Malcolm X: Legacy lives on 45 years after his assassination
23 Feb 2010: Forty-five years ago on Feb. 21, Malcolm X — El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz — had begun his address to a mass meeting of the Organization of Afro-American Unity in New York City at the Audubon Ballroom when several men opened fire on him with shotguns andDubai assassination squad carried diplomatic passports
22 Feb 2010: The claim will intensify the pressure on Israel, whose foreign minister is due to meet David Miliband and other European envoys in Brussels today. Avigdor Lieberman will face questions about allegations that Mossad agents posing as Europeans andSpecial Report: Somali Government Troops Gather in Mogadishu
19 Feb 2010: Somali government troops massed in Mogadishu for a planned offensive against al Shabaab, the powerful al Qaeda allied-militia that's been trying to topple the government. Government and African Union officials say the goal is for the Somali troops, backedSomali minister dies of 'graduation' bomb attack injury
17 Feb 2010: Somalia's sports minister has died in a Saudi hospital weeks after he was critically wounded in a bomb attack at a medical graduation ceremony in Mogadishu. Saleban Olad Roble passed away on Friday in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, where he and other victimsItaly says Swiss misused Schengen in row with Libya
17 Feb 2010: ROME - Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said on Tuesday Switzerland had misused the Schengen agreement and taken its members "hostage" by slapping a ban on Libyan officials which prompted retaliation by Tripoli. Officials said on Monday that LibyaDubai to issue 11 warrants for Hamas killing
16 Feb 2010: Dubai will issue arrest warrants for 11 foreign agents suspected of involvement in the the assassination of a top Hamas military commander in his hotel room in Dubai on Jan. 20, the police chief said on Monday. "We do not rule out Mossad, but when weBinyam Mohamed: Lies, Truth, Torture and the missing paragraph
11 Feb 2010: Ministers were facing demands last night to hold a public inquiry into revelations that the security services knew a terror suspect from Britain had been tortured by the CIA. Senior judges ordered the Government to publish previously secret parts of aUS soldier gives four-year-old daughter 'waterboarding' over alphabet
09 Feb 2010: Joshua Tabor allegedly told police he had used the technique because he was angry and knew his daughter was scared of water. The 27-year-old, who had recently gained custody of the young girl, said she "squirmed" as he pushed her under the water three orUS verdict sparks Pakistan protests
05 Feb 2010: Thousands of Pakistanis have staged rallies against the conviction of a Pakistani scientist found guilty of trying to kill American servicemen in Afghanistan. Protests were held on Thursday in several cities in Pakistan, where many believe that AafiaThe Phenomenon Of Ignoring The Qur’an
05 Feb 2010: وَقَالَ الرّسُولُ يَرَبّ إِنّ قَوْمِي اتّخَذُواْ هَـَذَا الْقُرْآنَ مَهْجُوراً “And the Messenger has said: “O my lord, indeed my people have taken this Qur’an as [a thing]The grand Zionist façade
02 Feb 2010: On 12 January, The New York Times carried an article by David Brooks on Jews and Israel. It so caught my eye that I decided to bring it to my class on the economic history of the Middle East. I sent my students the link to the article and asked them toIn the West Bank's stony hills, Palestine is slowly dying
30 Jan 2010: Area C doesn't sound very ominous. A land of stone-sprinkled grey hills and soft green valleys, it's part of the wreckage of the equally wrecked Oslo Agreement, accounting for 60 per cent of the Israeli-occupied West Bank that was eventually supposed toTony Blair fights for his legacy as he defends Iraq war at Chilcot inquiry
30 Jan 2010: That was Tony Blair's message Friday as he fought for his place in history against critics who contend it was folly to join the Americans in invading Iraq based on intelligence that was faulty and weapons of mass destruction that turned out not to exist.Hamas blames Israel for Dubai death
29 Jan 2010: Hamas has claimed that one of its commanders was assassinated by Israeli agents in Dubai. A statement by the Palestinian group, which controls the Gaza Strip, alleged on Friday that Israel had killed Mahmoud Abdul Raouf al-Mabhouh. "I cannot reveal theWikileaks temporarily offline due to lack of funds
29 Jan 2010: The whistleblowing website Wikileaks has temporarily shut down because of a lack of funds. The site, which has been a major irritant to governments and big businesses since it launched in 2007, says it cannot keep going without more public donations.Hamas says Israel retreating from Germany-brokered prisoner deals
27 Jan 2010: GAZA, Islamic Hamas movement accused Israel of retreating from a series of Germany-brokered agreements that would have paved the way for a prisoner exchange, a pro-Hamas website reported Wednesday. "The prisoners swap is going through a state of freezeslashnews
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