Helen Thomas has survived attacks from every president of the United States, from Eisenhower to Obama, but alas, the champion of Middle East truth could not stand up to the country’s pro-Israeli media and movement. It was an amazing display of what Israel and its power players consider important in this world. They didn’t hesitate [...]
DEVELOPING A CRITICAL APPROACH TO MUSLIM HISTORY The history of a civilization often holds the key to understanding its present condition. A critical study and evaluation of history should enable one to learn lessons from the past as well as highlight the achievements of the past generations. Without good knowledge and thorough understanding of [...]
Trade between the Common Market of Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) – a trading bloc of 19 African countries – and the GCC has reached $22 billion (Dh80 billion). COMESA is a preferential trade area created by 19 member states stretching from Libya to Zimbabwe. Two-way trade between COMESA and the UAE has reached $7.2 [...]
Helen Thomas has survived attacks from every president of the United States, from Eisenhower to Obama, but alas, the champion of Middle East truth could not stand up to the country’s pro-Israeli media and movement. It was an amazing display of what Israel and its power players consider important in this world. They didn’t hesitate [...]
Final results showed Aquino won nearly six million more votes than his nearest rival. The Philippine congress has proclaimed Benigno Aquino III the country’s new president. A joint senate and House of Representatives session voted on Wednesday 9th June to formalise Aquino’s landslide victory in the country’s first national automated elections last month… To [...]
Hundreds of people have rallied against the government’s spending cuts. Spanish public sector trade unions are holding strikes around the country in protest against government austerity measures. Hundreds of civil servants rallied outside the finance ministry building in Madrid, the capital, last week, blowing horns and chanting protest slogans…. To read the Full Article and [...]
Iran ‘s president, on a visit to China, has criticised the world’s nuclear powers for wanting “to monopolise” the technology for their own gain. “Nuclear states do not allow others to even peaceful use of nuclear energy,” Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in a speech in Shanghai last week. “They want to monopolise science and technology [...]
Two Bosnian Serbs have been convicted of genocide by a UN war crimes court and sentenced to life imprisonment for their role in the Srebrenica massacre of around 8,000 Muslim men and boys in 1995. The judgment, delivered middle of last week, is the harshest ever by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia [...]
Serena and Venus Williams clinched the French Open women’s doubles title to become only the third team to hold all four Grand Slam titles at the same time. The top seeded Americans defeated Slovenia’s Katarina Srebotnik and Kveta Peschke of the Czech Republic, the 12th seeds, 6-2, 6-3 to win their second Roland Garros doubles [...]
More than half the tickets for November’s Formula One Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix have been sold within two weeks of going on sale, well ahead of results for the same period for last year’s sell-out event, a press release has said. Tickets went on sale for the UAE community on May 16 and [...]
