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DUBLIN: Police in Ireland arrested seven people over an alleged plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist who depicted the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog.
Irish police said four men and three women were detained in raids across the south of the country.
The force says the arrests were part of an investigation into a [...]
BERLIN: German police have arrested three people suspected of helping a radical Islamist group whose followers have confessed to planning attacks on US targets in Germany, prosecutors said on Monday.
The federal prosecutor’s office said it suspected two men whom it identified only as Alican T. and Fatih K., and one woman, Filiz G., of supporting [...]
LONDON: The Metropolitan police is investigating allegations that MI5 was complicit in the torture of Shaker Aamer, the last remaining British resident in Guantánamo Bay, it was revealed today.
Investigating officers have applied to the high court for the release of classified government documents relating to the case. They are already investigating claims of MI5 complicity [...]
PARIS: The architect of France’s burka ban was about to convert to Islam to marry his secret Muslim girlfriend, reports said.
Eric Besson, the country’s 51-year-old immigration minister, has admitted the relationship with Yasmine Tordjman, a Paris art student less than half his age. The French media has aired the likelihood Mr Besson, the hardline conservative, [...]
PHILADELPHIA: Federal agents detained and interrogated a US college student at the Philadelphia airport simply because he was carrying a set of English-Arabic flashcards, a lawsuit alleged on Wednesday.
The American Civil Liberties Union said it filed the suit on behalf Nicholas George, 22, a language student at Pomona College in California who was held at [...]
GAZA: Hamas, in an unusual move that seems unlikely to herald a change in tactics by the Islamist group, has expressed regret for the deaths of Israeli civilians in Palestinian rocket attacks during fighting in Gaza a year ago.
Israel, where Hamas suicide bombers have killed hundreds of civilians over two decades, dismissed any apology for [...]
BAGHDAD: A female suicide bomber blew herself up, killing 41 Shia pilgrims in northeastern Baghdad on Monday and wounding 106 others, the office of Baghdad security spokesman said.
“At 11.45 am (0845 GMT), a woman wearing an explosives-filled belt blew herself up in the middle of a crowd of pilgrims going to Karbala,” said Major General [...]
NEW YORK: Tensions in the Gulf between the US and Iran are set to rise further after it emerged that American-made anti-missile systems are to be deployed to Washington’s Arab allies in the region.
The Obama Administration said yesterday that it was speeding up arms sales to a number of states and that it had also [...]
DUBAI: Dubai’s police chief said that Israel’s spy agency, MOSSAD, could be behind the murder of a top Hamas leader at a Dubai hotel room.
“It could be MOSSAD, or another party,” police chief Dhahi Khalfan told AFP.
“Personally, I don’t exclude any possibility. I don’t exclude any party that has an interest in the assassination” of [...]
TEHRAN: Iran put on trial on Saturday 16 anti-government protesters, including two women, who were arrested on the Shiite mourning day of Ashura, a local news agency reported.
Five of the defendants are accused of being mohareb (enemies of God) and corrupt on earth, both crimes punishable by death under the Iranian legal system, which is [...]
The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas accused Israel yesterday of assassinating one of its military chiefs in Dubai — a man who helped to found the group’s armed wing and who was behind the kidnapping and killing of two Israeli soldiers in the first intifada 21 years ago.
Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, who was a key to the continuing [...]
Israel’s spy agency Mossad and the country’s special forces have carried out a number of assassinations of Palestinian militants in the past and have also been blamed for killings which the Jewish state has never publicly taken responsibility for.
In addition, the army and air force have carried out so-called ‘targeted killings’ of numerous Palestinian leaders [...]
From the last two decades there has been going on incursion of “Electronic Media” on the whole Islamic World including Pakistan. Like wise in the countries of the West, the private T.V Channels flood has changed social and moral values al-together. In the print media like Magazines & Newspapers, to some extend, the process of [...]
KUALA LUMPUR: Three people were charged in a Malaysian court on Friday for the firebomb attack that gutted a church amid a row on the use of the word “Allah” by Christians, state news agency Bernama reported.
The three, all ethnic Malay Muslims aged between 22 to 24 who work as motorcycle couriers, claimed trial at [...]
TUNIS: The head of the Islam Channel, Britain’s most popular Muslim television station, has been arrested in South Africa and faces deportation to Tunisia over terrorism allegations.
The Times disclosed more than a year ago that Mohamed Ali Harrath, a Scotland Yard adviser against Islamic extremism, was wanted by Interpol because of his alleged activities in [...]
PARIS: France was set to move one step closer to barring the Muslim women from wearing the full Islamic veil with the release Tuesday of a report calling for a ban on the burqa in public institutions.
After six months of hearings surrounded by fierce public debate, a commission set up by parliament will publish Tuesday [...]
JERUSALEM: Israel’s prime minister declared on Sunday that his country would retain parts of the West Bank forever a statement that infuriated Palestinians and could complicate the year-old peace mission of a visiting US envoy.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu laid claim to disputed territory just hours after meeting with George Mitchell, the Obama administration’s Middle East [...]
TEL AVIV: The Israeli military is completing a rebuttal to a United Nations report accusing it of grave violations of international and humanitarian law in its Gaza invasion a year ago. Its central aim is to dispel the report’s harsh conclusion — that the death of noncombatants and destruction of civilian infrastructure were part of [...]
DUBAI: A purported audio tape of Osama Bin Laden aired on Al Jazeera television claimed responsibility for a December 25 attempted bombing of a US-bound plane, and the al Qaeda leader vowed to continue attacks on the United States.
“The message sent to you with the attempt by the hero Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is a [...]
BAGHDAD: The two biggest secular coalitions were hit hardest by this month’s decision to bar about 500 candidates from parliamentary elections in March, a top election official said Thursday, as efforts to resolve what has become a political crisis intensified.
The decision infuriated Sunnis and deepened their fears of being excluded from the political process. Critics [...]
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