US drone strike kills five suspected al-Qaeda fighters
A US drone strike has killed five suspected members of al-Qaeda in central Yemen, local media and a security official say. Yemen Ajel, a local news website, reported that the drone fired three consecutive missiles at 12:30am local time on Sunday, or 22:30 GMT, on Saturday at a car reportedly transporting weapons to Marib province. […]
Why remembering the Holocaust matters more than ever
Philip Riteman was just 13 when the Nazis shoved him and his family on to a train bound for Auschwitz from the Pruzhany ghetto in Poland. At the time, he and his family had no idea they were being carted to their deaths. “Three o’clock in the morning somebody [yells] and I see the German […]
Trump to Deliver National Rifle Association Keynote Address Amid Protests
As U.S. President Donald Trump delivers the keynote address Friday at the National Rifle Association’s annual convention in downtown Atlanta, scores of gun control advocates are planning to demonstrate across town against the nation’s most powerful gun lobby group. Trump, who supported tougher gun restrictions before he entered the political arena, will be the first […]
Shootings leave 2 dead, 5 hurt within 5 hours in Newark
NEWARK — A man and woman were killed and five others, including a 15-year-old girl, were wounded in a string of shootings within a five hour span in Newark, officials said Friday. The overnight outburst of gun violence began around 8:30 p.m. Thursday when Newark police rushed to reports of several people shot on the […]
Quebec: Uniting to fulfill mosque attack victim’s dream
Mamadou Tanou Barry once dreamt of bringing a permanent supply of fresh water to his native town in Guinea. But his dream was brutally cut short when a gunman opened fire on a mosque in Quebec City, killing Barry and five other Muslim men as they prayed. The attack at the Quebec Islamic Cultural Centre […]
All The Best Jokes From The White House Correspondents’ Dinner
This year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner certainly struck a more somber note than in years past, but comedian Hasan Minhaj lightened the mood when he took the stage. No one was spared from The Daily Show correspondent’s barbs: both present journalists and the conspicuously absent president were hit by some of Minhaj’s jokes. Below are […]
Female Clerics Issue Fatwa Against Marital Rape
The world’s largest gathering of female Muslim clerics in Indonesia issued a fatwa Thursday that declare marital rape haram — or forbidden —under Islamic law and urged the government to make it illegal. The Indonesian Women’s Ulama Congress (KUPI2017) issued three fatwas — Islamic legal pronouncements that are typically issued by Muslim clerics . The […]
Making sense of the tragedy in Mazar-i-Sharif
News of the vicious murder of seven United Nations employees in Mazar-i Sharif has outraged and bewildered Western observers as well many Afghans. Thousands of protesters had attended Friday prayers and heard the preacher of the celebrated Blue Mosque condemn the burning of the Quran half a world away at Pastor Terry Jones’ Dove World […]
Saudi Man Sentenced To Death For Atheism
A Saudi Arabian man who posted videos of himself disparaging the Prophet Muhammad and renouncing Islam on Twitter had his second appeal against a 2015 death sentence denied earlier this week. Ahmad Al-Shamri was arrested by Saudi Arabia’s religious police in 2014 and charged with apostasy, a crime punishable by death in the gulf monarchy, […]
Pope Visits Cairo in Tumultuous Times for Egyptian Christians
As the sun came down around the Vatican Embassy in Cairo on Friday, police lined the streets, and soldiers waited in army trucks behind roadblocks. Despite the heavy security presence, there was a sense of relief as many eyes turned to their television screens to watch the day’s events unfold. On his first day of […]