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Muslims in Indonesia’s Aceh province will be required to patronize Islamic financial services beginning next year, due to a local bylaw that has led several banks to shutter their traditional operations in the Sharia-ruled region, but one Muslim customer is suing to stop the trend.
Lawyer and activist Safaruddin said the closures hurt customers because Islamic banking doesn’t allow interest-bearing loans – unlike at conventional banks – and borrowed money has to be in the form of a trade or business agreement.
“There is not a single provision [in the bylaw] that conventional banks must close. That’s a misperception,” Safaruddin, who is suing three state-owned banks for stopping their traditional services in Aceh, told BenarNews.
The mysteries of
Agatha Christie have enjoyed a resurgence in media in recent years.
Murder on the Orient Express hit the big screen a few years back and the sequel
Death on the Nile will open at some point, and TV has seen Christie’s stories return with adaptations of
And Then There Were None and The ABC Murders. Now Mammoth Screen, BBC Studios, and BritBox in North America are teaming up for another Agatha Christie mystery with a limited series adaptation of the novel
Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?, which will be written, directed, and executive produced by
TVDRAMA
BritBox North America Orders Agatha Christie Adaptation
BritBox North America has commissioned the limited series
Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?, an adaptation of the Agatha Christie mystery with Hugh Laurie on board.
Laurie will adapt the story as a three-part miniseries, also serving as director and executive producer.
Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? will make its global debut on BritBox in the U.S. and Canada in 2022.
Produced by Agatha Christie Limited and Mammoth Screen,
Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? follows the amiable Bobby Jones and his whip-smart friend, socialite Lady Frances “Frankie” Derwent. On the hunt for a lost golf ball, unsuspecting Jones discovers the crumpled body of a dying man who, with his last breath, gasps the cryptic question of the series’ title.
CBS News
Nursing home residents in Wisconsin get weekly doses of puppy love
Last Updated Dec 28, 2020 7:12 PM EST
Washington Nursing homes can be especially lonely around the holidays, even more so this year because COVID-19 is keeping visitors out human visitors, that is.
A nursing home in Madison, Wisconsin, has been getting a weekly dose of puppy love. A puppy named Sayde has been visiting the Madison home and can regularly be seen running around, chewing and pawing on tennis balls on walkers.
Although the puppy isn t a service dog, Vi Tully and Helen Ziegler, two residents of the home, say the five month old puppy does provide a service to the residents.