Afghan President Hamid Karzai Source: BBC The Afghan president has admitted his office received secret payments from the US, but says the amounts were small and used legitimately. Hamid Karzai was […]
Source:The Local Germany’s top Roman Catholic has called for women to be allowed to become deacons, which would enable them to perform baptisms and marriages outside of mass – a novelty for Catholic women. More:
Source: UPI.COM A terminally ill Irish woman does not have the right to be assisted in ending her life, the country’s Supreme Court ruled Monday. Marie Fleming, who has multiple sclerosis, appealed to the court after losing a challenge earlier this year to Ireland’s absolute ban on assisted suicide, The […]
Source:UPI.COM A woman in Spain recently gave birth to the first child born in the village of Los Giles in 45 years, causing a stir in the village. First-time parents Beatriz and Iker gave birth to Ainara in the village in Spain’s Almeria province three weeks ago, thinkSPAIN reported. The […]
Source:UPI.COM The Free Syrian Army says Israeli air force jets flew over President Bashar Assad’s palace and bombed a chemical weapons site near Damascus, Maariv reported. The report said Israeli jets entered Syrian airspace close to 6 a.m Saturday and flew over Assad’s palace in Damascus and other security facilities […]
Source: The daily Beast: For over a decade the CIA has been delivering money to the offices of Afghanistan’s president, Hamid Karzai, in the shadiest ways possible: suitcases, backpacks, and plastic bags full of cash. The New York Times reports that tens of millions of dollars have gone to Karzai’s […]
Source: Asia Times: Now for post-history’s favorite weapon: war neoliberalism. The best analysis these past few years by far is to be found in French geostrategist Alain Joxe’s book Les Guerres de L’Empire Global. Joxe mixes it all up, because it is all interconnected – the eurocrisis, the European debt […]
Source: Asia Times: By Syed Fazl-e-Haider KARACHI – Terrorist attacks by the Taliban continue unabated in Pakistan, creating chaos ahead of the May 11 general election. The militants have stepped up attacks on candidates, offices, corner meetings and rallies of liberal and secular political parties, including the Muttahida Qaumi Movement […]
Source: Edmonton Sun BY CATHERINE GRIWKOWSKY ,EDMONTON SUN FIRST POSTED: SUNDAY, APRIL 28, 2013 09:42 AM MDT | UPDATED: SUNDAY, APRIL 28, 2013 02:18 PM MDT As a teenager, Mohyuddin Mirza would lay beneath the […]
Middle-class professionals who hoped Damascus was a safe place to wait out the Syrian conflict are having second thoughts — and leaving. By Rasha Elass, Los Angeles Times April 28, […]
RAMALLAH, April 28, 2013 (WAFA) – The “Freedom and Dignity” International conference Sunday adopted the launch of an international campaign to free Fatah leader and lawmaker Marwan Barghouti and all prisoners in Israeli jails, said a press release on Sunday. The Free Barghouti campaign said that Member of the African […]
By Sue Schneider April 29, 2013 Bright green leaves, flowers, birds, sunshine, rain… but spring wouldn’t truly be spring without the soft humming of bees. When people speak of bees, […]
Source: Scidev.net From: David Dickson Conservative traditions, rather than religious belief, seem to be the main barrier to modern science in Muslim countries, says David Dickson. Earlier this month, I […]
The INS Rahav, the Israeli Navy’s 5th Dolphin-class submarine, was inaugurated today by the IDF and Ministry of Defense at a ceremony in Germany Israel’s fifth Dolphin-class submarine, the INS […]
Huff Post: by Michael Rohrer. Believing in God is a personal choice. One should be able to display it or not. Much the same as there are people who don’t feel comfortable with public displays of affection, there are people who don’t feel comfortable participating in public displays of religious […]
Source: NY Times. By JIM YARDLEY SAVAR, Bangladesh — The mother stood at the edge of the wreckage, pressing her lips to photos of her two children — Asma, who had worked in a garment factory on the fourth floor, and Sultan, who worked on the fifth. For five days […]
France24. France will keep its defence budget broadly stable for the next five years, after meeting stiff resistance from lawmakers and the army to proposed cuts, although the flat budget will mean 34,000 job losses by 2019. A five-year blueprint for military strategy published on Monday said, “in total, from […]
Guardian: It was a spat that nobody wanted – neither the Greeks, the Qataris nor, say officials, the two nude statues that sparked the furore. But in a classic clash […]
Epigraph: “The Messiah, son of Mary, was only a Messenger; surely, Messengers like unto him had indeed passed away before him. And his mother was a truthful woman. They both […]
Huff Post: In my last post, I implied that one of the reasons we may wish to perceive religious choices to be solely about methodology — and not substantive theological and ethical concerns — is because it is much more uncomplicated thereby to accept the value of freedom of religion. […]