Nairobi, Kenya (CNN) — The United Nations declared a famine Wednesday in parts of southern Somalia as the east African nation suffers the worst drought in half a century. Thousands of Somalis have fled in search of food and water, trekking for days in scorching temperatures in desperate attempts to […]
Bali Island, Indonesia – US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton should use her visit to Indonesia this week to press Jakarta to address human rights abuses, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday. The United States last year lifted a ban on cooperation with Indonesia’s army special forces, known as Kopassus, which was […]
Source.Arabtimes NAIROBI: East Africa’s worsening famine is one of the largest humanitarian crises in decades, a US State Department official said, pledging “significant” aid despite the debt ceiling impasse being debate. More:
Development Minister Dirk Niebel has waded into the controversy surrounding a deal to sell tanks to Saudi Arabia, saying German weapons exports can be compatible with human rights by stabilizing an entire region. In an interview with the weekly Die Zeit newspaper, Niebel said he could not comment on specifically […]
A broad swath of southeastern Germany has been warned to brace for potentially torrential rains and flooding for the rest of the week. According to the German Weather Service (DWD), parts of Bavaria, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia and Brandenburg could see storms through Friday dropping 50 to 60 litres of rain […]
Source/Credit. Spiegel Magazine Germany. SPIEGEL Interview with Economics Minister Rösler. German Economics Minister Philipp Rösler, who was adopted into a German family from Vietnam at a young age, insists that he never had problems because of his background. He spoke with SPIEGEL about integration, discrimination and what it means to be German. More:
SAN FRANCISCO — Strong sales to shoppers in emerging markets and to business customers helped Apple extend its lengthy streak of stellar performance in its earnings report on Tuesday. Even without introducing any major new products, the company attracted legions of consumers in the fiscal third quarter. Profits doubled, and […]
The banners in the picture reflect extreme form of hatemongering, suggesting that if a Sunni or a Shiite Muslim dies while shaking hand with an Ahmadi Muslim, he or she will be guaranteed hell, for the act of being kind to the Ahmadi! Source/Credit: The News Pakistan, Wednesday July 20, 2011 Although […]
Commentators both in Israel and around the world have pointed out that the movement toward the right is endangering Israel’s liberal democracy. But maybe it’s time to see what stands behind this flood of anti-liberal legislation. The sound and the fury Israel’s anti-boycott law has not yet died down: Avigdor […]
The Church of Scientology is rapidly losing support in Switzerland, and the number of members is declining, religious experts say. According to a report in the SonntagsZeitung newspaper, theologist Georg Otto Schmid, an expert on sects, said that support for Scientology is “shrinking.” “I would imagine that the sect will […]
A series of health centres specifically catering to the needs of gay men are being planned across Switzerland to help homosexuals deal with HIV issues, fear and psychological discomfort. Recent studies have shown that gay men suffer poorer health than heterosexual men, a fact not only attributable to the higher […]
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is seeking greater security and nuclear ties on a visit to India. Mrs Clinton said last week’s bombings in Mumbai (Bombay) had “driven home how important it is that we get results”. She also called for deeper trade ties and heard Indian worries over […]
Source.Times of India US exposes ISI subversion of Kashmir issue WASHINGTON: In a city where lobbyists represent scores of interests, issues, and causes from across the world, Ghulam Nabi Fai was a familiar figure on Capitol Hill as the principal representative of the Kashmiri separatist movement. A stocky man 62-year […]
Source: Daily Times Pakistan BERLIN: Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev is in hospital in Germany, but it is unclear what he is being treated for, the Bild daily reported on Tuesday. The 71-year-old “secretly” checked himself into the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf in northern Germany, and is being guarded by a […]
Source: Wednesday, 20 July 2011. BY GODFREY MAGRI – MALTA The annual convention of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat was held in Karlsruhe, Germany, between 24 and 26 June. Over 30,000 members participated and prayed in a great community spirit. The Leader of the Community, Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, made two inspiring speeches. In […]
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Source: Asiatimes on line. No one knows the true cost in blood and treasure of the United States’ open wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and covert conflict in Pakistan over the past 10 years, but a recent report’s estimates of 225,000 dead and US$4 trillion spent may prove too conservative. […]
Source:Asiatimes on Line. SINOGRAPH The ordination of a new bishop of Shantou without papal blessing exposes simmering fissures between China and the Holy See in which the possibility of an objectively schismatic Church of China is becoming quite real. Now more than ever, all Catholics in China would be served […]
Source: Asiatimes on line. A video showing 16 Pakistani policemen, hands tied behind their backs, being executed by Taliban gunmen is a brutal reminder of how they mercilessly take revenge – in this instance to avenge the deaths of six children killed during security operations. Terrorized local people are more […]
The article below actually dates to October 2010. I am bringing it here, as the discussion continues. A political party in Switzerland launches a new effort to discontinue the ‘automatic church tax’ for ‘juristic entities’ (companies), which for instance ‘forces’ Muslim and Jewish firm owners to pay taxes to Christian […]