No White Saviors: Is ‘white aid’ colonialist?
Foreign affairs The debate on decolonising aid is pushing Switzerland to question how it is approaching development work. This content was published on October 5, 2021 – 09:00October 5, 2021 – […]
Pandora Papers focus on corruption abroad, but what about thieving here?
Trudy Rubin The Pandora Papers expose financial corruption in failing states, but shouldn’t distract from similar corruption in the United States. My first reaction when I read the secret details […]
Lebanese angry, but unsurprised as Pandora Papers name the country’s rich and powerful
MENA William Christou Lebanon 05 October, 2021 Lebanon topped the list for offshore companies named in the Pandora Papers, a revelation which many people found unsurprising. Prime Minister Najib Mikati […]
Just another detail: a private Afghanistan evacuation
Jürgen Todenhöfer 8h · The family was in grave danger. The 34-year-old son had been abducted by IS terrorists in Kabul in March 2020 and brutally tortured for almost 17 months. He […]
Religion, secularism and French paradox
WORLD There is another theory why Macron is pushing this bill. Ahead of elections in 2022, he is making a political calculation to win support of the far right and the left. French political framework is complicated because a portion of the left tends to be most strict about existence […]
Who Created God? John Lennox at The Veritas Forum at UCLA
Epigraph: He is the First and the Last, and the Manifest and the Hidden, and He knows all things full well. (Al Quran 57:3) Suggested reading Trinity: An apple cannot […]
‘Only $100m?’: Secrets of rich and powerful exposed in the Pandora Papers met with a weary shrug
Borzou Daragahi Tue, October 5, 2021 A leak of documents over the weekend showed Azerbaijan’s strongman, Ilham Aliyev, had secretly bought $540m (£400m) worth of property worldwide, including a central London home registered in the […]
Tensions escalate between France, Algeria over French president’s remarks
Algeria’s official history has been rewritten based on hatred against France, Emmanuel Macron reportedly says Yusuf Ozcan |04.10.2021 PARIS Tensions between France and Algeria have continued to rise following […]
Mundra Port drug haul and the US link to Afghan heroin.
Strangely, what never gets traction is the complicity of Western powers in the enlargement of poppy plantations in the war-ravaged Afghanistan Sanjay Kapoor, OCT 04 2021 Read more at: https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/mundra-port-drug-haul-and-the-us-link-to-afghan-heroin-1037108.html […]
China: removing ‘Arab-style’ features from country’s biggest mosques the latest move in campaign of Muslim assimilation
September 28, 2021 Penulis David R. Stroup Assistant Professor in Chinese Studies, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester David R. Stroup has received funding from the Fulbright Foundation. In […]
New Ahmadi mosque and mission inaugurated, Taveta Town, Kenya
1st October 2021 Tahir Ahmad Machengo, Kenya Correspondent On 13 June 2021, Majlis Ansarullah Kenya had laid the foundation of a mosque and Ahmadiyya mission house in Taveta town, Kenya. […]
How to bring aid to Afghanistan
Little more than a month after the departure of American troops from Afghanistan, people in the country are struggling to pay for basic necessities as foreign cash dries up. Can […]
Israel Needs to Deal With Its Jewish Terrorists
Editorial | Oct. 4, 2021 There is nothing about which Israelis are more in denial than nationalist crime by Jews, especially Jewish terrorism. In the Israeli mind, terrorists are always Arabs, […]
Complex neighborhood relationship of Azerbaijan and Iran
BY BASEL HAJ JASEM OP-ED OCT 04, 2021 12:05 AM GMT+3An Iranian army helicopter maneuvers during a military exercise in the northwest of the country, close to the Iranian-Azerbaijani border, Oct. 1, […]
Discoveries reveal Ottoman, Turkish traces in Russia’s Phanagoria
BY ANADOLU AGENCY MOSCOW, RUSSIA ARTS OCT 03, 2021 12:51 PM GMT+3An official shows artifacts found in the ancient city of Phanagoria through a magnifying glass, Russia, Oct. 1, 2021. (AA Photo) Recent […]
How firms profit from pain in the wild West Bank
CHRIS DOYLE October 04, 2021 Short Url https://arab.news/6zrq4 It is increasingly the wild, wild West Bank, as lawless armed Israeli settler groups seize land while attacking Palestinian civilians, smashing property, […]
Pro-Palestine stance will ultimately become the norm in Congress
RAMZY BAROUDOctober 04, 2021 Short Url https://arab.news/y4gzq There has been an unmistakable shift in US politics regarding Palestine and Israel — a change inspired by the way in which many […]
Jordan rejects ‘inaccurate’ reports on king’s ownership of property abroad
The reports claimed that King Abdullah owns lavish properties worth more than $100 million in the US and UK. (AFP) Short Url https://arab.news/2jz65 King Abdullah II says coverage is part […]
Muhammad’s Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks died in car crash
October 4, 2021 by Harry Rivers DEATH – 75-year-old Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks died in Sweden on Sunday while in a vehicle with two police officers tasked with protecting him. The hypothesis […]
Mormon president: Church leaders speak ‘pure truth’
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints urged members Saturday to listen to the faith’s leaders when they seek “pure truth” […]