Over 60 African refugees, including women and children, recently died trying to reach Europe when their boat ran adrift for two weeks in the Mediterranean. Western military personnel allegedly saw the boat and did nothing to help. Now the United Nations is investigating the case. SPIEGEL talked to survivors and […]
by Abdelhafidh Abdeleli, swissinfo.ch The protests and subsequent government crackdown are dividing opinion among Syrians watching events unfold from Switzerland. While some Syrians feel the protests are a consequence of the Arab Spring sweeping through North Africa, others say wider diplomatic forces are at work. Although all the Syrians who […]
Mladic’s capture signals that justice will eventually catch up with mass murderers SERBIA has finally “captured” the Serbian mass murderer Ratko Mladic. One of the three Butchers of Balkans — the other two being the late Slobodan Milosevic and Radovan Karadzic — Mladic eluded international justice for 17 years although […]
(CNN) — Police in Serbia have arrested former Serbian military commander Ratko Mladic, the highest-ranking war crimes suspect still at large from the Balkan wars of the 1990s, Serbia’s president announced Thursday. “Today we arrested Ratko Mladic,” Serbian President Boris Tadic said. Tadic said Mladic was detained in Serbia. The […]
US president tells parliament that Europe and the US will not be eclipsed by booming eastern economies Barack Obama declared on Wednesday that the Anglo-American special relationship would provide “indispensable” leadership to the world and said it was wrong to think that the rise of China and India had undermined […]
It’s clear that the fear down there. But above all, they feel very helpless, “says Nasim Malik, a Social Democrat from Kalmar with roots in Pakistan, regarding the situation in Pakistan. Last week, killed some 90 civilians and about a hundred people were seriously injured. However, it was not Bin Laden’s al […]
The Federal Health Office will launch its latest alcohol prevention campaign on Saturday, beginning a so-called dialogue week. There will be more than 260 different activities, including driving simulations, sport and working in a bar. They will take place at 620 locations across the country such as hospitals and libraries […]
The Basharat Mosque (span.: Mezquita Basharat; the name means “good news”) was inaugurated on September 10, 1982 in Pedro Abad, in the Spanish comarca of Alto Guadalquivir, province of Córdoba by Mirza Tahir Ahmad (late), fourth Caliph of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (currently fifth Caliph Mirza Masroor Ahmad heads the Community). The mosque is the center of Ahmadiyya-Movement in […]
By Khetam Malkawi AMMAN – The winning team of a Little League football competition in the Kingdom will get an unusual prize – a one-week trip to Spain to visit the Real Madrid club. The idea behind the award is to motivate schoolchildren and foster the spirit of competition, according […]
ZURICH — Voters in Zurich overwhemingly rejected on Sunday proposed bans on assisted suicide and “suicide tourism” – foreigners travelling to Switzerland to receive help ending their lives. Only 15.5 percent of voters in the local referendum backed a ban on assisted suicide, while nearly 22 percent supported a ban […]
Justice Minister Simonetta Sommaruga has rejected a request by the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) to take in refugees trapped on the Libyan-Tunisian border. At a meeting in Brussels focussing on the influx of North African asylum seekers, Sommaruga said Switzerland had no more “capacity” and that the government did […]
by Ariane Gigon in Zurich, swissinfo.ch Voters in Zurich are being given mixed messages about whether to allow or prevent people from being able to decide how to end their own lives. The slogans are punchy and powerful: “Freedom at the end!” on one side against “Save life!” on the […]
In face of Osama bin Laden’s death and reacction to it in the Muslim world, and even by many open minded in USA and Europe, here is what Farid Zakaria wrote in CNN. Farid Zakaria hosts a political program on CNN every week. I share this as another perspective to think about, of those who […]
Source/Credit: The Times of Malta: Every human life is precious and worthy, and the loss of a single human life is a tragedy and great loss, whoever the person is. The recent drowning of dozens of immigrants while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea towards Europe was one of […]
– Fears are high in Pakistan for what will happen now that Bin Laden had been killed, “says Nasim Malik (S). KALMAR SWEDEN – Terror die with fair policies, not by Osama Bin Laden, “says Nasim Malik (S) days after the leader of terrorist network al Qaeda have been killed […]
COPENHAGEN – Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sharply criticised the Western coalition attacking Libya on Tuesday, saying it had neither a right nor a mandate to kill Muammar Gadhafi. Putin said the coalition had gone beyond the bounds of a U.N. Security Council resolution authorising intervention to protect civilians and suggested Gadhafi’s actions […]
Turkey will build a new waterway to bypass the heavily congested Bosphorus Strait, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced. He said the 150m-wide (492ft) “Canal Istanbul” would link the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara that opens to the Aegean Sea via the Dardanelles. Mr Erdogan said the canal would be about […]
Abu Dhabi, 18 April 2011(WAM) – In its second annual Islamic Wealth Management Report, Bank Sarasin urged the Islamic banking community to take a stronger focus on Islamic Financial Planning. Bank Sarasin also calls for the industry to move forward by developing the Sharia framework, diversifying products and differentiating its […]