Source: Dawn Finally, Delhi is going to have a government by the Aam Aadmi Party with outside support of the Congress. But the government formation has turned out to be primarily an exercise by the three protagonists — the AAP, the BJP and the Congress — in calling one another’s […]
PNN The United Nations says nearly one million people are expected to need food aid in the besieged Gaza Strip next year. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) currently provides food for around 813,000 Palestinian refugees, Robert Turner, the UNRWA Gaza director of operations, said on Wednesday. The […]
Palestine News Network PNN An Israeli senior official slammed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and said that he is driving Israel into international boycott and isolation and that he is not really willing to move forward with the peace talks. Yediot Ahranot quoted the official’s statements as saying, “He [Netanyahu] […]
STORY SUMMARY December 28, 2013 12:16 AM By Michael Gerson The Daily Star In some parts of the world, Herod’s massacre of the innocents is a living tradition. Majority rule will bring the harsh imposition of the majority faith. Democracy promotion – as embraced by the National Democratic Institute or […]
STORY SUMMARY Four American military personnel were detained by the Libyan government on Friday and held in custody for several hours before being released, U.S. officials said. A U.S. defense official said the Americans appeared to have been checking possible evacuation routes for the U.S. embassy in Tripoli. Psaki said […]
JUBA: South Sudan’s government has agreed to an immediate cease-fire after nearly two weeks of heavy fighting with rebels, East African leaders announced Friday. They also gave Machar and President Salva Kiir four days to hold face-to-face talks and halt fighting, pledging unspecified “further action” if the civil war continued. […]
ISLAMABAD: Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the son of Pakistan’s slain premier Benazir Bhutto, said Friday his two sisters would follow him into politics, in a speech on the sixth anniversary of his mother’s death. The 25-year-old scion of the Bhutto dynasty has been the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chairman since his […]
Source: Nature | By Matt Kaplan Birds evolved from dinosaurs, and dinosaur fossils are often covered with impressions of feathers, which made some palaeontologists speculate whether feathers were a common trait that appeared early in their history. Now a team analyzing feathers on the overall dinosaur family tree argues this […]
NEW YORK — The world’s largest corporations, many of them based in theUnited States, enter the new year with real trepidation. Autumn’s drumbeat of better US economic news — lower […]
The Asian Human Rights Commission wishes to forward this statement regarding persons who chose to join the Ahmadiyya sect of Islam and the treatment they received thereafter. It is extremely perturbing that we have to bring to the notice of the world’s community the plight of two innocent, loyal citizens […]
Source: NY Times Op-ED By TAHMIMA ANAM DHAKA, Bangladesh — It was a Pakistani journalist, Anthony Mascarenhas, who gave the world the first detailed account of Bangladesh’s war of independence. In April 1971, soon after the army of Pakistan started suppressing the secessionist movement in what was then still the eastern […]
Source: NY Times Op-ED By TAHMIMA ANAM DHAKA, Bangladesh — It was a Pakistani journalist, Anthony Mascarenhas, who gave the world the first detailed account of Bangladesh’s war of independence. In April 1971, soon after the army of Pakistan started suppressing the secessionist movement in what was then still the eastern […]
Source: Haaretz By Zeev Smilansky The occupation is emptying Judaism’s toolbox of all wealth, turning Zionism and its manifestation into another fleeting, sad episode in the gloomy history of the Jewish […]
Source: Haaretz By Zeev Smilansky The occupation is emptying Judaism’s toolbox of all wealth, turning Zionism and its manifestation into another fleeting, sad episode in the gloomy history of the Jewish […]
Muslims offering Friday prayer outside the Dome of The Rock in Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. | By Piercarlo Valdesolo Our Source: The Huffington Post The religious find strength through God; this we know. But a new study conducted by Prof. Malt Friese and Michaela Wanke suggests that even non-believers can get […]
Muslims offering Friday prayer outside the Dome of The Rock in Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. | By Piercarlo Valdesolo Our Source: The Huffington Post The religious find strength through God; this we know. But a new study conducted by Prof. Malt Friese and Michaela Wanke suggests that even non-believers can get […]
History: SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA Switzerland: In the 10th century, Arabs and Berbers from their Mediterranean Fraxinet base settled in the Valais for a few decades. They occupied the Great St. Bernard Pass and even managed to reach as far as St. Gallen to the north and Raetia in the east. Muslim […]
History: SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA Switzerland: In the 10th century, Arabs and Berbers from their Mediterranean Fraxinet base settled in the Valais for a few decades. They occupied the Great St. Bernard Pass and even managed to reach as far as St. Gallen to the north and Raetia in the east. Muslim […]
The Utah attorney general’s office has still not decided if it will appeal the ground-breaking decision that effectively legalized polygamy in Utah. Acting Attorney General Brian Tarbet said Thursday evening that no final decisions had been made and his office is “still evaluating that case.” The case began when Kody […]