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 freezeFour Uighurs sentenced to die in Xinjiang
27 Jan 2010: A court in China has sentenced another four people, all apparently ethnic Uighurs, to death for their part in last year's ethnic riots in the western Xinjiang region, state media has reported. A fifth person was also given the death penalty, but isHormuud Telecom Extends Microwave Backbone Through
27 Jan 2010: Harris Stratex Networks, Inc. a leading provider of wireless solutions that enable the evolution of next-generation fixed and mobile broadband networks, today announced that Hormuud Telecom Somalia, Inc., placed an order for 100 of its high capacitySomalia, 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-dayTurkey accepts wounded Somalis for treatment
21 Jan 2010: More than 13 Somalis have been flown to Turkey for medical treatment after they sustained injuries during bloody clashes between Somali fighters and government troops. The Turkish government has dispatched planes to the Horn of African nation to transportIsrael 'pushing aid groups out' of Palestinian areas
20 Jan 2010: Israel has stopped issuing work permits to foreign aid workers in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, sparking fears about the future of relief operations in the Palestinian territories. The Israeli Interior Ministry has issued only tourist visas to aidReport: US Covered Up Gitmo Deaths
19 Jan 2010: The US government has covered up the death of three Guantanamo detainees who have died from torture during interrogation but were pronounced as suicides, the Harper magazine reports in its March edition. "The cover-up is amazing in its audacity, and it isEthiopiaIs 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 isslashnews
Mohamed Ali Samatar: Facing war crimes lawsuit in US
The case has divided courts. A federal judge in Alexandria ruled that even if the immunity law does not mention individuals, such protection is the "practical equivalent" of immunity offered to a state. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit in
Malcolm X: Legacy lives on 45 years after his assassination
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 and
Somali minister dies of 'graduation' bomb attack injury
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 victims
Dubai to issue 11 warrants for Hamas killing
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 we
