by Hani Hazaimeh JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Former Syrian prime minister Riyad Hijab, who fled to the Kingdom last week, said the Syrian regime is falling apart economically, financially and […]
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ARAB NEWS Wednesday 15 August 2012 MAKKAH: More than two million Muslim faithful, including a large number of foreign pilgrims, attended taraweeh and qiyamullail prayers at the Grand Mosque in […]
JEDDAH: AFSHAN AZIZ | ARAB NEWS STAFF Wednesday 15 August 2012 It’s a dream of every Muslim to visit Makkah for Umrah or Haj. But religious pilgrimage in a foreign […]
SIRAJ WAHAB | ARAB NEWS STAFF Wednesday 15 August 2012 MAKKAH: The holy city — the direction the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims turn to five times daily to pray — […]
ARABNEWS MAKKAH: Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah yesterday opened an unprecedented conclave of Muslim leaders in the holy city of Makkah. Addressing the summit in the midnight, […]
Political ban on restricted synod for Fiji Methodist Church Updated 14 August 2012, 11:33 AEST The Methodist Church in Fiji has finally been given permission to hold its annual meeting or synod. http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/sites/all/libraries/jwplayer/player.swf Political ban on restricted synod for Fiji Methodist Church (Credit: ABC) The meeting has been banned by […]
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Source: CNN Author: Amanda Enayati The first thing I do when I arrive in D.C. is lose my kid. Our plane has just landed at Reagan National Airport. My children […]
Credit: CNN Perhaps Han Solo said it best in Star Wars when, describing his hyper-fast smuggling spaceship the Millennium Falcon, he said, “It may not look like much, but it’s got it where it counts.” While the Air Force might take exception to being likened to the Falcon, in reality […]
Credit: DODO CAN SPELL via Wasim Sroya The article below is a good one to help us understand the Ahmadiyya, a sect of Islam. The Ahmadis are to be found mostly in Pakistan and India. In Pakistan, they are the victims of terrorism and apartheid by the Sunnis who consider […]
By Paul Kokoski In the years following the collapse of Nazism and Communism much of the West turned its back on its hard-won freedom and voluntarily succumbed to a new dictatorship of relativism that is no less evil than the totalitarian regimes that preceded it. This new tyranny, Pope Benedict […]
Retail sales in the United States rose in July by the largest amount in five months, buoyed by more spending on autos, furniture and clothing. All major categories showed increases, a sign that consumers may be gaining confidence after the longest stretch of declines since the fall of 2008. The […]
http://tribune.com.pk/story/420803/fareed-zakaria–from-pundit-to-bandit/ The world of punditry, journalism, and all civilisation that is good and decent erupted on August 10 with the news that writer and commentator Fareed Zakaria plagiarised from the New Yorker in an article about gun control and the Second Amendment. This led to his being suspended from Time […]
Ten thousand dollars followed by a million dollars pile: One Hundred Million Dollars Pile One Trillion Dollars 16 Trillion Dollars, US Debt Ceiling for now $122 Trillion – US unfunded […]
Source: NY Times. It is one of the more elusive commercial cyberespionage tools available. It is marketed as a way for governments to spy on criminals. And for over a year, virus hunters unsuccessfully tried to track it down. Now it is popping up across the globe, from Qatar to […]
Source: AlJazeera Ramallah, occupied Palestinian territories – A dirty mattress fills up a space barely two metres long and one metre wide. A suffocating stench emanating from the toilet hovers over the windowless room, and a light turned on 24/7 means sleep is a distant dream. This is the infamous […]
‘Pakistan is for Islam’ By: The Nation Monitoring | August 14, 2012 | 14 ABBOTTABAD – Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on Monday said Pakistan came into being in the name of Islam and no power could dare eliminate Islam from the country, reported a private TV channel. Addressing a special […]