Source/Credit: Asian Human Rights Commission: 26 September 2011 Malik Ishaq, well known as a killer in many incidents of sectarian violence and bomb blasts has been taken by the state after killing over 100 victims. He is currently being held under house arrest for a period of ten days, supposedly […]
By ASSOCIATED PRESS ARABNEWS AMMAN: Jordan has some of the region’s most robust laws on paper to protect migrant domestic workers, but human rights groups said Tuesday its failure to enforce them leads to continued abuse. The New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the Jordanian legal aid center, Tamkeen, […]
By P. K. ABDUL GHAFOUR | ARAB NEWS Published: Sep 28, 2011 02:23 Updated: Sep 28, 2011 02:23 JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia has urged the United Nations to accept the Palestinians’ request for full membership in the international body and recognize it as an independent state. It also called for restricting the […]
By Mihaela Rodina, Agence France-Presse, JORDAN TIMES TIMISOARA, Romania – Western Romania has turned into a harbour of peace for nearly 200 refugees who fled persecution, abuse or violence – many in Libya – and dream only of “living freely”, once resettled in a Western country.“We suffered terribly in Libya. […]
By Taylor Luck, JORDAN TIMES THE KINGDOM’S natural gas supplies from Egypt were cut on Tuesday in what marked the sixth attack on the Arab Gas Pipeline this year. According to Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Khaled Toukan, Egyptian authorities announced yesterday that an explosion 25 kilometres southwest of […]
BEIRUT: Christians and Muslims in Lebanon and the region have nothing to fear from each other, Grand Mufti Sheikh Mohammad Rashid Qabbani said Tuesday at the opening of a Muslim-Christian religious summit in Beirut. “We in Lebanon today, Muslims and Christians together, pledge to safeguard each other,” Qabbani said in […]
This young Arabian leopard, without the intervention of the Kingdom’s little known but long established wildlife conservation program, would simply not exist. In 2003 one of the Middle East’s rarest predators, the Arabian leopard (Panthera pardus nimr), was almost extinct. The smallest member of the leopard family at only about […]
AMMAN (Jordan Times) – The Department of Antiquities has recovered from Israel hundreds of clay artefacts after 44 years, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported. The agency quoted acting Director General of the General Antiquities Department Fares Hmoud as saying Monday that the 620 artefacts, which date back to the […]
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The Dead Sea Scrolls are some of the most valuable religious texts known to man. Discovered between 1947 and 1956 at Khirbet Qumran, they form the oldest known versions of Biblical documents and take the form of 972 texts. Their age dates them at somewhere between 150 BCE and 70CE […]
By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev urged to adopt Religion Law BUDAPEST/ASTANA (BosNewsLife)– Lawmakers in Kazakhstan have voted for controversial legislation that Christians and rights activists say will further limit religious freedom in the mainly Muslim Central Asian state. Under the new Religion Law, […]
Source: International Crises Group Baghdad/Washington/Brussels, 26 September 2011: Spreading corruption threatens to undermine the significant progress Iraq has made toward reducing violence and strengthening state institutions. Failing Oversight: Iraqs Unchecked Government, the latest report from the International Crisis Group, examines the steady erosion of the credibility of Prime Minister Nouri […]
By ARAB NEWS ‘Diyyah’ represented long-term investment for the benefit of victims’ heirs during the time of the Prophet RIYADH: A Saudi economist has welcomed the recent government decision to raise diyyah (blood money) to SR400,000 for murder and SR300,000 for accidental killings, but warned this alone would not be […]
Jordan Times http://www.jordantimes.com AMMAN (JT) – Somalia’s honorary consul to Jordan, Aref Rteimeh, on Sunday said 10 Jordanian doctors from the private sector will head to Somalia next month as part of the Kingdom’s humanitarian campaign to help the Somalis. He added that the physicians volunteered to provide famine victims […]
By Karin Laub, The Associated Press, Jordan Times. RAMALLAH – With combative speeches at the United Nations, the Palestinian and Israeli leaders have locked themselves into positions that seem to preclude a resumption of peace talks and usher in a season of confrontation over a Palestinian state. Palestinian President Mahmoud […]
By MD HUMAIDAN | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: Jeddah’s downtown historical center Balad will be a World Heritage Site within two years, according to President of the Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities (SCTA) Prince Sultan bin Salman. The prince, who is also deputy chairman of the committee for the development […]
By ARAB NEWS RIYADH: Women will join Shoura Council in the next session, and they will also be allowed to contest and vote in the next municipal elections, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah said while addressing Shoura Council on Sunday. King Abdullah announced that women would be […]
By MOHAMMED MAR’I ARABNEWS GAZA: The GCC program for the reconstruction of Gaza has succeeded to rebuild hundreds of homes destroyed during the Israeli aggression on Gaza Strip in 2008-2009. Rif’at Diab, the program coordinator in the Strip, told the Voice of Palestine Radio that the program finished the first […]
By AGENCIES ARABNEWS SANAA: The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) urged Ali Abdullah Saleh to sign a power transfer plan “immediately” as forces loyal to the Yemeni president attacked pro-opposition troops with mortar shells and heavy gunfire Saturday and rooftop snipers picked off unarmed protesters fleeing in panic. The streets of […]
By Taylor Luck IN THE DRYING marshlands of the Azraq oasis lie the remnants of one of the earliest communities to roam the Levant. Ayn Qasiyya – an Epipalaeolithic site dating back some 20,000 years located in the Azraq Wetlands Reserve – has yielded dozens of secrets from the prehistoric […]