By Louis Frankenthaler who lives in West Jerusalem with his family. He is a human rights worker and doctoral student. I read, today, in Haaretz that “two controversial bills – one prohibiting calls for a boycott against Israel, and the other restricting the ability of human rights groups to raise […]
PARIS — Centuries after the Spanish Inquisition led to the forced conversion of Jews to Catholicism, an ultra-orthodox rabbinical court in Israel has issued a religious ruling that recognizes descendants from the insular island of Majorca as Jews. The opinion focused narrowly on the Majorcan community of about 20,000 people […]
TODAY, as American, European, Russian and United Nations officials meet in Washington to discuss the future of the Middle East peace process, Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, remains adamant that a peace deal premised on returning to Israel’s pre-1967 borders poses an unacceptable risk to its security. He is right: […]
After the discovery of a vast, US$22 billion treasure trove in the vaults of a Hindu temple, India is agonizing over letting the priests keep the riches or using them for the greater good. While the sacks of diamonds and precious stones and three-meter-long gold necklaces would make Kerala temple […]
With the decline of mass militaries and their possible replacement by machines, we may finally see that war is not just an extension of our needs and passions, however base or noble. In that sense, drones and other warrior robotics may do the world a strange favor: they may finally […]
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THE arrest of Brig Ali Khan and four majors last month bring Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT) into the spotlight. Though HT did not confirm or deny their links with itself, its spokesman in Pakistan said in a recent interview that the idea of resonates with officers of the armed forces. HT […]
Every day Bing puts out a new picture. Perhaps Microsoft will not mind if we advertise their past pictures once in a while. Here is one:
By MUSHTAK PARKER | ARAB NEWS Every Muslim country especially the populous ones such as Turkey, Iran, Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Egypt should have one. But of the 56 member countries of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB), only one has and another is in the process of establishing one. The […]
by Isobel Leybold in Zurich, swissinfo.ch Insect expert Hans Rudolf Herren’s work in tackling the devastating cassava mealybug crop pest in Africa saved millions of lives and won him the 1995 World Food Prize. Herren, the subject of a new biography, tells swissinfo.ch how he managed to naturally control the bug […]
Polish PM Donald Tusk (R) and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso (L) The euro debt crisis, Schengen border controls and carbon emission reduction were the key topics of the joint session of the Polish government and the College of EU Commissioners held on Friday in the Chancellery of the […]
By KHALIL HANWARE | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: Jeddah has been ranked as one of the top 10 cheapest cities in the world, according to the Worldwide Cost of Living (2011) survey conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). Karachi was the cheapest, while Tokyo was the most expensive. Jeddah came […]
DAMASCUS (Agencies) – Syria opened a “national dialogue” on Sunday that it hailed as a step towards multi-party democracy after five decades of Baath Party rule, but its credibility was undermined by an opposition boycott, Agence France-Presse reported. The foreign ministry, meanwhile, called in the French and US ambassadors to […]
By Omar Obeidat AMMAN –– Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries are aware of the financial and energy challenges facing Jordan and are willing to extend further support to the Kingdom, Minister of Finance Mohammad Abu Hammour said Sunday. “Saudi Arabia and the other brotherly Gulf countries have always supported […]
The Catholic Church in Germany plans to open up a decade of personnel files to criminologist researchers, according to a magazine report, in a bid to facilitate an independent investigation into sexual abuse at Church-run institutions. News magazine Der Spiegel said bishops have decided to allow the Criminological Research Institute […]
JERUSALEM: Israel approved Sunday a proposed map for the Jewish State’s maritime borders with Lebanon different from Lebanon’s proposed map and will submit it to the U.N. for an opinion. Israel’s maps lays out maritime borders that conflict significantly with those proposed by Lebanon in its own submission to the […]
BEIRUT: Lebanon said Sunday it would file a complaint with the United Nations against Israel, after the Jewish state approved a map of its proposed maritime borders, which Lebanon is calling an aggression and an infringement on its right to an exclusive economic zone. “For sure we will [file a […]
Washington, DC – Although negative stories of Islamophobia in the United States abound in news media, most Americans respect religious diversity. That’s why on Sunday, June 26, thousands of people across America joined together at dozens of churches and other houses of worship across the country. Congregants united to do […]
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