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Saudi Arabia’s king called for greater dialogue and openness between the world’s monotheistic religions on March 24, 2008. In the face of rising tensions over Mohammed cartoons, al-Qaida claiming Pope Benedict XVI is leading a crusade, and a stalled Middle East peace process, King Abdullah’s outreach took on extra weight. From the International Herald Tribune:
“‘The […]
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Here’s a twist on the global financial crisis you may not have considered: After 9/11, the focus was not just on physically capturing al-Qaida suspects, but shutting down their financial conduits, making sure they or their supporters couldn’t use financial institutions to shuffle terrorist cash. And now, with banks reaching for bailouts and both the […]
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One analysis by one publication, the National Journal, using votes from one year ranked Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama as the most liberal senator in Washington. And Republicans have been repeating this ranking as fact ever since.
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5:20pm UK, Monday October 20, 2008
A female British national was shot dead in Afghanistan because she was spreading Christianity, the Taliban has declared.
Gayle Williams and the scene of the shooting
Aid worker Gayle Williams, from the Christian charity Serve Afghanistan, was killed in the capital Kabul.
Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said she was shot because she was teaching […]
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Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber has called his attempt to win the Eurovision Song Contest for the UK “mission impossible”.
The musical composer, who has agreed to pen the UK’s 2009 entry and is launching a search for a performer, is quoted by the Associated Press as saying: “In my life I have never shied away from […]
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Iranian mass medias report that wide trainings of air forces have been held in the Eastern Azerbaijan. The aim of the training was the preparation for the “air offensive against Israel”.
The maneuvers involved about 100 air force jets - old pursuit planes, produced in the United States in the 1970s and local Saegheh. The jets […]
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KABUL, Afghanistan — Taliban gunmen killed a Christian aid worker in Kabul on Monday that the militants accused of spreading her religion - a rare targeted killing of a Westerner in the nation’s capital.
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GOP Vice Presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin was on ”Saturday Night Live” this weekend, in an opening skit that included joshing about her refusal to take questions from the media.
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Someday, when the history of the current, global financial crisis that started in the U.S. with the subprime-mortgage scandal is written, it will be noted that the governments of capitalist countries like the United Kingdom and the United States partly nationalized banks in a move that is already being referred to as the “Gordon Brown […]
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When he coined the phrase ‘Be prepared,’ Robert Baden-Powell was definitely not talking about safe sex, David Byers writes.But, from today, the Scouts’ famous motto has a double-meaning following the decision to start teaching members about the forbidden topic, complete with visits to sexual health clinics and contraception advice. Far cry, you might think, from […]
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If Sen. Barack Obama wakes up as the president-elect on Nov. 5, he will immediately assume responsibility for fixing a shredded economy while the Bush administration is still in office. If Sen. John McCain wins the election, he will face an imminent confrontation over spending with a Democratic Congress called back into special session with […]
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TOKYO, Oct. 20 — To shore up a tumbling stock market and a troubled currency, South Korea announced Sunday that it would guarantee $100 billion in foreign debt and supply $30 billion to banks and exporters in urgent need of dollars.
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LA PAZ, Bolivia, Oct. 18 — The decision by the Bush administration to suspend trade preferences that benefit Bolivia has left workers here worried about the potential for widespread layoffs at a time when the nation is struggling to cope with the international financial crisis.
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TORONTO, Oct. 18 — Canada declared a chemical widely used in food packaging a toxic substance on Saturday and will now move to ban plastic baby bottles containing bisphenol A.
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JOHANNESBURG — On a recent evening at a swank downtown eatery here, a table of young black entrepreneurs sipped cocktails and talked politics by candlelight. They were symbols of the new South Africa: Raised in all-black townships, they now own suburban homes, pricey cars and stocks.
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BAGHDAD, Oct. 19 — Key members of the Iraqi parliament’s largest political bloc have called for all American troops to leave this country in 2011 as a condition for allowing the U.S. military to stay here beyond year’s end, officials said Sunday.
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BAGHDAD — The sectarian violence that raged in Baghdad during the past three years has left the city polarized, with mixed neighborhoods undergoing what amounts to sectarian cleansing. The few Sunni families in Shiite neighborhoods were forced to move to areas where Sunnis predominate, while Shiites in largely Sunni neighborhoods took the opposite path.
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MBABANE (Reuters) - Southern African leaders representing the regional grouping SADC hold a summit in Swaziland on Monday to try to help Zimbabwe’s rival parties break a deadlock in negotiations on forming a cabinet.
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FAYETTEVILLE, North Carolina (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama won the support of former Republican Secretary of State Colin Powell on Sunday and announced he raised a record $150 million last month, dealing a double blow to rival John McCain’s U.S. presidential campaign.
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