NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The city council of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, voted to file for bankruptcy protection Tuesday night. The state capital of Pennsylvania, with just under 50,000 residents, was facing a possible takeover of its operations by the state government under a receivership. It had been designated as “financially distressed” […]
BRUSSELS — A comprehensive plan to strengthen banks in the European Union was to be unveiled Wednesday, as the bloc sought to give new momentum to its efforts to calm the continuing debt crisis. Under the proposals, to be outlined by the Union’s executive, the European Commission, banks would have […]
Credit/Source: The-Express-Tribune: By Asad Kharal / October 12, 2011 File picture dated 8 November 2010 shows Salmaan Taseer with Aasia Bibi during his visit to a prison in Sheikhupura. PHOTO: EPA LAHORE: Aasia Bibi, a Christian woman sentenced to death on charges of committing blasphemy, was allegedly tortured by a staffer […]
Presenting from the blog of Bashir Ahmad Rafiq, formerly the Imam of the London Mosque Held at the Commonwealth Institute Kensington High Street, Kensington, London On June 2nd through 4th, 1978 The First International Conference on the Deliverance of Jesus Christ from the Cross attracted more than 1,500 researchers from all over […]
UM Financial has gone into bankruptcy. Here is the court document: http://www.grantthornton.ca/resources/creditor_updates/documents/UM%20Financial%20Inc/UM%20Financial%20Order.pdf
By BADEA ABU AL-NAJA | ARAB NEWS MAKKAH: Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah has approved the establishment of the King Abdul Aziz Chair for the Holy Qur’an at Imam Muhammad bin Saud Islamic University in Riyadh, Umm Al-Qura University in Makkah and the Islamic University in Madinah. […]
By SELMA ROTH | ARAB NEWS Published: Oct 11, 2011 22:23 Updated: Oct 11, 2011 22:35 Spain is closely connected to the Islamic world. Not only does Spain enjoy good diplomatic relations with a big number of Islamic countries, including Saudi Arabia, but it also has the intrinsic presence of […]
BETHLEHEM (AFP) – More than 100 olive and fig trees on farmland near Bethlehem were set alight on Tuesday in an attack that local witnesses blamed on Jewish settlers.The incident occurred in Nahhalin village, which lies between the southern West Bank town of Bethlehem and the Beitar Illit settlement. Osama […]
By AGENCIES ARABNEWS JEDDAH: The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) warned Syria on Tuesday about the consequences of its continued use of force against anti-regime protesters. OIC secretary-general Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu said in a statement that “the use of force will only lead to more violence and bloodshed, thus exacerbating the […]
Source/Credit: The-Express-Tribune: By Kashif Chaudhry: October 11, 2011 Does speaking for oppressed Pakistanis make one anti-Pakistan? “I think its natural for Pakistanis in USA to speak ill of this country.. Kashif , your hate for Pakistan is admirable .. Didnt you get your Medical training from that country??? you dont […]
By Angela Diffley While centre-left hopeful François Hollande took the lead as expected in Sunday’s first round of the Socialist Party primaries, he will have to face a second round, after winning a disappointing 39 per cent of the votes against 31 per cent for runner-up Martine Aubry. Arnaud […]
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – YAHOO NEWS – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held an urgent cabinet session Tuesday to decide on a prospective deal with Hamas to swap Palestinian prisoners in exchange for a soldier held captive in Gaza for five years, Israeli officials said. A spokesman for Hamas’ armed wing, […]
Hamas says the Palestinians resistance movement has reached an agreement for a prisoner exchange with the Israeli regime.
The Archbishop of Canterbury met President Robert Mugabe for tea, scones and jam on Monday in a bid to persuade the Zimbabwean president to curb the activities of his renegade bishop. Dr Rowan Williams said the meeting – the first between a British dignitary and Mr Mugabe in 10 […]
Civil libertarians alarmed at sweeping powers for intelligence agency Civil libertarians in Jakarta have been alarmed by the passage Tuesday of a bill that gives sweeping new powers to the State Intelligence Agency that critics fear will take the country back to the bad old days of the 30-year Suharto […]
By Shaan Khan, For CNN updated 5:08 AM EST, Tue October 11, 2011 Source/Courtesy: CNN Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) — A Pakistani court has suspended the death sentence of Mumtaz Qadri, a security guard who killed a liberal politician over the latter’s remarks on the nation’s controversial blasphemy law. “Qadri was provoked by the governor and […]
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Millions of unemployed Americans are waiting for Congress to do something other than trade barbs over their job creation plans. If lawmakers don’t act soon, the jobless see their unemployment checks start to disappear come January. More than 6 million Americans are set to lose federal […]
Source: Spiegel International This is one bid that could spice up anyone’s portfolio. The German service provider Dussmann has signed a multi-million euro contract with a Saudi Arabian company to examine the feasibility of a new catering facility for religious pilgrims in the desert state. It’s uncharted territory for the […]
Source/Credit: AFP& : Tuesday, October 11, 2011 , by Michael Mathes, Former Massachusetts Governor and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Photo: Richard Ellis/Getty Images Republican hopefuls insist the 2012 White House race will hinge on the economy, but it is the conservative hot-button issues of race and religion that currently dominate the […]
Source/Credit: The Express Tribune: By Yaqoob Khan Bangash / Ocotber 10, 2011 Everyone in this world is a minority in one way or the other. In a society, men are either the majority or the dominant sex, one religion outnumbers another, one sect has more followers than the other, or one ethnicity overwhelms […]