http://pix04.revsci.net/G07608/a4/0/0/pcx.js?csid=G07608SEOUL—After the sudden death of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il, attention swings to his third son, Kim Jong Eun, who has been named as the new leader of the isolated country. A smooth transition of power is far from certain. Kim Jong Eun, born either in 1983 or 1984 […]
Panca Nugraha, The Jakarta Post, Mataram A community of Ahmadis living in a village in West Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara, are still fearing for their future both as workers and […]
Indonesia battles religious intolerance From Mr David J. Critchley. Sir, Why, asks David Pilling, is Indonesia growing so slowly (“Just two cheers for a sputtering Indonesian dream”, December 15)? One […]
Source: TOI on line. On a big news week like the last one – US out of Iraq, Britain out of Europe, Europe out of money – one could be forgiven for missing the fact that scientists may just have discovered the secret of what allows the universe to exist. […]
Courtesy of: Islamophobia Watch: Documenting anti Muslim bigotry Islam and Muslims are not monolithic. The Muslims come with different theological, political and social views. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community believes in […]
Source: TOI on line. Christmas – celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ Christmas or Christmas Day is an auspicious religious festival for Christians. It is being celebrated every year on the specified date December 25 with great fervor to commemorate the birth and life of Lord Jesus Christ. Christians on […]
Source: TOI AP Photo NEW YORK: As Deloris Gillespie went up the elevator to her fifth-floor Brooklyn apartment, carrying groceries, a man was waiting. His face was one her neighbors later recognized, and that she surely must have. Surveillance video from inside the small elevator shows that he looked […]
Source: Asiatimes. By Gareth Porter WASHINGTON – United States Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s suggestion that the end of the US troop presence in Iraq was part of a US military success story ignores the fact that the George W Bush administration and the US military had planned to maintain a […]
Source:Asiatimes. North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, whose death at 69 was officially announced on Monday, had been expected to beat the United States to the punch with a “moratorium” on missile and nuclear tests in exchange for US food aid. Now all bets are off as North Korea goes into […]
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (AFP) – Israel’s housing and construction ministry said on Sunday it was to publish tenders for the construction of more than 1,000 housing units in East Jerusalem and […]
By ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: The International Islamic Relief Organization of Saudi Arabia (IIROSA) will continue its support and humanitarian assistance to the refugees, the displaced and migrants, said its Secretary-General […]
Source: NewStraitsTimes Islamic nations should go all out to create conditions that foster academic pursuit in science and technology There was a time when budding Western scholars travelled long distances […]
Source: Qantara As in many other Muslim countries, increasing numbers of women in Morocco are entering the labour market. Among these women, there are many who wear headscarves. However, there would appear to be an unwritten rule in Moroccan radio and television that women in headscarves should not be employed […]
Source: The Local Most Germans do not plan to go to church over the Christmas holidays, a poll from TNS-Emnid research institute, conducted for the news magazine Focus, showed. Read […]
Source: Spiegel International Tortured and burned at the stake by the tens of thousands, Germany’s alleged witches have been largely forgotten. But thanks to efforts by a small group of activists, a […]
More than 50 people were feared dead on Sunday after a mobile oil-drilling platform capsized and sunk during stormy weather in the Sea of Okhotsk off Russia’s east coast. The […]
Vaclav Havel, the playwright turned dissident who led Czechoslovakia’s Velvet Revolution, died on Sunday at the age of 75 after years of battling ill health. “Today Vaclav Havel has left […]
This Debate occurred on 8th December 2011 and was co-hosted by One Law for All and UCL-ASHS. Debate: Sharia Law Negates Human Rights. For the motion: 1) Maryam Namazie – […]
By: Zubair Khan This fact needs no emphasis that from the very outset, current People Party (PP) Government of Pakistan was asked to perform its duties in accordance with the tight compartment of rules and regulations set off by the General Head Quarters (GHQ). Go and no go areas were […]
Source: CNN Author: Tony Karon Saddam Hussein has gone, but at a cost to his own people of almost nine years of war, civil strife, terrorism and occupation that left more than 100,000 Iraqi civilians dead and millions displaced from their homes, infrastructure destroyed (water and electricity supplies in Iraq […]