Source: The Atlantic Ramadan, the Islamic month of fasting, will come to a close this weekend…Throughout this ninth month on the Islamic calendar, devout Muslims must abstain from food, drink, and sex from dawn until sunset. The fast, one of the five pillars of Islam, is seen as a time […]
Commonwealth education ministers will meet in Port Louis, Mauritius, from 29 to 31 August 2012 to discuss priorities for the next three years and the Commonwealth’s contribution to the post-2015 development goals framework. Under the theme ‘Education in the Commonwealth: bridging the gap as we accelerate towards achieving internationally […]
HOUSTON — The United States is increasing its dependence on oil from Saudi Arabia, raising its imports from the kingdom by more than 20 percent this year, even as fears of military conflict in the tinderbox Persian Gulf region grow. The increase in Saudi oil exports to the United States […]
Hardly a year goes by in Germany without a shrill debate on immigration and Islam. Despite the public hand-wringing, however, those in the country with a Turkish background are increasingly […]
Credit: TOI If it is just us… seems like an awful waste of space – Carl Sagan In May 1950, the great physicist Enrico Fermi and some colleagues were walking down for lunch from their lab at Los Alamos when they got to discussing flying saucers because there had been […]
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The Eritrean Consulate in The Hague has been extorting money from Eritreans in the Netherlands for almost twenty years. A report in Dutch daily de Volkskant claims people are being forced to hand over two percent of their monthly income to support the regime of President Issayas Afewerki. According to de Volkskrant, those […]
Source: Radio Netherlands Worldwide In the United States, freedom of expression is a fundamental right, guaranteed by the constitution. That’s great, of course, but when everyone’s free to speak their […]
Millions of people around the world are following the progress of NASA’s Curiosity rover since it landed on Mars last week. Years of hard work and cooperation were needed to ensure that the roving laboratory, the size of a compact car, would survive undamaged both the 566 million kilometre journey […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By AFP Published: August 17, 2012 UNITED NATIONS: UN leader Ban Ki-moon was “appalled” by the sectarian killing of 20 Shias who […]
Credit: BBC The UK and Sweden have criticised Ecuador for granting political asylum to Julian Assange as the diplomatic row over what to do with him intensifies. The Wikileaks founder took refuge at Ecuador’s London embassy in June as he faced extradition to Sweden over sexual assault claims, which he […]
Reuters Friday 17 August 2012 BEIRUT/ALEPPO: Syria’s government and rebels have “chosen the path of war,” a UN peacekeeping chief said as the world body ended its doomed monitoring mission to Damascus and deadlock persists among world powers over how to contain the spreading conflict. Two weeks after former UN […]
Credit:Allafrica.com Police have shot dead more than 30 striking miners after a series of violent protests at one of the world’s largest platinum-producing mines. More:
AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah on Thursday asserted Jordan’s rejection of Israel’s “repeated attempts to Judaise the history and heritage of the Holy City of Jerusalem” as well as […]
Credit:TOI WASHINGTON: Republican vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan has accused President Barack Obama of allowing China to treat him like a “doormat” and failing to stop its economic cheating. “They (China) steal our intellectual property rights. They block access to their markets. They manipulate their currency. President Obama promised he would […]
The debate in the US Congress last winter over whether potatoes should be curbed in school lunches is emblematic of the modern-day crisis in US governance. Lobbyists and other powerful interest groups dominate the tenor of the debate. Unsurprisingly, most Americans have lost confidence in their leaders. More:
Credit: TOI LONDON: Israel is preparing for a ground attack on Iran before Christmas, after conducting commando dry runs in the Iraq desert, a media report said. Top military officials in Tel Aviv believe they have until the end of the year to strike at Iran’s nuclear programme, The Sun […]
Credit: TOI Students of northeast coming out after the community leaders having peace talk at Jasma Mandir Austin Town, in Bangalore on August 16, 2012. (TOI photo) If you decide to move to Bangalore, you should ask the state’s political bosses a few questions. 1. Will you welcome me even […]
Credit: Asia Times: The US conclusion that the recent summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation delivered a “strong signal” to Syria missed the point. As always in Muslim politics, the subtext of the conference – the increasing threat of sectarian rivalry to the Middle Eastern regimes – was more […]
The silence surrounding Pakistan’s most serious threats Michael Kugelman There’s been much discussion lately about the “water kit,” a mysterious contraption that a purported Pakistani engineer insists will enable […]