Dawn: For once, I agree with Ahmed el-Tayeb, the grand mufti of Al-Azhar in Egypt, who told the visiting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad not to interfere in the matters concerning Sunni Arabs. The Iranian President is on a three-day visit to Egypt, where he is attending the 12th annual summit […]
Source: The Daily Star By Sushmita S Preetha Forty-two years after the Liberation War, sentiments of liberation were rekindled as thousands yesterday refused to leave the street and go home until their demand for capital punishment for war criminals were met. The spontaneous agitation began on Tuesday afternoon shortly after a […]
French officials conceded on Wednesday that it was at the outset of a “real war” in Mali that would involve tough fighting to weed out al-Qaeda and its allies in […]
The Obama from Java The Guardian: Like a lot of people in the autumn of 2012, I watched the TV debates between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. It was the […]
The Huffington Several major universities are taking former students to court in an attempt to collect on past-due bills under the Perkins student loan program. George Washington University, Yale University […]
Source: BBC By Jill McGivering Thousands of Indian women are having their wombs removed in operations that campaigners say are unnecessary and only performed to make money for unscrupulous private doctors. Sunita is uncertain of her exact age but thinks she’s about 25 years old. I met her in a […]
Collected by Zia H Shah MD Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories fell for the childish hoax of the Cottingley Fairies. I am borrowing the details of […]
The Media Line Staff Amman, Jordan (Adam Nicky The Media Lin – Street noises mix with a call to prayer coming from the King Hussein Mosque in downtown Amman, the city’s commercial center, while on a nearby street corner, Issam, a Syrian businessman, calmly answers a steady flow of phone […]
Huffington Post UK | By Michael Rundle Physicists say they are closer than ever to understanding a vast mysterious ribbon of particles at the edge of the Solar System. Nasa’s […]
By HAMZA HENDAWI HUFFINGTON POST CAIRO — Egypt’s presidential spokesman says an end to Syrian crisis is a condition to restore relations with Iran and that his country supports the […]
Kolkata (West Bengal, India): At present the whole world is involved in religious conflict. At some places people are dissenting against their government and in some places the authorities are […]
Source: China Daily CAIRO – Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao sent a congratulatory message to the 12th session of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation conference upon its opening on Wednesday in Cairo, Egypt. […]
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2013 DRANCY, France (AP) — Dozens of French imams have visited a Holocaust memorial in Drancy in an effort to show that Islam is a tolerant religion. […]
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE ARABNEWS Wednesday 6 February 2013 BEIRUT: A suicide bomber on Wednesday attacked a military intelligence headquarters in the south-central Syria city of Palmyra, killing and wounding an unknown number of people, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. “A powerful explosion rocked Palmyra this morning and according […]
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE Wednesday 6 February 2013 RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories: The Palestinian presidency hopes US President Barack Obama’s forthcoming visit will mark the beginning of a new US policy in […]
Assalamualaikum Warehmatullah-e-Wabarakatahu, I cordially invite you to the Zonal Conference and Peace Symposium to be Held at Chennai on the 10th of February. Guest speakers from various religions are attending […]
Editor’s note: The title of the news is modified by the Muslim Times Source: BBC The French government has overturned a 200-year-old ban on women wearing trousers. The Minister of Women’s Rights, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, said that the ban was incompatible with modern French values and laws. She said the law, […]
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Source: The Local Education Minister Annette Schavan has defied those calling for her resignation after her old university withdrew her doctorate for plagiarism. She said she would challenge the decision. The Local’s media roundup looks at the reaction. More:
Source: Asia Times: By Pepe Escobar The (geopolitical) hills are alive with the sound of … well, not music; rather that post-industrial noise, more Kraftwerk than Schubert, oozing from the recently completed 49th edition of the Munich Security Conference. Who wouldn’t give a Goldman Sachs bonus to be briefed on […]