June 27, 2013 – 11:27 By James Grubel CANBERRA (Reuters) – Kevin Rudd was sworn in as Australian prime minister for the second time on Thursday, a day after toppling Julia Gillard and three months ahead of elections in which opinion polls show the ruling Labor Party faces a devastating […]
RIYADH: GHAZANFAR ALI KHAN | ARAB NEWS STAFF Thursday 27 June 2013 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced July 8 (Shaban 29) as the last date for seeking Umrah visas. All Saudi diplomatic missions across the world will continue issuing Umrah visas until the “end of Shaban,” said Osama […]
KUWAIT CITY: ARAB NEWS Thursday 27 June 2013 More than 100,000 people have been killed in Syria’s uprising, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The death toll from the civil war is now 100,191 people, it said. Violence raged as US Secretary of State John Kerry ruled out […]
Examiner: By Mansura Minhas. Father James Quinn of St Matthew Catholic Church in Hallandale Beach first met Regional Missionary Imam Muhammad Saeed Khalid and Mr. Munawar Chaudhry, President of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community-Miami at the National Day of Prayer Observance at the Hallandale Beach City Hall on May 2. During the […]
Telegraph: Ha ha. It’s a good gag by whoever’s come up with it – a room full of Saudi Arabian men supposedly coming together to talk about ‘women in society’. […]
Source: Asia Times: The geopolitics of Central Asia has begun shifting in anticipation of the NATO forces ending their combat role as well as their pullout from Afghanistan and the proposed establishment of the nine American military bases in that country. Kyrgyzstan today gave the final touch to its strategic […]
A man was granted two wishes by God. He asked for the best drink and the best woman ever. He got holy water and Mother Teresa. . . . . . . . . . . . There are three kinds of men in this world. Some remain single and […]
Source: The Local Pressure is mounting on Germany to ban racial profiling for police checks. A report by the German Institute for Human Rights concluded a change in policy was “urgently required.” More:
Source: ET LAHORE: The biases and prejudices in school textbooks are one of the main reasons for the radicalisation of young people and poor quality of education in Pakistan, said academics and civil society activists at a conference here on Wednesday. “These are not textbooks as much as propaganda brochures which […]
By Zubair Khan Ahmadiyya Muslim Community has been blessed with the holy presence of its supreme spiritual leader Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad (Allah may strengthen his hands). He arrived in Germany on 22nd of June 2013. Since his arrival is busy in various programs including inauguration ceremonies of mosques as […]
ET: LONDON: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain says that the “Titanic” of the Muslim Ummah is sinking and that immediate steps should be taken before “the whole ship collapses and finally sinks.” Speaking during a telephonic address to the Rabita Committee, Hussain recalled the promises that were made to those on the Titanic and said […]
Epigraph: “He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to […]
Source: TOI VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis has set up a special commission to review the activities of the scandal-plagued Vatican bank to ensure that it operated in “harmony” with the mission of the Catholic Church, the Vatican said on Wednesday. The appointment of the five-member panel, which includes four prelates and a woman Harvard professor, is the […]
Source: Asia Times. Western corporate media is head over heels with the Emir of Qatar, Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, 61, as he magnanimously chose to depose himself to the benefit of his son, the former heir apparent Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, 33. In a positively Kennedy-esque speech on national television, the outgoing […]
Source: The Local Police in the northern German city of Bremen have been left baffled by the theft of a famous 12th century “bishop’s ring” from the cathedral museum. More:
Source: BBC News Two prominent US bloggers have been banned from entering the UK, the Home Office has said. Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer co-founded anti-Muslim group Stop Islamization of […]
Source: LUBP Justice Baqar is also a Shia – a death sentence in Pakistan today. The ASWJ-TTP terrorists who attacked him share the same ideology – Takfiri Deobandi which is closely linked with global Salafist-Wabahist movements. As global events have clearly shown, this mindset cannot tolerate the Other. This mindset […]
Source: Dawn.com WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court on Wednesday handed a significant victory to gay rights advocates by ruling that married gay men and women are eligible for federal benefits and paving the way for same-sex marriage in California. The court, however, fell short of a landmark ruling endorsing a […]
Source: ET The June 23 incident at the western base camp of Nanga Parbat, in which nine foreign tourists and their local guide were gratuitously killed, raises many questions. Reports indicate the area has been cordoned off and search parties are scouring all possible approaches to and away from the base camp. […]
The “Shomrim” Haredi police uniformed police force in London has offered to protect mosques in the Hackney district following violent attacks on local mosques, the British edition of Huffington Post […]