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Bahraini dies battling Assad forces

AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE ARABNEWS Friday 31 May 2013 DUBAI: Bahrain has urged its citizens not to travel to Syria to fight alongside fighters ranged against government forces after a Bahraini youth was killed there in battle, local press reported yesterday. “Supporting the right of the Syrian people to self defense […]

No to Blasphemy Laws

Daily Times: by Marvi Sermad. One is amazed at the audacity of the advocates of blasphemy laws, who think of themselves as vigilant guards of not only the Almighty, but religious personages as well, thereby creating an illusion that God and the Prophet (PBUH) might not be able to deal […]

Chinese worker cleared of blasphemy

Daily Times: MUZAFFARABAD: Authorities in Azad Kashmir on Thursday cleared a Chinese man accused of committing blasphemy by desecrating a holy Quran, officials said. Lee Ping, the administration manager of a Chinese consortium building a major hydropower project, was accused on May 17 of throwing the Islamic holy book on […]

Russian missiles have arrived in Syria

Source: TOI BEIRUT: The Syrian president has told Lebanon’s Hezbollah-owned TV station that Damascus received the first shipment of Russian air defense missiles, according to remarks released on Thursday. Bashar Assad’s comment on the arrival of the long-range S-300 air defense missiles in Syria will further ratchet up tensions in […]

Wasting time

Source:The Economist. ONE of India’s bigger private-sector employers can be found in Patna, the capital of Bihar, a poor, populous state in the east of the country. Narendra Kumar Singh, the boss, has three gold rings on his right hand and arms big enough to crush rocks. His firm, Frontline, […]