Email amnesty for some, work slavery for others
Source: Dawn Are you fed up with your Blackberry because it effectively puts you on call for your employer 24/7? Are you a slave to its blinking red light and […]
Turkey now slams France of genocide
ISTANBUL: Turkey has accused France of committing genocide during its colonial occupation of Algeria. The comments Friday by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan are the latest response to French legislators […]
Elephant’s sixth ‘toe’ discovered
Source / Courtesy: BBC A mysterious bony growth found in elephants’ feet is actually a sixth “toe”, scientists report. For more than 300 years, the structure has puzzled researchers, but […]
Turkey withdraws French ambassador after Armenian genocide vote
By RFI Turkey has recalled it ambassador from Paris in protest at a French bill making the denial of the Armenian genocide a criminal offence. France’s lower house of parliament approved the bill, which makes it a crime to deny the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Armenians at the hands […]
Central Moscow bans alcohol for New Year: Inching towards religious prohibitions
RT: Getting a drink in Central Moscow on New Year’s eve is going to be impossible. Authorities are to ban the sale of alcohol in the city centre on New Year’s Eve night. All shops is central Moscow will stop selling all alcoholic drinks at 7pm local time on December […]
Iran blocks access to British embassy website
British Foreign secretary William Hague says website has been added to long list of those censored by Iranian authorities. http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/hub.1324331373.htmlhas blocked access to the website of the British embassy in […]
Portugal’s migrants hope for new life in old African colony
Increasing numbers of Europeans are going to Mozambique in search of work, but many have unrealistic expectations. It is Wednesday, and 31-year-old Maria Nunes is picking at her husband’s grilled […]
Finnish search for Arab art and culture
By GHAZANFAR ALI KHAN I ARAB NEWS RIYADH: About 4,500 kilometers away from Saudi Arabia, a small country tucked away in an isolated Arctic corner of Europe with fewer than […]
Finding a new role for churches: Need for a new message
Reuters:John Lloyd ……….This “hunger to be more serious” is acute now, in Christmas week, when, in the countries of long Christian tradition, the broadcast air is replete with carols, sacred music and invocations to rejoice in a miracle birth. It is a hunger which also contains something of a languorous […]
UK: Muslim baby adopted because of fear of honour killing
A baby born to a Muslim couple having an affair had to be adopted to save it from being murdered by its mother’s family in a so-called honour killing, senior judges have ruled. The unmarried woman was said to have told the married father of her child that it had […]
France and Turkey in war of words over 1915 massacre of Armenians
A war of words between France and Turkey escalated on Wednesday over the 1915 mass killing of up to 1.5 million Armenians in Ottoman Turkey, with France’s Europe minister claiming […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community’s message of Loyalty, Freedom, Respect, Equality and Peace
Laiq Ahmed Atif, President Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Malta was interviewed by Mr. Ivan Bartolo in his morning show “Stenbaħ” on Favorite Channel on 20.12.2011. In this interview the campaign of Peace Leaflets was discussed and Atif explained this campaign and the message of Loyalty, Freedom, Respect, Equality and Peace.
Nouvelles victimes de la politique d’immigration
A cinq mois de l’élection présidentielle, le ministre de l’Intérieur français poursuit son offensive contre l’immigration. La France accueille chaque année 200 000 étrangers en situation régulière et « c’est trop » estime Claude Guéant. Le locataire de la Place Beauvau s’est fixé comme objectif de diminuer l’immigration légale de 10%. Menacés d’expulsion […]
Will he jump?
A Swiss and an Austrian watch the 8 o’clock News on TV. Pictures are shown of a desperate man standing on top of a roof. Says the Swiss to the […]
Russia steps up demands for Nato to account for civilian deaths in Libya
Russia has stepped up demands for Nato to account for civilian deaths from the air strike campaign which led to the downfall of Libyan strongman Muammer Gaddafi. The campaign by […]
UK David Cameron arrives in Afghanistan on troop visit
David Cameron arrived in Kandahar today to visit troops based in Afghanistan. The Prime Minister was supposed to visit Camp Bastion in Helmand Province, but had to divert south due […]
Bhagavad Gita too hot for Russia: Allegory vs. literal understandings
Asia Times Online: Neeta Lal: Close on the heels of India’s liberal intellectual tradition receiving a jolt with the removal of an essay – ”Three Hundred Ramayanas: Five Examples and Three Thoughts on Translations” – by the late scholar A K Ramanujan from Delhi University’s BA history (honors) syllabus, comes […]
Hard times in Eurozone
Source: TOI on line If we take the first rumblings of trouble in the US sub-prime mortgage markets as the starting point, it’s been roughly five years since the global financial crisis began. There have been significant qualitative changes along the way. The US now seems, at least in relative […]
The Root Cause of Terrorism: An Unholy Thought
This article examines the root cause, regardless of the religious or the political affiliation of the perpetrator. Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times […]
Rights groups accuse Europe of CIA flights cover-up
LONDON: A majority of 28 mostly European countries have failed to comply with freedom of information requests about their involvement in secret CIA flights carrying suspected terrorists, two human rights groups said Monday. London-based Reprieve and Madrid-based Access Info Europe accused European nations of covering up their complicity in the […]