Weekly Poll on Jordan Times: Turkey’s rising roll in the Arab World is a positive development:
Agree 79% Dont Agree 15% No opinion 6% Source: http://www.jordantimes.com
Google and Israel Museum publish Dead Sea Scrolls online
Source: The Jerusalem Post Author: Melanie Lidman When the Second Temple period scribes wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls on parchment 2,000 years ago and rolled them up in a clay jug in the Qumran caves, they probably weren’t expecting that a curious student in Guangzhou, China would be able to […]
Pakistan bus crash kills 26 children and 2 teachers east of capital
Source/Credit: The Washington Post via AP ISLAMABAD — Police say at least 26 school children and two teachers have been killed in a bus accident in Pakistan. The bus was returning from a school trip to a salt mine popular with tourists when it plunged into a ditch late Monday. […]
Possibilities propping up due to tense situation between USA and Pakistan!
By Zubair Khalil Khan Followings are the few excerpts from the news recently appeared in media reports encompassing tense situation which unfortunately has propped up between USA and Pakistan. Few days back, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta pressurized the Pakistani government to crack down on Haqqani network, saying, “Our biggest […]
Google launches the Dead Sea Scrolls online project
The Dead Sea Scrolls are some of the most valuable religious texts known to man. Discovered between 1947 and 1956 at Khirbet Qumran, they form the oldest known versions of Biblical documents and take the form of 972 texts. Their age dates them at somewhere between 150 BCE and 70CE […]
China Prepares to Launch Tiangong- 1 Between Sept. 29, 30
Engineers are conducting the final preparations before launching China’s first space laboratory module at the end of this week at a launch center in northwest China. The unmanned Tiangong-1 module was originally scheduled to be launched into low Earth orbit between Sept. 27 and 30. However, a weather forecast showing […]
China’s richest man Liang Wengen may join ruling elite
China’s richest man is set to join the ruling Communist Party’s Central Committee, media reports say. Read More…
Kazakhstan Lawmakers approve ‘Repressive’ Religion Law
By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev urged to adopt Religion Law BUDAPEST/ASTANA (BosNewsLife)– Lawmakers in Kazakhstan have voted for controversial legislation that Christians and rights activists say will further limit religious freedom in the mainly Muslim Central Asian state. Under the new Religion Law, […]
Failing Oversight: Iraqs Unchecked Government
Source: International Crises Group Baghdad/Washington/Brussels, 26 September 2011: Spreading corruption threatens to undermine the significant progress Iraq has made toward reducing violence and strengthening state institutions. Failing Oversight: Iraqs Unchecked Government, the latest report from the International Crisis Group, examines the steady erosion of the credibility of Prime Minister Nouri […]
Ex-students describe brutality at school
Source: CNN Anderson Cooper 360|Added on September 23, 2011 CNN’s Gary Tuchman explores allegations of child abuse at a fundamentalist Baptist school in Indiana. http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&videoId=us/2011/09/23/tuchman-ungodly-discipline-part-3.cnn http://edition.cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2011/09/23/tuchman-ungodly-discipline-part-3.cnn
KAZAKHSTAN: PARLIAMENTARY ADOPTION OF RESTRICTIVE LAWS IMMINENT?
Source: F18News on: 23 September 2011 by Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service <http://www.forum18.org> Two laws imposing severe restrictions on freedom of religion or belief could possibly be adopted by Kazakhstan’s Senate, the upper house of Parliament, as early as next Thursday (29 September). Both laws passed through the […]
Israel’s population stands at 7.8 million on the eve of Rosh Hashanah
About 5.9 million Jews and 1.6 million Arabs make up the majority of Israel’s population ahead of the coming Jewish New Year. On the eve of the Jewish new year 5772 Israel’s population stands at 7,797,400 people, of whom 5,874,300 are Jewish, 1,600,100 Arabic and 323,000 of other ethnicity (most […]
Indonesian Police Link Church, Mosque Bombings
Indonesian authorities suspect a suicide bomber who attacked a church on Sunday may have been involved in a previous bombing at a mosque in April. Police Monday were awaiting the results of DNA testing on the remains of the bomber, who injured 27 people, many critically, at a church in […]
Girl accused of blasphemy for a spelling error
Source/Credit: The Express Tribune ABBOTTABAD: It may have been a mere misplaced dot that led to accusations of blasphemy against a Christian eighth-grader, whose miniscule error led to her expulsion from school and uproar amongst local religious leaders. Faryal Bhatti, a student at the Sir Syed Girls High School in Pakistan […]
Raising blood money is not enough, says economist
By ARAB NEWS ‘Diyyah’ represented long-term investment for the benefit of victims’ heirs during the time of the Prophet RIYADH: A Saudi economist has welcomed the recent government decision to raise diyyah (blood money) to SR400,000 for murder and SR300,000 for accidental killings, but warned this alone would not be […]
10 Jordanian doctors volunteer to help Somalis
Jordan Times http://www.jordantimes.com AMMAN (JT) – Somalia’s honorary consul to Jordan, Aref Rteimeh, on Sunday said 10 Jordanian doctors from the private sector will head to Somalia next month as part of the Kingdom’s humanitarian campaign to help the Somalis. He added that the physicians volunteered to provide famine victims […]
Mideast heading into dangerous paralysis
By Karin Laub, The Associated Press, Jordan Times. RAMALLAH – With combative speeches at the United Nations, the Palestinian and Israeli leaders have locked themselves into positions that seem to preclude a resumption of peace talks and usher in a season of confrontation over a Palestinian state. Palestinian President Mahmoud […]
Betting on Bernanke Returns 28% for Treasuries
Betting on Ben S. Bernanke has been the most profitable trade for government bond investors in 16 years, defying lawmakers in the U.S. and abroad who said the Federal Reserve chairman’s policies would lead to runaway inflation and the dollar’s debasement. Treasuries due in 10 or more years have returned […]
Christian vicarious atonement has no foundation in the Old Testament!
Read the first 29 verses of Ezekiel 18 (New International Version): The word of the LORD came to me: “What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel: “‘The parents eat sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge’? “As surely as I […]
New Spin On Ibuprofen’s Actions
Source: Science Daily Ibuprofen, naproxen, and related non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) — the subjects of years of study — still have some secrets to reveal about how they work. Vanderbilt University investigators have discovered surprising new insights into the actions of NSAIDs. Their findings, reported Sept. 25 in Nature Chemical Biology, […]