“What made us dream he would comb grey hair?” Irish poet and 1923 Nobel Laureate William Butler Yeats wrote of a friend—and the “discourtesy of death.” A week after Tropical Storm “Sendong” hit, Mindanao deaths bolted to 1,249. When New Year dawns, other victims won’t “comb grey hair.” Exhausted rescue […]
President Obama’s enormous expansion of the U.S. drone program may be pushing too fast for military staffing to keep up. David S. Cloud of The Los Angeles Times reports the military is now forced to rely on a string of civilian contractors placed at all levels along the “kill chain.” These […]
GENEVA, Switzerland – On the sidelines of a conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, just three months ago, a senior health official from Belarus met privately with Mario Raviglione, whose job here at the World Health Organization’s headquarters is to control the spread of tuberculosis around the world. Belarus needed help. It […]
“Lack of justice leading to increased terrorism and sectarianism” – Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad The Annual Convention (Jalsa Salana) of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat in India concluded on 28 […]
Source: Spiegel Germany. Delusions of the Euro Zone The Lies that Europe’s Politicians Tell Themselves A Commentary by Armin Mahler REUTERS A ceremony to mark the launch of the euro coins in Frankfurt in December 2001: The euro was always built on delusions. Since its inception, the euro zone has […]
Source: Press Secretary AMJ International “Lack of justice leading to increased terrorism and sectarianism” – Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad The Annual Convention (Jalsa Salana) of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat in India concluded on 28 th December in Qadian with a powerful and faith inspiring address by the World […]
Source / Courtesy: Yahoo News By Brett Israel, OurAmazingPlanet Staff Writer Space.com | SPACE.com The Red Sea has a new inhabitant: a smoking island. The island was created by a wild […]
The stock market’s rebound from the financial crisis three years ago has created a potential windfall for hundreds of executives who were granted unusually large packages of stock options shortly after the market collapsed. Now, the corporations that gave those generous awards are beginning to benefit, too, in the form […]
ABC News: Unwilling to back down from the growing criticism that his foreign policy would be “dangerous,” Ron Paul told voters in Iowa that western sanctions against Iran are “acts of war” that are likely to lead to an actual war. Paul said that Iran would be justified in responding […]
Jakarta Post: by Moh Yasir Alimi, Abdurrahman “Gus Dur” Wahid, the fourth president of Indonesia, a great ulema and a man of humanity, is no longer with us, but he […]
by Jessica Dacey, swissinfo.ch A chapter of Swiss history has been rewritten, clearing the names of people who helped smuggle refugees into Switzerland during the Second World War. A parliamentary […]
Authorities in Taiwan arrested a man Monday on suspects that he murdered his former Vietnamese wife soon after divorcing her who failed to give him a son. Pham Thi Thanh Truc, 29, was killed and thrown into the sea with rock tied to her body after the divorce trial on December […]
With the global appetite for olive oil on the increase, unscrupulous producers are meeting the demand by mixing in cheaper oil from Greece, Spain, Morocco and Tunisia and passing it off as top-end extra virgin oil. Read more
An Italian couple are to become the world’s oldest divorcees, after the 99-year-old husband found that his 96-year-old wife had an affair in the 1940s. The Italian man, identified by lawyers in the case only as Antonio C, was rifling through an old chest of drawers when he made the […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Express / Zahid Gishkori Published: December 30, 2011 ISLAMABAD: The Parliamentary Committee on National Security on Friday summoned former Ambassador to the United States […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Sidrah Moiz Published: December 30, 2011 ISLAMABAD: Counsel for former Ambassador to the United States Asma Jehangir, speaking in reference to the […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Express / Faisal Shakeel Published: December 30, 2011 ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Friday declared the Memogate case to be maintainable and formed a […]
FT: …..But amid that list there is also another, often ignored, question to ponder: could 2012 produce a repeat of the “flash crash”, the bizarre episode that hit the U.S. equity markets back on May 6 2010? Think about it for a moment. A full 18 months have passed since […]
Source: Express Tribune. The court has released a short order and will release a detailed order later. PHOTO: AFP/FILE ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Friday declared the Memogate case to be maintainable and formed a commission to probe into the scandal. Balochistan High Court Chief Justice Qazi Faiz Esa will head […]
Source: Express Tribune: PM confirms the visit, no comment on trip’s purpose. ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and the United States are working quietly to bring some normalcy to their troubled relationship following last month’s Nato airstrikes in Mohmand Agency. As part of some behind the scenes efforts, Director General Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Lt […]