The world needs Pakistan to be a strong defender of human rights Human Rights | By Hajrah Mumtaz, published in The Dawn | Q: What are the most pressing human rights issues currently being faced by Pakistan? A: Pakistan is at a pivotal moment. The new government is moving towards the restoration of constitutional rule and it has already done some very important things: there’s...
Who is planning our next war? San Fransisco Chronicle | Of the Axis-of-Evil nations named in his State of the Union in 2002, President Bush has often said, "The United States will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons." | He failed with North Korea. Will he accept failure in Iran, though ...
AP Business NewsBrief at 8:26 a.m. EDT Insurance Newsnet Oil prices near $146 Oil prices neared $146 a barrel Thursday for the first time ever on reports of declining U.S. stockpiles and the threat of conflict with Iran. Comments by Saudi Arabia's oil minister suggesting his country had no immediate plans ...
AP Business NewsBrief at 8:05 a.m. EDT Insurance Newsnet Oil prices near $146 Oil prices neared $146 a barrel Thursday for the first time ever on reports of declining U.S. stockpiles and the threat of conflict with Iran. Comments by Saudi Arabia's oil minister suggesting his country had no immediate plans ...
AP Business NewsBrief at 8:03 a.m. EDT Insurance Newsnet Oil prices near $146 Oil prices neared $146 a barrel Thursday for the first time ever on reports of declining U.S. stockpiles and the threat of conflict with Iran. Comments by Saudi Arabia's oil minister suggesting his country had no immediate plans ...
AP Business NewsBrief at 7:18 a.m. EDT Insurance Newsnet Oil prices near $146 Oil prices neared $146 a barrel Thursday for the first time ever on reports of declining U.S. stockpiles and the threat of conflict with Iran. Comments by Saudi Arabia's oil minister suggesting his country had no immediate plans ...
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Iranian Christians forced to worship in secret San Fransisco Chronicle | (06-27) 04:00 PDT Tehran -- Illyas, 20, precariously straddles two worlds. | At home, he's a devout Christian who wears a silver cross around his neck, reads the Bible and sings ...
Net activism rattles Arabs The Australian | FACEBOOK, the popular social networking site, is becoming more than just a cyber meeting place as it turns into a powerful vehicle for social change. | Squeezing out MySpace as t...
Austrian Airlines, Al Jaber sue and countersue over deal gone sour Turkish Press | Austrian Airlines aircraft at Vienna's Schwechat airport. Austrian Airlines and its would-be suitor, Saudi billionaire Mohamed Al Jaber, said Thursday they were each suing the ot...
Terror suspect with 'direct links' to Bin Laden is released on bail in Britain as ... The Daily Mail | The unnamed terrorist is said to have direct links with Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden (pictured) | A major international terror suspect with 'direct links' to Osama bin Laden has been freed on bail from a British high-security prison, offic...
Middle East press views Jerusalem bulldozer attack BBC News | Wednesday's attack by a Palestinian who went on a bulldozing rampage in west Jerusalem, killing three people and wounding dozens, has provoked comment in the Israeli, Palestinian and regional press. | The attack raised questions in right-wing Israe...
Second al Qaeda suspect freed from British jail Canada Dot Com | LONDON (Reuters) - An Algerian accused by Britain of links to Osama bin Laden and bomb plots in the United States and France has been freed on bail after more than seven years in prison, a spokeswoman for a British tribunal said on Thursday. | The ...
'Communist torture' used at Guantanamo Bay The Australian | A CHART outlining "coercive management techniques" for US interrogators at Guantanamo Bay was copied verbatim from a 1957 US Air Force study of Chinese communist techniques used during the Korean War to obtain confessions - many of them false - from US prisoners. | The New York Times reported the chart listed techniques for use on prisoners inclu...
Hang up! Cell phone law survives Chicago Sun-Times | A federal judge Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit aimed at killing Chicago's ban on using handheld cell phones while driving. | The class action suit, filed by Blake Horwitz in December, demanded the city refund fines paid by more than 25,000 drivers ticketed for talking and driving because the city did not post signs alerting drivers of the ban. | T...
