(T.M. Mani) a well known leader of “Dalits”, a Hindi group, after a long period of struggle against the sectarian system, which lasted (52) years, finally embraced Islam. He. “Mani”  has written a book in English under the title (the end of the caste system) and is scheduled to be published this week in “New […]

Belgian lawmakers are set to vote on a proposed ban on wearing face-covering veils in public, a day after neighbouring France proposed enacting similar legislation.

The Iraqi ministry of human rights has said two of its inspection teams have entered a facility, described as a “secret prison” by a Los Angeles Times newspaper report.

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (Agencies) Thousands of Israel’s Arab citizens on Tuesday marked the Nakba, or “catastrophe,” that attended the Jewish state’s creation, when some 750,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled as a result of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.

AMSTERDAM (Agencies) Flights from large parts of Europe were set to resume on Tuesday under a deal agreed by the European Union to free up airspace closed by a cloud of ash hurled into the sky by an Icelandic volcano.

An Iraqi intelligence team has hunted down and killed two senior al-Qaeda leaders, Nouri al-Maliki, the Iraqi prime minister, has said.

Hamas and Fatah have joined crowds of Palestinians in calling on Israel to free thousands of Palestinian prisoners detained in Israeli jails.

Khobar, SAUDI ARABIA (Agencies) Saudi Arabia said it would set up a scientific centre for civilian nuclear and renewable energy to meet rising demand for power and desalinated water, state news agency SPA said on Saturday.

MADRID (AFP) A Moroccan immigrants’ association in Spain Friday condemned a school’s decision to bar a 16-year-old girl from class for refusing to take off her Islamic headscarf.

An ex-CIA head agreed with a decision to destroy hundreds of tapes purportedly showing US agents harshly interrogating two al-Qaeda suspects.Internal emails, released late on Thursday by the US Justice Department, show that Porter Goss approved a decision by Jose Rodriguez, the head of the Central Intelligence Agency’s clandestine service at the time, to destroy […]