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Tensions Erupt In Anti-Migrant March in Germany

Tensions erupted in Chemnitz on Saturday as far-right protesters faced off with police and journalists following a 'silent' anti-migrant march.

After Tension, Trump Ups Tariffs on Turkish Steel, Aluminum

US President Donald Trump said on Friday he doubled steel and aluminum tariffs on Turkey, imposing a 20 percent duty on aluminum and 50 percent one on steel, saying relations between Washington and Ankara “not good” as tensions mount between the two countries.

2 US Destroyers towards Taiwan Strait, Amid Tensions with China

Two US warships, USS Mustin and the USS Benfold, have passed through the Taiwan Strait, the first since July last year, Taiwan and a US Navy official confirmed.

The Qur'an Story of Joseph: Plot, Themes, and Characters

For its sheer readability, the Qur'anic story of Joseph, told in S. 12, is perhaps unsurpassed in the whole of the Qur'an. The less than one hundred verses of the narrative [1] telescope many years, present an amazing variety of scenes and characters in a tightly-knit plot, and offer a dramatic illustration of some of the fundamental themes of the Qur'an. The present article, as the title indicates, is a study of selected aspects of the sura. The study is mainly literary in character. As such it will not deal with that part of the sura (the concluding part, chiefly) in which the Qur'an seeks to apply the story to the Meccan situation of Muhammad's time.[2] I have thus limited the scope of this inquiry in order to bring into relief, with reference to S. 12, a sorely neglected aspect of the Qur'an, namely, the literary aspect. It is not necessary to reproduce the story in detail or in outline any of the well-known translations of the Qur'an can be used for purposes of reference.

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