AMMAN – Recent political changes have the potential to transform a region burdened by a lack of economic opportunities and insecurity into one of enlightenment, experts said on Monday. HRH Prince Hassan, chairman and founder of the West Asia and North Africa (WANA) Forum, stressed that the region’s main challenges […]
RAMALLAH (Agencies) – The Palestinian Authority said on Monday it had not been able to pay public sector salaries for the first time since 2007 because of Israel’s decision to halt the transfer of tax funds, Reuters reported. Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said Israel’s decision, taken in protest at a […]
Egypt has announced that it will open its border crossing with Gaza on a permanent basis, thereby reversing Egypt’s collusion with Israel’s blockade regime. The interim Foreign Minister, Nabil al-Arabi, has described support for the blockade by the previous Egyptian regime as “disgraceful”. While Israeli officials have responded to this […]
By ARAB NEWS RIYADH: Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah on Monday approved the designs of new housing units he ordered to construct in different provinces of the […]
RFI France has just experienced its hottest April since 1900, with average temperatures four degrees higher than normal for the time of year, while over the last 4 months, less than half the usual amount of rainfall for the period has fallen, according to the French meteorological office. In Caen […]
Commentary: But all this bearish news makes me bullish If you thought the housing crisis was bad, think again. It’s worse. New data just out from Zillow, the real-estate information company, show house prices are falling at their fastest rate since the Lehman collapse. Average home prices are down 8% […]
BAGHDAD: An Al Qaida-linked militant group in Iraq pledged support to the organisation’s second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahri, and vowed more revenge attacks for the death of Osama bin Laden at the hands of US forces in Pakistan. In a statement posted on an Islamist website forum on Monday, the caliph of […]
By MUNIR AHMED, Associated Press ISLAMABAD – Pakistan’s prime minister defended his nation’s military and intelligence services on Monday and said Pakistan was not solely to blame for the failure to detect Osama bin Laden’s presence in a garrison town close to the capital. Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, in […]
Television New Zealand is marketing them in a prime-time slot as Britain’s “fattest and laziest family”. But the stars of the show – a family of four who collectively weigh almost 500kg – have lashed out at the broadcaster, saying there are fatter families in Britain. The Chawner family, from […]
By ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: An anonymous Saudi man has offered to pay for the costs to repatriate stranded Filipinos who have been camping outside the Philippine Consulate in Jeddah for the past two weeks. According to Migrante-Middle East, an alliance of Filipino migrants group providing assistance to overseas Filipino workers […]
BEIRUT — Syrian security forces arrested hundreds of activists and anti-government protesters in house-to-house raids across the country Monday, part of an escalating government crackdown aimed at stamping out the nationwide revolt engulfing the country. President Bashar Assad has dispatched army troops and tanks to crush the seven-week uprising that […]
MILAN — A ship carrying up to 600 migrants trying to flee Libya has sunk just off the coast of the North African country, the U.N. Refugee Agency said Monday, citing witness accounts. The agency is trying to confirm what happened to the passengers when the vessel broke apart at […]
Osama bin Laden may be dead, but al-Qaida is alive and well in Germany. Each month, an average of five Islamists leave the country for terrorist training camps in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border area. Recent arrests in Düsseldorf show just how dangerous homegrown terror has become. It isn’t easy being a […]
Friday, May 06, 2011 Pakistan’s Harbouring of Osama Bin Laden: The Mother of all Embarrassments Ayaz Amir The News, Islamabad http://thenews.jang.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=45440&Cat=9 For a country with more than its share of misfortunes and sheer bad luck, we could have done without this warrior of the faith, Osama bin Laden, spreading his […]
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Clinton: ‘Israel has been a beacon of hope and freedom On behalf of President Obama and the people of the United States, I am delighted to send best wishes to the people of Israel on your 63rd National Day this May 10 – a young nation, but a rich history […]
WASHINGTON/ NEW YORK: US President Barack Obama said on Sunday that Osama bin Laden had a support network in Pakistan, as his senior aides spelled out a strategy that seeks to punish those responsible for hiding the Al Qaeda leader in Abbottabad where he was killed last […]
Israel’s population stands at 7.746 million on the 63rd year of its independence, the Central Bureau for Statistics reported Sunday. Since last Independence Day, there has been a 2% rise, 155,000 people, in Israel’s population. Israel’s Jewish population comprises about 5.837 million (75.3%) of the total 7.746 million inhabitants, while […]
The death of Osama bin Laden has raised important questions about how far a country can go in the desire for revenge. In a SPIEGEL ONLINE interview, German political scientist Herfried Münkler discusses whether democracies can carry out targeted killings and talks about the “unthinking naïveté” of the American celebrations […]
Ernst Uhrlau is the head of Germany’s foreign intelligence agency, the BND. In a SPIEGEL interview he talks about the consequences of Osama bin Laden’s death for al-Qaida and his expectation that the organization will carry out terror attacks in the near future. SPIEGEL: How severe a blow to al-Qaida […]