Ali Khan Khartoum, November 28: A 16-year-old south Sudanese girl was lashed 50 times after a judge ruled her knee-length skirt was indecent, her lawyer and family said in the latest case to push Sudan’s Islamic law into the spotlight.
The mother of teenager Silva Kashif said on Friday she was planning to sue the police who made the arrest and the judge who imposed the sentence, as her daughter was underage and a Christian.
Washington, November 28: Though President Obama’s planned December 1 address announcing his Afghan War escalation plans is being presented chiefly as an attempt to sell the increasingly skeptical American public on the seemingly endless war, analysts suggest an ulterior motive.
Rather than the American public, whose opposition to the war seems to have virtually no impact on the government’s determination to continue it, many see the speech as aimed more at NATO allies and trying to secure an escalation from them as well.
Bhopal, November 28 (Pervez Bari): Three Non Government Organizations, (NGOs), working for the welfare of survivors of Bhopal Gas Tragedy, the world’s worst industrial disaster, have decided to launch a unique “Jhoot Bole Kaua Kaate” (crow bites liars) campaign to nail the Bharatiya Janata Party ruled Madhya Pradesh Government’s lies telling the world that all is well in Bhopal on gas tragedy front while trying to sweep under the carpet the sufferings of the ailing gas victims.
Washington, November 28: A former British ambassador to the United States says then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice talked to him about Iraq and Saddam Hussein hours after the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001.
Sir Christopher Meyer, who served as Britain’s top diplomat in Washington from 1997 to 2003, also told an inquiry into the Iraq war that the timeline the US and Britain set to invade Iraq made it impossible for the UN to determine if Saddam Hussein had active weapons of mass destruction programs.
Florida, November 28: Ten students at a Naples, Florida, middle school have been given one-day, in-school suspensions for participating in “Kick a Jew Day,” in which Jewish students were targeted for assault, according to news reports in the local media.
Parents and students at North Naples Middle School told NBC channel 2 in Naples that many students — all of them Jewish — were targeted in the attacks, which took place last week.
The station obtained a letter from one parent who said his daughter was a target of the attacks.
Washington, November 28: In a 25-3 vote, the P5+1 (the permanent five members of the UN Security Council plus Germany) succeeded in getting their draft resolution condemning Iran’s civilian nuclear program passed through the IAEA. Every major nation supported the resolution, with Venezuela, Malaysia and Cuba voting against it.
The resolution is a blanket condemnation of the Iranian nuclear program and demands the immediate halt of construction at the Qom enrichment facility. The vote is seen as a first step toward more sanctions against Iran.
Occupied Jerusalem, November 28: The birth rate among Israel’s Muslim Arab minority has fallen by a quarter since 2000, official figures showed on Friday.
The annual birth rate fell from 3.8 percent in 2000 to 2.8 percent at the end of 2008, according to the figures from the Central Bureau of Statistics released on the occasion of the Muslim Eid Al-Adha holiday.
In 2008, Israel had a Muslim population of 1.24 million, including 256,000 Muslim Palestinians living in annexed Arab east Jerusalem.
Hyderabad, November 28 (Siasat News): Muslims across Hyderabad City thronged Eidgah and mosques on Saturday to pray on Eid-ul-Zuha.
One of the main centres for the Eid festivities was the Eidgah Mir Alam and Makkah Masjid where thousands of devotees gathered to offer prayers.
In keeping with tradition, people wore new clothes to celebrate the festival.
After prayers, the devotees will sacrifice goats and other animals. People also donate meat to the poor on this occasion of sharing and sacrifice.
Bhopal, November 27 (Pervez Bari): “Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, India’s first Education Minister, was among the top intellectuals of the first half of the 20th century who made a lasting impression on the life of Indians irrespective of caste, creed or religion.
As the first Union Education Minister he shaped India’s Education Policy and took on the task to bring about revolutionary changes in the education system of the country which the British had set up to suit their own needs”.
Even though after 25 years hundreds of thousands of survivors of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy, the world’s worst industrial disaster, plagued by innumerable diseases continue to suffer incessantly the governments of the day instead of helping them out to lessen their pains think their prime duty is to downplay the whole episode to present a goody-goody picture before the world at large on 25th anniversary of the tragedy.
Even though after 25 years hundreds of thousands of survivors of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy, the world’s worst industrial disaster, plagued by innumerable diseases continue to suffer incessantly the governments of the day instead of helping them out to lessen their pains think their prime duty is to downplay the whole episode to present a goody-goody picture before the world at large on 25th anniversary of the tragedy.
Riyadh, November 26: Sarah Obama, the wife of the American President Barack Obama’s grandfather, arrived in Saudi Arabia where she is set to perform the annual Muslim pilgrimage, or Hajj, press reports said Wednesday.
Sarah was accompanied by her grandson and Obama’s cousins who will all be hosted as guests of the Custodian of the two Holy Mosques, King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz.
Sarah’s trip to Saudi, along with 10 villagers from Kogelo Kenya, where she will head to Mecca and Medina as part of her pilgrimage refutes published reports that she had converted to Christianity.
Jeddah, November 26: Flooding killed at least 48 people in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday after a heavy downpour, while 900 people were saved, official reports said on Thursday.
Civil defense authorities said 44 people died in the city of Jeddah and four in Mecca. Some were drowned or were killed by collapsing bridges and in car crashes, while the rescue services spokesman said another 900 people had to be rescued after being stranded by the floodwaters caused by rainfall .
Hyderabad, November 26: Results of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation. 150 seats out of 150 declared.
Congress: 52
TDP: 45
MIM: 43
BJP: 4
MBT: 1
PRP: 1
Others: 4
Hyderabad, November 26: Results of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation. 147 seats out of 150 declared.
Congress: 55
TDP: 45
MIM: 39
BJP: 4
Others: 4
Shanghai, November 25: AIDS has killed 25 million people worldwide but new infections are slowing sharply, the UN said on Tuesday as it issued its annual report that mixed hope with a warning against complacency.
Almost 60 million people have been infected by the HIV virus since it was first recorded but prevention programmes are having a significant impact, the UNAIDS agency said in its latest report, released here in Shanghai.
The Hague, November 18: The business of selling food that is halal, or acceptable to Muslims, is set to grow rapidly in Europe in coming years as more supermarket chains target the sector, a Nestle executive said on Tuesday.
Frits van Dijk, executive vice president at the world’s biggest food group, told Reuters on the sidelines of the World Halal Forum in The Hague he expected the halal food business in Europe to grow by 20 to 25 percent within the next decade.
Geneva, November 18: Swiss President Hans-Rudolf Merz on Tuesday told voters that the call of the muezzin, or Muslim imam who calls people to prayer, would not sound in Switzerland, as he campaigned against a referendum motion seeking to ban the building of minarets.
“Muslims should be able to practice their religion and have access to minarets in Switzerland too. But the call of the muezzin will not sound here,” said Merz in a video broadcast to the nation.
Gaza, November 14: In a clinic in the beleaguered Gaza Strip, Ratib Samur makes his way from one patient to the next armed with little more than a small box filled with enraged bees.
He uses the bees to sting those who have come to him for help — and amid the territory’s deepening isolation, his clinic has been transformed into a hive of activity.
Since Hamas seized power in Gaza in 2007 the coastal enclave has been sealed off from all but vital aid by both Israel and Egypt, limiting the ability of Gazans to seek medical care abroad.
Dubai, November 13: After making it on America’s infamous “axis of evil,” Syria will now become synonymous with Angelina Jolie’s brood as the U.S. actress looks set to adopt a child from the Arab nation despite her partner Brad Pitt’s objections.
The Oscar-winning actress, who was recently on a trip with Pitt to the Arab nation to visit Iraqi refugees, has reportedly started the process to bring home a baby girl from the Arab country, OK! Magazine reported Wednesday.
Brad and Angelina in the Damascus Souk or market
New Delhi, November 09: Cabinet ministers in the first term of the UPA government have spent more than Rs300 crore on their foreign and domestic travels in the last three years.
The data provided by the cabinet secretariat shows more than Rs137 crore were spent by ministers of cabinet rank on the foreign travels between fiscal 2006-’07 and 2008-’09, with highest in the year 2007-’08 when more than Rs115 crore were spent by them on such travels.
Washington, November 07: Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is notoriously sensitive to media criticism. Even so, to many observers this move may seem drastic.
Hoping to keep a “low profile” on her upcoming trip to Wisconsin, the one-time GOP vice presidential candidate decided to ban all press from covering her speech. She further issued an edict against cell phones, cameras, laptops and recording devices of any kind, CNN noted.
During a radio interview, Wisconsin Democratic Party Chairman Mike Tate called the restrictions “bizarre,” especially coming from a self-described “rogue.”
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Bhopal, October 30 (Pervez Bari): Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickramanayake and his ministerial colleague, the Minister of Urban Development (Sri Lanka), Dinesh Gunawardena arrived here in Bhopal on Friday morning from Mumbai on a three-day visit to the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.
Kuala Lumpur, October 29: Malaysia’s conservative Islamic party has urged Muslim men to marry single mothers as additional wives instead of “young girls”, a state official said.
Wan Ubaidah Omar, a cabinet minister from northern Kelantan, which the party controls, said the proposal aired in state parliament this week was needed to help single mothers and widows in the underdeveloped region.
“Muslim men usually like young girls as their additional wives, so I suggest instead of taking these young girls, why don’t they marry the single mothers as their second or third wife?” she told.