EDDAH: KHALIL HANWARE Published — Thursday 7 November 2013 Top businessmen and economists in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are unanimous in their opinion that the crackdown against illegal workers following the end of the amnesty period would only benefit the Saudi economy in the long run though short-term obstacles […]
JEDDAH: NADIM AL-HAMID & HABIB SHAIKH Published — Thursday 7 November 2013 The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) will ask member states to sever diplomatic relations with states that recognize Israel’s annexation of Jerusalem or move their embassies to the historic city during the upcoming Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) […]
by Diarmaid MacCulloch Oct 27, 2013 5:45 AM EDT Why has the suffering of the Middle Eastern Christian communities not ignited outrage and support from Western Christians? The answer has […]
Source: China Daily By SHEN JINGTING (China Daily) Chinese telecom equipment vendor Huawei Technologies Co Ltd announced on Wednesday that it will invest at least $600 million in research and development of fifth-generation mobile technology by 2018. Huawei’s move is part of a global trend that involves major telecom companies […]
Source: BBC The late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat may have been poisoned with radioactive polonium, says a Swiss forensic report obtained by al-Jazeera. Arafat’s official medical records say he died in 2004 from a stroke resulting from a blood disorder. But his body was exhumed last year amid continuing claims […]
Source: press@amjinternational.org. The World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat and Fifth Khalifa, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, arrived safely in Japan on 5 November 2013. His Holiness flew into Tokyo Narita International Airport from Auckland, New Zealand and arrived at 5pm local time. Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad spent his first […]
Paris, France – Swiss scientists who conducted tests on samples taken from Yasser Arafat’s body have found at least 18 times the normal levels of radioactive polonium in his remains. The scientists said that they were confident up to an 83 percent level that the late Palestinian leader was poisoned […]
The Huffington Post: Despite the current state of tension that exists between them, Muslims and Jews have a long history of tolerance and mutual admiration. Perhaps this is no more […]
CNN: by Nick Paton Walsh, Raja Razek, Gul Tuysuz – Gaziantep, Turkey (CNN) — Raqqa was, a matter of months ago, one of Syria’s most liberal cities. Now locals call it Tora Bora. They say it’s as if the Taliban of Afghanistan have taken over. After months of bombardment by the […]
Move to demolish hundreds of Arab apartments ‘destroying every chance of peace’, says Fatah Ben Lynfield Jerusalem Israel is planning to destroy hundreds of Palestinian apartments in occupied East Jerusalem […]
Reuters | 06-Nov-2013 08:34 AM Dubai: Saudi authorities rounded up thousands of illegal foreign workers at the start of a nationwide crackdown ultimately aimed at creating more jobs for locals, media reported on Tuesday. Hundreds of thousands of workers have already left the kingdom following a grace period of seven […]
Dawn: DHAKA: Bangladesh has overtaken India on the prosperity index for the first time this year on the back of its successful development policies. “At present, the grand South Asian leader might learn a trick or two from its more nimble regional compatriot,” said the 2013 Legatum Prosperity Index, an […]
Source: Jihad Watch. “Allah has bought from the believers their selves and their possessions against the gift of Paradise; they fight in the way of Allah; they kill, and are killed…” (Qur’an 9:111) Since martyrs in Islam are those who “fight in the way of Allah” and “kill and are […]
GENEVA (AP) — The U.N.’s top Syria envoy says diplomats have failed to agree on a date for a new Syria peace conference this year. Lakhdar Brahimi said at a news conference in Geneva that diplomats “are still striving to see if we can have the conference before the end […]
By:Omer Zaheer Meer PAKISTAN TODAY Not any longer Other than ‘Can Pakistan survive sans aid?’, the other most common question or myth about the Pakistan-US relations is the supposed indispensability of the US’s military assistance for the former. Having taken care of the first question in this space earlier, this […]
Source: NY Times: GENEVA — Iran, Israel and Arab states took part in a secret meeting about prospects for an international conference on banning nuclear weapons in the Middle East, diplomats said on Tuesday, a rare such gathering of regional adversaries. More:
By M Ilyas Khan BBC News, Islamabad When Pakistan’s former military ruler, Pervez Musharraf, ended his four-year exile and returned to the country to participate in May’s elections, he took […]
Beirut (AFP) – The Syrian regime will not attend a proposed Geneva peace conference if the aim is for President Bashar al-Assad to hand over power, the country’s information minister said Monday. “We will not go to Geneva to hand over power as desired by (Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud) […]
Columns, Chris Hedges TRUTHDIG Israel has been poisoned by the psychosis of permanent war. It has been morally bankrupted by the sanctification of victimhood, which it uses to justify an occupation that rivals the brutality and racism of apartheid South Africa. Its democracy—which was always exclusively for Jews—has been hijacked […]