Sweden’s Princess Madeleine marries New York banker in lavish ceremony
Swedish Princess Madeleine wed New York banker Christopher O’Neill in a lavish and emotional wedding ceremony in Stockholm on Saturday. see video report here:
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Rafiq A. Tschannen
Rafiq A. Tschannen is a Swiss national. He converted to Islam and joined the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community at the age of 16 after reading the German translation of the Holy Qur'an. He worked in 15 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, first as Finance Director in the private industry and later as Chief Executive Officer of NGOs and International Governmental Organizations. He is now devoting his time to The Muslim Times as Editor for Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Palestine and Switzerland and as Associate Chief Editor.
Let ailing Nelson Mandela go, friend urges
South Africans were urged to let go of their beloved hero Nelson Mandela after the ailing 94-year-old spent a second night in hospital with a recurrent pneumonia infection. Officials have not released an update on Mandela’s health since announcing that he was back in hospital and was in a “serious […]
Kaaba to be washed tomorrow
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Sunday 9 June 2013 The ceremonial washing of the Holy Kaaba, which is carried out before the beginning of the month of each Ramadan, is set to […]
Umrah visa’s validity limited to two weeks
JEDDAH: SIRAJ WAHAB ARABNEWS Sunday 9 June 2013 The Haj Ministry has decided to limit the validity of Umrah visas to only 14 days because of the ongoing work to […]
Switzerland: June 9 votes: More stringent asylum rules set to be confirmed
by Urs Geiser, swissinfo.ch June 8, 2013 – 15:10 Voters have the final say this weekend whether a more restrictive asylum law introduced last autumn should be upheld. They also […]
Opinion: The Syria the World Forgot (or, The Syria the World managed to destroy).
By ALIA MALEK Published: June 8, 2013 The New York Times LAST month, while we waited at the Lebanese border for our papers to be processed so that we could […]
Switzerland: Hotel students boycott church graduation event
Certain students who concluded their studies at the Swiss Hotel Management School are boycotting the graduation ceremony because it is being held in a Catholic church. The school, which promotes […]
Billionaire Tells Americans to Prepare For ‘Financial Ruin’
The United States could soon become a large-scale Spain or Greece, teetering on the edge of financial ruin. That’s according to Donald Trump, who painted a very ugly picture of where this country is headed. Trump made the comments during a recent appearance on Fox News’ “On the Record with […]
Anti-Semitic Cartoon: Norwegian Paper (Dagbladet) Incorrectly Compares Jewish Reaction to Mohammed (saw) Cartoon Riots
Source: The Conservative Papers. The incredibly offensive cartoon published last week by Norway’s third largest newspaper, Dagbladet, generated a huge volume of emails to the editor. While we cannot vouch for the language used by all of the complainants, it is a major step to compare this form of protest to the […]
Pakistan summons US envoy Richard Hoagland over drone strike
Source: TOI ISLAMABAD: Just days after taking power, Pakistan’s new government has lodged a protest with the US and summoned a top American envoy to vent its frustration following a US drone strike that intelligence officials say killed seven militants. More:
Throw out illegal immigrants
Source: The Local Germany’s interior minister called on Friday for a tougher approach towards immigrants who appear to be in Germany just for the social support system. It was time, he said, to throw people out. More:
Anti-Semitic nature of the attack.
Source: The Local Rabbi Mendel Gurewitz said he was verbally abused, followed, and physically attacked last Sunday in the KOMM-Center shopping arcade in Offenbach by a group of around ten boys, aged around 15 or 16. According to a report in Die Welt, security personnel demanded that the rabbi delete photos he […]
Egypt deports German Islamist preacher
Source: The Local The official said Sven Lau was turned back at the airport after arriving onboard a KLM flight from Amsterdam.The German news agency DPA also identified him as Sven Lau, a fiery Islamist preacher whose group’s offices were raided by German police in 2010. More:
At least 50 Germans fighting in Syria
Source: The Local German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich has said that he believes at least 50 German citizens are taking part in the Syrian civil war, and that they represent “ticking time bombs” if they return. More:
(One law for us – another for the rest of the world): Obama defends broad phone, Internet spy programs
By LARA JAKES WyomingNews.com President Barack Obama is urging Americans to “make some choices” in balancing privacy and security as he defends once-secret surveillance programs that sweep up an estimated 3 billion phone calls a day and amass Internet data from U.S. providers in an attempt to thwart terror attacks. […]
Spain’s £1.75billion submarine programme is torpedoed after realising near-complete vessel is 70 tonnes too heavy because engineer put decimal point in the wrong place
Experts fear that the Isaac Peral will not surface again if sent to sea The mistake will cost £9million over three years to rectify A US company is to present […]
Iraq Pays $300 Million To Terror Victims
By: Omar al-Shaher for Al-Monitor Iraq Pulse Posted on April 17. إقرأ باللغة العربية Iraq has been taking initiatives to help the families of the people who died or were wounded as a result of the acts of violence that have shaken the country since the fall of the regime […]
Islam prohibits sinful speech, excessive laughter
Friday 7 June 2013 ARABNEWS ISLAM prohibits sinful speech that intends to cause harm to other human beings. It also prohibits excessive laughter or extreme humor. People in general do not think twice about what they are saying; they forget that every word they utter is being recorded and will […]
Mending Vatican ties: Al-Azhar wants pope to declare Islam peaceful
CAIRO: ARAB NEWS Saturday 8 June 2013 An envoy from Al-Azhar in Cairo, raised the prospect of restoring ties with the Vatican yesterday but called on Pope Francis to take […]
In Dr Salam’s footsteps: For budding scientists, science centre striving for excellence
Source: ET Dr Abdus Salam. PHOTO: FILE ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s only Nobel laureate, the late Dr Abdus Salam, had a dream to create an international platform for scientists from the developing world to be at par, technologically, with their peers in the developed world. This wish was partially fulfilled during his lifetime […]