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JAKARTA – (AFP) – A religious court official in Indonesia has blamed social networking site Facebook for a rise in teenage pregnancies and under-age marriages, a report said Thursday. Siti Haryanti, a secretary at the religious court in Mount Kidul, a town in Central Java, said young couples were having […]
Source: CBSNews World NAIROBI, Kenya – A U.S. official says the famine in Somalia has killed more than 29,000 children under the age of 5. The United Nations has said that tens of thousands of people have died in the Horn of Africa’s drought and famine, but the U.S. estimate […]
research suggests that your life choices might not be the crucial factor in determining whether you make it to 95 or beyond; it finds that many extremely old people appear to have been as bad as everyone else at indulging in poor health habits during their younger years. Of […]
Director of the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) Kristian Berg Harpviken has strongly condemned the Libyan conflict, claiming that lives are being lost for no good reason. “It’s really too early to conclude. We don’t know what the history of Libya will be yet, but it is a pretty entrenched […]
Forty lawmakers from both the coalition and opposition Wednesday submitted a proposal to the Knesset for a new Basic Law that would change the accepted definition of Israel as a “Jewish and democratic state.” The bill, initiated by MKs Avi Dichter (Kadima ), Zeev Elkin (Likud ) and David Rotem […]
Arab News: As usual, I find it appropriate to elaborate on one aspect of Ramadan, to celebrate this holy month and to appreciate the spirit of fasting with its many rewarding facets. Very few realize that the practice comes with multiple and diverse benefits to our bodies, spirits, emotions, characters, […]
MUCH is made of the fact that Pakistan`s national flag was designed to represent all the communities that were to live in this land. The green of the banner was meant to symbolise the Muslim majority and the white strip represented the non-Muslim minorities: Christian, Hindu, Parsi, Sikh and others. […]
Kuala Lumpur: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak Monday underwent successful arthroscopic surgery of the left knee which he had injured in a sports event. The surgery, conducted at Kuala Lumpur Hospital, took 45 minutes from 8.30am, Director-General of Health Datuk Dr Hasan Abdul Rahman said in a statement. […]
Kuala Lumpur: Employers and worker organisations want the government to suspend the amnesty programme for the 1.2 million illegal workers which began monday, arguing that the ongoing exercise to register legal workers using the biometric system was incomplete and riddled with problems. “To carry out both exercises in parallel was […]
Kota Kinabalu: There are more illegal immigrants in the State than originally thought. Hence, the State Government has decided to give them another week to register under the current 5P exercise. State Secretary Datuk Sukarti Wakiman who revealed this at the end of the two week 5P registration programme on […]
IPOH: State Veterinary Services Department deputy director Dr Rohani Kasim (pix) was found dead at her rented Permai Lake View apartment unit Thursday. It is learnt that Dr Rohani, 33, was found stangled in the house at 3am. Police have detained a man to assist in the investigations and are […]
GEORGE TOWN: The Chinese are back as the majority, overtaking the Malays as the largest community in Penang with them accounting for 42.9% of the state’s population last year, 2.2% more than the Malays. According to the latest report by the Department of Statistics, the number of Chinese in Penang […]
KUALA TERENGGANU: A kind gesture by a bank officer in giving way to an ambulance proved disastrous as his car was rammed by another vehicle. Mohd Haslin Ibrahim, 34, was sending his wife Salina Salleh, 31, to work at 11.30am when they stopped at the Gong Kapas traffic light here. […]
Source: Bloomberg News It’s possible that, in the long view, 2011 will be seen as Indian democracy’s summer of discontent. It’s hard to escape the sense of simmering mass unrest bred by the cynicism and cupidity of the political class. In the capital, the UPA coalition government, led by the […]
Source: BBC News Ten suspected thieves have been beaten to death by villagers in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, police said. They said the killings took place in Chikaballapur, 55km (34 miles) from the state capital, Bangalore, late on Tuesday. One man was injured. More than 70 people have […]
Two homes used as churches were burned to the ground in Riau on Tuesday night, a report said. The incidents are the latest in a series of attacks on minority religious groups in Indonesia that have prompted international condemnation, including from the United States and European Union. The homes were […]
Source: Israel Today Magazine Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to restart peace negotiations with the Palestinians using the pre-1967 borders as a baseline for a final status peace agreement, according to Israeli media. Officials in Netanyahu’s office told various newspapers that the proposal is actually a package deal that […]
JAKARTA, August 2 (Xinhua) — Indonesia will host the ASEAN Women Students Conference in the capital city of Jakarta in 2012 to encourage women’s participation in the world’s peace. Chairwoman of Women Corps of the Indonesian Islamic Students Movement Irma Muthoharoh told Xinhua after a discussion with the People’s Consultative […]
By JPOST EDITORIAL It is important that Israeli leaders and society see Ramadan as a way to engage with the Muslim community. ……..Israel contains many experts on Islam and Islamic studies. The National Library at the Hebrew University’s Givat Ram Campus considers Islam one of its core areas and maintains […]
Recently, after a meeting with representatives of the Armed Forces, National Police and Attorney General’s Office, the head of the National Anti-Terrorism Agency said that Indonesia’s antiterror drive should focus more on prevention. Reasonable as that sounds, it requires that one understand what exactly drives people to terrorism. The recent […]