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Ghoul: Transferring sick captives back to prison tantamount to execution verdict

Dr. Mohammed Faraj al-Ghoul, the prisoners and ex-prisoners' minister in the Palestinian government, has described the Israeli decision of sending sick Palestinian prisoners back to detention cells as tantamount to death sentence...

Electricity blackouts put lives of Palestinian patients in Gaza at extreme risk

The Palestinian ministry of health (MOH) has warned Monday that the continued electricity brownouts for long intervals and on daily basis in Gaza Strip could jeopardize lives of hundreds of Palestinian patients in hospitals...

U.S. consulate refuses to receive note from protesting J’lem MPs

The U.S. consulate in Jerusalem has refused to accept a letter from the Jerusalem MPs sitting in at the Red Cross headquarters at the pretext of having no staff to receive the note...

Ottoway: Egypt, change or continuity?

David Ottaway, senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Centre published a recent article as part of the Woodrow Wilson International Center’s Occasional Paper series discussing the prospects for political reform in Egypt...

Settlers fire at teenage Palestinian farmers

Ten Zionist settlers fired at and chased three Palestinian farmers in Deir Istiya village, Nablus, on Tuesday morning while tending to their lands...

Journalists protest against military trial of workers

Political forces organized a protest in solidarity with workers from Factory 99-Harbi (Helwan Company for Engineering Industries). They protested in front of the Egyptian Press Syndicate. Protestors consisted of civilian workers to military tribunals, to repeal the amendment to Law No. 138/ 2010 and call to suspend its administrative decisions..

Zoabi to testify before UN panel probing Flotilla massacre

Arab Knesset member Hanin Zoabi is expected to testify on Tuesday in Amman before a UN panel investigating Israel's deadly attack on Freedom Flotilla convoy that happened on May 31...

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf Advocates Moderate Religious Outlook at Dubai School of Government Talk

The Imam’s comments came during a talk on “Religious Tolerance and Muslim Life in America” held at the Dubai School of Government (DSG)...

A Peace Plan Within Our Grasp

IT’S been 10 long years since the Palestinians and Israelis last came close to establishing a permanent peace, in January 2001 at Taba in Egypt...

NYC community board head wants interfaith center (AP)

The chairwoman of the community board that voted for an Islamic center and mosque near ground zero said she believes adding an interfaith dimension would help unite people, saying a nondenominational chapel built at the Pentagon as part of a Sept. 11 memorial did just that...

Mubarak hints succession by taking son to peace summit in Washington

"Gamal has long been the center of speculation that he will replace his ageing father - but until now the 82-year-old president has kept his presumed heir at arm's length during high-profile international engagements"..

S'ad Al-Din Ibrahim: The Muslim Brotherhood – A Viable Alternative to the Egyptian Regime

After approximately three years abroad, Egyptian sociologist and human rights activist Dr. S'ad Al-Din Ibrahim returned on August 4, 2010 for a two-week visit to his homeland, where a number of lawsuits against him are pending...

‏OIC Calls for Long-Term Programmes for Reconstruction the flood Affected areas in Pakistan

The Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu called upon the IDB, in consultation with the government of Pakistan, to work out long-term programmes for the reconstruction and rehabilitation needs of the flood affected areas in Pakistan...

Emergency Meeting of Relief Organizations of OIC Member States

The Emergency Meeting of Relief Organizations of OIC Member States was held in Islamabad on August 29, 2010 (18th Ramadan-ul-Mubarak, 1431). The Meeting was co-chaired by the OIC Secretary General H.E. Prof. Dr. Ekmeleddin Ihasanoglu and the Foreign Minister of Pakistan H.E. Shah Mahmood Qureshi...

Israel afraid of increasing boycott of its products in Europe

Israeli businessmen expressed fears that the European campaign to boycott Israeli products could widen after a sharp decline in exports...

Russia: Hebrew media lying about arms to Syria

Russia protested the big media outcry sparked by Israel's media outlets about Moscow's readiness to sell different weapons to Syria...

Israeli court imposes tough conditions for release of female prisoner

Palestinian human rights sources said that the Israeli military court issued a decision to release female prisoner Tagrid Abu Galmi from Burin village in Nablus city, but on condition that she pays an exorbitant fine and is placed under house arrest...

Israeli municipality to Jerusalem man: Take down your house or pay us to do it

The Israeli occupation’s Jerusalem municipality has given the family of Nasri Abu Rajab, 60, from the Al-Qawmi neighborhood in Old City, Jerusalem the option to tear down his own house or pay a huge fee for the municipality to undertake the demolition work, local sources said...

Hamas dismayed as Egypt bans its cadres from offering Omra

Hamas expressed utter dismay at the Egyptian authorities' step of banning its cadres from traveling via the Rafah border terminal to Saudi Arabia to offer Omra (minor pilgrimage)...

Rabbi Weiss Condemning recent statement of former Zionist so called “chief rabbi” Ovadiah Yosef

Anti-Zionist Orthodox Jews recoiled in disgust at the latest outburst of hate speech from Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef, a former Sephardic so called “chief rabbi” of the illegitimate Zionist State of “Israel”, in which he called the Palestinians "evil," and cursed them with death...