The Trump Administration is asking Congress for nearly $8bn as an initial down payment for victims of Tropical Storm Harvey.
The White House says it will request additional funding later this month. Meanwhile, more Houston residents were allowed to return to their homes on Friday, to begin the emotional and difficult task of trying to assess Harvey's damage.
Al Jazeera’s Shihab Rattansi reports from Port Arthur.
Gehört der Islam zu Europa? Wie islamisch ist Europa? Wie europäisch der Islam? Wir gehen einen Schritt weiter und wagen die Fragestellung nach einer gegenseitigen Transformation: „Wer wandelt wen?“. Welche Rolle spielen die zentralen Texte, die Religion und die Kultur? Sind es die Mehrdeutigkeiten, auf die es ankommt, oder zentrale Werte? Welche Parallelen, welche Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede würden zur Sprache kommen, oder transformiert? Hamed Abdel-Samad eröffnet die Islamkonferenz mit seinen Thesen und leitenden Fragestellungen, wie es Europa mit dem Islam und der Islam mit Europa halten kann.
Der Politikwissenschaftler und Publizist Hamed Abdel-Samad ist Mitglied der Deutschen Islam Konferenz und zählt zu den profiliertesten islamischen Intellektuellen im deutschsprachigen Raum.
Neues Phänomen: Wie kreativ Musliminnen das Burka Verbot in der Schweiz umgehen. Eigentlich ist das Tragen von Burkas im Schweizer Kanton Tessin verboten. Seit vergangenem Sommer gilt dort ein Gesetz, das Ganzkörperschleier in der Öffentlichkeit untersagt. Wie die „Aargauer Zeitung“ berichtet, haben einige Musliminnen im Tessin nun aber einen kreativen Weg gefunden, um das Burka-Verbot zu umgehen.
Saudi Arabia is investing billions of dollars remodeling Mecca, home of Islam’s holiest site—the Kaaba. Its plans include building the world’s largest hotel. The aim is to double Mecca's capacity to host worshippers, to nearly seven million, by 2040. The redevelopment has destroyed scores of old shrines.
Sebastian Gorka was one of President Trump's most vocal defenders but now he's out of the White House. Krishnan Guru-Murthy quizzes him on whether President Trump has lost control of his administration.
Despite the unprecedented pace of scientific breakthroughs, humanity still seems to be as far away from the age of reason as ever. With religious extremism and political infantilism spreading across the globe, often aiding one another, has governance based on critical thinking already become a delusion? To discuss this, Oksana is joined by Richard Dawkins, evolutionary biologist. The interview was held at the St. Petersburg Geek Picnic 2017
The concept of there being "two Americas" is almost as old as the nation itself. From the outset there were the landowners, the ruling class - the "haves". And then there were the have-nots. That divide has been economic but also racial, with minorities claiming a disproportionately small share of the nation's substantial wealth.
And yet, a 2013 Pew Research Center study showed that half of white Americans surveyed do not feel that African Americans are treated less fairly by the police, employers, doctors and others. Only 13% of blacks felt the same way. Amid the current backdrop of the Black Lives Matter movement and increasing wealth disparity, Clive Myrie from the BBC's This Week's World delves into what white Americans understand - or don't - about race.
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Prince Zeid Ra'ad Zeid Al-Hussein, commented on US President Donald Trump's recent comments about the press at a rally in Phoenix, Arizona at a press conference in Geneva on Wednesday.
"The president prides himself as a taboo breaker. Indeed, his supporters see him as such, but at the time I expressed my feeling that this was grossly irresponsible because it has consequences, it emboldens those who may think similarly to sharpen their assaults" he said.
The death of Diana, Princess of Wales on August 31, 1997, sent shock waves around the world. Few figures have received as much adulation as Princess Diana.
The Princess of Wales’ legacy lives on to this day. The friendly way in which she approached people, whatever their background, changed the face of the British monarchy forever.
Our documentary 'Princess Diana - The Quiet Revolution' tells her story. For centuries, ceremonial splendor and a tradition of keeping a stiff upper lip had been the main characteristics of the British monarchy. The royal family had grown apart from the people. Then along came Princess Diana and stirred it all up. She lived a life in the public spotlight: not only as a successful ambassador in the campaign against landmines, but also as a woman whose marriage was in trouble, and as the loving mother of two sons. It was a life of glamour and desperation at the same time. With her husband Prince Charles’s affair with his then long-term lover Camilla Parker Bowles, and her own amorous escapades, the paparazzi were never far away. Princess Diana fascinated people with her charm, her beauty and the warm manner with which she approached the sick and the disadvantaged. But the Queen’s relationship with her daughter-in-law was never simple. The two women’s views of the monarchy were just too different. Yet after Diana’s death, the royal family adopted her more modern, open style. Today, 20 years after Diana’s death, the Queen is more popular among her people than ever.
