RT spoke with Baroness Caroline Cox, a member of the UK Parliament’s House Of Lords, who has just returned from Damascus in Syria, where she met with President Assad – a move which has earned her a lot of criticism from her colleagues.
ISIS, Al Qaeda and Boko Haram are forces of Islamic extremism that, even at their most brutal, appeal to a fringe of angry and disaffected people. Hamed Abdel-Samad joins The Agenda to discuss his most recent book, "Islamic Fascism," which outlines what he sees as the authoritarian underpinnings of modern Islamism.
The Great Plague of London, in 1665, has long fascinated historians. Roughly a quarter of the city's population were killed. Many have assumed the cause was the bubonic plague. And now scientists have confirmed it, by studying DNA from recently unearthed skeletons. Al Jazeera’s UK correspondent Barnaby Phillips reports from London.
A second couple was detained overnight in connection with an investigation into the discovery of a car in Paris containing six gas canisters, a French police source says. The pair was picked up near Montargis, about 110 kilometres (65 miles) south of Paris.
President François Hollande says that Islam could co-exist with secularism, warning in a key speech seen as preparing the ground for a re-election bid that the anti-terror fight should not undermine French values .
Sven Lau gilt als eines der Gesichter des Salafismus in Deutschland. In Düsseldorf wird ihm nun der Prozess gemacht. Der Vorwurf: Unterstützung einer ausländischen terroristischen Vereinigung. Ein Verfahren mit Symbolcharakter.
Hillary Clinton calls for the United States to track down and kill Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as it did Osama Bin Laden, insisting her Republican rival Donald Trump has no plan to defeat the jihadists.
