Source: ET A screen grab from the movie 2012 based on the Mayan calendar. PHOTO: PUBLICITY MEXICO CITY: Relax doomsayers, the Maya people did not really mark their calendar for the end of the world on December 21, 2012. As tourists book hotels rooms in Mexico’s Maya Riviera and Guatemalan resorts […]
by Ruth Pollard Middle East Correspondent The Sydney Morning Herald AS MIDDLE East leaders work with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to broker a ceasefire agreement acceptable to both Israel and Hamas, United Nations ambassadors in New York said the Security Council would hold an open debate on the […]
By Yusuf Walker Pardon me if I have not been myself recently, but I have been racked with inner grief at the plight of the oh so poor Israel. Every day they are terrorized by the glorified fireworks being fired at them from Palestine. To have to bear the noise […]
One day, it happened that someone said something to someone, who said something to someone else, who somehow formed the impression I was an important person. The result of this […]
Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Ajmal-Kasab-hanged-and-buried-in-Punes-Yerwada-Jail/articleshow/17303820.cms? TNN | Nov 21, 2012, 08.22 AM IST NEW DELHI: In a secret operation, LeT terrorist and 26/11 attacks accused Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab was hanged in the high-security Yerwada Jail in Pune at 7:30am today after a four-year-long trial. Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan said he was […]
CAIRO: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said yesterday he feared that the militarization of the conflict in Syria could turn the country into a “regional battleground.” “We are deeply concerned […]
BAGHDAD — Iraq’s central government and the country’s autonomous Kurdistan region have each sent troops to reinforce their internal border as tension builds between them in a feud over land and oil. The second military build-up this year illustrates how far relations between Baghdad’s Arab-led central government and ethnic Kurds […]
By Amir Taheri Asharq-e.com Have you heard of Fritdtjof Nansen? Well, what about Miread Corrigan or Carlos Lamas? No surprise if you haven’t heard of any of them, although they are all winners of the “most famous and most controversial prize in the world.” Jay Nordlinger’s book on the Nobel […]
By Tariq Alhomayed Asharq Al-Awsat Do we realize the all-encompassing danger present in the Kingdom of Jordan, and the size of the conspiracy that has been hatched against it, from […]
Saturday 17th November, 2012 was a glorious day in Lagos Nigeria when leaders of the three major religions in Nigeria converged on the Main Auditorium of University of Lagos to discuss a common goal. Religion as it is personal to individual and being a major link between man and God […]
Source: Toronto Star Author: Olivia Ward For decades, Burma’s Rohingya Muslims have suffered discrimination and harassment, and recently, arson, rape, violent attacks and murder. Dozens have drowned in an effort to escape by sea; others have been pushed back from Bangladesh, or kept in bleak camps where malnutrition is rife. […]
Source: The Daily Beast By Qasim Rashid As the volatility between Israel and Gaza continues to transform, one constant remains: rising “collateral damage.” Unrest in Israel traces back six decades […]
Huff Post: Gerry Gavin. Every animated child’s movie has some sort of moral to the story. Generally they are predictable and revolve around the basic things that we teach our kids about good guys always winning and bad guy always losing in the end. But “Wreck-It Ralph” has more. ….. […]
Huff Post:Kristin Wright. In one brief visit on Monday morning, President Obama drew crucial attention to one of the world’s most egregious human rights tragedies, the plight of the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. A Muslim minority situated along the country’s western coast, the Rohingyas have been brutally targeted […]
RT: The United States has blocked a Moroccan-brokered UN Security Council call for a ceasefire in the Israeli-Gaza conflict, labeling it “unbalanced.” “The draft press statement failed to address the root cause of the current escalation – the continuing barrage of rocket attacks from Gaza against Israel,” the spokeswoman for the […]
Daily Times: Mohammad Ahmad. Despite the heights Dr Salam achieved and the services to his country, his motherland did not celebrate him as a hero and his name remains unknown to a large section of the public November 21 is the death anniversary of one of Pakistan’s ablest sons, Dr […]
The Express Tribune: Khaled Ahmed. Sunday’s column by Salman Rashid on Alexander as Zulqarnain/Cyrus has taught me a great deal as usual. But he has also triggered my own curiosity. Since this is a vague subject, I must assert that I do not claim to be right about anything. We all believe […]
The Telegraph UK France has ended its combat operations in Afghanistan, pulling out hundreds of troops, earlier than other Nato allies. “This is the end of combat operations,” Mr Burkhard […]