by Ariane Gigon in Zurich, swissinfo.ch Voters in Zurich are being given mixed messages about whether to allow or prevent people from being able to decide how to end their own lives. The slogans are punchy and powerful: “Freedom at the end!” on one side against “Save life!” on the […]
In roughly two months, President Barack Obama is going to announce the beginning of the end of America’s longest war. He could not have known, when he initially set this summer for the beginning of the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan, that the timing would work out so perfectly. […]
After her husband’s killing, Amira sold a generation of her family’s belongings, packed up her children and left behind their large house in Baghdad, with its gardener and maid. Now, a year later, she is making meat fritters for money in this sand-colored capital, unable to afford glasses for her […]
(CBS News) South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham on Sunday called for a continued U.S. military presence in Iraq, and warned that pulling American troops out in 2011 would seriously jeopardize progress there. Graham also argued that providing State Department contractors with military equipment after the withdrawal of American troops would […]
WASHINGTON — Jess Smochek arrived in Bangladesh in 2004 as a 23-year-old Peace Corps volunteer with dreams of teaching English and “helping the world.” She left six weeks later a rape victim after being brutalized in an alley by a knife-wielding gang. When she returned to the United States, the […]
Britain has offered the US government SAS anti-terrorist units to help hunt down senior al-Qaeda commanders in an attempt to capitalise on information seized in the compound where Osama bin Laden was killed. The Prime Minister, David Cameron, has told the White House that he intends to stand shoulder to […]
Via Guernica: It’s increasingly clear that the operation was a planned assassination, multiply violating elementary norms of international law. There appears to have been no attempt to apprehend the unarmed victim, as presumably could have been done by 80 commandos facing virtually no opposition—except, they claim, from his wife, who […]
A Henry County state judge has reversed his own decision and will allow a Muslim man to wear his head covering into the courtroom. “The Court finds through its own research that there is a basis in the Quran for both men and women to cover their heads as […]
RAMALLAH, West Bank: Palestinian unity is crucial to peace with Israel and the pact between the secular Fatah and Islamist Hamas movements must be given a chance, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said on Friday. “I am satisfied that we are on the verge of the process of putting the […]
By YOUSUF MUHAMMAD | ARAB NEWS MADINAH: Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Asheikh on Tuesday emphasized the need to obey rulers, saying it would strengthen unity and stability and ensure protection for people’s honor and properties. Delivering a lecture at the girls’ section of Taibah University in Madinah, he said: […]
By Hani Hazaimeh AMMAN – Jordan on Tuesday welcomed an announcement by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) supporting the Kingdom’s request to join the GCC. The GCC welcomed bids by Jordan and Morocco to join the six-nation grouping, its secretary general, Abdullatif Al Zayani, told reporters yesterday. “Leaders of the […]
TEMPE, Ariz. — Like Einstein, he is as famous for his story as for his science. This week: A rare interview with a physics superstar, and up in the trees with a sleeping bird. At the age of 21, the British physicist Stephen Hawking was found to have amyotrophic lateral […]
Israel’s diamond exports today are 13,400 times what they were when the state was founded – having grown from $6 million to some $80.5 billion, Calcalist reports, quoting data from the Israel Export and International Cooperation Institute. The figures also show changing trends in Israel’s export economy. Whereas at the beginning […]
Document obtained by Haaretz reveals that between 1967 and 1994 many Palestinians traveling abroad were stripped of residency status, allegedly without warning. Israel has used a covert procedure to cancel the residency status of 140,000 West Bank Palestinians between 1967 and 1994, the legal advisor for the Judea and Samaria […]
KABUL, Afghanistan — The Afghan government escalated its criticism of Pakistan on Wednesday, publicly questioning for the first time how the Pakistanis could ensure the security of their nuclear arms if they did not even know that Osama bin Laden, the world’s most wanted terrorist, had been hiding in a […]
Goldman Sachs’s mortgage problems are far from over. The Wall Street investment bank paid $550 million last year to settle a civil fraud suit brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission, which accused Goldman Sachs of creating a mortgage product that was intended to fail On Tuesday, the firm disclosed […]
A little glance at the recent history shows that hardly a day passes in which an Islamic event does not make headlines. Very unfortunately, in the world today, Islam is portrayed as a religion sanctioning violence, bloodshed, extremism, fundamentalism, fanaticism and terrorism. But, in reality, there is no connection between […]
This is in reference to Aries Musnandar’s letter titled “Why do you defend Ahmadiyah?” (the Post, May 4). Protestantism and Catholicism are not two different religions. They are two different strains of the same faith (Christianity), in the same way that Shia, Sunni, Alawi, Sufi and Ahmadiyah Islam are all […]
A nation of car buffs, Germany is celebrating the 125th anniversary of the invention of the automobile this year. Tracy Moran looks at how Stuttgart, the country’s motor city, is revving up for the festivities. Gear heads the world over are preparing to mark an important milestone for the […]
Germany on Monday began counting its population in the first national census to be conducted since reunification. Despite some privacy fears, there is no sign of the protest and boycott movement which hampered the last national head count nearly 25 years ago. German authorities began the first national census in […]