By AGENCIES CAIRO: Clashes between Egyptian riot police and protesters demanding that Egypt’s ruling military council step down stopped overnight for the first time in days on Thursday. The two sides are observing a truce after deadly street battles in which at least 40 people have died. The truce came […]
By ANGUS MCDOWALL | REUTERS DUBAI: A suggestion last month that Saudi Arabia will try to limit how much money expatriate workers send home showed concern about the cost of having foreigners make up nearly a third of the population. An estimated 9 million foreign workers and their dependents remitted […]
By Raed Omari Jordan Times AMMAN – The government will refer the political parties, constitutional court and elections laws to the Lower House in January, February and March respectively, the […]
By Taylor Luck Jordan Times AMMAN – Jordan is three years away from its first operational wind farm as officials field interest in the country’s emerging renewable energy sector. Energy officials expect a wind farm in Fujeij, the Kingdom’s first large-scale renewable energy project, to be operational by 2014, according […]
AMMAN (AFP) -Standard & Poor’s on Wednesday lowered Jordan’s long-term local-currency sovereign credit rating to “BB” from “BB+” expressing concern about the country’s economy and political situation. The ratings agency also maintained its “BB/B” long- and short-term foreign-currency sovereign credit ratings on the Kingdom as well as the short-term local-currency […]
Source: Guardian Author: Randeep Ramesh Most of the women from the care agency, were, in the words of a 78-year-old, “nasty and rough”. Whatever the carers’ demeanour, the frail woman in a wheelchair did not expect attitude to translate to violence that left her bewildered and powerless. “Rather than say […]
To protect their savings, Greeks are pulling their euros out of the bank at an alarming rate. Over the past 21 months, they’ve been sending money to Swiss bank accounts, stuffing safe-deposit boxes, and installing home safes to horde euros. Greece: What would happen if Greece leaves the euro zone? [3] This post originally […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Since my visits to Hawaii islands and Bermuda, starting in 2004, I have become a staunch […]
Contact has finally been made with Russia’s troubled Mars mission, says the European Space Agency (Esa). The agency reports that its tracking station in Perth, Australia, picked up a signal […]
Panama’s former strongman Manuel Antonio Noriega is set to be extradited from France to his homeland to serve time for three murders, following a French appeals court ruling on Wednesday. The ruling is a victory for human rights campaigners who want to see him answer for crimes in Panama, but […]
King Juan Carlos of Spain appeared in public sporting a black eye after “walking into a door” at his royal residence. The 73-year-old monarch was pictured with the shiner on his left eye and a small sticking plaster on the bridge of his nose at a reception for new ambassadors […]
The head of the Air Force has admitted that Afghanistan could descend into civil war when Nato forces leave in 2014 with the RAF having to remain behind to help with security. In a wide ranging interview Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Dalton denied that Prince William’s imminent deployment to […]
KABUL, Nov 23 (Reuters) – Afghan authorities are failing to enforce the law to protect women from murder, beating, rape and other violence and being sold into marriage and prostitution, the United Nations said on Wednesday. The U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) revealed in a report that only a […]
Messiah of this age, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani had a revelation: “A Warner came into the world and the world did not accept him; but God will accept him and will establish his truth through powerful assaults.” [Majmu‘ah Ishtiharat, vol. 3, p. 518] According to the Muslim understanding, all the […]
This is great news for President Assad Egypt is the best thing to happen to Syria for a long time. Just when Western leaders – and Qatar – were hounding President Bashar al-Assad for his brutal suppression of opposition demonstrations, along comes the latest crisis in Egyptian cities where security […]
Source: TOI MOSCOW: A Russian company is going to produce and sell an alcoholic drink in Russia named after Libya’s slain leader Muammar Gaddafi, a media report said Wednesday. The company, a subsidiary of Rusimport, Russia’s largest producer and importer of liqueurs and vodka, has filed an application for the […]
Source: TOI ISLAMABAD: Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday appointed lawmaker and former information minister Sherry Rehman as the country’s new ambassador to the United States, an official said. The appointment came just hours after Gilani asked envoy Husain Haqqani to resign as the government investigates claims that […]
Jesus did not die on the cross. He was put on the cross, but survived. He was in coma when taken off the cross and was later able to escape […]
The square minaret of the Umar Mosque, with a dome of the Christian Quarter in the foreground, is an eloquent testimony of events showing early Muslim’s religious tolerance, from fourteen centuries ago. This picture very powerfully established Islamic belief in freedom of religion and puts to rest, the accusation, for […]
Government By Associated Press, THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The Dutch government is discussing compensation for relatives of men executed by Dutch forces in a notorious 1947 massacre during Indonesia’s battle […]