US and Chinese officials are meeting in Beijing on Wednesday for talks on human rights. The US is expected to urge China to ease a severe government crackdown on dissent, which activists say has been the most extensive in years. Read More
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Samuel Parsons Scott, a lawyer from Ohio, understood part of the charm of the Prophet’s character when he wrote: “The glories which invest the history of Islam may be entirely derived from the valor, the virtue, the intelligence, the […]
BRUSSELS – China’s chief negotiator to UN climate change talks said here on Tuesday that the country is drafting a special law dedicated to climate change and will explore a low carbon development path suitable to China. “We are in the process of preparing for a special law dedicated to climate […]
European countries have called for “strong measures” to halt repression in Syria, as its government steps up a campaign against peaceful protests. In a joint statement, France and Italy urged the EU and UN to put pressure on Syria to end its crackdown. The UK said it was discussing measures […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A contentious proposal that would authorize the governor and attorney general to decide whether an entity is a terrorist organization is advancing in the House. The measure passed the House Judiciary Committee 12-4 on Tuesday and now goes to the House Finance Committee. The companion bill was […]
The British government became a partner in the US programme of extraordinary rendition even after learning that it involved the torture of detainees, the Guantánamo files show. Most of the British nationals who were detained at the prison camp on Cuba were consigned there only after ministers and senior officials […]
BEIJING – China’s software industry revenue in the first three months surged 27 percent year on year to 345.4 billion yuan ($53 billion), the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said Tuesday. Related readings: 31 central government departments complete installation of genuine software Chinese steel firm settles software piracy […]
Arab News By MUHAMMAD HUMAIDAN JEDDAH: A total of 724,000 pilgrims arrived for Umrah until early April, said the Haj Ministry on Monday, adding that the Umrah season has so far been a success. According to Haj Ministry records, 257,000 of the pilgrims were from Iran, 235,000 from Turkey, 171,000 […]
It seems that in the first century Roman Empire the use of divine metaphors for humans was not uncommon. In the case of Jesus Christ the Church took these metaphors too seriously and literally. Prof. Bart Ehrman says: “Apollonius lived at about the same time as Jesus, although they never […]
A number of foreign media sources continue to spread lies and misdirection about the events in Syria, impersonating people under the guise of so-called eyewitnesses. Ammar Agha, a Syrian surgeon from the town of Jableh, told the Syrian Satellite Channel on Sunday that one of the callers who contacted al-Jazeera […]
Israeli and Palestinian Olympic officials reaffirmed their desire to build stronger ties Wednesday, but came away without any tangible breakthroughs during a “Sports for Peace” meeting in Italy. The meeting was arranged by International Olympic Committee Vice President Mario Pescante as a follow-up to initial talks led by IOC President […]
Dr. George Ebers of the University of Oxford and his colleagues found mononucleosis and the effects of exposure to less intense sunlight together explained 72 per cent of the variance in MS prevalence across England. The study in Tuesday’s issue of the journal Neurology also showed the intensity of ultraviolet […]
Twelve men have gone on trial in Indonesia charged with the killing of members of the small Ahmadiyah Islamic sect. The men have been charged with involvement in an attack in February when 1,000 Muslims surrounded the home of an Ahmadi. Three people were bludgeoned to death and scores were […]
On April 21, 2011 the Supreme Court of Pakistan announced the verdict on Mukhtar Mai’s case. According to the verdict, the initial judgment of the Lahore High Court was upheld and five out of six accused in Mai’s gang rape were acquitted. Various news channels covered the acquittal including several […]
An official lecture on ‘controversial but relevant themes’ for Noord-Holland province has been cancelled following protests from the anti-Islam PVV, the Volkskrant reports on Friday. The Willem Arondéus lecture, named after the artist and World War II resistance fighter, should have been given by cultural historian and writer Thomas von […]
Kandahar, Monday Almost 500 Taliban prisoners escaped through a tunnel in an audacious overnight jailbreak in south Afghanistan which the president’s office called a security “disaster”. The Taliban said it was behind the operation to free the prisoners using a massive underground tunnel in its heartland of southern Kandahar, and […]
Arab League should help end Syria’s unrest, just as GCC has been able to do in Yemen THE more things change in the Middle East, the more they seem to remain the same for some. We all saw what happened when excessive force was used in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen — […]
Now that the celebrations are over, let us examine the facts about the Christian Easter story. It mounts to little more than hearsay as I will show in the Google knol linked here. But, please do not get very upset. Veneration and awe of the Transcendent is inherent in human nature, but […]
Syrian authorities blame foreign conspirators and Salafists, but analysts say the uprising is spontaneous. If the Syrian government is to be believed, the protests sweeping the country are the work of “foreign conspirators” and amount to an armed insurrection by Salafists, members of a hardline, puritanical Islamic movement. But analysts and […]
Plants in East Africa with promising antimalarial qualities—ones that have treated malaria symptoms in the region”s communities for hundreds of years—are at risk of extinction, according to research released in anticipation of World Malaria Day. Scientists fear that these natural remedial qualities, and thus their potential to become a widespread […]