Source: Asia Times. Contradictory discourse in the US over the Syrian civil conflict underlines how American strategy in the Middle East has become watered-down to the point of impotence. It’s a far cry from the days of invading Iraq and carving up the region through “peace deals” – yet this […]
Source: Asiatimes. Iran’s roster of would-be presidents has been whittled down to eight from nearly 700, courtesy vetting by the Guardian Council. Two potential big draws are ruled out – former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Esfandiar Rahim, too much outgoing President Mahmud Ahmadinejad’s man. That leaves an uninspiring […]
by Urs Geiser, swissinfo.ch May 22, 2013 – 18:15 Cabinet has presented a draft bill setting the rules for the freezing and restoring assets obtained illegally by foreign dictators and […]
A man believed to be soldier has been beheaded in an attack on a street outside Woolwich barracks in South East London. Armed police who responded to incident have also reportedly shot and injured two people, one of them seriously. http://rt.com/news/woolwich-killing-emergency-cameron-650/
The Bradford Synagogue in northern England was facing a dwindling population and serious financial woes when the local Muslim community reached into its pockets to save the day. By Hadani […]
Source: Humanity First The Situation On May 20, 2013, the city of Moore, Oklahoma was ravaged by a tornado with wind speed up to 200 miles an hour, falling into the category of […]
(Reuters) – Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is not expected to hint at a pending policy change when he testifies before the U.S. Congress on Wednesday despite some speculation among investors that the central bank could soon reduce its massive bond buying program. Bernanke’s close ally, New York Fed President […]
Source: ABC News via Wasim Sr Pope Francis’ fascination with the devil took on remarkable new twists Tuesday, with a well-known exorcist insisting Francis helped “liberate” a Mexican man possessed by four different demons despite the Vatican’s insistence that no such papal exorcism took place. The case concerns a 43-year-old […]
Radio Free Europe WASHINGTON — Religious freedom is on the decline in many parts of the world, according to a new report from the U.S. State Department, which calls the trend “worrying.” The 2012 International Religious Freedom Report alsodocuments what it calls “a continued global increase in anti-Semitism.” Secretary of State […]
The Independent: When Umar Cheema was being dragged off to be tortured after investigating Pakistan’s ISI secret services, it was his son and unborn child that he worried about most. Umar, a 32-year-old reporter for the Pakistani paper The News, had been on his way home in Islamabad at 3am […]
Pakistan Today: ISLAMABAD: Over a hundred activists of banned sectarian organizations, who were arrested by the former PML-N government as a part of crackdown against these outfits after deadly bombing in Quetta that killed over 180 members of Hazara community in first two months of this year, have been released. […]
Forward.com: Indonesian human rights activists are protesting an American Jewish organization’s plans to give Indonesia’s president an award for religious freedom — a freedom that human rights monitors say has […]
Huff Post: by Zach J. Hoag: “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world […]
By Bernard Starr: Psychologist; Journalist; College Professor Huff Post: The Council of Nicaea called by the Emperor Constantine met in 325 C.E. to establish a unified Catholic Church. At that point no […]
Epigraph: They ask thee concerning wine and the game of hazard. Say: ‘In both there is great sin and also some advantages for men; but their sin is greater than their advantage.’ And they ask thee what they should spend. Say: ‘What you can spare.’ Thus does Allah make His commandments clear […]
Summary The battle for the Syrian city of Al-Qusayr, which came under regime artillery fire May 19, is actually part of a larger battle for the highly coveted Homs governorate. […]
Reuters | May 21, 2013 | JORDAN TIMES KHARTOUM — Lebanese farmland investor GLB Invest plans to invest up to $800 million in Sudan to produce animal feed to be sold to Saudi Arabia, its president said on Tuesday. Arab investors have launched farmland and livestock projects in the vast […]
Epigraph: O ye who believe! wine and the game of hazard and idols and divining arrows are only an abomination of Satan’s handiwork. So shun each one of them that you may […]
BY JO BIDDLE ARABNEWS Wednesday 22 May 2013 MUSCAT: US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Oman yesterday aiming to help finalize an estimated $ 2.1 billion deal to […]
By JOSHUA MITNICK WALL STREET JOURNAL RAWABI, West Bank—A project to build what would be the first modern Palestinian city here has stumbled over an issue that has become an […]