By REUTERS ARABBEWS AMMAN: Jordan’s King Abdallah on Monday sacked his Cabinet and asked Awn Khasawneh, an international jurist, to head a new administration, in a move to placate protesters calling for faster reforms, said officials and palace sources. The Western-backed king, facing growing pressure from activists inspired by uprisings […]
As it Happens: Prisoners Await Entry to West Bank, Gaza PALESTINE NEWS NETWORK The first phase of the Shalit prisoner swap began on early morning Tuesday, with captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit being transferred to Egypt in return for 450 Palestinian prisoners loaded on buses preparing to enter the West […]
KUALA LUMPUR: The Indonesian Finance Ministry is targetting a $500 million 5-year global sukuk issuance this year, an official told reporters at an Islamic finance forum here on Monday. “We are looking for the benchmark tenor, but we hope to have longer (tenures),” Dwi Irianti Hadiningdyah, deputy director of Islamic Financing for the ministry’s debt […]
And so, as it happens time and again, there appears to be yet another diplomatic spat looming over the horizon between Malaysia and Indonesia. The cause of it, this time round, is a dispute over border-land markers somewhere in East Malaysia/Kalimantan that appear to have been moved by persons yet […]
By MD AL-SULAMI | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: Options other than prison time are to be considered when judges pass sentences on minor crimes, Justice Minister Muhammad Al-Eisa said on Saturday while opening a forum on modern trends in alternative punishments in Riyadh. “The modern trend in criminal law is to […]
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (Agencies) – Israel on Sunday released a list of 477 Palestinian prisoners to be released as part of the deal to secure Gilad Shalit’s freedom, many of whom were involved in bloody attacks, Agence France-Presse reported. Hundreds of them are serving life terms after being convicted of involvement […]
By MD HUMAIDAN | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: The General Presidency of the Two Holy Mosques Affairs will establish more than 100 telephone cabins at the lobbies and the gates of the Grand Mosque. They will be connected to the offices of religious scholars to answer queries by pilgrims around the […]
By BADEA ABU AL-NAJA | ARAB NEWS Published: Oct 16, 2011 23:38 Updated: Oct 16, 2011 23:38 MAKKAH: Until about 30 years ago, the Haj season was seen as an important source of income for Makkah residents. It helped them to earn money that enabled them to meet their daily […]
In the letter he had stated that recognition was needed in the interest of a large number of Pakistani expatriates employed in Libya as there were indications that the NTC could move to substitute Pakistani workers with Indians because of Islamabad’s hesitation in recognizing the new government Islamabad: Pakistan has decided […]
They live in a world of plenty, but one in seven will go hungry today Enough crops can be grown to feed the planet. But spiralling grain prices, stock market speculation, climate change and corrupt and failing governments have left almost a billion people facing starvation. Amid the democratic euphoria […]
By RIMA AL-MUKHTAR | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: An Islamic preacher has denied telling an online publication that Islam does not prohibit unsupervised phone calls between young women and men before they get engaged. Sheikh Mohammad Al-Nujaimi was reported to have told online publication Awj that it is fine for an […]
JORDAN TIMES AMMAN (Petra) – Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilus III on Saturday laid the foundation stone of a community centre and a Roman Orthodox school in Wahdana village in Ajloun. During a visit to the governorate, the patriarch reiterated the need to enhance the concepts of tolerance, harmony, […]
The Jordanian government decided to send a large delegation of officials and business leaders to Libya to offer support for its reconstruction, a move that is necessary, even if it came a bit late in the hour.The minister of industry and trade will head the delegation – hefty from the […]
By Rami G. Khouri, The Daily Star, Beirut, Lebanon I had the pleasure this week of speaking at the Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies at Tufts University on a panel titled “Continuing Tensions in the Levant.” The panel made me realize two related things. First, all major players in […]
By MD RASOOLDEEN | ARAB NEWS RIYADH: Shoura Council Chairman Abdullah Al-Asheikh has said a key Inter-Parliamentary Union meeting will review its role in Arab and Islamic countries in maintaining peace and security in the region. The 125th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union will be held in the Swiss capital […]
Indonesia is looking to ramp up its production of South Sea pearls to 7 million tons from 5.7 million tons in 2010, and says it has the potential to produce up to 20 million tons a year. The country is only using about 28 percent of its pearl cultivation potential […]
Although there are some uncertainties, the Indonesian economy is well placed for what will now almost certainly be a sharp downturn in the world economy. Foreign reserves were at a record high at just under US$120 billion at the end of the second quarter, inflation was down to below 5 […]
By ARAB NEWS VIENNA/RIYADH: Saudi Arabia, Austria and Spain set up Thursday a new center for interfaith dialogue in Vienna. Austrian Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger signed the founding document Thursday along with his Spanish and Saudi counterparts Trinidad Jimenez and Prince Saud Al-Faisal. “The dialogue with and between religious communities […]
By ARAB NEWS MADINAH: The General Presidency of the Affairs of the Two Holy Mosques is considering the appointment of reserve imams in the Grand Mosque in Makkah and the Prophet’s Mosque in Madinah to correct the accredited imams when they make mistakes in Tilawah (recitation of the Qur’an) and […]