London, 28 May 2012: At a dubious ceremony in London in which Pakistan’s Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry awarded himself the International Jurist Award by the International Council of Jurists […]
Daily Telegraph: Over the past three months, Qatar – a state no bigger than Yorkshire – has embarked on the financial equivalent of a £7bn supermarket sweep. It has snaffled […]
May, 2012 Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid[1] is a New York Times Best Seller book written by Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States (1977–1981) and winner of the 2002 […]
by Paul Kokoski, TIME LIVE I commend Muslim protesters for causing Lady Gaga to cancel her Born This Way Ball in Indonesia (“Hardliners rain on Gaga parade”), yesterday. I COMMEND […]
Credit: Pakistan Today via Wasim Sarooya LAHORE – Two female faculty member of Post-Graduate College of Nursing, Birdwood Road, are getting life threats for being “members of the Ahmadiya community”, with religious elements inside the college alleging that the two were preaching their faith inside the college, Pakistan Today learnt on Monday. […]
China’s Communist Party has expelled a once-powerful former railways minister accused of serious corruption, state-run media report. Read More…
RFI: In a crime which calls to mind the film “The Godfather”, a gunman penetrated a hospital bedroom in Bastia in Corsica on Monday and tried to kill restaurateur Olivier Sisti, who was lying in bed trying to recover after a previous attempt to kill him a week ago. Details: […]
Rfi: Possibly the most glamorous local railway carriages in the world started operating on Wednesday between Paris and Versailles. They may look like any old beat-up railway train on the outside but inside they are decorated with reproductions of interiors from the royal Palace of Versailles. More: http://www.english.rfi.fr/visiting-france/20120516-louis-xiv-railway-carriages-take-paris-versailles-line
Source: PressTV, Iran A recent fatwa issued by a Wahhabi mufti calls for destruction of all churches in the Arabian Peninsula. He issued the fatwa in late March 2012 in […]
Arwa Al-Rikabi ARAB NEWS “Islam and Muslims are incompatible with rationality”…Who do you think said this? It sounds like something Geert Wilders (leader of Party of Freedom-Netherlands) or Nick Griffin (chairman of British National Party) would say, but it is the French Orientalist Ernest Renan who declared this in the […]
AFP | May 28,2012 | 22:56 JORDAN POST BASRA, Iraq — A top politician in Iraq’s oil-rich Basra Province moved on Monday to give the area more autonomy from the central government, three years after the failure of a similar bid. Basra provincial council chief Sabah Al Bazzouni told reporters […]
The British state-run broadcaster BBC has been caught passing off an old photo from Iraq in 2003 for the massacre in the Syrian town of Houla. In a report published […]
LewRockwell.com Food is increasing in cost faster than just about any investment right now and certainly faster than the rate of inflation. It seems the media has become fascinated with people practicing the modern survival philosophy. Indeed I would say that disaster prep has become one of the topics de jour […]
Injured Tiwa out as Simi leads Fiji May 28, 2012 By Sunil Sharma A knee injury has forced Ba midfielder Malakai Tiwa out of the Fiji soccer squad preparing for the OFC Nations Cup to start this Saturday at Lawson Tama Stadium in Honiara. TOP STORIES LOCAL INTERNATIONAL Savusavu […]
Fiji’s Wedding Market One of the BestTourism Fiji acting chief executive officer Michael Meeds says weddings can be among Fiji’s major market segments, especially for tourists from Australia and New […]
Fiji voters to receive ID cards Posted 28 May 2012, 17:25 AEST The interim Fiji government says voters taking part in the 2014 elections will be issued with identfication cards. Fiji’s interim Attorney-General, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, says voter ID cards will help reduce election fraud. [Fiji Ministry of Information] The interim […]
EU keen on Fiji sugar 13:10 Sun May 27, 2012 Permanent Secretary for Sugar Colonel Manasa VaniqiTaken from/By: FBC News Report by: Epeli Tukuwasa There is a likelihood that the European Sugar Market will extends it preferential agreement made with ACP Countries, including Fiji. This was revealed by the Permanent Secretary for […]
Written and Collected by Zia H Shah Geert Wilders recent book against Islam can be debunked in one line by stating that it is a master piece of black and white thinking and a false dilemma. Additionally, in writing this book, Marked for Death: Islam’s War Against the West and Me, […]
Source: The New York Times JACI PARANÁ, Brazil — The revolt here on the banks of the Madeira River, the Amazon’s largest tributary, flared after sunset. At the simmering end of a 26-day strike by 17,000 workers last month, a faction of laborers who were furious over wages and living conditions […]