Yemen Cabinet approves immunity law for president
10 Jan 2012: SANAA: Yemen’s Cabinet approved a law granting President Ali Abdullah Saleh, and anyone who has worked under him, immunity from prosecution for any crimes committed during his 33-year rule. Sunday’s decision came as a surprise to many in Yemen, whoHague warned over UK abstention in Palestinian statehood vote
09 Nov 2011: Britain will face severe consequences in the Middle East when it abstains in a UN vote on whether to recognise the Palestinian territories as an independent state, senior Conservatives have warned. As the foreign secretary, William Hague, prepares to tellMuslim Identity and Demography in the Arakan state of Myanmar
27 Oct 2011: 1: Introduction Burma (or today's Mayanmar) is a country of many nations - many races, ethnicities and religions. It is not a country either of or for any particular group - be they are the majority Bamar (Burman), the minority Shan, Kachin, Kayah, Kayin,UAE to hold second limited polls to choose 20 representatives at Federal National Council
23 Sep 2011: Voters chosen by the traditional rulers of the United Arab Emirates will cast their ballots Saturday in the second-ever polls to elect half the members of the toothless Federal National Council (FNC). Some 129,000 Emirati citizens are expected to elect 20As the UN Debates Its Bid for Statehood, Palestine Disappears
23 Sep 2011: It’s the show that time and the world forgot. It’s called the Occupation and it’s now in its forty-fifth year. Playing on a landscape about the size of Delaware, it remains largely hidden from view, while Middle Eastern headlines from elsewhereThe Middle East's New Geopolitical Map
23 Sep 2011: The Arab Spring is not the only revolution in town. The toppling of dictators in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya; the mounting death toll in Syria and Yemen, where the outcome is still undecided; the revival of long-suppressed Islamic movements demanding a shareArab-Israeli MP loses more rights over flotilla
18 Jul 2011: JERUSALEM: An Israeli parliamentary committee on Monday stripped an Arab-Israeli MP of more rights over her participation in a 2010 flotilla seeking to breach Israel's blockade of Gaza, she told AFP. Haneen Zuabi, an MP with the left-wing Arab partyLeviathan’s Lies
17 Jul 2011: Politicians nowadays treat Americans like medical orderlies treat Alzheimer’s patients, telling them anything that will keep them subdued. It doesn’t matter what untruths the people are fed because they will not long remember. But in politics,South Africa fails to stop rise in xenophobia
05 Jul 2011: In a week that saw two Somali traders shot dead in Cape Town and two more in Port Elizabeth, the South African government's handling of xenophobia received the lowest possible rating in a report by the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) MonitoringSomalia: Manifestation of Stealth Trusteeship
16 Apr 2011: DOHA, Apr 5, 2011- Somalia is currently under what James Fearon and David Laitin of Stanford University call "a neo-trusteeship system". Various external powers, while disagreeing among themselves, make the important decisions for the Somali people. OnMohamed Ali Samatar Case, A Ring of Classic Scapegoating
14 Feb 2011: History is frequently rewritten following changes in a country’s political arena or status, more commonly in third world nations than first. The victors take this opportunity to redraw the attended events, both good and bad, in the matrix of time.Goldstone's Legacy for Israel
29 Jan 2011: A sprawling crime scene. That is what Gaza felt like when I visited in the summer of 2009, six months after the Israeli attack. Evidence of criminality was everywhere-the homes and schools that lay in rubble, the walls burned pitch black by whiteSomalia, US, and the Dual-Track Letdown
21 Nov 2010: Somalia, and in particular and Horn of Africa, in general are at such a volatile stage that any misstep - domestic or foreign- could only further exacerbate that perilous condition. One such potential misstep gathering cloud is the recently proposed USIslamophobes seduced by Crusader myth
11 Nov 2010: The Muslims were bloodthirsty and treacherous. They conducted a sneak attack against the French army and slaughtered every single soldier, 20,000 in all. More than 1,000 years ago, in the mountain passes of Spain, the Muslim horde cut down the finestWhen Corporations are the Government
02 Nov 2010: It was Bill Clinton’s campaign strategist, James Carville, who in 1992 created the election slogan: “It’s the Economy, Stupid.” For the 2010 Congressional campaigns, the slogan should have been: “It’s Corporate Crime and Control, Stupid.”slashnews
Major quake shakes eastern city of Van
A 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit eastern Turkey yesterday, triggering the collapse of buildings and killing many people, according
to officials and experts. At least 50 people were taken to the single hospital in the city of Van, Anatolia news agency said,
The wretched scandal of Gaza
Past bombed suburbs and scrubland stands the house on the frontier of hell. Once, Abdullah Wahdem's home was a pleasant villa set
in the citrus groves of northern Gaza. Now its cream stucco frontage is pitted by the bullets and artillery salvos that
From Hate to Love -
Story of Adiy ibn Hatim
In the ninth year of the Hijrah, an 'Arab king made the first positive moves to Islam after years of feeling hatred for it. He
drew closer to faith (iman) after opposing arid combating it. And he finally pledged allegiance to the Prophet, peace be on him,
Microsoft Bing in search deal with China’s
Baidu
Microsoft has signed a deal with China’s top search engine, Baidu, to provide the site with censored web search services in
English. Baidu, which dominates 83 per cent of the local market and whose success is built on its Chinese language services, said
