News around the Muslim World on Thursday 18 December 2014

Earlier this week, millions of people looked on in horror as the news filtered in of the devastating attack by the Pakistan Taliban on a school in Peshawar.

Sunni-Taliban murder children in Peshawar

The Principal who preferred to die with her students.

Source : www.virtualmosque.co.uk

After a day of intense lobbying, the Palestinians persuaded their fellow Arab diplomats here to support a draft Security Council resolution that sets a one-year deadline for negotiations with Israeland is aimed at the full withdrawal of Israeli forces from the West Bank.

Is a Palestinian state on the cards?

Source : New York Times

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