Source: Maltastar.com Laiq Ahmed Atif president of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Malta visited the St. Vincent de Paul Elderly Residency on Monday and presented gifts and food hampers to 150 […]
Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Couch truly believed Mohamedou Ould Slahi was guilty. He also believed that Slahi’s interrogators had broken the law — tormenting him physically and sexually, and threatening the gang-rape of his mother. Stuart Couch had been waiting nearly two years to start this job. He had been waiting […]
Hong-Wu (also known by his given name Zhū Yuánzhāng) was the Emperor of China between 1368 – 1398 CE. He was the first Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, leading an […]
Global Post: When Pope Benedict XVI startled one billion members of the global Catholic church and made news all over the world with his resignation in Rome on Monday morning, […]
Scott Schmith is a patriot and a US military veteran but he is no longer a US citizen. Sick of complex tax rules making his life in Switzerland miserable he […]
Alislam.org: An English translation of a sermon by Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih V aba September 15, 2006 It was in the news yesterday that during a lecture at a university in Germany, the […]
RAPSI: A court in the Stavropol Territory in southern Russia is looking into a lawsuit against the new school uniform requirements which include a ban on wearing head dresses, such […]
We do not live in the Middle Ages, and even if we did, the faith of Islam does not allow any ecclesiastical authority or a secular one determining who is […]
The Indian Express: The burkinis, which is a swimwear originally designed for Islamic women to protect their modesty, are soaring in popularity among British non-Muslims. The swimwear, which was […]
Barclays has announced 3,700 job losses and £1.7bn cost cuts as part of Project Transform, a radical bid to restore the bank’s tattered reputation. Declaring a “new era” for the […]
Muslims host first ever Hebrew Conference held in South Asia The Jews Press: The first-ever Hebrew language and culture conference in South Asia was hosted at the Jawaharlal Nehru University […]
The number of non-Swiss living in Switzerland rose slightly in 2012 to 1.825 million, a three per cent increase over 2011, the Federal Migration Office reported on Friday. Foreigners continue to make up roughly 20 per cent of the population. The increase was primarily attributed to migration by citizens of […]
Source: Newyork Times: American and South Korean officials reported seismic activity in North Korea on Tuesday that appeared to be evidence of the country’s third and long-threatened nuclear test and a new challenge for the Obama administration in its effort to keep the country from becoming a full-fledged nuclear power. […]
Ministers from across Europe are to meet in Brussels tomorrow to discuss tightening regulations on processed meat in the wake of the growing scandal over horse meat found in beef […]
Source: The Economist: In fact Benedict XVI’s papacy is likely to be remembered as overly passive. Though he acknowledged that the church needed to go on “a long penitential journey” to atone for sins committed by its clergy, the church he presided over was slow to react to sexual-abuse scandals […]
William Hague, the Foreign Secretary, has “strongly condemned” a nuclear test carried out by North Korea today, calling it a “violation of United Nations Security Council resolutions. Mr Hague’s comments […]
by Ramzy Baroud ARABNEWS Tuesday 12 February 2013 Soon after the joint US-British bombing campaign “Operation Desert Fox” devastated parts of Iraq in Dec 1998, I was complaining to a friend in the lobby of the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad. I was disappointed with the fact that our busy schedule […]
Source: The Economist: God’s bankers FEW things annoy Vatican officials more than lurid novels that depict the papacy as the secretive heart of a global conspiracy. Pope Benedict XVI’s most senior official, his secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, this month accused journalists of trying to imitate the American […]
JEDDAH: P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR ARABNEWS Tuesday 12 February 2013 The Saline Water Conversion Corporation yesterday announced its plan to establish the world’s largest desalination plant in Rabigh, northwest of Jeddah, […]
Source: Ahmadiyya Press Desk London. The three-day, 89th Annual Convention (Jalsa Salana) of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat in Bangladesh concluded yesterday in Dhaka with a powerful and faith-inspiring address by the Fifth Khalifa, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, His Holiness, Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad. The Khalifa addressed […]