Last month Malta voted in a referendum to legalize divorce, and will become the last EU country to do so when parliament passes the new law this summer. The young lawyer behind the campaign says it’s high time the heavily Catholic nation joins the modern world. ….. Joining the Modern […]
US and its allies assist will be using neoliberal economic policies to make sure new Arab governments stay in line. For decades during the Cold War, the rhetoric of US and Western European imperial power was one of promoting democracy around the world. Indeed, as the Soviet model became attractive […]
From the Facebook of the Thai Lawyer, who was able to arrange the bail for the Ahmadis: I went to visit them today. They were resting after enduring long hardship. People were cheerful. Kids were happy to be free and talked about going to school. I met with some Local […]
The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) led by former prime minister Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif has succumbed to pressure by most of its legislators of the Punjab Provincial Assembly to not let a Christian cabinet minister present the provincial budget for 2011-12 just because of his faith. Kamran Michael, who holds the portfolio of Punjab […]
Tokyo (CNN) — The number of suicides in Japan hit a two-year high in the month of May, according to data released Wednesday by the nation’s authorities. For the first time in two years, the monthly suicide number topped 3,000 in the month of May, the National Police Agency said. […]
Reuters) – Lawyers for President Barack Obama will on Wednesday seek to stave off the biggest legal challenge yet to healthcare reform, his signature domestic policy achievement. The administration will present oral arguments as it appeals a ruling by a Florida judge who declared the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional, backing […]
(CNN) — A fast-moving wildfire that has sent thousands fleeing in eastern Arizona is the second-largest blaze in the history of the state, records show. The so-called Wallow Fire sweeping through Apache National Forest has burned approximately 389,000 acres, Incident commander Joe Reinarz told reporters Tuesday. That surpasses the 2005 Cave […]
An opinion poll conducted by Israel’s Jerusalem Centre for Public Affairs has revealed that 77 percent of Israelis oppose withdrawal from the occupied West Bank to the borders of pre-June 1967. This large majority oppose such a deal even it will bring peace with the Arab states and bring an […]
Throughout history, it has often been the young who have initiated the biggest changes. In January this year, the Egyptian revolution was sparked by the country’s youth, who were fed up with the 30-year dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak. Something similar happened in Indonesia in 1998 when Suharto, president of the […]
On June 8, 1967, a lightly armed, clearly marked communications vessel sailing peacefully in the eastern Mediterranean, was suddenly attacked without warning by Israeli jets and torpedo boats, leaving 34 US servicemen dead and another 171 wounded and maimed for life. The ship was the USS Liberty. Its mission was […]
By REUTERS AMMAN: Gunmen from a Palestinian faction loyal to Syria shot dead at least 11 Palestinians at a refugee camp near Damascus on Monday in a dispute over the group’s backing for Damascus, Palestinian sources said on Tuesday. Hundreds of angry refugees had tried to storm the headquarters of […]
By ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: African women street vendors in Jeddah’s historic Balad Area pose a potential threat not only to retailers but to police officers as well, say market sources and municipal officials. A large number of such women sell low quality products, especially herbal cosmetics and sexual stimulants, at […]
By ARAB NEWS MAKKAH: There has been an unprecedented increase in the occupancy rates of hotels and residential apartments in Makkah this year thanks to the huge inflow of Umrah pilgrims. Some hotels are fully booked for the peak Umrah season this year, according to an official. “This tremendous increase […]
If Damascus goes down, its effects will be felt by the whole region Where’s Syria headed? Things appear to be worsening by the day with deepening fears in the region about the largest country in the Levant unraveling. Every day brings in more bad news, with the crackdown on anti-government […]
By Mohammad Ben Hussein AMMAN – Opposition parties said they were disappointed by the outcome of the National Dialogue Committee (NDC), with leaders of the Islamist movement describing the number of seats allocated to parties “an insult”. “There is clear intent to dwarf political parties to empower other groups. Political […]
AMMAN (JT) – His Majesty King Abdullah on Tuesday paid a brief visit to Oman, during which he and Sultan Qaboos reviewed bilateral ties and regional issues. Upon arrival, the King was received by the sultan and several senior officials, a Royal Court statement said. The two leaders held talks […]
AMMAN (AFP) – HRH Prince Ali, FIFA vice president, said on Tuesday he will raise with world and Asian football bodies a ban on the Iran’s women’s team over their traditional Islamic headscarf. “This is an important issue that I will raise with the Asian Football Confederation and with the […]
BANGKOK – “We are so happy this day to be released,” said Haraan Sidique, boarding a bus at Bangkok’s Suan Plu Immigration Detention Center (IDC) on Monday morning after spending almost 7 months at a refugee prison in central Bangkok. Sidique is one of 96 Ahmadiyya refugees from Pakistan who […]
Ahmadi refugees who sought to escape persecution by fleeing to Thailand were held for more than six months in Bangkok’s overcrowded immigration detention centers. A group of 94 Ahmadi Muslim refugees and two asylum seekers were released on bail on Monday. They await the results of resettlement applications, mainly to […]
Iran were warned about dress code rules which led to their women’s team being banned from an Olympic qualifying match last week, soccer’s world governing body FIFA said on Monday. Iran had said it would complain to FIFA after the women’s team were stopped from playing a second-round qualifier for […]