(AP) MALABO, Equatorial Guinea — The African Union has called on its member states disregard the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court against Col. Muammar Qaddafi, a move that could weaken the ability of the world court to hold the Libyan leader accountable for crimes committed against his […]
The Holy Quran, revealed in the desert of Arabia in the seventh century stated that the purpose of defensive warfare is to preserve the sanctity of cloisters, churches, synagogues and mosques. The Quran named the place of worship of the Muslims as the last on this sacred list. In so doing the […]
Two of the foreign ships experienced similar forms of sabotage, creating allegations of Israeli responsibility. The reports that two of the foreign flagged ships planning to be part of the ten vessel Freedom Flotilla II experienced similar forms of disabling sabotage creates strong circumstantial evidence of Israeli responsibility. It stretches […]
The True Concept of Islamic Jihad By: Laiq Ahmed atif Jihad is an Arabic word that means striving for a noble objective. With the study of the Holy Quran it becomes very clear that calling people for Jihad means striving for a noble cause and objective. It can be carried out in […]
A viral video of Ameer Jamat-e-Islami (JI) Munawwar Hassan defending the silence over the rape of women and condoning imprisonment of female rape victims if they fail to produce four male witnesses in accordance with the Hudood Ordinance, has deeply outraged many sane people in Pakistan. According to Hassan, if a woman cannot […]
Pope Benedict XVI tests features of the new Vatican internet portal on an iPad and sends his first Tweet. Read more
VILNIUS — The struggle for women’s rights is a touchstone of the 21st century, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday at a conference in Lithuania, where some top politicians are female. Read more
WASHINGTON – US.Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a strong advocate of women’s rights, has raised Saudi Arabia’s ban on women driving with the kingdom’s foreign minister, the State Department said on Monday. Clinton spoke to Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal on Friday to discuss a range of regional […]
Resident’s of Japan’s earthquake-hit Tohoku region were given reason to celebrate on the weekend when UNESCO granted Hiraizumi’s Buddhist temples and related properties Cultural World Heritage Site status on Saturday 25 June. On Friday 24 June, UNESCO had granted the Ogasawara Islands off Tokyo Natural World Heritage site status, meaning […]
NAIROBI, Kenya: US military forces landed in Somalia to retrieve the bodies of dead or wounded militants after a US drone strike targeted a group of insurgents, Somalia’s defense minister told The Associated Press on Friday. The operation is at least the second time US troops have landed in Somalia […]
By MARIAM NIHAL | ARAB NEWS Locals claim it is not an Islamic law but a man-made one which may hurt people in medical emergencies JEDDAH: Residents in the Kingdom have expressed concern over a rule that halts all activity during prayer times, and called for pharmacies and convenience stores […]
By ABID KHAZINDAR | AL-RIYADH Our country is unique in more ways than one. One distinctive feature is that our country does not allow its citizens to marry other nationalities unless they meet certain conditions and have permission from the Ministry of Interior. The reason is that many a problem […]
By Hana Namrouqa AMMAN – Scores of prominent Arab singers as well as local and international dance and music troupes will take part in the Jerash Festival for Culture and Arts, organisers announced on Saturday. Planning for the festival’s cultural and artistic activities is completed and Jerash is ready to […]
AMMAN (JT) – His Majesty King Abdullah will pay a working visit to Jeddah today for talks with Saudi King Abdullah Ben Abdul Aziz. Talks between the two leaders will focus on means to develop bilateral relations and joint cooperation, a Royal Court statement said. King Abdullah and the Saudi […]
The new passenger aircraft from US aerospace giant Boeing, the 787 Dreamliner, flew to Japan for the first time on Sunday morning. Read more
A Florida pastor who burned the Quran after a mock trial and guilty verdict in March missed the whole point of Islam’s most holy book, an imam said Saturday at a national Muslim convention in Harrisburg. “The Quran is the word of God,” Imam Mubasher Ahmad, head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community […]
(CNN) — Iraq took control Friday of billions of dollars in oil revenues set aside by the United Nations following the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, money intended to be used build up the country’s economy. The U.N. Security Council hand over of the Development Fund for Iraq […]
(CNN) — The Syrian president sacked the governor of a restive province, a day after tens of thousands of anti-government protesters took to the streets of its capital. President Bashar al-Assad discharged Dr. Ahmad Khaled Abdul-Aziz from his post as governor of Hama province, the third provincial governor to be […]
by Armando Mombelli, swissinfo.ch The prehistoric lake dwellings of the alpine region are to be added to the Unesco World Heritage List, as proposed by Switzerland and five other European countries. These sites provide a unique glimpse of life in the earliest agricultural settlements from 5,000 to 500 BC. They […]