Initial polling results indicate that around 54.8 percent of Palestinians eligible to vote took part in Saturday’s local elections, head of the Central Elections Committee Hanna Nasser said. Around 277,153 out of 505,006 eligible voters turned out to cast their ballots in 838 polling stations across the West Bank, Nasser told Ma’an. The highest voter [...]
Palestine: Over 54 Percent Voter Turnout In Local Elections
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Hindus Congratulate Luxembourg’s Royal Couple On Their Wedding
Hindus have congratulated Luxembourg’s Crown Prince Guillaume and Belgian Countess Stephanie de Lannoy on their wedding. Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, sent his best wishes on the special and joyful occasion of their lives, wishing them a happy future together. Hoping their lives would be blessed with happiness and [...]
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Hundreds Evacuated From Lourdes Due To Flooding
Flooding in southwestern France has forced hundreds of pilgrims to evacuate the Marian apparition site and nearby hotels. Busloads of pilgrims were taken to a nearby conference hall and a sports hall while about 40 people were evacuated from their homes Oct. 20, Radio France International reported. The Gave River, which runs through the city [...]
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Iran: 28 Students Killed In Bus Accident
A bus accident on Friday night claimed the lives of 28 students in southwestern Iran, Iranian media report. Officials report that the driver lost control of the bus in rainy weather and the bus overturned, killing 28 students. Another 19 are reported to be injured and were rushed to hospital for treatment. Speeding was reported [...]
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Iran Denounces Bombing In Lebanon
Iran has condemned the recent bombing in Lebanon, and the Iranian Foreign Ministry said the terrorist act was aimed at “creating divisions among the movements and people of Lebanon.” Ramin Mehmanparast, a spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry, told ISNA on Saturday October 20 that the bombing perpetrators have no regard for the interests of the [...]
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Romney The Detail Man? – OpEd
The so-called “mainstream media” (aka The New York Times) is constantly being assailed by Republicans and the right for their supposedly liberal slant. Yet another convenient right-wing lie. Take, for example, Saturday’s above-the-fold NY Times story, entitled (in the print edition that arrived at my home this morning): “Romney Recalled as Leader Who Savors Details.” [...]
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Bangladeshi In FBI Net: A Counter-Terrorism Sting Operation – Analysis
The media has reported as follows regarding the arrest of a Bangladeshi national in the US on a charge of plotting to carry out an act of terrorism on behalf of Al Qaeda in the US: “Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, 21, was arrested on Wednesday (October 17, 2012) and faces charges of attempting to [...]
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How Chavez Made The Media Electorally Irrelevant – Analysis
By Saeed Naqvi “If much of the Western media is to be believed, I write this column from a country brutalised by an absurd tinpot caudillo, Hugo Chavez, who routinely jails any journalist or politician with the temerity to speak out against his tyranny”. This was written by Owen Jones of London’s The Independent from [...]
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Hindus Laud Bhutan Government For Supporting Durga-Puja
Hindus have commended Bhutan Government for supporting annual nine-day Durga Puja celebrations in capital and largest city Thimpu, currently underway till October 24. Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, thanking the Bhutan Department of Cultural Affairs for reportedly providing support to the organizer Durga Puja Organizing Committee, called it a [...]
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AU Returns The Middle East And Africa’s Most Abused Stadium To Soccer – Analysis
In a sign of improved security in Somalia, African Union (AU) troops will return Mogadishu Stadium, the most abused sports facility in a region with a history of battered stadiums, to the Somali Football Federation (SFF). The AU decision highlights the recent, significant setbacks suffered by Al Shabab, the Al Qaeda-linked Islamist militia that banned [...]
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LeT’s New Media Strategy – Analysis
By Wilson John Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT), a Pakistan-based terrorist group, is taking its social media outreach programme a notch further by conducting workshops on the use of social media to its cadres and supporters. One of the objectives of the first workshop held early this month was to study the role of social media in ’freedom [...]
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Iran Viewpoint: Difficult Upshot Of Iran Sanctions For The United States – OpEd
By Dr. Cyrus Faizee During all the past couple of years in which the United States has been leading the Western alliance against the Islamic Republic of Iran by making efforts to weaken or topple the Islamic establishment through imposition of economic sanctions, the experience of the past six months has been more interesting. Perhaps, [...]
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Over 50 People Poisoned By Toilet Gases At Berlin Airport
Around 53 people were treated for minor injuries after reporting nausea and sore eyes from noxious gases coming from the toilet at Berlin’s Tegel airport, according to thelocal.de. Fire fighters arrived at the scene to investigate the toilet, but upon entering the room they too became ill. “Since around 7 am police officers from the [...]
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Apple Rumored To Unveil Update To iBooks Oct 23
While Apple’s forthcoming Oct 23 event is dominated by speculation of new iPads, new information suggests that the company might also unveil an update to its native ebook application iBooks, VentureBeat reports. The news comes from French Apple blog iGen.fr, which noticed that some books are now referencing iBooks 3.0 as a requirement in Apple’s [...]
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Bosnia Divided Over Abolishing Armed Forces
By Drazen Remikovic The parliaments of Bosnia and Herzegovina will soon begin debating whether to abolish the country’s armed forces — a controversial proposal put forth by Republika Srpska (RS) President Milorad Dodik. Dodik’s Alliance of Independent Social Democrats, the majority party in the RS parliament, is poised to support abolishing the armed forces. But [...]
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Morocco: Private School Ban Raises Stir
By Siham Ali Public school instructors can no longer work extra hours in private schools. The newly announced decision has the entire academic bewildered. The ban came into force at the beginning of this school year, on September 14th. From now on, public school instructors will need to obtain prior authorisation from the national education [...]
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Droukdel Loses Control Over AQIM
By Walid Ramzi Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) is plagued by divisions, leadership clashes and waning influence, a letter from the terror group leader reveals. “The organisation is sick,” Abdelmalek Droukdel said in a letter published in Algeria’s Echorouk on September 11th. “I have done my best to extrapolate the situation in spite of [...]
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Gaddafi A Year Later: Democracy And Oil
“On 20 October last year, Muammar Gaddafi died in own town of Sirte. Since then, Libya has engaged in a process to affirm democracy, proceeding along an inclined plane and uphill. But, in fact, it is moving ahead,” said Farid Adly, journalist and essayist. Residing in Italy but born in Benghazi and author of “The [...]
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Libya: New Proof Of Mass Killings At Gaddafi Death Site
New evidence collected by Human Rights Watch implicates Misrata-based militias in the apparent execution of dozens of detainees following the capture and death of Muammar Gaddafi one year ago. The Libyan authorities have failed to carry out their pledge to investigate the death of Gaddafi, Libya’s former dictator, his son Mutassim, and dozens of others [...]
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Nigeria: Suspected Militant Attacks Leave 23 Dead
Nigerian hospital officials say a wave of attacks by suspected Boko Haram militants has left at 23 people dead, while authorities say they have arrested a prominent member of the Islamist sect. Hospital officials said Saturday the deaths resulted from a series of explosions and shootings that began on Thursday in the northeastern part of [...]
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