Al-Raya Newspaper: Prominent Headlines of Issue 115
US Defense Department, announced on Sunday, the killing of one of its soldiers and wounding three others after clashes with al-Qaeda militants in Yemen. The French news agency "AFP" quoted the Pentagon as saying, "A US service member was killed and three were wounded in a raid on al-Qaeda in al-Bayda province central Yemen, without giving further details."
After, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, confirmed the continuation of the crusade against Islam and Muslims, Pakistan's rulers slavishly announced an escalation in their war against Allah (swt) and His Messenger (saaw). Whilst addressing a ruling party workers' convention in Sialkot on 28 January 2017, the regime's Defence Minister, Khawaja Asif, declared that the "War on Terror" is the prime focus of all politicians, but “terrorism” cannot be uprooted if "ideologies are not changed."
The President of Bangladesh instituted a six-member search committee for the reconstitution of the election commission as the incumbent one is serving out its tenure on 08 February 2017.
On 17 January 2015, Congo's parliament passed an electoral law requiring a census before the next elections. (Elections had been planned for 2016). On 19 January, protests led by students at the University of Kinshasa broke out. The protest began following the announcement of a proposed law that would allow Kabila to remain in power until a national census can be conducted. The clashes between police and protesters claimed at least 42 lives.
President elect Donald Trump outlined policies that could change international relations significantly, and developments in the US Senate between the 10th and 13th of January, including open investigative sessions as part of the procedure for approving Trump’s nominees for his new cabinet have shed light on future relations with Russia, China, Mexico and the Middle East.
UQAB Magazine Issue 1
The concept of public property, and its opposing category of private property, is well known today, due primarily to the centrality of the latter to liberal and capitalist thought and the former to socialist thought. However, the notion that certain things are owned by individuals, giving them exclusive disposal rights thereof, whilst others are for the common disposal of people collectively long precedes modernity. Modern thinkers were not the first to come up with these ideas.
