Judges in Egypt Brotherhood's trial quit
Cairo court Judges, who presided over the trial of Muslim Brotherhood leaders, step down for reason of conscience. The judges presiding over the trial of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood leaders have […]
Aung San Suu Kyi is only the latest to fail the Rohingya. More of this and the result will be genocide
Various political powers are shirking responsibility – including the British Government by EMANUEL STOAKES THE INDEPENDENT In recent days, Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, having just been awarded a […]
Remembering the First World War: The flood of 1914-18 memorabilia has begun – and it will break your heart
by Robert Fisk, THE INDEPENDENT A pan-European digital library has collected 500,000 mementos The French embassy in Beirut held a gloomy ceremony last week to mark the killing of its 58 paratroopers in a suicide truck bombing 30 years ago. An Islamic Jihad bomb. For which, I suppose, read Iran. […]
TI Ahmadiyya tops in Project citizen competition
Source: vibeghana.com TI Ahmadiyya Senior High School (SHS) won this year’s Project Citizen competition which was organized for the five Senior High Schools in the Wa Municipality for students to showcase their understanding of social problems and present plans for their resolution. The Wa Senior High Technical High School came second […]
eDigest: Muslim Sunrise Publishes a Volume about Angels of God
Muslim Sunrise Publishes a Volume about Angels of God Editorial Belief in angels is one of the six articles of faith prescribed for every Muslim. The Holy Qur’an mentions angels, […]
Microcredit for Americans
On a recent Thursday, dozens of Latina immigrants clustered in a small, noisy second-floor office in the Jackson Heights neighborhood of Queens, waiting for one of a half-dozen loan officers to call their names and hand over a check. Children loitered in the stairwell or sprawled, calflike, over their mothers’ […]
Actually, everyone is telling college women not to drink
Salon.com: In a Monday opinion piece for the New York Daily News, Caitlin Flanagan repeated the oft-repeated (and repeated, and repeated, and repeated) idea that our culture is dangerously silent when it comes to policing young women’s behavior. Specifically, Flanagan believes we are failing female college students — who are “living away from home […]
Narendra Modi could be India’s next prime minister. So why won’t he talk to his wife?
Global Post: AHMEDABAD, India — For any world-class politician, an articulate, telegenic or otherwise appealing spouse is an obvious asset. Think Carla Bruni, Peng Liyuan or even Hillary Clinton. But the man who many believe will become India’s prime minister after the May 2014 elections has an unusual relationship with his wife. They are […]
How College Students are Improving Girls’ Education by ‘Hacking’ for Good
Her Campus: by Allie Sutherland – While many of us are privileged enough to go to college, barriers to girls’ education throughout the world show us that we shouldn’t take school for granted. That’s why the United Nations created the International Day of the Girl: to promote the rights of […]
UK to become the first country outside of the Islamic world to issue an Islamic bond
Press release PM to unveil plans for new Islamic index on London Stock Exchange Organisation: Prime Minister’s Office, 10 Downing Street Page history: Published 29 October 2013 Policy: Increasing the […]
“with friends like these, who needs enemies?”
Source: MINN Post via Wasim Sr: By Jean MacKenzie | 10/28/13 The long-running sham of US-Pakistani relations enjoyed yet another farcical episode last week. In the wake of a report by an international rights group showing the failures and dangers of Washington’s drone program, Islamabad takes its alleged ally to task, warning of dire […]
An Angry Europe Faces Up to U.S. Spying and the War on Terrorism’s Legacy
Time: Romano Prodi, the former Italian Prime Minister, first felt the reach of U.S. surveillance about 10 years ago, soon after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, when he […]
Muslim Sunrise Publishes a Volume about Angels of God
Editorial Belief in angels is one of the six articles of faith prescribed for every Muslim. The Holy Qur’an mentions angels, some by name, their functions and their being in service of […]
Denmark Is Considered The Happiest Country. You’ll Never Guess Why.
Huff Post — Last month, Denmark was crowned the happiest country in the world. “The top countries generally rank higher in all six of the key factors identified in the World Happiness Report,” wrote University of British Columbia economics professor John Helliwell, one of the report’s contributing authors. “Together, these six factors […]
Denmark Is Considered The Happiest Country. You'll Never Guess Why.
Huff Post — Last month, Denmark was crowned the happiest country in the world. “The top countries generally rank higher in all six of the key factors identified in the World Happiness Report,” wrote University of British Columbia economics professor John Helliwell, one of the report’s contributing authors. “Together, these six factors […]
Storm lashes northern Europe leaving at least 13 dead
BBC News – A storm battering north-western Europe has killed at least 13 people – six of them in Germany. Two people died when their car was crushed by a falling tree in Gelsenkirchen, in western Germany. Two children in the car were injured. In Brittany, western France, a woman […]
Istanbul’s two sides now connected by railway tunnel
By DESMOND BUTLER Associated Press Associated Press Turkey is for the first time connecting its European and Asian sides with a railway tunnel set to open Tuesday, completing a plan […]
Istanbul's two sides now connected by railway tunnel
By DESMOND BUTLER Associated Press Associated Press Turkey is for the first time connecting its European and Asian sides with a railway tunnel set to open Tuesday, completing a plan […]
Historical sites in Madinah to be identified
Madinah Gov. Prince Faisal bin Salman has ordered the constitution of a committee to identify historical sites in the central area next to the Prophet’s Mosque. The committee, to be […]
Israel again on the prowl as war looms in Lebanon
RAMZY BAROUD Published — Tuesday 29 October 2013 ARABNEWS Throughout the years, Lebanon’s demographics have experienced periodic changes. But particularly in the last two years, the demographic shift has been so overwhelming due to the influx of Syrian refugees in desperate need for shelter. The situation is highly charged, if […]