Source: The Local As preparations are finalised for Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Germany at the end of the month, a number of MPs have declared they will boycott his speech to parliament. Around half the members of the Bundestag from the socialist Left party will leave the German parliament […]
Police in China have arrested 32 people in an operation to prevent the sale of illegally reprocessed cooking oil. More than 100 tonnes of oil were seized in raids across 14 provinces. Some of it had been collected from drains behind restaurants to be sold on. Read More…
China’s largest sovereign wealth fund is considering buying Italian assets, according to reports in the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal. China Investment Corporation (CIC) and Italian officials have held meetings in the last month, the reports said. CIC is wholly owned by the Chinese government and has an estimated […]
The Jakarta Post For the past decade the people of Ambon and the entire province of Maluku have been licking their wounds from a bloody sectarian conflict that sociologists said was a test of the country’s pluralism. So when riots erupted anew in this peaceful town on Sunday, claiming three […]
Hundreds of police officers were deployed from Makassar to Ambon to help quell a riot that erupted over the death of a man, a police spokesman said on Sunday. National Police spokesman Insp. Gen. Anton Bachrul Alam said police in Ambon were overwhelmed by the scale of the clash that left at least three dead and […]
Obama: Palestinian statehood vote at UN would be counterproductive U.S. president says he would oppose vote if it reaches the UN Security Council, calls efforts ‘distraction’. U.S. President Barack Obama said Monday that if the Palestinians try to achieve statehood in the United Nations Security Council, the U.S. would oppose […]
By REEM AL-HAKEEM, ARABNEWS It can be an effective instrument of peace and economic development Carnage and turmoil in some Arab countries, famine in Somalia, Gazans under siege and Al-Quds under threat from Israel, terrorist bombings in Pakistan and Afghanistan, natural disasters in Indonesia, poverty and power struggle in some African […]
By Hani Hazaimeh Jordan Times AMMAN – The situation of irregular migrant workers in the Kingdom has become a major concern for human rights activists in light of ongoing violations of their rights, according to a report issued on Monday. Prepared by the Tamkeen Centre for Legal Assistance, “Breaking the […]
By: Laiq Ahmed Atif, president Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Malta “Government of the people, by the people, for the people” these are the words of US president Abraham Lincoln to define democracy. The term democracy comes from the Greek language and means “rule by the (simple) people”. Philosophers have defined the […]
AMMAN (Jordan Times) – His Majesty King Abdullah on Monday reiterated that resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict on the basis of the two-state solution is the path to achieve peace and stability in the Middle East. During a meeting with international Quartet for Mideast peace representative Tony Blair, the two sides discussed […]
Source: Salon.com The president promised early on to withdraw all U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of 2011. What changed? By Justin Elliott 12 Sep 2011 — A debate is unfolding in official Washington about whether the Obama administration should leave any troops in Iraq, and, if so, how […]
Source: Wikileaks – Tehran Times. TEHRAN, 12 Sep 2011 – Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has reportedly said that Saudi Arabia is main sponsor of terrorism in Iraq, alleging that the U.S.-backed monarchy intends to stoke a civil war in the Middle Eastern country. Newly released classified U.S. diplomatic cables […]
Credit:THE WHIG-STANDARD As he travels across the province, Saadat Ahmed says the people he sees are more curious than anything else. “A lot of people don’t know anything about the Qur’an,” said Ahmed, a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community that is travelling across the country to promote awareness of […]
By ADIL SALAHI ARABNEWS Debt is a normal practice in human life. People often have need for money that they do not have. If they expect to have money at a later time and their need is immediate, they try to borrow from a friend or a financial institution. In […]
Source: Times of India MARSEILLE (FRANCE): A furnace exploded at the Marcoule nuclear waste treatment site in southern France on Monday, killing one person, but there was no leak of radioactive material outside the furnace, France’s ASN nuclear safety watchdog said. Four other people were injured, one seriously, in […]
Source Asia Times SPENGLER Without stretching the analogy, the conflict between Sunni and Shi’ite Islam in the Middle East today has something in common with the Thirty Years War that surrounded 17th-century Holland. Most Israelis seem to have adapted well to a long-term war regime amid a sea of unrelenting […]
Source: Asia Times Al-Qaeda’s assassination on September 9, 2001, of the Taliban regime’s most powerful enemy – Ahmad Shah Massoud – was as pivotal an event for Afghanistan as the United States-led invasion of the country following the 9/11 attacks. Ten years on, the legend of the “The Lion of […]
Source: Asia Times on line. As the United States and its allies mourn the attacks of 10 years ago, it is worth placing those events and their consequences into a cohesive intellectual and geopolitical perspective. September 11, 2001, constituted the most audacious and deadly terrorist attacks in modern times. But […]