Germany on Monday announced plans to become the first major industrialised power to shut down all its nuclear plants in the wake of the disaster in Japan, with a phaseout due to be wrapped up by 2022. Chancellor Angela Merkel said the decision, hammered out by her centre-right coalition overnight, […]
Germany has registered the sunniest and driest spring since records began in 1893, the German Weather Service (DWD) said Monday. But thunderstorms could end a hot start to the week. “Germany enjoyed a summer-like spring in 2011,” said DWD meteorologist Uwe Kirsche in a statement. Read More…
A minister has resigned from the government Sunday to fight allegations of sexual harassment, two weeks after ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s sensational New York arrest on sex crime charges. Civil service minister Georges Tron, accused of sexually harassing two women who worked for him at the town hall where he […]
By RFI Two French lawyers said Monday that they will launch legal proceedings against French President Nicolas Sarkozy for crimes against humanity over the Nato-led military campaign in Libya. Jacques Vergès and Roland Dumas have offered to represent families of victims of the Nato bombing campaign, Libyan justice official Ibrahim Boukhzam […]
Her lawyer says that her release orders had been issued Manama: Saudi police in Al Khobar on Monday evening ordered the release of Manal Al Sharif, the 32-year-old Saudi woman who was arrested on May 21 while driving in the city, a Saudi daily said. read more
Saudi Arabia will soon put a six-year cap on the residency of foreigners in the country Riyadh: A number of prominent Saudi businessmen and academics have objected to the new move by the Ministry of Labour not to renew residency permits (Iqama) of foreign workers after the completion of their […]
JERUSALEM – Underneath the crowded alleys and holy sites of old Jerusalem, hundreds of people are snaking at any given moment through tunnels, vaulted medieval chambers and Roman sewers in a rapidly expanding subterranean city invisible from the streets above. At street level, the walled Old City is an energetic […]
By Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor, REUTERS AUBERVILLIERS, France (Reuters) – Four years after they first frightened France, Muslim creationists are back touring the country preaching against evolution and claiming the Koran predicted many modern scientific discoveries. Followers of Harun Yahya, a well-financed Turkish publisher of popular […]
A day of ghastly sight of gristly, gruesome bloodshed of Ahmadis in Lahore Pakistan A year after the terrifying horrendous massacre of 86 Ahmadis of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Lahore, Pakistan the world remains deeply in shock, appalled by that act of religious terrorism, cold bloodedly covered up by […]
The PBS Web site briefly carried a fake story claiming that famed rapper Tupac Shakur was alive and living in New Zealand after a group of hackers took over the organization’s computer systems on Saturday night. In addition to posting the fake news story, the group, which identified itself on […]
After the recent uproar, the master of the rolls’s report on superinjunctions is redundant. The press has played into the hands of those who argue superinjunctions are necessary. The simplistic arguments put forward by “right-thinking” members of the tabloid press show they have no concept of responsibility. The irony is […]
Chinese authorities have tightened security across the province of Inner Mongolia after days of unrest, rights groups and residents say. Read More
Vietnam’s foreign ministry has accused China of increasing regional tensions in an escalating territorial dispute. A rare weekend news briefing followed a confrontation in the South China Sea between a Vietnamese oil and gas survey ship and Chinese patrol boats. Read More
BEIJING – The drought that has affected 35 million people and caused an economic loss of almost 15 billion yuan ($2.3 billion) in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River is a persistent “yellow alarm”, the National Meteorological Center said on Sunday. Read More
By John Blake, CNN (CNN) – A frail man sits in chains inside a dank, cold prison cell. He has escaped death before but now realizes that his execution is drawing near. “I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come,” […]
This fall, young girls in China’s southern Guangdong province will be learning a new subject in school: how to avoid becoming a mistress. Although Chairman Mao kept a stable of women at his disposal, extramarital peccadilloes were frowned upon during China’s more fervent socialist years. But as economic reforms have […]
Gaza – PNN – Hundreds of Palestinian moved in and out of the Gaza Strip on Saturday as the Egyptian Authorities reopened the Rafah crossing with the Gaza Strip after four years of closure. As Palestinian residents expressed happiness and hope that the opening of Rafah border crossing with Egypt […]
Malta has voted “Yes” in a non-binding referendum on legalising divorce, Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi has conceded, local media report. Almost three-quarters of the electorate voted on Saturday on whether divorce should be introduced in Malta. A majority Catholic country, Malta is the only EU country not to allow divorce. Figures […]
By GHAZANFAR ALI KHAN | ARAB NEWS RIYADH: Farouk Saad Hamad Al-Zuman, the first Saudi who conquered Mount Everest in 2008, has congratulated Palestinian climber Suzanne Al-Houby for becoming the first Arab woman to scale the world’s highest mountain and for sending a message of peace to Israelis and Palestinians […]
By AHMED AL-HAJ | AP SANAA: Hundreds of Islamic militants cemented control over a town in southern Yemen, even seizing army tanks, military officials said, while breakaway army units encouraged other military forces to switch their loyalties and join the uprising. The growing number of defections in the military posed […]