By Kareem Raheem and Ziad al-Sinjary BAGHDAD/MOSUL, Iraq | Mon Jul 22, 2013 2:51pm EDT (Reuters) – Hundreds of convicts, including senior members of al Qaeda, broke out of Iraq’s Abu Ghraib jail as comrades launched a military-style assault to free them, authorities said on Monday. The deadly raid on […]
Source: Daily Star Op Ed By Syed Badrul Ahsan THE wheels of justice do not always turn. But when they turn, they do so with the clear message that the perpetrators of ancient crimes always get their comeuppance at a point in historical time. The judgement delivered in the matter […]
by Chris Woods The Bureau of Investigative Journalism The Bureau is publishing in full a leaked internal document – titled Details of Attacks by NATO Forces/Predators in FATA – which […]
By: Mohammad Abu Rumman for Al-Monitor Posted on July 19. There was a discrepancy between the reaction of the Muslim Brotherhood and that of the government in Jordan regarding the ouster of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi. The independent Jordanian Al-Ghad daily saw Morsi’s removal, as mentioned in its headlines, as […]
Source: jsonline.com Inside the Bait-ul Qadir mosque on Fond du Lac Ave., a small group of men gather before the midday prayer. They speak of the weather and their families, […]
Source: christiannews.net LAHORE, Pakistan – A Christian man was recently sentenced to life in prison by a Pakistani court for allegedly sending blasphemous text messages, even though the prosecution’s evidence was said to be highly questionable. Earlier this month, Additional District and Sessions Judge Mian Shahzad Raza of Pakistan’s Toba Tek Singh district ruled that […]
Source: BBC A woman has been fined for taking her horse into a McDonald’s restaurant in Greater Manchester. Police said the woman, who has not been named, was in the saddle when she was initially turned away from the drive-through kiosk on Bury New Road. The woman then led the […]
Source: BBC Fighting raged for several hours after the jails – Abu Ghraib to the west of the capital and Taji to the north – came under attack. Mortar fire and suicide bombs were used to gain access to the jails, whose inmates include al-Qaeda prisoners. At least 20 members […]
Source:Examinor.COM Under the “Meet Your Neighbor, An Interfaith Adventure” program organized by the Faith Alliance of Metro Atlanta (FAMA), the Congregation Or Hadash opened their doors to a group of about thirty guests belonging to different local Christian and Muslim denominations to their Sabaath Service in Sandy Springs on July 20. The Ahmadiyya Muslim […]
MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. — Hundreds of millions of times a day, thirsty Americans open a can of soda, beer or juice. And every time they do it, they pay a fraction of a penny more because of a shrewd maneuver by Goldman Sachs and other financial players that ultimately costs […]
Source: Friday Times: A number of legal interventions are threatening to unleash unforeseen consequences for state and society in Pakistan. The Supreme Court has ordered the PMLN government to register a case of treason against General (retd) Pervez Musharraf and prosecute him on a fast track basis. But it is […]
Source: CNN.Com (CNN) — A riot on a tiny island in the Pacific that killed no one would usually go unnoticed by the world. But when some 100 asylum seekers burned down their shelters in an Australian refugee processing center Friday on Nauru Island, it did not. Instead, it drew […]
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Islam is practiced in Hong Kong by about 250,000 Muslims.[1] About 10,000 of the Muslim families in Hong Kong are ‘local boy’ families, Muslims of mixed Chinese and South Asian ancestry descended from […]
Cancer is more common than flu in the Iraqi city of Najaf, about 160 km south of Baghdad, one local doctor told RT. After the start of the war rates […]
Source: The Spiegel: DPA A chilling find has been made in Poland: at least 17 skeletons buried with the skulls severed and placed between the knees or hands. That, say archaeologists, is how vampires used to be interred, to stop them rising from the dead. More:
Source: The Spiegel: Chancellor Angela Merkel has repeatedly said she knew nothing about American surveillance activities in Germany. But documents seen by SPIEGEL show that German intelligence cooperates closely with the NSA and even uses spy software provided by the US. By SPIEGEL. More:
Business Insider: by Jed Diamond. Recently I received a review copy of the book, Lonely at the Top: The High Cost of Men’s Success by Thomas Joiner, Ph.D. I was happy to offer a review. Dr. Joiner is one of the world’s leading experts on suicide and has published two previous books, Myths […]
Source: Asia Tiems: By Victor Kotsev The anticipated renewal of direct Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in Washington, DC, this week has the potential to reshape not only the Israeli-Palestinian political scene but the entire region, and with it the narrative of the Arab Spring. Whether this potential will be realized is […]
Source: Asia Times: By Hossein Askari While growing up, I thought certain things in life were not for sale – that no amount of money could buy them. These included a democratic country? its national interest and its highest offices, the reputation of internationally admired men and women, Nobel laureates, […]