by Matthew Allen, swissinfo.ch August 9, 2013 – 11:00 An ambitious multinational project to tap into the solar energy potential of North African and Middle Eastern deserts is facing a […]
By Dalton Bennett STORY SUMMARY Bahrain deported a U.S. citizen working as a teacher in the gulf kingdom over what it described Saturday as her “radical” writings on Twitter and websites as the government cracks down on dissent the country. In a statement Saturday, Bahrain’s Ministry of State for Communications […]
Time; The bees are dying and we’re to blame. TIME’s Bryan Walsh explains colony collapse disorder, and why bees are on the verge of extinction. Watch:
BBC: A Buddhist mob has attacked a mosque in the Grandpass area of the Sri Lankan capital Colombo, leaving at least five people injured. Buddhists and Muslims clashed after the attack, and police imposed a curfew in the area. Last month, a group of Buddhist monks had protested near the […]
BBC News: The Ahmadiyya Muslim community is celebrating 100 years of its establishment in Britain this year. Up to 15,000 Ahmadiyya Muslims have taken part in Eid al-Fitr celebrations in […]
Civil War, Sanctions and a Falling Currency Produce Soaring Prices as People Shop for Ramadan By SAM DAGHER DAMASCUS, Syria—On a recent morning, a woman stood in front of a stall lining Bab Serijeh, the capital’s biggest and most raucous food market, and expressed amazement at how prices of local […]
A Commentary By Omid Nouripour Spiegel.de With a new moderate president and increasing focus on the civil war in Syria, Iran is finally in a position to compromise on its nuclear program. The West should seize the moment and head to the negotiating table. Everyone seems relieved to see Hassan […]
Source: seattletimes.com The civilization that Dilmun created on the back of trading in pearls, copper and dates as far as South Asia. Recent discoveries highlight it as a rare and vivid […]
STORY SUMMARY Iraqi Kurdistan’s leader threatened on Saturday to intervene to protect Kurds in neighbouring Syria, who are caught up in fighting between Kurdish forces and jihadists. Kurds in Syria […]
Source: ibtimes.com A Pakistani businessman named Malik Amir Mohammad Khan Afridi, 48, who has an extraordinarily luxuriant moustache, has lived under a cloud of death threats from Islamic extremists over what […]
Mariano Rajoy says Britain should act with ‘common sense and good judgement’ OLIVER WRIGHT Author Biography , ADAM WITHNALL FRIDAY 09 AUGUST 2013 THE INDEPENDENT Spain will take “all legal […]
Source: thestarphoenix.com There wasn’t enough room on the arena floor for Saskatoon’s growing Muslim community Thursday morning. Thousands of people packed Credit Union Centre to mark the first day after Ramadan, […]
by Robert Fisk, The Independent No Muslim general wants to go down in history as the author of the Eid Massacre. That’s why many Egyptians last night suspected that their […]
9th August, Qadian: Thousands of Muslim man and women participated in Eid Prayer lead by Maulana Mohammad Inam Ghori in Masjid Aqsa in Qadian. (Ch.Maqbool Ahmad): Eid-ul-Fitr was celebrated here in Qadian […]
STORY SUMMARY The situation in Egypt continues to deteriorate by the day, and the flurry of Western “mediators” who have been coming and going appear to be making a bad situation even worse. Thus, it is disturbing to see Graham and McCain show up as mediators and then voice opinions […]
August 08, 2013 12:20 AM By Michael Young The Daily Star STORY SUMMARY Today, with U.S. embassies in the region closed because electronic “chatter” suggested an attack was imminent, terrorists know this by listening to American officials. The news that the U.S. discovered that Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri had ordered […]
August 9 2013 Firday: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Japan celebrated Eid ul-Fitr, to mark the end of Ramadan ul Mubarak. Imam Anees Ahmad Nadeem, Missionary Incharge — led a prayer in Arabic and […]
Source: businessghana.com The National Democratic Congress and New Patriotic Party, the two parties involved in the 2012 election petition before the Supreme Court, have been advised to accept the verdict of […]
Source: gbcghana.com The Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission has donated quantities of rice, sugar, cooking oil and ninety two copies of the Holy Quran to the Ghana Prisons Service in Accra. The items are to help Muslim inmates in the country`s prisons to joyfully celebrate the end of the Ramadan and to fulfil their […]