posted October 17, 2012 by IKHWANWEB Freedom and Justice Party leader and member of the charter-authoring committee Ahmed Diab assures: the new document takes into account all feedback received through community dialogue. Hossam Ghariani, Chairman of the Constituent Assembly (CA) tasked with drawing up Egypt’s first post-revolution national charter, said CA members will begin the…
posted October 14, 2012 by Al-Manar Tunisia will hold presidential and legislative elections on June 23, 2013 the ruling Ennahda party said early on Sunday. A second round in the presidential ballot will take place on July 7, it said in a statement that was also signed by the other two parties in the current…
posted October 19, 2012 by Common Dreams Reuters reports that regional UN gets funding, support from junk food giants The organization charged with battling the latest “global epidemic,” diabetes and heart disease, has been exposed getting funding from the industries at the heart of this plague. Reuter’s investigative report on the UN’s World Health Organization…
posted October 20, 2012 by PressTV A recent study shows a spiraling numbers of birth defects, ranging from congenital heart defects to brain dysfunctions and malformed limbs, among Iraqi babies as a result of weapons used by the US and UK forces. The new findings, published in the Environmental Contamination and Toxicology bulletin, report high…
posted October 16, 2012 by Middle East Monitor Dozens of Israeli army veterans have admitted their involvement in massacres against Palestinian civilians in 1948, and acknowledged that Zionism misled them and is a catastrophe for both Jews and Arabs. The details have been revealed by the Yazkern organisation, which was founded in 2001 and seeks…
posted October 17, 2012 by Middle East Monitor A new economic report has revealed that there are now more Palestinians than Jews in the territory under Israel’s jurisdiction between the Mediterranean Sea and the River Jordan. Published in The Marker, a Haaretz newspaper article says that the report virtually implies official acknowledgement by the Netanyahu…
posted October 20, 2012 by Al-Manar Hezbollah strongly condemned the heinous crime that targeted Information Branch Chief General Wissam Al-Hasan causing his martyrdom along with a number of citizens and the injury of scores others, as well as the destruction of buildings and properties. In a statement issued Friday, Hezbollah considered that “this hideous crime…
posted October 20, 2012 by the Norway Post Around 100 young men with Norwegian citizenship have travelled to Syria to participate in the civil war, NRK reports, quoting Muslim sources. This is a much higher number than so far estimated by the Norwegian intelligence service. They have estimated that more than 20 radical Norwegian Islamists…
posted October 19, 2012 by The Daily Star Lebanon ANKARA: Turkey’s military has fired on Syria 87 times, killing 12 Syrian soldiers and destroying several tanks in retaliation for Syrian shells and mortars landing on Turkish territory, a Turkish newspaper reported on Saturday. Turkey has been carrying out a series of retaliatory strikes against President…
