Red Cross celebrates 150th anniversary
The world’s oldest aid organisation, the International Committee of the Red Cross, is marking its 150th anniversary today. Since its inception, the ICRC has brought relief to the victims of […]
Israel’s Settlers Dig In Ahead of Obama Visit: NBC News
The question whose land is it where the Israeli Settlers are where anonymous housing has been done? (Koya). First for breaking news and analysis: Compelling world news stories from NBC News journalists. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook. ‘Force to be reckoned with’: Israel’s settlers dig in ahead of Obama […]
Cardinals Size Up Potential Candidates for New Pope
Source:Newyork Times. There is no formal nominating process for choosing the man to succeed Pope Benedict XVI, and campaigning for oneself is counterproductive. But the cardinals who will file into the Sistine Chapel next month to elect a new leader of the Roman Catholic Church have been quietly sizing up […]
Singaporeans protest over population plan – Thousands in tightly controlled city-state stage rare mass rally against proposal to increase population by 30 percent.
At least 4,000 people have staged one of Singapore’s largest-ever protests, a further sign of discontent over immigration policies and growing income disparities under the long-ruling People’s Action Party (PAP). The chief organiser of the rally, Gilbert Goh, said the protest on Saturday was a display of citizens’ unhappiness over […]
Framing Hezbollah for the Bulgaria bombing?
by Belen Fernandez ALJAZEERA Belen Fernandez is the author of The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work, published by Verso. She is a contributing editor at Jacobin Magazine Effort to […]
Israel treats wounded Syrians on border, evacuates them to Israeli hospital
Associated Press (FOX NEWS) (of course…) JERUSALEM – Israeli soldiers provided medical treatment to wounded Syrians that approached its northern frontier and then transported them to a hospital in Israel for further treatment, the military said Saturday, in the first instance of Syrians fleeing their country’s civil war being taken […]
Sectarian violence: Bomb in Pakistan’s Quetta kills 58, injures 176
Source: TOI A remote-controlled bomb targeting Shia Muslims killed 58 people and wounded more than 176 in Pakistan’s insurgency-hit southwest on Saturday, police said. More:
Malaysia detains Australian senator, to deport him
Source: TOI KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian authorities will deport an Australian senator after refusing him entry on Saturday over what it said was his participation in an illegal street rally for electoral reform in the Southeast Asian country last year. The deportation of Senator Nick Xenophon is a sign of growing […]
Press TV Report on Al Aqsa Mosque
Islamic scholars have expressed concern about Israel’s plan to construct a building near the al-Aqsa Mosque in East al-Quds (Jerusalem), Press TV reports. http://www.presstv.ir/player/player1.swf Or Click Here […]
Australian court rules in favor of genetic patenting
RT: An Australian court has ruled in favor of allowing a company to patent a human gene. Concerns have been voiced that allowing a company to monopolize genes will turn […]
Groups threaten to attack mosque, church
The Jakarta Legal Aid Institute (LBH) released a statement on Friday saying that the Bekasi administration had violated the law in forbidding the Ahmadis from worshipping in their mosque. The […]
Turning away from Shia in Iran – “A Tsunami of Atheism”
Source: qantara.de Iran’s moral guardians are concerned: while Islam is increasing in political importance throughout the Arab world, people in the Islamic Republic of Iran are leaving the mosques in […]
How Islamic finance and a more ethical capitalism go hand-in-hand
The Qur’an’s teachings around business chime with the objectives of the worldwide social enterprise movement Though wealth creation is the primary goal taught by top businessmen, social impact is considered to be a more fulfilling outcome for others. Money is not timeless, but what you do with that money can […]
Damascus blasts Turkey’s “destructive” role in Syria unrest
The Syrian government has sent a letter to the United Nations blasting Turkey’s “destructive” role in the conflict that has ravaged the country for the past 23 months. In the […]
Is love more real when grounded in faith?
Epigraph: And those who say, ‘Our Lord, grant us of our wives and children the delight of our eyes, and make us a model for the righteous. It is such as […]
Prime Minister Stephen Harper to name Canada’s first religious freedom ambassador
Stephen Harper (left) seated with Worldwide Ahmadiyya leader Mirza Masroor Ahmad(right) at the grand opening of Baitun Nur, the largest mosque in Canada. (July 5, 2008) Source: Canada.com BY LEE BERTHIAUME, POSTMEDIA NEWS […]
Anti-Taliban Sunni Barelvi cleric slammed by pro-Taliban PCO Chief Justice
Source: LUBP By Sidk Maqaal The Supreme Court on Wednesday threw out the petition of Tehreek-e-Minhajul Quran chief Tahirul Qadri for the reconstitution of the Election Commission of Pakistan, saying that Qadri has failed to satisfy it on his bona fides and fundamental rights in this regard. A anti Taliban […]
Shahbag Square — why we Pakistanis don’t know and don’t care
Source: ET Shahbag Square — where’s that? Abdul Kader Mullah — who’s he? A bunch of university students in Islamabad, with whom I was informally conversing yesterday, hadn’t heard of either. Of course, they knew of Tahrir Square and Afzal Guru’s recent execution. But they showed little interest upon learning […]
Indian Plant (Neem) Could Play Key Role in Death of Cancer Cells
ScienceDaily: Feb. 14, 2013 — Scientists at the Georgia Regents University Cancer Center have identified an Indian plant, used for centuries to treat inflammation, fever and malaria, that could help kill cancer cells. Cancer cells typically avoid death by hijacking molecular chaperones that guide and protect the proteins that ensure normal […]
US urges EU to avoid confrontation in Iran nuclear talks
US Secretary of State John Kerry has called on the European Union to devote “critical effort” to avoid confrontation over Iran’s nuclear energy program. At a news conference after a […]