RAMALLAH (AFP) – Jordan Times. The Palestinians have secured eight Security Council yes votes for their UN membership bid, just one short of the nine they need, the Palestinian foreign minister said on Thursday. Speaking to reporters in Ramallah, Riyad Al Malki said he had received assurances from two additional […]
ANTHONY SHADID and DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK CAIRO — By force of this year’s Arab revolts and revolutions, activists marching under the banner of Islam are on the verge of a reckoning decades in the making: the prospect of achieving decisive power across the region has unleashed an unprecedented debate over […]
BOSTON — A team of Japanese scientists who invented a fire alarm that smells like wasabi were among the winners of this year’s Ig Nobel prizes that were handed out for head-scratching scientific discoveries Thursday at Harvard University. The Japanese team won the chemistry prize for the alarm that emits […]
By Qasim Yousafzai For CentralAsiaOnline.com Shehrbano Taseer, daughter of slain Pakistani Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer, spoke at a panel discussion at UN European headquarters in Geneva WASHINGTON, D.C. – Islam’s greatest threat comes from those who claim to be serving it – extremist militants, Shehrbano Taseer, daughter of slain Punjab Governor Salman Taseer, said June […]
By Benjamin Bidder in Bolshaya Elnya, Russia, SPIEGEL ONLINE Mother Fotina once led a “Center for Cosmo-Energetic Medicine,” and now she prays to Vladimir Putin. Her sect, in a village east of Moscow, honors Russia’s once and future president as a reincarnation of St. Paul. The group represents a rising […]
BY OMAR OBEIDAT, JORDAN TIMES AMMAN –– Jordan and the US on Wednesday signed five grant agreements worth $359.3 million. The grants, presented by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), will support various sectors, including the budget, education, health and economic development in addition to a plan to […]
By BADEA ABU AL-NAJA | ARAB NEWS MAKKAH: The first group of pilgrims for the upcoming Haj arrived at King Abdulaziz International Airport (KAIA) in Jeddah early Wednesday. The group consisted of 184 South Africans. Supervisor of the reception committee of the Tawafa Establishment for Non-Arab African Pilgrims Hani bin […]
By MARIAM NIHAL | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: The lashing punishment handed to Shayma Jastaniah for flouting the driving ban has caused outrage among Saudis and expatriates living in the Kingdom. Shayma, in her 30s, was found guilty of driving without permission and sentenced to 10 lashes on Tuesday, a day […]
Source/Credit: Asian Human Rights Commission: 26 September 2011: http://www.humanrights.asia Malice, hatred and discrimination against Ahmadi Muslim students in Pakistan are part of a wider scheme to cripple Ahmadis educationally, economically and socially. Ahmadis were declared a non Muslim minority in Pakistan by the amendment in the Constitution and they […]
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, […]