training and educational camp attended by more than 180 Muslim children and teenagers that was held in the picturesque market town of […]
Kharkiv, Ukraine (CNN) — An “anti-terrorist operation” is under way in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region against pro-Russia protesters, Kiev declared on Tuesday, with armored personnel carriers seen on the road in […]
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Source: Arabnews.Com “It was actually the dog that recognized my brother’s voice and started barking. This caught the attention of Al-Buqami and his son,” Fahd told the Al-Arabiya channel. Al-Buqami then called police to rescue Badr. Fahd said his brother is now in stable condition. “God saved him and gave him […]
Source: Arabnews.Com An opposition fighter trains young women in the Salah al-Din neighbourhood of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, in this Sept. 30, 2013 file photo. (AFP) VIENNA: Austrian police say they are conducting an international search for two teenage girls who left farewell letters announcing plans to “fight […]
Source: TOI MAIDUGURI (Nigeria): Boko Haram Islamists have kidnapped more than 100 girls from a secondary school in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state, a senior security source told AFP. Asked to confirm media reports that 200 girls had been taken from a school in the Chibok local government area during an […]
Source: Asia Times: NAMYANGJU, South Korea – What would Jesus Christ do to North Korea? Unfortunately for South Korea’s newly inaugurated President Lee Myung-bak, a pious Christian and an elder of a Presbyterian church, there is no ready answer. Lee is still busy sculpting a concrete body of North Korean […]
Source: Asia Times: By Pepe Escobar By the time you read this Russia will have invaded Ukraine. Well, that’s what the Supreme Allied Commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, US Air Force General Philip Breedlove, is spinning. Breedlove Supreme says the Russians are “ready to go” and could easily […]
“A man is not a believer who fills his stomach while his neighbor is hungry.” The Prophet Muhammad “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Jesus “An individual has not started living until he can rise above […]
Epigraph: And he (Jesus) charged them that they should tell no man of him. ((Mark 8: 30) Neither go into town, nor tell it to any in the town. (Mark […]
BBC: by William Kremer — A photographer who snapped what could be the world’s only girl hunting with a golden eagle says watching her work was an amazing sight. Most children, Asher Svidensky says, are a little intimidated by golden eagles. Kazakh boys in western Mongolia start learning how to […]
Insight: by Peter Legge — You probably missed it in the local news, but there was a report a few years back that someone in Pakistan had advertised in a newspaper an offer of a reward to anyone who killed a Canadian – any Canadian. An Australian dentist wrote the following […]
Dawn: WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama warned Monday that religious violence had no place in US society after a gunman with alleged anti-Semitic ties killed three people at a Jewish center and retirement home in Kansas on Sunday. According to police, the attacks happened within minutes of one another. Alleged gunman […]
These “glowing lines” could replace street lights or be used in areas where there are none Continue reading the main story in BBC Related Stories Dutch pioneer glowing superhighwaysWatch Future […]
Most transgender people in India make a living by singing and dancing or by begging and prostitution Continue reading the main story in BBC Related Stories In pictures: India’s transgender […]