US settles Native American lawsuit
09 Dec 2009: The US government has agreed to pay more than $3.4bn to settle a long-standing lawsuit over the management of native American land. The agreement ends the case brought by Native American tribes charging that the Interior Department had swindled hundredsRadical Israeli settlers threaten to make Palestinians 'pay the price' on the West Bank
09 Dec 2009: Mounting discontent over the building ban, announced at the end of November, has already manifested itself in a series of scuffles between egg-throwing settlers and Israeli police officers. But this week hardline Jewish activists have signalled a changeCameron: Ashcroft's taxes nothing to do with me
07 Dec 2009: Tory leader David Cameron says it "is not a matter for me" whether Michael Ashcroft, the Conservative Party's billionaire deputy chairman, pays any tax in the UK. The Tory leader insisted that Lord Ashcroft's tax affairs are a private matter. But aJewish fanatics set fire to Palestinian property and farm
07 Dec 2009: RAMALLAH: Jewish occupiers on early Sunday set fire to a house and two vehicles in the West Bank village of Ain Abous, southwest of Nablus, in an apparent attempt to avenge a construction freeze in Jewish settlements. The Israeli Army Radio quotedTories face another by-election defeat
04 Dec 2009: Tories crashed to defeat against Labour in the latest council by-elections. The loss at Dane Valley in Kent's Thanet District follows last week's triple disaster for Conservatives when Liberal Democrats gained three seats from them. Labour's Thanet victorMukhayriq 'the best of the Jews'
04 Dec 2009: There are many stories that contemporary imams rarely tell their congregations. The story of Mukhayriq, a rabbi from Medina, is one such story. I have heard the stories about the battle of Uhud, one of prophet Muhammad's major battles with his MeccanThree Somali ministers killed by hotel suicide bomb
03 Dec 2009: Mogadishu - A suicide bomber disguised as a woman has killed at least 23 people including three government ministers in the Somali capital Mogadishu. Ministers killed in Somalia blast At least 23 people have been killed including three governmentIsrael strips more East Jerusalem Arabs of residency
03 Dec 2009: RAMALLAH: As part of its efforts to Judaize Jerusalem, the Israeli Interior Ministry stripped 4,577 Palestinians of residency status in the city last year, an Israeli human rights organization said on Wednesday. Statistics obtained by the Israeli CenterWafa Sultan is Better Known as Wafa Stalin Sultan
02 Dec 2009: We updated our post on Wafa Sultan. It looks like she was loonier than we thought. In retrospect, our piece on Wafa Sultan seems not to have been harsh enough on her hateful lying and bigotry. In light of recent comments she has made while on her bookPalestinian man hit in car attack
02 Dec 2009: Violence erupted in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday when a Palestinian man entered a petrol station at the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba in the occupied West Bank and stabbed two settlers. But that was not the end of the story. According to theBuilding intolerance in Switzerland
01 Dec 2009: Though Muslims don't need minarets to worship, the Swiss vote to ban them is a troubling sign of mounting intolerance. Alongside the crescent, the minaret is one of the most instantly recognisable symbols of Islam. However, it's only functional purposeRwanda admitted to the Commonwealth association
01 Dec 2009: The Government yesterday welcomed Rwanda as the newest member of the Commonwealth. The African nation, scarred by the 100-day genocide of 1994 which left 800,000 people dead, becomes the 54th member of the association. It was admitted following a meetingIsraeli army shaken by own extremist rebels
01 Dec 2009: TEL AVIV - The Israeli military has been shaken from within because of a growing number of extremist religious soldiers who say they will refuse to obey orders to evacuate illegal Jewish settlements from the occupied West Bank. So concerned is the topPriates hijack oil tanker in the waters around East Africa
01 Dec 2009: Pirates have seized an oil tanker, with 28 crew members on board, in the waters around East Africa. Officials on Monday confirmed the hijacking of the Greek-owned Maran Centaurus, which was carrying crude oil from Saudi Arabia to the United States.Xenophobic Switzerland votes 'yes' to minaret ban
30 Nov 2009: Far-right Swiss politicians rejoice after the majority of voters supported a referendum proposing a ban on the building of minarets in Switzerland. A clear majority of 57.5 percent of the population and 22 out of 26 cantons (provinces) favored the ban onTame Israel Lobby with Seven Principles of Public Life
27 Nov 2009: The recent Channel 4 TV Dispatches programme, which probed the antics of the pro-Israel lobby in British politics, has opened up this hitherto forbidden subject to public debate. Basic questions now need answering – for example, why are agents of aslashnews
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