By P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: Makkah Gov. Prince Khaled Al-Faisal has instructed officials not to eradicate any heritage sites without the permission of the Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities (SCTA). He said relevant authorities should coordinate with the SCTA to evaluate the historical significance of old […]
By AGENCIES ARABNEWS RAMALLAH, West Bank: Jordan’s King Abdallah II is paying a rare visit to the West Bank to show support for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Monday’s trip comes […]
By Raed Omari AMMAN – Riots erupted anew but faded away within hours on Sunday in the northern town of Ramtha following the release of the results of an autopsy on Najem Azaizeh, who died last week while in police custody. The autopsy report said that Azaizeh, 21, died of […]
Indonesia is an interesting phenomenon where Christians, Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists can live in one house or get along side-by-side peacefully. An irony to religious tolerance It has been years of agony for GKI Taman Yasmin Protestant church congregation members as Bogor Mayor Diani Budiarto has defied a Supreme Court […]
Zafaryab Ali and his business partner, Peerada Shah, Two Pakistani Muslims in Brooklyn were shocked on hearing through a friend that Coney Island Bialys and Bagels was closing. Ali had worked at the store for 10 years in the 1990s and remembers it always being crowded, with lines out the […]
Delhi has become the first state in India to provide “right to health care” for the school children. The new law passed to that effect will help in early diagnosis. It […]
BALI, Indonesia, Nov. 19 (Xinhua) — Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and leaders of the 10 ASEAN member nations issued a joint statement Friday at a summit commemorating the 20th anniversary of the China-ASEAN dialogue relations in Bali, Indonesia. The following is the full text of the statement……… …. Further Advancing […]
Syria will not attend an Arab League foreign ministers’ meeting in Rabat tomorrow, called to discuss the unrest in Syria. Syria has not explained why they have decided not to attend the talks. Moroccan Foreign Minister Taieb Fassi said earlier that Syria would be welcome to attend the meeting. The […]
By DIAA HADID | AP ARABNEWS JERUSALEM: A tract of Palestinian land in the West Bank has for the first time been seized by a kibbutz located inside Israel, a prominent Israeli researcher said Saturday. The land — about 365 acres (148 hectares) from the West Bank Palestinian village of […]
By ARJUWAN LAKKDAWALA | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: With the price of gold skyrocketing and no immediate signs of it coming down, people wanting to buy gold for their immediate needs are in a dilemma — to buy then how to buy. The prices in the market makes it nearly impossible […]
By ARAB NEWS Saudi Arabia has welcomed the recent establishment of a United Nations Center for Counter-Terrorism and provided $10 million to cover the center’s costs for the first three years. The project is a result of the International Conference on Combating Terrorism held in Riyadh in 2005 and attended […]
By Khaled Neimat, Jordan Times AMMAN – Several Islamist leaders on Saturday agreed on the need to develop their movement’s approach and tools to generate what they described as “Islamic model of governance”. “We have made mistakes,” said Ali Abul Sukkar, president of the shura council at the Islamic Action […]
By MOHAMMED MAR’I RAMALLAH: Senior Palestinian officials on Thursday denied reports that the Palestinian Authority has offered the United States a deal under which it would freeze all moves to achieve full membership for Palestine in various UN agencies until the end of January while the US and Israel would […]
By ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia’s prudent and balanced policies in the Middle East under the leadership of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah and Crown Prince Naif have helped avert many crises that might have led to catastrophic consequences to the world economy, according to German Consul […]
By MD HUMAIDAN | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: The Passport Department has urged all foreign pilgrims who have come for Haj to leave the Kingdom before the expiry of their visas. “Saudi regulations do not allow pilgrims overstaying their Haj visas,” it said. Brig. Ayed Al-Harbi, commander of the Passport Department […]
By MD RASOOLDEEN | ARAB NEWS RIYADH: A Sri Lankan delegation visiting Dawadmi, 380 km from the capital, was given a warm welcome by the Otaibi tribe leader Mohamed Faihan Shoraim Al-Otaibi on Thursday. The high-powered delegation led by Sri Lanka’s Western Province Gov. Alavi Mowlana met the tribal leaders […]
Washington, DC – As President Obama travels to Bali for this week’s Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit, Human Rights First is urging him to question the Indonesian government about ongoing human rights concerns, including impunity for human rights abuses. Human Rights First was in Indonesia this week meeting […]
By ARAB NEWS MADINAH: Various government departments in Madinah are continuing round-the-clock efforts to serve pilgrims who are flocking to the Prophet’s City in the post-Haj phase. The departments started their special Haj services under the supervision of Madinah Gov. Prince Abdul Aziz bin Majed early October when the Haj […]
By Laila Azzeh, Jordan Times. AMMAN – Clerics, intellectuals and researchers convened yesterday to discuss different approaches to teaching religion in schools and universities in the region, stressing the importance of inter-religious education to promote tolerance and understanding. Held under the patronage of HRH Prince Hassan, the symposium, “An Introduction […]
By Mohammad Ghazal, Jordan Times. AMMAN – His Majesty King Abdullah’s remarks to the BBC earlier this week that he would step down if he were in Syrian President Bashar Assad’s place reflect Jordan’s deep concern about Syria, according to columnists. The columnists said Jordan cannot ignore the situation in […]