Li Na victory prompts calls for China sport reforms
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PLA growth not a threat to regional peace: Liang
SINGAPORE – China’s military development is still 20 years behind the United States’, and it is not a threat to regional peace, Chinese Defense Minister Liang Guanglie said on Sunday. Liang’s comments, made at the Shangri-La Dialogue hosted by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in Singapore, come at […]
Floods Leave 9 Dead, 13 Missing in SW China
Continuous downpours have triggered severe floods in a county in southwest China’s Guizhou Province, leaving nine dead and 13 missing by Monday night. Read More
Napoleon’s English lessons sold for 90,000 euros
RFI France. The first English lessons of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte while he was banished to exile on the South Atlantic island of Saint Helena fetched more than 93,000 euros at an auction in France on Sunday, significantly more than their estimated value. More: http://www.english.rfi.fr/france/20110606-napoleons-english-lessons-sold-90000-euros
Gender wars, race, class, and international relations – the DSK case gets political
RFI France. The hotel employees who responded to a call from their trade union shouted “Shame on you!” and told journalists that they and their colleagues were frequently subjected to unwanted sexual advances or worse, from rich and powerful guests. Dressed in maid uniforms with aprons, they are a striking […]
Strauss-Kahn pleads not guilty on all charges
By RFI Monday 06.06.2011 The court session lasted only a few minutes, during which Strauss-Kahn pleaded not guilty, and one of his lawyers, William Taylor, requested six weeks to examine the evidence collected by the prosecution. Judge Michael Obus granted the request and set the date for the next court […]
ISLAM AND SCIENCE – CONCORDANCE OR CONFLICT?
This speech was delivered by Professor Abdus Salam, Nobel Laureate in Physics (1979), in Paris at the UNESCO House on April 27, 1984 at the invitation of the Organization ‘Islam and the West’. The Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, Dr. Habib Chatti, inaugurated the meeting. The format of the meeting […]
Sexual addiction: Congressman Weiner Admits to Sending lewd Photos
Sexual addiction forces sensible and successful men to resort to senseless behavior. The Quranic teachings aim at promoting chastity and purifying human character by introducing modesty in dress and some restraint in interaction with opposite gender. For example, the Holy Quran says: Say to the believing men that they restrain their eyes […]
Syrian TV: Police officers killed in ambush
Claim of 80 deaths in northern town of Jisr al-Shughour follows reports that security forces killed 40 people on Sunday. Syria’s state television says at least 80 police officers have been killed in the northern town of Jisr al-Shughour in an ambush by “armed groups”. The report on Monday said […]
The Optimism Bias
Source / Courtesy: Time Magazine By Tali Sharot We like to think of ourselves as rational creatures. We watch our backs, weigh the odds, pack an umbrella. But both neuroscience and social science suggest that we are more optimistic than realistic. On average, we expect things to turn out better […]
Morocco’s uprisings and all the king’s men
Defiant demonstrators seeking democracy send a clear message against state repression and police violence. Thousands poured into the streets of Rabat on Sunday June 5 to condemn the death of a protester and to demand an end to the country-wide government crackdown on peaceful demonstrations. “We are here today to […]
Love in a time of torture
A young man’s account of sadistic torture in a Syrian secret prison, and how a girl’s note helped him through his pain. Arrested during a protest in the first days of the Syrian uprising, a young man endured acts of sadism and torture at the hands of Bashar al-Assad’s secret […]
Apple’s Jobs to take the stage as iCloud hype grows
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Apple Inc Chief Executive Steve Jobs returns on Monday to the stage at San Francisco’s Moscone center to take the wraps off what investors hope will be the next source of growth for the world’s most valuable technology company. Jobs, who has been on medical leave […]
Yemeni President underwent two operations in Saudi Arabia
(CNN) — Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh underwent two operations in Saudi Arabia and will return to Yemen after he recovers, the Saudi state-run Ekhbariya television station reported Monday. Saleh is in Saudi Arabia for treatment following a rocket attack on his presidential compound on Friday. There are conflicting reports […]
Sale of babies
IN the absence of functioning mechanisms, certain sorts of criminal behaviour become inevitable. This is the lesson to be read into the arrest on Friday of a Peshawar doctor on the charge of selling newborn babies. After receiving a tip-off, a policewoman posing as a potential customer contacted the doctor, […]
In Courts, Money Does the Talking
The recent arrest of a judge for bribe-taking shows Indonesia should start putting in place firm antigraft measures across the country’s courts, especially as the practice could be more common than most think. A leading antigraft organization pointed out on Sunday that established patterns of courtroom corruption, which follows set […]
Novel One-State Solution: Entire Middle East Run by Israel
Pajama Media’s Andrew Klavan has a novel one-state solution: Let Israel take over the entire Middle East and Arabs will be much better off. Instead of accepting U.S. President Barack Obama’s proposal that Israel return, more or less, to the 1949-1967 lines “in exchange for being annihilated by its enemies,” […]
Bill granting rabbis immunity for incitement charges shot down
The bill would have safeguarded rabbis from any legal action in connection with any such publication ‘involving the Torah.’ The ministerial committee on legislation yesterday unanimously voted down a bill that would grant rabbis immunity to prosecution for incitement based on their published opinions on religious matters. The bill would […]
Europe’s rising Islamophobia
The key voices of intolerance are neither marginal nor can they be dismissed as old-style far-right activists. They are today often heads of government, important ministers or powerful politicians. Their words express an emerging refrain of official xenophobia. Successive recent salvos by the French president and German chancellor on the failure […]
Indonesian Women Hail Passing of Immigration Law
Indonesian women have welcomed the passage of the Immigration Law that boosts the rights of foreign spouses of Indonesian citizens. Isabelle Mace Panggabean, 31, who is half French and half Indonesian and married to an Indonesian, hailed the new law, saying said she would now be able to gain permanent […]