Al Arabiya TV sued for ‘blasphemy’
Muhammad Humaidan I Arab News |
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JEDDAH: A case has been filed against the popular news channel, Al Arabiya, at the summary court in Jeddah for allegedly making fun of Islam, said Muhammad Mirdad, a judge at the court. Mirdad...
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Don’t politicize Haj, Riyadh tells Tehran
M. Ghazanfar Ali Khan I Arab News |
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RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has rejected Iranian apprehensions that Iranian pilgrims could be mistreated during Haj. Haj Minister Fouad Al-Farsy, responding to continuous allegations by top Iranian leaders...
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Confusion over H1N1 vaccine still prevails
Muhammad Rasooldeen I Arab News |
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RIYADH: The Ministry of Health has still not announced whether local Haj pilgrims need to take the H1N1 vaccine before proceeding for the annual pilgrimage. There is still confusion over whether...
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111 die on a day of carnage
Agence France Presse |
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PESHAWAR: A huge car bomb killed a hundred people in Pakistan and Taleban gunmen struck a UN hostel in Afghanistan on Wednesday in a wave of bloodshed as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived...
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NSHR worried over plight of overstayers
Muhammad Humaidan I Arab News |
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JEDDAH: Hussein Al-Sharief, supervisor of the National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) in the Makkah province, has warned authorities about the danger posed by the gathering of thousands of illegal...
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Editorials: Chief for Europe
29 October 2009 |
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FORMER British Prime Minister Tony Blair is currently supposed to be the leading candidate for the job of European president under the new quasi-constitution of the EU, enshrined in the Lisbon Treaty....
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Bringing Karadzic to book
Peter Popham I The Independent |
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TUESDAY, for the second day running, Radovan Karadzic failed to show up for his trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, where he is accused on two counts...
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