RAMALLAH, West Bank, 28 September 2007 — The head of Palestinian Civil Affairs Commission, Hussein Al-Sheikh, yesterday said that Israeli authorities rejected family unification files related to the
ISLAMABAD, 28 September 2007 — The chief justice of Pakistan yesterday ordered the government to free at least 100 opposition leaders and workers who were arrested over the weekend to prevent protests
NEW YORK, 28 September 2007 — Israel should freeze construction of Jewish settlements and a separation wall in the West Bank to prove its “seriousness” ahead of a Middle East peace summit, Saudi Arabia’s
WASHINGTON, 28 September 2007 — The Bush administration opened yesterday a two-day conference on global warming that has been criticized by environmentalists and Democrats as an attempt to rob the
WASHINGTON, 28 September 2007 — The fallout over the recent Blackwater USA shooting in Iraq may redefine how private security forces operate in hot spots around the world. But while last week’s
PUNE, 28 September 2007 — Intending Haj pilgrims in Aurangabad protested yesterday over the decision of the Central Haj Committee to bar pilgrims aged 75 years and above from performing Haj this year. Those
ABU DHABI, 28 September 2007 — Muslims should lend greater attention and support for scientific research and for culture respecting and promoting it if they want to revive the golden era of Islamic
NEW DELHI/BANGALORE, 28 September 2007 — Cracks in an alliance between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Janata Dal-S (JD-S), which are sharing the government in Karnataka, have surfaced with
MANILA, 28 September 2007 — A Philippine senator was forced to take back her comment that China “invented corruption” after Beijing and Chinese businessmen in the country protested the tag as unfair
MANILA, 28 September 2007 — Korean Kim Sun-Tae, a blind Korean Christian priest who was named as a Magsaysay Awardee this year for putting up a hospital for the blind and visually impaired, plans to
