By A. Abdul Aziz.  According to media reports, Amnesty International urged Algeria authorities that they must halt its clampdown against members of the minority Ahmadiyya religious movement, ahead of the appeal hearing on 21 June of six Ahmadis sentenced to up to four years in prison for charges relating to the exercise of their religion.  […]

Courtesy independent.co.uk Muslim leaders have spoken out against the media for fuelling Islamophobia, following a deadly attack on a north London mosque. In the hours after a van was driven into worshippers as they finished late night prayers, local leaders and members of the Muslim community warned about rising anti-Muslim sentiment. “Hatred against Muslims is unacceptable […]

RT Those slaughtering cows now face a life sentence in the Indian state of Gujarat, after lawmakers voted to pass new measures to protect the sacred animal, up from a previous punishment of seven years. The state law is the toughest in the country. Read more Indian minister slammed for taboo comments on cows Under […]

RT Published time: 16 Jun, 2017 11:56 Get short URL © mil.ru 1K1 Russia’s Defense Ministry has released satellite images of an area hit by a Russian-led airstrike which may have killed Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in Raqqa, Syria. The composition picture shows photos of the same location taken on May 13 and […]

Courtesy Sputnik Russia is ready to grant asylum to former FBI Director James Comey if he is persecuted in the United States, President Vladimir Putin said. “He said he had recorded his conversation with President [Donald Trump] and handed over this recording to mass media with the help of a friend. This sounds strange. When a special service head records […]

RT Published time: 14 Jun, 2017 11:00 Get short URL Alleged deployment of white phosphorus munitions in Raqqa as reported by ISIS-linked Amaq news agency © YouTube / YouTube   A New Zealand general has confirmed that the US-led coalition fighting in Mosul has used munitions loaded with white phosphorus. It comes amid mounting criticism […]

Russia Insider You should watch NBC’s Megyn Kelly interview Vladimir Putin at  the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.It was  Putin at his best. During this interview ,Indian Prime Minister Modi was bowled a Googly by Megyn Kelly who asked whether he thinks Russia interfered in US elections.The very shrewd Modi deftly deflected the question. Putin […]

 written by stephen kinzer  Courtesy The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity sunday june 11, 2017 Just a few months ago, the governor of Indonesia’s largest city, Jakarta, seemed headed for easy re-election despite the fact that he is a Christian in a mostly Muslim country. Suddenly everything went violently wrong. Using the pretext […]

Sri Lanka news The European Union through their representatives have expressed solidarity with Muslims in Sri Lanka by visiting a Mosque in Colombo recently. They wanted hate speech to be curbed and perpetrators of hate speech to be brought to Justice in Sri Lanka. That is fine talk. However surfing the Internet shows that it […]

DECCAN CHRONICLE. CHENNAI: MDMK general secretary Vaiko was denied entry into Malaysia on Friday as he was detained at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport for his alleged links with the now defunct Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), which is still banned in several parts of the world. Immigration officials at the Kuala Lumpur airport […]

Rowena Mason and Vikram Dodd Courtesy The Guardian Theresa May has declared she is prepared to rip up human rights laws to impose new restrictions on terror suspects, as she sought to gain control over the security agenda just 36 hours before the polls open. The prime minister said she was looking at how to make […]

RT The Philippines should have stronger ties with Russia and China, as Western nations are only interested in double talk and disregard Philippines interests, President Rodrigo Duterte told RT and other Russian media ahead of his visit to Moscow.

By Haadiyah Marikar Courtesy The Daily Mirror Medical Negligence at Rajiv Gandhi Govt. Hospital in Chennai, Causes Death of a Sri Lankan Medical negligence is not unheard of and patients have died under such circumstances all around the globe. In this day and age one would think that doctors have no bias against a patient’s […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden hit back at the Hong Kong government on Thursday for rejecting the protection bids of a group of refugees including Sri Lankans who sheltered him while he was hiding out in the city, the AFP reported. The impoverished Philippine and Sri Lankan refugees helped the former US […]

Courtesy RT Saudi Arabia has been pressing US legislators to make amendments to the controversial law that clears the way for lawsuits seeking damages from the kingdom regarding the 9/11 terrorist attacks, according to the Saudi foreign minister. Trends9/11 tragedy, Global terrorism Following an extended trip to the United States, Adel al-Jubeir told reporters on […]

Courtesy NDTV Sri Lanka last allowed a Chinese submarine to dock in the capital of Colombo in October 2014, a move that triggered fierce opposition from India. China defended its military relationship with Sri Lanka as good for regional peace and stability after Sri Lanka rejected a request from China to dock one of its […]

By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today India needs to change its foreign policy vis-a-vis Sri Lanka immediately. These policies have not only failed, but have disastrously backfired on India, ending in a result totally unanticipated and always against India. The extent of the damage caused by their own policies to India can be measured against the […]

By Dr.sripali Vaiamon-Canada MODI JI WHO WILL LOOK INTO SEVERAL INTRICATING PROBLEMS OF INDIAN PEOPLE MIGRATED HERE CENTURIES AGO, WHILE PARTICIPATING IN RELIGIOUS AND BENIFICIAL ACTIVITIES AND STUDY THE CASTE PROBLEM SIMILER TO WHAT IS EXISTING IN INDIA.AUTHOR HAS WELL ILLUSTRATED THIS INTRICASY IN HIS BOOK ON SOCIOLOGY,RELEASED ABOUT FOUR YEARS BACK IN America- PRE-HISTORIC […]

A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission Coming on the heels of the recent lynching, killing and attacks in Pakistan on the pretext of blasphemy, the legislative assembly of Pakistan controlled Azad Kashmir has unanimously passed two resolutions regarding the finality of the Prophet Hood (SAW) and honour and respect of the Prophet’s companions […]

By: Vandita His name is King Leopold II of Belgium and the living incarnation of evil killed over 10 million innocent people in what is now called the Democratic Republic of Congo. Of the Europeans who scrambled for control of Africa at the end of the 19th century, Belgium’s King Leopold II left arguably the […]

by Rachel Blevins     Did you know that the United States dropped more bombs on North Korea in the 1950s than it did on the entire Pacific Theater during World War II? Did you know that the carpet bombing carried out by the United States deliberately targeted civilians, and it included at least 32,000 tons […]

Ajit Kumar Singh Research Fellow, Institute for Conflict Management In the worst attack targeting the Security Forces (SFs), in terms of fatalities, across India, since the June 29, 2010, Jhadha Ghati attack, cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) killed at least 25 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel and injured another six in […]

by Selvam Canagaratna Courtesy The Island April 22, 2017, 5:45 pm “The American myth is of free will in its simple, primary sense. One can choose oneself and will oneself, and this absurdly optimistic assumption so dominates the republic that it has bred all its gross social injustices.”– John Fowles, Daniel Martin, 1977. For a man […]

Wade Shepard ,  CONTRIBUTOR Courtesy  Forbes  Hambantota Port is set to go to China with an impending deal that will see China Merchants take an 80% share for a specified amount of years.  AFP PHOTO / LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI As regional powers like China, Russia, Japan, and India vie for political and economic position throughout the eastern […]

Courtesy Indian Express Sonu Nigam shaves off hair after azaan row, Muslim cleric asks why he is not wearing garland of shoes.  Sonu Nigam shaved off his hair on Wednesday in response to a Muslim cleric who announced a reward of Rs 10 lakh to anyone who could tonsure the singer. The controversy started after […]

 Loretta Napoleoni Courtesy RT  In many ways terrorism works just like a business, and a costly one – the organization needs arms, supplies, and each recruit needs to be fed and equipped; it all costs money. But where do terrorists get their money? How are the atrocities financed? Is jihad even possible when you have […]

By Robert Fisk  Courtesy Information Clearing House April 18, 2017 “Information Clearing House” –  “The Independent”– It was the Mother of all Hypocrisy. Some dead Syrian babies matter, I guess. Other dead Syrian babies don’t matter. One mass murder in Syria two weeks ago killed children and babies and stirred our leaders to righteous indignation. But the […]

Forbidden Knowledge “No doubt, no doubt, no doubt,” that Bashar al-Assad carried out a chemical attack “against his own people”, says the psyops machine known as the Mainstream Media. It’s déjà vu all over again. Instead of “Yellowcake” and “WMDs”, we have a “Sarin gas attack”. The ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’ is at full […]

Editorial The Island April 17, 2017, 8:38 pm It looks as if the US had exported too much of democracy to the rest of the world and were faced with a severe shortfall thereof at home as a result. The US has apparently been afflicted with the same ills as the not-so-democratic nations. President Donald […]

Ram Madhvani Sadly the same story continues in many other parts of the world even today – in Libya, Afghanistan, Syria and many other smaller nations where locals are set up to kill each other so that the rich can make more riches and justifying those wars on the pretext of protecting democracy, human rights […]