Credit: Allafrica. Com Photo: Ryan Youngblood A mother and her sick child at a community health centre in Freetown (file photo). Freetown/Conakry/Accra/Dakar — Aid agencies are scrambling to treat thousands of cholera patients in Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, where the number of infections is mounting by over 250 per day. […]
Credit. Jakarta Globe Beirut. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad performed Eid prayers in a Damascus mosque on Sunday, state television showed, in his first appearance in public since a July bombing in the Syrian capital that killed four top security officials. Assad, who is battling a 17-month-old uprising, was accompanied by […]
Source: ET Journalists express concern over difficulty of working in South Asia. BERLIN: At a time when freedom of expression appears to be in jeopardy in South Asia, a gathering of German media men was shocked to learn that atleast six of the 33 journalists killed worldwide this year lost their […]
SARAJEVO — In Bosnia, one of a handful of European countries with a Muslim majority population, Smail “Smajo” Krivic keeps a once-banned tradition alive during the holy month of Ramadan. […]
by Patricia Islas Züttel, swissinfo.ch Sara* wandered around Zurich airport transit area for two hours looking for the restaurant to hand over her goods. “I got lost. That’s when I […]
JERUSALEM: occupied Palestine. ARABNEWS A Palestinian man was in serious condition after a petrol bomb hit the taxi he was traveling in near a Jewish settlement in the Bethlehem region of the West Bank, hospital officials said yesterday. Six Palestinians from the same family, residents of Nahalin village, were on […]
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE ARABNEWS Sunday 19 August 2012 WASHINGTON: Iraq is helping its neighbor Iran skirt international sanctions by smuggling oil and letting Tehran secretly move large amounts of cash through bank auctions, The New York Times reported Sunday. Last month, US President Barack Obama singled out the Elaf Islamic […]
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Sunday 19 August 2012 A Saudi man hailing from the northern city of Arar has set a record by marrying 14 times during the last 37 years. Mutlaq Sulaiman, 53, said he wedded 14 women with the hope of getting a child. According to a report carried […]
Your views Muslims today celebrate Eid Ul Fitr Read or post your comments Muslims today celebrate Eid Ul Fitr Publish date/time: 19/08/2012 [09:05] Print this page Email this page Following 30 days of fasting, Muslims around the country are today celebrating Eid Ul Fitr. Eid is a Muslim holiday that […]
Rarotonga almost too small for Hillary Clinton MICHAEL FIELD Last updated 05:00 19/08/2012 http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?action=like&channel_url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.ak.facebook.com%2Fconnect%2Fxd_arbiter.php%3Fversion%3D10%23cb%3Df1d6de1d6%26origin%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.stuff.co.nz%252Ff178026a0c%26domain%3Dwww.stuff.co.nz%26relation%3Dparent.parent&extended_social_context=false&href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fworld%2Fsouth-pacific%2F7505288%2FRarotonga-almost-too-small-for-Hillary-Clinton&layout=button_count&locale=en_US&node_type=link&ref=s%3DshowShareBarUI%3Ap%3Dfacebook-like&sdk=joey&send=false&show_faces=false&width=90 3 http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/tweet_button.1345016233.html#_=1345356594856&count=horizontal&id=twitter-widget-0&lang=en&original_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fworld%2Fsouth-pacific%2F7505288%2FRarotonga-almost-too-small-for-Hillary-Clinton&size=m&text=Rarotonga%20almost%20too%20small%20for%20Hillary%20Clinton&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fworld%2Fsouth-pacific%2F7505288%2FRarotonga-almost-too-small-for-Hillary-Clinton https://plusone.google.com/_/+1/fastbutton?bsv=pr&size=medium&callback=gig-googlePlusOne-toolbox-gigya-reaction3&annotation=none&width=&hl=en&origin=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fworld%2Fsouth-pacific%2F7505288%2FRarotonga-almost-too-small-for-Hillary-Clinton&count=true&jsh=m%3B%2F_%2Fapps-static%2F_%2Fjs%2Fgapi%2F__features__%2Frt%3Dj%2Fver%3DI5V0PLgEMWQ.en_US.%2Fsv%3D1%2Fam%3D!YLz4zcRjznaA2Lb5GQ%2Fd%3D1%2Frs%3DAItRSTOZFeBWoUW9R3WD-JeCrvEkHSfOUQ#_methods=onPlusOne%2C_ready%2C_close%2C_open%2C_resizeMe%2C_renderstart%2Concircled%2Conload&id=I0_1345356591395&parent=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz Share South Pacific Object crash-lands in FijiGreenhouse gases fuel disastersNovember date for Sanford appeal decisionTongan ‘eruption’ a wild boar chaseKiwis held hostage in West PapuaNurse sets high targetAntarctica rescue flight lands in NZMedical […]
Credit: Newyorker via Wasim Sroya In the south of Pakistan, where Hindus have lately been kidnapped for ransom and their daughters forcibly converted to Islam, Hindu families have started fleeing to India in trains. As they waved to their relatives from train windows, possibly for the last time, many Hindu […]
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Spate of attacks near Ramadan trouble U.S. Muslims By Yasmin Amer and Moni Basu, CNN updated 6:30 PM EDT, Sat August 18, 2012 The ruins of a mosque in Joplin, Missouri, smolder after a fire on August 6. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Attacks on Islamic centers spiked across America during the holy month of Ramadan […]
Egypt President To Visit Iran, A First In Decades by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS text size A A A CAIRO August 18, 2012, 05:18 pm ET CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s President Mohammed Morsi will attend a summit in Iran later this month, a presidential official said on Saturday, the first such trip for an Egyptian leader […]
Filipino Muslims organise four-hour Islamic quiz bee Ramona Ruiz Aug 19, 2012 Save this article https://plusone.google.com/_/+1/fastbutton?bsv=pr&size=medium&count=false&callback=plusoneCallback&hl=en-US&origin=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenational.ae&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenational.ae%2Fnews%2Fuae-news%2Ffilipino-muslims-organise-four-hour-islamic-quiz-bee&jsh=m%3B%2F_%2Fapps-static%2F_%2Fjs%2Fgapi%2F__features__%2Frt%3Dj%2Fver%3DI5V0PLgEMWQ.en_US.%2Fsv%3D1%2Fam%3D!YLz4zcRjznaA2Lb5GQ%2Fd%3D1%2Frs%3DAItRSTOZFeBWoUW9R3WD-JeCrvEkHSfOUQ#_methods=onPlusOne%2C_ready%2C_close%2C_open%2C_resizeMe%2C_renderstart%2Concircled&id=I0_1345348006939&parent=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenational.ae http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?action=recommend&channel_url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.ak.facebook.com%2Fconnect%2Fxd_arbiter.php%3Fversion%3D10%23cb%3Df306bea97%26origin%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.thenational.ae%252Ffc44835%26domain%3Dwww.thenational.ae%26relation%3Dparent.parent&extended_social_context=false&href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenational.ae%2Fnews%2Fuae-news%2Ffilipino-muslims-organise-four-hour-islamic-quiz-bee&layout=button_count&locale=en_US&node_type=link&sdk=joey&send=false&show_faces=false&width=130 DUBAI // Abdullah Puentespina will have new clothes and gifts and is also excited about his prospects in a quiz bee this Eid Al Fitr. Topic Eid Al Fitr Islamic holidays http://s0.2mdn.net/2655172/eReader_300x250.swf “I […]
Huff Post: An instruction from the prophet Muhammad is to “eat together, and do not separate, for the blessing is in the company.” After a month of fasting during Ramadan, Muslims will celebrate Eid ul-Fitr, a three-day festival with family, friends and food. We asked the HuffPost Religion community what […]
RT: The US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Americans have no reasonable expectation of privacy when carrying cell phones, allowing police to track GPS signals without a warrant or probable cause. The decision came the court ruled in United States v. Skinner that the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) abided by the […]
If the rate of expansion one second after the big bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, the universe would have recollapsed before […]
University celebrates graduation Tevita Vuibau Saturday, August 18, 2012 THE University of Fiji celebrated a milestone yesterday when its first batch of law graduateswas admitted to the Bar at the High Court in Suva. In his address to the 12 new lawyers, Chief Justice Anthony Gates said as newcomers to the […]
Around one in five rioters jailed after last year’s summer rampages have been tagged and let out of prison early, it has emerged. Figures released under the Freedom of Information […]