WASHINGTON — Soon after lawmakers finished work on the nation’s new financial regulatory law, a team of JPMorgan Chase lobbyists descended on Washington. Their goal was to obtain special breaks that would allow banks to make big bets in their portfolios, including some of the types of trading that led […]
Union Minister for Environment and Forests as well as Rural Development (India) Jairam Ramesh visits the International Headquarter of Ahmadiyya Muslims at Qadian in the Gurdaspur District of Indian Punjab. Source: The Times of India, Chandigarh. GURDASPUR: Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh on Friday announced a special package for […]
Knowingly and unknowingly people have said a many thing about Islam which are not based on the reality. I have read Quran in English, Hindi, Marathi and Urdu. I have talked to many individuals over this and tried to understand it. After reading the entire Quran and studying the life […]
Russian TV: A perfect storm – such is the general economic forecast from leading global institutions and experts. The US recession and eurozone turmoil coupled with disruptions in the global […]
Russian TV: China has refuted claims that troops in the country’s south are preparing for war over a territorial dispute with the Philippines. However growing warmongering rhetoric in the Chinese […]
Washington post An 18-year-old has been charged with felony destruction of property for allegedly vandalizing a mosque that was under construction in Chantilly, Fairfax County police said. Trenton M. Carter of the 14400 block of Round Lick Lane in the Centreville area was arrested May 3, police said. Carter and possibly other […]
The Electronic Intifada: An estimated 2,000 Palestinian political prisoners are on an open-ended hunger strike that began on 17 April, Palestinian Prisoners’ Day. The strike is a direct challenge to Israel’s regime of arrest and detention to try to break the Palestinian struggle for liberation. Prisoners are specifically calling for […]
Friday prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City are held in solidarity with the prisoners on hunger strike during the Friday prayers, sermons about the plight of the […]
By DEBORAH ZABARENKO | REUTERS ARABNEWS WASHINGTON: On the wall of a tiny structure buried under forest debris in Guatemala, archaeologists have discovered a scribe’s notes about the Maya lunar […]
By KHALID ALTOWELLI, LIFE.STYLE@ARABNEWS.COM Published: May 3, 2012 21:20 Updated: May 4, 2012 13:35 Ninety-five-year-old Takashi Hayashi of Japan can’t remember when the Middle East and all things Arab didn’t […]
The head of the United Nations agency tasked with assisting Palestinian refugees today urged the Israeli Government to find an acceptable solution to the issue of Palestinian prisoners on hunger […]
Source: BBC By Shoku Amirani & Stephanie Hegarty Kahlil Gibran is said to be one of the world’s bestselling poets, and his life has inspired a play touring the UK and the Middle East. But many critics have been lukewarm about his merits. Why, then, has his seminal work, The […]
Source: Islamforwest.org: By Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Evidence that there is a mother of all the 6000 known human languages is beyond doubt and […]
A meeting with the vice Governor of Ningxia Mr. Li Rui (Masroor) was arranged on Sunday 22.4.2012 at 6pm. This meeting was also attended by the president of Ethnic Minority Commision of Ningxia, Ma Li (Muhammad Ali), and other local government officials. Watch the video in Chinese: http://video.nxtv.cn/player.php?id=55691
Source: Spirituality & Health The Jerusalem Post recently did a story on Tel Aviv University professor Michael Ovadia, a research specialist who normally focuses on the medicinal properties of snake venom. Seems that Ovadia was in a career funk and found himself in a synagogue, meditating over an Old Testament […]
Source: Spirituality & Health As a surgeon I have used the word “cancer” — the C-word — thousands of times in my life. I have spent my entire professional life researching it, trying to find ways to resect it, suppress it, and, whenever possible, outright annihilate it. I knew what […]
Huff Post The “God-given vision” started out simply enough: build a 7-foot-tall cross on a mountain and invite people to meditate there with the Creator. Now, 20 years later, the cross will cost $5 million and rise nearly 200 feet once complete, making it the largest cross in the world. […]
Huff Post I was sitting on the dirt floor with about a dozen of my seminary students. Bugs crawled along the walls of the shack constructed of discarded wood, cardboard and plasterboard. Empty plastic bags and trash littered the flimsy structure, hugging the hut as if they were adornments. The […]
http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&videoId=bestoftv/2012/05/10/bts-presidential-same-sex-marriage-history.cnn How can the West disallow marriage with a second woman, while seeming keen to allow marriage of a man to a man! A marriage between two men or two women does not add to population or future GDP.
Rfi. Sarkozy could face questioning as soon as mid-June because he will lose his immunity a month after his successor, Socialist Francois Hollande, is sworn in on May 15. Sarkozy denies any wrongdoing but might have to face court proceedings. His predecessor Jacques Chirac was convicted last year and given […]