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UK Teachers for All Faiths Education
March 30, 2008 - 22:33
CAIRO — British teachers believe state schools should allow preachers from all
faiths to offer religious education to pupils and should accommodate their
religious needs regarding uniform and catering, The Guardian...
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Israel 'allows' Jenin police force
March 30, 2008 - 22:33
Israel's defence minister has said that he will allow the deployment of 600 Jordanian-trained Palestinian police officers to Jenin as part of an agreement to help the Palestinian government bolster security.
However, the Palestinian interior minister said on Tuesday that it was not up to Israel...
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Syria Now Home to a Million ‘Pillow Drivers’
March 30, 2008 - 22:33
DAMASCUS - More than a
million Iraqis in Syria cannot find work. For their idleness, they have come to
be called the “pillow drivers”.
The United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees...
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Musharraf Lauds ‘New Era’ of Democracy in Pakistan
March 30, 2008 - 22:33
ISLAMABAD, 24 March 2008 —
A day before the next prime minister of Pakistan is to be elected, President
Pervez Musharraf lauded the start of a “new era of real democracy.”
Addressing the...
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Dutch Quran film website shut down
March 30, 2008 - 22:33
The website
promoting a right-wing Dutch politician's film about the Quran has been
suspended by its host amid controversy over the...
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US death toll in Iraq hits 4,000
March 30, 2008 - 22:33
The death toll of US military in Iraq has
passed 4,000 after the US Central Command announced that four more troops
had died in an attack.
The soldiers were killed on Sunday by a roadside bomb during a...
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Gaza Shores…Empty Nets, Shipwrecks
March 30, 2008 - 22:34
GAZA
CITY — Nine months ago, Gaza's fishermen used to ply their lucrative trade up
and down a 40-kilometre Mediterranean coastline and return home with handsome
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Blackwater ‘Blood Money’ Angers Iraqis
March 30, 2008 - 22:33
At least two Iraqi families
of victims killed by Blackwater security guards in September tell ABC News they
have refused compensation offered by the company.
The father of a 9-year-old
boy,...
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Yemeni Bid to Reconcile Fatah and Hamas Fails
March 30, 2008 - 22:34
RAMALLAH, 21 March 2008 —
The latest attempt to reconcile Fatah and Hamas ended in failure yesterday, with
each party blaming the other.
The announcement came as
Russian Foreign Minister...
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Bin Laden says free Gaza with "iron and fire"
March 30, 2008 - 22:34
DUBAI (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden urged Palestinians on Thursday to use "iron and fire" to end an Israeli blockade of Gaza, in a recording after the Vatican rejected accusations by the al Qaeda chief of a "new crusade".
In an audiotape broadcast by the Qatar-based Al Jazeera satellite channel on...
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Palestinian Disunity, Gaza Worried Habash
January 29, 2008 - 23:48
AMMAN, 28 January 2008 —
Hours before he died at an Amman hospital, the founding father of the Popular
Front for Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), George Habash, expressed concerns over
Palestinian disunity and Israel’s blockade of the Gaza...
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Gaza Dreams Die in El-Arish
January 29, 2008 - 01:15
GAZA CITY — "It is only
few hours and the dream
will come true," Samer
uttered while crossing...
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Dutch Anti-Islam Film Irks EU
January 29, 2008 - 01:15
BRDO
PRI KRANJU, Slovenia — Fearing uncalculated negative impacts on Islam-West
relations, EU justice ministers expressed Saturday, January 26, deep concern
over far-right Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders' plan to...
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Enough Musharraf: Retired Brass
January 29, 2008 - 01:16
ISLAMABAD — A cohort of retired army chiefs and top brass is asking embattling
President Pervez Musharraf, himself a former army chief, to step down as
president to pull the South Asian Muslim country out of the...
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57% of Palestinians Live in Poverty
January 29, 2008 - 01:19
RAMALLAH, West Bank — The
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) yesterday released
a pessimistic report summarizing the living conditions of Palestinians in the
West Bank and Gaza Strip in 2007. The report said that...
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More Islamic Banking Scholars Needed
January 29, 2008 - 01:19
MANAMA — As Islamic banking becomes a global phenomenon with more branches at
international financial institutions, qualified Muslim advisors are something of
a rarity to keep pace with the booming sector, scholars...
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'Bhutto murder suspect' arrested
January 29, 2008 - 01:22
Pakistani security officials have arrested a teenager in a town in the tribal northwest region on the suspicion he was involved in the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the former prime minister, in December, Al Jazeera reports.
Aitezaz Shah, 15, was arrested in Dera Ismail Khan in the North...
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Islamophobes? EU Muslims Wise up
January 29, 2008 - 01:28
PARIS — European Muslim leaders are growing astute in handling rising
Islamophobia across the continent by learning how to take offensive anti-Islam
campaigns into their strides, Muslim leaders and Islamic affairs...
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This Is Not the Time for Provocation: Saud
January 29, 2008 - 01:57
RIYADH, 15 January 2008 —
Saudi Arabia yesterday expressed its reservations about what it termed
“provocative” statements by US President George W. Bush on Iran during his
current Gulf tour.
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Islamophobia…Confident Austria Muslims
January 29, 2008 - 01:29
VIENNA — Austrian Muslim leaders have taken into their strides offensive
anti-Islam remarks made by a member of a right-wing party, saying such
"third-class" politicians do not deserve even their jeers. [ Print ] [ Send ] [ Read More ]
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U.S. sending 3,200 Marines to Afghanistan
January 29, 2008 - 01:29
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The
United States will send an additional force of about 3,200 Marines to
Afghanistan this spring to help NATO troops and Afghan security forces confront
rising Taliban violence, the Pentagon said on Tuesday.
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After Annapolis Israel Expands Settlements
December 07, 2007 - 03:36
CAIRO — Only a week after pledging peace at Annapolis, Israel is expanding a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank near Al-Quds (occupied East Jerusalem), in a serious threat to final-status negotiations, the Guardian reported on Wednesday, December 5.
The Israeli Housing Ministry is...
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Iran Declares ‘Victory’ After US Nuclear Report
December 07, 2007 - 03:36
Iran has been "somewhat vindicated" by a US intelligence report that says Tehran stopped trying to build a nuclear weapon four years ago, the head of the UN nuclear watchdog said.
Mohamed ElBaradei was speaking in Brazil on Wednesday after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, claimed the...
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China: Things have changed on Iran
December 07, 2007 - 03:37
US efforts to push for a third round of UN sanctions against Iran are likely to meet with more resistance after the release of a US intelligence report saying Tehran halted nuclear work in 2003.
China's UN ambassador suggested on Tuesday an agreement by six world powers to seek new sanctions...
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Israeli Army Ignores Orders on Settlements
December 07, 2007 - 03:37
RAMALLAH, West Bank, 5 December 2007 — The Israeli Civil Administration carried out only three percent of its own demolition orders for illegal construction in West Bank settlements over the past ten years, a new report by the anti-settlement Israeli watchdog Peace Now stated...
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Pak Opposition Rethinks Poll Boycott
December 07, 2007 - 03:37
ISLAMABAD — Pakistani opposition parties planning to boycott the January's general elections are coming under immense pressure from their respective candidates and voters to rescind their decision.
"Yes, there is an immense pressure on us by our candidates and voters for contesting the elections...
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