Nearly four million pilgrims have performed Haj this year, Makkah Gov. Prince Khaled Al-Faisal announced yesterday. “This year’s pilgrimage was a resounding success,” he said. Addressing a press conference here, Prince Khaled urged the international media to highlight the great Haj message that Muslims are a peace-loving people can coexist peacefully with others. “Islam is [...]
Saudi Arabia: Four Million Pilgrims Performed Haj This Year
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Brahimi Belongs To A Generation Of Failure – OpEd
By Khaled Al Dakheel No one knows why did Lakhdar Brahimi accept the task to find a solution to the Syrian crisis. Does he himself know why? Brahimi immediately said after accepting the assignment in an interview with BBC that he is fully aware that his mission is almost impossible. Why did he accept the [...]
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Jimmy Savile And The BBC – OpEd
Why the surprise, the sense of shock, the orchestrated gasps of revulsion? The late ghastly, self-indulgent radio and television presenter Jimmy Savile, who would effectively confess on live television that he would so anything to everything, is now sending posthumous tremors through the broadcasting establishments of the United Kingdom – primarily the BBC. The corpse [...]
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Not Voting For Obama – OpEd
Two weeks before Election Day, most polling indicates that Barack Obama has sufficient support to win an electoral college victory. If the past four years are any indication, that victory will do little to help the millions of people who put Obama in office. His claims of success are either dubious or obviously harmful for [...]
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Giants Beat Tigers To Win World Series
The San Francisco Giants have won the World Series, defeating the Detroit Tigers in four consecutive games to become the champions of Major League Baseball. The Giants needed extra innings to get the 4-3 win in Sunday’s clinching game of the best-of-7 series. It is their second championship in three years. The Giants had to [...]
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A Regional Solution For Afghanistan: Demystifying ‘Plan B’ Of The West – Analysis
By J Jeganaathan Ever since President Obama announced the pull out of US troops (almost 33,000) from Afghanistan by summer of 2012, the international community has been puzzled to find a face-saving exit from Afghanistan. Multiple scenarios have been proposed and discussed as to what will happen to Afghanistan after the withdrawal, though the exact [...]
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Begum Khaleda Zia’s Visit To India – Analysis
By Gautam Sen Begun Khaleda Zia, the leader of Bangladesh’s main opposition party, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), is visiting India after nearly six years at the invitation of the Indian government. Since her last visit in 2006 as Prime Minister of Bangladesh, there has been a substantial change in India-Bangladesh relations. Given the proximity [...]
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Pakistan’s Asif Zardari: Consummate Cunning Or Spineless And Unscrupulous – Analysis
By Sushant Sareen Despite the revulsion that Asif Zardari invokes among his detractors, even his most bitter critics are often forced to acknowledge with admiration, if also intense frustration, how Pakistan’s unlikely president has for all intents and purposes outsmarted all his opponents and ridden out all the storms to take the PPP-led coalition to [...]
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Sixty Million At Risk As Deadly Hurricane Sandy Triggers Mass Evacuations
The ‘Frankenstorm’ Sandy is set to be unprecedented in size once it hits the US mainland Monday night. Tens of millions of people could be affected as the hybrid hurricane wreaks havoc from the East Coast to the Great Lakes on Halloween week. Increasingly dire warnings of powerful winds, power outages, widespread flooding, torrential downpours [...]
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Beyond President Chavez Electoral Victory: Socialism In A Rentier State – OpEd
The successful re-election of President Chavez by a resounding 10% margin winning 20 of the 22 states, with a massive 80% turnout provides his government with a clear and decisive mandate to set the political and economic course of the country over the next six years. To understand the opportunities and constraints which the government [...]
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OIF Defends Qatar’s Admission To French-Speaking Club
(EurActiv) — Leaders of French-speaking nations in the Francophonie organisation OIF officially welcomed the Gulf state of Qatar as a new associate member this month, raising eyebrows in some quarters over the club’s membership criteria. But OIF officials defended the decision, saying Doha had demonstrated its commitment to the French language. Qatar’s formal admission into [...]
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US Continues To Seek Resolution To Conflict In Mali – Clinton
The US will continue to seek a solution to the ongoing conflict in Mali, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday. Clinton made the comment in Algeria, where she is on the first part of an international tour that will later lead her to the Balkans. Following a meeting with Algeria’s President Bouteflika, [...]
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Will Khaleda Zia’s India Visit Lead To Improved Ties? – Analysis
By Joyeeta Bhattacharjee Begum Khaleda Zia, the chairperson of the influential opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), is beginning an import visit of India from Sunday, October 28. A former Prime Minister who is not known to be friendly with India, Begum Zia is coming to New Delhi on the invitation of the Government of India. [...]
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Africa Can Avoid Food Crises And Earn Billions – Analysis
By Jerome Mwanda Some 19 million people in West Africa’s Sahel region are living with the threat of hunger and malnutrition, though the potential to increase agricultural production in Africa is enormous. Poor people in the slums of Nairobi pay more for their maize, rice, and other staple food than wealthy people pay for the [...]
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US Assesses Damage From Massive Storm Sandy, 39 Dead
Emergency officials along the U.S. east coast are assessing damage from the massive storm named Sandy, which is now blamed for at least 39 U.S. deaths, reports the AP. President Barack Obama has declared “major disasters” in the northeastern states of New York and New Jersey, where the storm has flooded low-lying areas, damaged structures [...]
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Clinton, Ashton Urge Serbia To Continue Kosovo Talks
By Bojana Barlovac The US and EU diplomacy chiefs have urged Serbia to continue talks with Kosovo in order to realise its European destiny. The US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, and the EU High Representative for Foreign Policy and Security, Catherine Ashton, said after meetings with Serbian leaders on Tuesday that they did not [...]
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Middle East Sovereign Funds Keep Looking Towards Morocco – OpEd
Morocco has set its sights on becoming a model for regional reform different from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Libya. This bodes very well for its future prosperity. Tourism has historically been one of Morocco’s most important industries. These reforms will avert the kind of turmoil which has kept visitors away from such countries as [...]
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Obama Approves Disaster Declarations For New Jersey And New York
As Sandy continues to track westward, federal response teams are already providing assistance for those affected by the storm. While the worst of the weather is beyond some areas on the East Coast, Sandy remains a very large storm system that continues to pose life-threatening hazards for coastal and inland areas including high winds, heavy [...]
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Climate Change And Climate Silence: ‘I’m Surprised It Didn’t Come Up In One Of The Debates’ – OpEd
‘I’m surprised it didn’t come up in one of the debates,’ said many Americans in response to the fact that President Obama and Mitt Romney didn’t have a single word to say about climate change. But Obama claims he was surprised too — the quotation above actually comes from him. Surprised that it got left [...]
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Kuwait Arrests Opposition Leader Ahead Of Mass Protest
Kuwaiti authorities arrested a prominent opposition figure over his criticism of the Gulf Arab state’s ruler. It came days before an expected mass rally protesting against a reform, which critics say undermines opposition political forces. Musallam al-Barrak, an ex-legislator and leader at the nationalist Popular Action Bloc was arrested late on Monday following a news [...]
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