Justice Minister Simonetta Sommaruga has presented the first National Action Plan Against Human Trafficking at a forum attended by 250 representatives of the federal administration, cantons and civil society. Human […]
MAKKAH: ARAB NEWS Saturday 20 October 2012 Makkah Gov. Prince Khaled Al-Faisal will inaugurate today the 13th Makkah Conference of the Muslim World League (MWL) under the aegis of Custodian […]
RIYADH: MD RASOOLDEEN Saturday 20 October 2012 As hundreds of thousands of Haj pilgrims arrive in the holy city of Makkah for the annual pilgrimage, the Ministry of Health advised […]
Source: CNN Mitt Romney and President Obama’s good-natured exchange of jokes at the 2012 Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation dinner Thursday night renewed a fine American tradition of applying the balm of laughter to the bitterness of politics. Every year, a tuxedo-clad cross-section of the nation’s political and economic elites […]
Source: BBC Sweden’s National Food Agency has issued a warning after as much as 20 tonnes of meat labelled as beef turned out to be coloured pork. An investigator at the agency, Pontus Elvingson, told the BBC that tests were still being done to […]
Bloomberg: Pakistan’s government is squandering its “Malala moment”: the chance to harness public outrage over the Taliban’s shooting of 14-year-old education activist Malala Yousufzai and take the fight to the terrorists who […]
By Alessandro Speciale| Religion News Service, Published: October 19, 2012 Washington Post: VATICAN CITY — As a Vatican delegation prepares to leave for civil war-torn Syria, the Catholic Church’s fraught relation […]
The Dalai Lama has urged religious people to work for the good of humanity and care for the environment in an address at Westminster Abbey. The Tibetan spiritual leader said it was important that religious faith was not confined to holy books or buildings but that it had an impact […]
Saudi Nightmares by Robert D. Kaplan and Kamran Bokhari May 15, 2012 | 1613 GMT The Saudi royals live with an all-consuming fear — that of an American understanding with Iran. The Saudis know that the American estrangement from Iran is unnatural and cannot go on forever. It has already […]
Editors note: Title changed Source: Express Tribune Brigadier (retd) Mehboob Qadir, who was Director General (SPAFO) of Pakistan Armed Forces deputationists to the Saudi Armed Forces from 1998 to 2002, noted in a recent article: “Pakistanis together with expatriates from India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Philippines, Indonesia, etc, are called ‘miskeen’ […]
The National Commission on Violence Against Women (Komnas Perempuan) has urged the central government and the West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) provincial administration to begin the resolution of humanitarian issues faced […]
UPDATE: According to Press Secretary SAAPK, Riaz Ahmad of Ghatialian, Sialkot also martyred. “We have to understand that a new family has been destroyed as Saad Farooq was starting his […]
Four years after Switzerland officially joined the European Union’s borderless Schengen zone and the Dublin accord on asylum, it has been revealed that costs of Swiss membership are almost 14 times what were originally mentioned. In June 2005, the cabinet announced that the costs “would amount in the coming years […]
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israel granted final approval on Thursday to a plan to build 800 homes near Gilo in occupied East Jerusalem, with construction tenders likely to be published within […]
Quotation from the Wall Street Journal: read full article here: “According to a new national survey of China’s household income, China’s richest 10% control 56.9% of household income and 84.6% […]
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Several big Wall Street bank CEOs on Thursday urged Congress and President Obama to avoid the “fiscal cliff.” In an urgent letter dated Oct. 18, the Financial Services Forum pressed leaders to “reach a bipartisan deal to avoid” massive tax hikes and across-the-board program cuts that […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Almost 80% of species in Madagascar are unique to the island and are not found else where. As a result this largest island is a witness for evolution, which for our purposes means, a common lineage of […]
Get Up. Get Out. Don’t Sit. By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS Gretchen Reynolds on the science of fitness. Just as we were all settling in front of the television to watch the baseball playoffs, two new studies about the perils of sitting have spoiled our viewing pleasure. The research, published in separate […]
Russian TV: The Public Chamber’s resolution on the draft bill on protection of believers’ feelings “does not reflect the community’s opinion,” a senior cleric of the Russian Orthodox Church has […]
Express Tribune: BIRMINGHAM: Malala Yousufzai has come out of her coma and is trying to stand for the first time since the shooting, Express News reported on Friday. Malala, international media said, was now out of danger. The BBC tweeted an update saying: Pakistani teenager #Malala Yousafzai standing for first time since being shot by […]