By ASSOCIATED PRESS ARABNEWS AMMAN: Jordan has some of the region’s most robust laws on paper to protect migrant domestic workers, but human rights groups said Tuesday its failure to enforce them leads to continued abuse. The New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the Jordanian legal aid center, Tamkeen, […]
By P. K. ABDUL GHAFOUR | ARAB NEWS Published: Sep 28, 2011 02:23 Updated: Sep 28, 2011 02:23 JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia has urged the United Nations to accept the Palestinians’ request for full membership in the international body and recognize it as an independent state. It also called for restricting the […]
By Mihaela Rodina, Agence France-Presse, JORDAN TIMES TIMISOARA, Romania – Western Romania has turned into a harbour of peace for nearly 200 refugees who fled persecution, abuse or violence – many in Libya – and dream only of “living freely”, once resettled in a Western country.“We suffered terribly in Libya. […]
By Taylor Luck, JORDAN TIMES THE KINGDOM’S natural gas supplies from Egypt were cut on Tuesday in what marked the sixth attack on the Arab Gas Pipeline this year. According to Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Khaled Toukan, Egyptian authorities announced yesterday that an explosion 25 kilometres southwest of […]
The cost of health insurance for many Americans this year climbed more sharply than in previous years, outstripping any growth in workers’ wages and adding more uncertainty about the pace of rising medical costs. A new study by the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit research group that tracks employer-sponsored health […]
By John V. Whitbeck The Palestine Chronicle The number of UN member states extending diplomatic recognition to the State of Palestine has now risen to 131, leaving only 62 UN member states on the wrong side of history and humanity. If one ignores small island states in the Caribbean and […]
The Swiss Foreign Ministry has organised two meetings in Switzerland between the Libyan National Transitional Council and Tuareg representatives from Niger and Mali. The talks, which took place on August 6 and 7 and September 21 and 22, dealt with the issue of Moammar Gaddafi’s Tuareg brigades. The Tuareg are […]
An official magazine for Jehovah’s Witnesses that described those who leave the church as “mentally diseased” is at the centre of a police inquiry, it has emerged. Detectives are investigating whether the article, published in July’s edition of The Watchtower, is in breach of Britain’s religious hatred laws. The article, […]
Source: Spiegel International Officials from the BfV, Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, will discuss the country’s increasingly vocal Islamophobe scene at a meeting on Thursday. There have been calls to put right-wing populist and anti-Muslim groups under increased surveillance. Islamophobes in Germany could come under increased surveillance by the country’s domestic […]
Earlier today, the Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad visited Norway’s National Parliament, the Storting, in Oslo. His Holiness, was greeted by a number of national MPs and was given a tour of the Storting, before having a private meeting with President Terje Anderson in the Presidential Office. Arriving just […]
Cairo: Saudi activists say a court has sentenced a Saudi woman with 10 lashes for defying the kingdom’s ban on women driving. read more
Source: Incharge International Press Desk Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Mr Abid Khán President Terje Anderson welcomes Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad to Norway Earlier today, the Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad visited Norway’s National Parliament, the Storting, in Oslo. His Holiness, was greeted by a number of […]
Centum Investments has incorporated two subsidiaries in Mauritius to be used as vehicles for penetrating new regions as the company powers on its geographical diversification strategy. The listed investment firm will be asking shareholders to ratify the incorporation of Centum Development and Centum Exotics, both based in Mauritius, in […]
In memory of the nearly 3000 victims of the terror attacks on 11th September 2001 in the USA representative of an Islamic Reform Movement in Switzerland called for blood donations. They want to follow with this gesture the teachings of Islam and contribute to a life-saving effort. The campain of […]
http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1060049–crematorium-proposal-divides-mississauga-neighbourhood?bn=1 In the Malton neighbourhood, diversity is a force that often unites the community. But controversy over a proposed crematorium now threatens the cultural balancing act its residents live out every day. Two years ago, Benisasia funeral home filed a rezoning application with the city to accommodate the desires of […]
China’s ancient sage is helping the country propagate its language and culture abroad. An institute named after Confucius is sowing the seeds of better understanding and better communication with the world, throughout the world. Mike Peters and Zhang Chunyan take a closer look at the Confucius Institute abroad. Source / […]
BEIRUT: Christians and Muslims in Lebanon and the region have nothing to fear from each other, Grand Mufti Sheikh Mohammad Rashid Qabbani said Tuesday at the opening of a Muslim-Christian religious summit in Beirut. “We in Lebanon today, Muslims and Christians together, pledge to safeguard each other,” Qabbani said in […]
Source: Asiatimes on line. BALI – Indonesia was shocked and shamed on Sunday when a suicide bomber struck a Christian church in Solo, killing at least one congregant and injuring at least 27 others. But the reaction from President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has been even more shameful. On Sunday morning, […]
Source: Dawn.com I woke up this morning to the news that Admiral Mike Mullen, the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, had directly accused Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of supporting the insurgents who attacked the US Embassy in Kabul last week. The New York Times called it “the […]
Source: Dawn.com The role of the ‘public intellectual’ is in disrepair. In the Arab Spring the revolutions and uprisings were brought about by a new generation of social activists. The surprising thing about the Arab Spring was how the main intellectual class of the Arab World was so severely disconnected […]