ABDULATEEF AL-MULHIM ARABNEWS.COM Saturday 11 August 2012 When oil was discovered in Bahrain in 1932, this was the year Saudi Arabia was founded by King Abdul Aziz. Oil was discovered in Saudi Arabia in 1938. After this discovery, the Arabian Gulf region gained strategic importance. And when World War II […]
BY GWYNNE DYER ARABNEWS Saturday 11 August 2012 Good news from Africa: After two decades of bloody anarchy, Somalia is finally on the mend. There is something resembling a government coming into being in Mogadishu, with much help from African Union troops — although the country’s most popular comedian, Abdi […]
By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star For months now, speculation by analysts, diplomats, scholars and journalists about the nature of the post-Bashar Assad transition in Syria has been as dynamic as the events on the ground. But with one big difference: Most analyses of events on the ground rely […]
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Saturday 11 August 2012 A new plan of operation for effectively managing crowds during the Haj and Umrah seasons will divide the areas close to the Haram […]
By Dave Clark (AFP) – WASHINGTON — The United States warned Friday that Syria’s allies Iran and Hezbollah could be planning attacks in Europe, as Washington boosted sanctions against the […]
Washington Post: American nuns on Friday backed away from a direct confrontation with the Vatican, saying they want a respectful “open dialogue” with Rome about disputes over gender, human sexuality and authority. […]
NY Times: Time magazine and CNN suspended Fareed Zakaria, the writer and television host, on Friday after he apologized for plagiarizing sections of his column on gun control in the […]
Source: Al Fazl International By Anwer Mahmood Khan The account is published in Urdu and the author talks about the special Providence of Allah during the visit of Khalifatul Masih […]
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RT: Saudi Arabia is to build a new city exclusively for women. The Gulf kingdom is working on the narrow junction between strict Sharia law and the aspirations of active females who wish to pursue their own careers. The new plan is to combine women’s desire to work in the […]
Business Insider: A mystery illness has stolen the life of a 28-year-old in Tennessee. The disease is some kind of skin condition that somehow causes an increase in the number of skin cells that are growing out of her hair follicles — a 12 fold increase. This turns the “hair” […]
RT: Not only is the White House fighting in court for the power to jail Americans indefinitely without trial, but the Obama administration is refusing to tell a federal judge if they’ve abided by an injunction that prohibits them from such. Attorneys for the White House have been in-and-out of […]
Is the Pentagon developing genocidal anti-Islam bio-weapons? An apparent Pentagon video, leaked by the hacker group Anonymous, details US military plans to develop and deploy a biological weapon that would […]
CGNews,: By Einat Levi As a Jewish Israeli, I had assumed that the Holocaust ceremonies that take place in Israel every year would have made me more immune to grief […]
By JEREMY SHARON. JPost “Whether we are Jews, Christians or Muslims, we all need to take responsibility for the poor among us.” Rabbis, kadis and priests were all in attendance […]
Credit:Gaurdian Rome’s Fiumicino airport has defended its security procedures after a drunk Norwegian tourist fell asleep on a baggage belt and travelled 160 feet before being identified by an X-ray scanner. Details:
LONDON – The system at the center of the rate-rigging scandal will be overhauled as regulators respond to public anger over the manipulation of the London interbank offered rate, or Libor. Martin Wheatley, the British regulator in charge of overhauling the rate-setting process, outlined plans on Friday that could lead […]
Source: Asia Time: While the army of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is “liberating Aleppo by destroying it” – to paraphrase the words of a general in an earlier civil war, in the former Yugoslavia – even his closest foreign ally, Iran, is preparing for his end at the top. “Syrian […]
Credit: TOI. LAHORE: Pakistan PM Raja Pervez Ashraf has been advised by his aides not to appear in the supreme court in response to a notice summoning him for failing to act on its orders to revive graft cases against the president. The ruling PPP believes that Ashraf ‘s appearance […]
Over 75 journalists have been killed so far this year. According to a recent report by the International News Safety Institute, INSI, it has been one of the bloodiest periods in recent times. The deadliest country for journalists and media workers is Syria. At least 19 news media casualties have […]