Somalia, Sudan top agenda of OIC meet in Uganda
26 Jan 2010: The volatile situation in Somalia and Sudan's Darfur region will top the agenda of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) meeting that started here on Sunday. Hussein Kyanjo, a Ugandan lawmaker and also one of the organizers of the eight-dayEthiopiaIs is using food as political weapon
13 Jan 2010: Accusations about food aid are very emotive. Especially when they are made in Ethiopia — a country that saw more than 1 million of its people starve to death in the 1984 famine. So everyone is tiptoeing carefully around recent allegations that food isMI5 'still using threats and blackmail to recruit Muslim spies'
05 Jan 2010: MI5 faces accusations that its officers have blackmailed and harassed vulnerable immigrants living in Britain as part of a campaign to recruit spies to report on Muslim communities. In one case, a man who escaped persecution in Africa where members of hisGerman cop, judges cleared in 'veil martyr' murder case
01 Jan 2010: BERLIN - German investigators have dropped a probe into a policeman who shot an Egyptian trying to stop his pregnant wife being stabbed to death in a courtroom in July, a spokesman for prosecutors said Wednesday. Prosecutors also said there were noEritrea:Communities Abroad Denounce Security Council's Sanctions
31 Dec 2009: Asmara — The Eritrean communities in Kuwait, Riyadh and Holland stated that the unjust Security Council's resolution imposing sanctions against Eritrea would only further reinforce the steadfastness and strength of the Eritrean people. In a statement,Libya explains opposition to sanctions against Eritrea
27 Dec 2009: Libya voted against the resolution of the UN Security Council imposing sanctions against Eritrea, saying "the path adopted in the resolution is not realistic but hasty. "Sanctions are not the appropriate means of sorting out the existing problem. Rather,Sudan Election 2010: parlement approves referendum law
22 Dec 2009: Sudan's parliament has approved a controversial bill paving the way for a referendum on possible independence for the country's oil-producing south. MPs passed the bill on Tuesday, despite opposition from southern Sudanese legislators over a clause thatTory-linked Taxpayers' Alliance 'subsidised' by the taxpayer
21 Dec 2009: A campaign group which claims to represent the interests of ordinary taxpayers is using a charitable arm which gives it access to tax relief on donations from wealthy backers, the Guardian has learned. The Conservative-linked Taxpayers' Alliance, whichIsrael admits harvesting Palestinian organs
21 Dec 2009: Israel has admitted that pathologists harvested organs from dead Palestinians, and others without the consent of their families – a practice that it said ended in the 1990s, it emerged at the weekend. The admission, by the former head of the country'sIsraeli director of IFM admits harvesting organs
20 Dec 2009: RAMALLAH: The chief Israeli pathologist and director of the Institute of Forensic Medicine at Abu Kabir, professor Yehuda Hiss, has admitted harvesting organs from the bodies of dead Palestinians without the consent of their families. Hiss said that heOIC to assist in Somalia’s rebuilding
18 Dec 2009: JEDDAH: The 57-member Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) announced Thursday its plan to open an office in Mogadishu next month to support reconstruction of Somalia. “The humanitarian department at the OIC in association with NGOs in memberJoe Lieberman: Holding Barack Obama to ransom over healthcare
17 Dec 2009: Joe Lieberman has long gone rogue in his own way. The senator from Connecticut and former Democratic vice-presidential candidate may not be quite out there with that other contender for high office, Sarah Palin. But Lieberman – a professed liberal whoPakistan’s supreme court rules NRO illegal
17 Dec 2009: ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Wednesday declared illegal an amnesty that had protected President Asif Ali Zardari and his allies from corruption charges, opening the door for corruption cases to be brought against them. Although Zardari’sPalestine peace deal possible in 6 months: Abbas
17 Dec 2009: RAMALLAH: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said in an interview with the Israeli daily Haaretz that a peace deal with Israel could be reached within six months if Israel completely freezes settlement construction during that time. Palestinians had noGulf states launch joint military force for security
15 Dec 2009: Leaders of the six Gulf Arab states wrapped up their two-day summit where they agreed to create a joint force for quick intervention to address security threats, announced they were opposed to any military action by the West against neighboring Iran andPuntland hires TMG Security Company
15 Dec 2009: A Kuwait based Security Company is taking on the task of Supporting the Puntland State Government of Somalia, where with the directive of President Abdirahman Mohamed Mohamud [Farole], Puntland will embark on a new effective approach in tackling theslashnews
CIA accused of ordering kidnap of former Pakistani spy
The wife of Khalid Khawaja claims that her husband, who was once a confidante of Osama bin Laden, was taken at the request of the American intelligence service as he travelled through Pakistan's lawless tribal belt. On Monday a group calling itself the
Yemen court upholds Israel spy's death sentence
A death sentence for a Yemeni man, Bassam Abdullah al-Haidari, convicted of spying for Israel has been upheld by an appeals court. In March 2009, a state security court sentenced the 27-year-old to death after convicting him of establishing contacts with
Mosque building brings Islamophobia fears to Poland
In a sight familiar in some west European countries but new to Poland, dozens of protesters demonstrated in a Warsaw suburb last weekend against the construction of a mosque. Plans by Poland's tiny Muslim community to build a place of worship and an
Puntland president meets with Ethiopian FM
The president of Somalia's Puntland State government Dr. Abdirahman Mohammed Farole has held meeting with Ethiopian Foreign Affairs Minister Seyoum Mesfin in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. The meeting which was held in Hotel Sharaton, where Puntland