President Aquino builds trust by acknowledging a historic massacre of Muslims. ENLARGE Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels stand guard as their chief Murad Ebrahim (not pictured) holds a press conference inside camp on the southern island of Mindanao in October 2012. A framework agreement signed by President Benigno Aquino […]
ET: LAHORE: Aasia Bibi, the Christian woman on death row whose blasphemy conviction was decried as unjust by slain former governor Salmaan Taseer, faces a wait of at least another two years behind bars before her appeal is likely to come up before the Lahore High Court. Bibi, 45, has […]
Epigraph: “But whoso does good works, whether male or female, and is a believer, such shall enter Heaven, and shall not be wronged even as much as the little hollow in the […]
STORY SUMMARY by Rami Khouri, The Daily Star, Lebanon First, any just and mutually agreed permanent peace accord between Israelis and Palestinians will have to return all the territories occupied in 1967 to the Palestinians (with mutually agreed land swaps in some cases). Second, this can only be achieved when […]
ARAB NEWS Sunday 30 June 2013 It is a pity that the leadership of both the sects, political and religious, has miserably failed to keep away from the treacherous plots of the Western right-wing lobbies steered by the neocons. Write-ups in the New York Times and The Washington Post by […]
RIYADH: ARAB NEWS Saturday 29 June 2013 The Gulf Cooperation Council will hold a meeting in Riyadh on Thursday to agree the mechanisms for imposing sanctions on members of Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah, its head Abdullatif Al-Zayani said. GCC decided on June 10 to impose sanctions on members of Hezbollah […]
RIYADH: MD RASOOLDEEN ARABNEWS Saturday 29 June 2013 Local travel operators have raised the price of weekend Umrah package for Ramadan from SR 100 to SR 160 per pilgrim from Riyadh. A rush of pilgrims is expected for Ramadan, which starts on July 9. This year, the peak season coincides […]
By JODI RUDOREN The New York Times JERUSALEM — The chief Palestinian negotiator condemned Israel on Thursday for moving closer to constructing 69 apartments in a Jewish neighborhood on territory seized in the 1967 war even as Secretary of State John Kerry arrived for a fifth round of meetings in […]
By Earl Shugerman: I immigrated to Haifa Israel six years ago from The United States. My greatest joy in living in this city is the peaceful coexistence of its citizens. […]
AIJAZ ZAKA SYED ARABNEWS Thursday 27 June 2013 REMEMBER Sarah Palin? The former governor of Alaska may well have ended up the US vice president and perhaps even more considering the advanced years of John McCain, the 2008 presidential candidate, if a certain colored man with an impossible name and […]
Epigraph: Were you present when death came to Jacob, when he said to his sons, ‘What will you worship after me?’ They answered, ‘We will worship thy God, the God […]
DAMASCUS — A suicide bomber killed at least four people in a Christian area of the Syrian capital on Thursday as aid groups said they cannot keep pace with the […]
ABU TARIQ HIJAZI ARABNEWS Friday 28 June 2013 Imam Malik was one of the most respected scholars of Fiqh also known as Imam Darul Hijrah. His great grandfather Abi Aamer, who was from Yemen, embraced Islam in 2 AH and migrated to Madinah. He participated in all the battles alongside […]
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Thursday 27 June 2013 The costs of performing Haj and Umrah are expected to increase this season according to pilgrim service providers. The surge in prices has […]
MAKKAH: ARAB NEWS Friday 28 June 2013 The ongoing expansion of the mataf (the circumambulation area around the Kaaba) will double the hourly capacity of the area from 48,000 pilgrims […]
STORY SUMMARY It appears as if Kerry didn’t send the Israelis a memo about his current efforts. From time to time in recent years, and decades, U.S. officials suddenly begin making positive statements about the need for a Palestinian-Israeli peace; sometimes, they even hold talks with the two sides. As […]
Archbishop of Canterbury: Israel the center of the world In Jerusalem, the leader of 80 million Anglicans — who has a Jewish father — blesses Kerry’s peace efforts, highlights Christian […]
By Caroline Alexander Bloomberg June 26, 2013 Syria’s Kurds are carving out a self-governed zone as the decay of President Bashar al-Assad’s government creates an opportunity for a people who […]
By Hasnain Kazim SPIEGEL.DE The situation in Afghanistan is becoming so precarious that Afghan diplomats no longer want to return to their homeland. Up to 100 foreign service employees set for rotation back to Kabul from assignments abroad have now defected. A total of 105 Afghan diplomats were meant to […]