Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Globe and Mail, Feb 2, 2013 Bhangra dancers and Bollywood celebrities, a blur of sequins and eye-popping golden costumes, crowded the stage at a Vancouver media conference this week, facing a convention-centre ballroom packed with South Asian community leaders along with politicians and their handlers, eager […]
By Maher Chmaytelli & Isis Almeida – 2013-02-02T18:37:52Z …Syria’s sugar consumption fell by as much as 40 percent over the past 12 months as the civil war shut down its confectionery shops, T. Akhras Group Chairman Tarif Akhras said today. Demand for sugar in the Middle Eastern nation fell to […]
By Yasmeen Ali They are married. When She says NO. And He forces. It is Marital Rape. Every woman has a right to take a decision about her body, to decide if she wants to exercise birth control, get pregnant and when NOT to have sex. Physical coercion alone is […]
Source: The Economist. WITH angry crowds across the nation baying against him, Egypt’s president wagged his finger at the people in a late-night televised speech. He declared a curfew for some cities, he called for support for the police, he deployed the army to the streets. Seemingly as an […]
Source: ET HRW report has claimed that the Pakistan government has failed to act against abuses by security and intelligence agencies. PHOTO: FILE RAWALPINDI: A spokesperson of Inter-services Public Relations (ISPR) has termed the Human Rights Watch (HRW) recent report a pack of lies, propaganda driven and totally biased. More:
The construction site of Sanmen Nuclear Power Plant in Zhejiang province, which uses the AP1000 reactor by Westinghouse Electric Co. [Photo/Xinhua] Source: China Daily China’s self-developed nuclear reactor, known as […]
Huffington Post: ……………… Here is what they do differently: 1. They build a strong social fabric. Happy people stay connected to their families, neighbors, places of worship, and communities. These […]
Islam: A Religion of Peace | IMAM HASAN QASIM OKIKIOLA Islam is one of the greatest and influential religions in the world and by implication, in every two persons, there is a Muslim, which accounts for the rate of enthusiasm with which people all over the world are now interested in grasping […]
US Officers Suspended For Islam Reversion The two Muslim officers noted that their suspensions cost them the ability to work special events and overtime. WASHINGTON – Two police officers have sued Washington Metropolitan police in Superior Court, accusing its officials of suspending them indefinitely for converting to Islam. “The investigation […]
Ali’s Trainer Told FBI Of Boxer’s Islam Ties Angelo Dundee met with agents before Sonny Liston title bout View Document Angelo Dundee FBI File Angelo Dundee FBI File FEBRUARY 1–Two weeks before Muhammad Ali beat Sonny Liston for the heavyweight championship, the boxer’s trainer met secretly with FBI agents and […]
Editor’s note: Greg Bear is an internationally bestselling science-fiction author of many books, including “Moving Mars,” “Darwin’s Radio” and “Hull Zero Three.” As a freelance journalist, he covered 10 years of […]
Source: The Spiegel. An Analysis By Gregor Peter Schmitz in Munich AP US President Obama with Vice President Biden: “A decade of war is now ending.” US Vice President Joe Biden is visiting Germany this week in an effort to strengthen trans-Atlantic ties. Global politics have come to a standstill in […]
Source: ET Paramilitary soldiers and policemen gather at the site of the blast. PHOTO: AFP PESHAWAR: For any eyewitness, it may well have been a scene from the Armageddon. Charred human remains lay scattered amid pools of blood along the streets of a crowded market in Hangu, a brutal reminder of […]
The head of the Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross called on all sides of the Syrian conflict to help his organization access more of the war-ravaged country with […]
Switzerland’s fast and efficient rail service may be the envy of the world but while the trains still run to time they are no longer as safe as they once […]
Source: TOI UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations expressed alarm Friday over reported mob lynchings and other reprisal killings of Tuaregs and Arabs as the Malian army retakes control of the north of the country. Adama Dieng, a special adviser to UN leader Ban Ki-moon on the prevention of genocide, said […]
Source: The Economist. THE sleep has been long and deep. In 2005 Harvard University produced more scientific papers than 17 Arabic-speaking countries combined. The world’s 1.6 billion Muslims have produced only two Nobel laureates in chemistry and physics. Both moved to the West: the only living one, the chemist Ahmed […]
Source: Friday Times. Asma Jehangir – a veteran activist against controversial laws, subjugation of women, suppression of minorities, highhandedness of state institutions, and dictators and dictatorial mindsets – is seen by some political players as unsuitable for the office of caretaker prime minister. There had been speculation for quite some […]
Abdulateef Al-Mulhim Just a few days ago a Saudi woman columnist in the Asharq Al-Awsat wrote an article titled “Israel that we don’t know.” It was a very well balanced article. After reading it, I saw some tweets from what seemed to me clown-style tweets. This person was against publishing […]
JEDDAH: FADIA JIFFRY ARABNEWS Saturday 2 February 2013 A new ruling issued by Saudi Labor Minister Adel Fakeih and approved by Abdullatif Al-Sheikh, the head of the Commission for the […]