Rfi: Former far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen on Monday launched her bid to win election to France’s National Assembly next month from the northern French town of Hénin-Beaumont. She played down a challenge from hard-left presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who at the weekendannounced that he will oppose her there. Details. […]
Ifpress.com- News London I’ve spent the past eight Sundays at a London mosque, learning about Islam, the fastest-growing religion in the world. Though two months is hardly enough time to scratch the surface of a complex religion dating back hundreds of years and with more than a billion followers worldwide, […]
Daily News From his prison cell, a senior Pakistani officer accused of plotting with a shadowy Islamist organization to take over the military released his political manifesto: His call was for the army to sever its anti-terror alliance with the United States, which he contends is forcing Pakistan to fight […]
Bangladesh political leader indicted over 1971 war Former Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ghulam Azam has been indicted for genocide, murder and other atrocities during Bangladesh’s 1971 liberation war. The government claims up to three million people were killed by Pakistan’s army and pro-Pakistan militias during the struggle. A Bangladeshi special court […]
In the years that followed the 1967 Six Day War a prevailing conventional wisdom developed among Western policy makers – especially in Washington — that simultaneously contends that a “strong […]
Looking at the central program of the Olive Tree Initiative (OTI) at UCLA’s “Month of Ideas,” a two-night event called “Perspectives on Partition: A 1-state vs. 2-state debate,” it seems pretty clear that the only people who are invited to speak about whether to partition the land between the Jordan […]
Diet, exercise, and stress management counseling may be the key to managing diabetes and helping patients feel optimistic about their disease, confirms a new study at Bastyr Center for Natural Health in Kenmore, Wash. Researchers compared two groups: One group of 369 adults with type 2 diabetes received conventional treatment […]
The Jordan Times ZARQA — A team of archaeologists from a Romanian university have uncovered the ruins of an ancient city dating back to the early Bronze Age in the Masoum neighbourhood of Zarqa. Head of the Zarqa Antiquities Department Romel Gharib said the 80-dunum city contains a number of […]
By RIYADH: GHAZANFAR ALI KHAN ARABBEWS The Muslim world will have its own social networking site this summer. SalamWorld, a cleaner, Islam-centered alternative to Facebook, aims to reach 50 million […]
By JEDDAH: BADR AL-QAHTANI ARAB NEWS Prominent women campaigners and human rights activists called for harsh punishments, including naming and shaming, for those convicted of domestic abuse following the issuance of a draft law aimed at the protection of domestic abuse victims by the Shoura Council on Sunday. “One year […]
Politics in Pakistan is a dangerous and dirty business dominated by big landlords and other groups known more for their penchant for violence and terror than their desire to bring […]