Orna Barbivay will become the Israel Defense Forces’ first female major general, Defense Minister Ehud Barak and IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz decided yesterday. She will head the General Staff’s Personnel Directorate. Barak and Gantz also announced two other new appointments yesterday, as part of the first round of […]
The Internet makes us stupid. It robs us of our souls, leads to a flattening of our personalities and reduces our attention spans. This nonsense is now being spouted from an unexpected source: Bill Keller, the executive editor of the Internet-savvy New York Times. The demonization of tools, not despite […]
By Sami Aboudi, Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) – Mohammed Fathi worked his brush gently over an icon of Virgin Mary and baby Jesus, removing soot from its surface inside a church gutted in an attack by Islamist militants this month. “It takes a lot of careful work to do that,” Fathi […]
Ramallah – PNN – While it seems that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu succeeded in winning the hearts of US Congress members in his speech earlier this week, the Palestinian leadership came back to throw the ball into the Israeli and US courts by announcing yesterday that US President Barack Obama’s remarks […]
Switzerland is the 16th most peaceful country in the world, according to the annual report from the Institute for Economics and Peace, a global non-profit research organisation. Iceland is apparently the most peaceful nation, followed by New Zealand, Japan, Denmark and the Czech Republic. The least peaceful nations are Somalia, […]
By ARAB NEWS MAKKAH: People in the Grand Mosque will have a rare celestial treat on Saturday when they see the sun straight above them. It is a rare phenomenon that helps worshippers worldwide to set the exact direction of the holy city. The phenomenon is the first this year […]
By ARAB NEWS RIYADH: Outraged over the maltreatment of one of its female representatives by members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (Haia), the German Tourism Commission abruptly bowed out Wednesday of the Riyadh International Exhibition for Travel. Regional director for sales and marketing […]
SANAA (AFP) – Security forces in the Yemeni capital battled heavily armed supporters of the country’s most powerful tribal leader on Thursday as President Ali Abdullah Saleh ordered the tribesman’s arrest. The leader, Sheikh Sadiq Al Ahmar, in turn accused Saleh of dragging Yemen into civil war, speaking after hours […]
By Omar Obeidat AMMAN – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and former finance ministers on Thursday warned that the government should not continue with its subsidy regimes, stressing the need to direct support to the most vulnerable groups of the society. Following a lecture delivered by Paul Cashin, adviser at […]
AMMAN (Petra) ––– Participants at the International Conference on Investment in Islamic States held recently in Amman have called for establishing a fund to help displaced Libyans and provide them with the necessary humanitarian assistance. The conference, organised by the Jordan Chamber of Commerce and the Islamic Chamber of Commerce […]
Introducing the author of Eulogy first: Bharat Ratna Maulana Abul Kalam Muhiyuddin Ahmed (Urdu: ?????? ????????? ??? ????? ???? ????) was an Indian Muslim scholar and a senior political leader of the Indian independence movement, who lived from 11 November 1888 – 22 February 1958. He was one of the most prominent Muslim leaders […]
By Khalid al-Ansary and Suadad al-Salhy, Reuters BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Anti-U.S. Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr brought thousands of Shi’ite supporters onto Baghdad streets Thursday in a show of force against any extension of the U.S. military presence in Iraq past a year-end deadline. Sadr’s threats to revive his Shi’ite militia […]
2010 to 2011 have seen a major series of crises which have affected ever increasing numbers of people. Demand for humanitarian assistance has reached an unprecedented level at a time when long term conflicts continue unabated. The challenge for the ICRC in the year ahead, will be to meet these […]
SANA’A, May 25 — Dozens of families began fleeing Sana’a amidst fierce armed clashes between anti-government tribal forces and Saleh-loyal military units erupted last Monday. There has been no concrete action taken by either party to end the current conflict following yesterday attack on a tribal mediation meeting at the […]
Indonesia has been listed as the top country for entrepreneurs to start a business, ahead of the United States, Canada, India and Australia, according to a survey commissioned by the BBC. The results are based on 24,000 interviews conducted by international survey firm Globescan across 24 different countries — where respondents were […]
The Knesset’s Labor, Welfare and Health Committee approved yesterday,on second and third readings, a bill that bans the dismissal of workers who are in the process of adoption, foster parenthood or surrogacy. The proposed law would expand the rights of people who have started adoption or surrogacy procedures, and also […]
Prof. Yedidia Stern says real reason she was relieved of her role as the Education Ministry’s chairman of its professional advisory committee on civics, is that she opposes changes being pushed by the ministry’s pedagogical secretariat….Zameret wanted “about half the study time” to be devoted to Israeli and Zionist history […]
On this issue we completely and whole heartedly agree with the Pope. MILAN. Jan 2011 — In a forceful appeal for religious freedom, Pope Benedict XVI urged Pakistan to repeal contentious blasphemy laws as he called on governments worldwide to do more to enable Christians to practice their faith without […]
(CNN) — Police in Serbia have arrested former Serbian military commander Ratko Mladic, the highest-ranking war crimes suspect still at large from the Balkan wars of the 1990s, Serbia’s president announced Thursday. “Today we arrested Ratko Mladic,” Serbian President Boris Tadic said. Tadic said Mladic was detained in Serbia. The […]
The presence of religion in public space challenges our ideas about the roles of faith in our lives and politics. Over the last centuries, proponents of secularisation have claimed that as societies modernise, the role of religion in public and private life diminishes For them, modern rationality, science, and the […]