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Hamas: no agreement could be reached without clearing PA prisons

Hamas said on Thursday that no agreement could be reached during the forthcoming round of talks in Cairo slated for the 25 July unless PA prisons are cleared of political

Number of Jewish settlers in the West Bank increased by 37% since “Road Map”

An Israeli human rights group said that the number of Jewish settlers in the West Bank, excluding east Jerusalem, has reached 289,600 increasing by 37% since the Israeli government agreed

Abu Sha’ar: Jerusalem and Aqsa are facing most dangerous scheme since 1948

Dr. Talib Abu Sha’ar the minister of endowments and religious affairs said that the city of Jerusalem and the Aqsa Mosque are facing the most treacherous scheme since the Zionist

Tehran troubles

The troubles that followed the Iranian Presidential elections have – with rare exceptions – been misread by the Western press and policymakers; it was not an East European model ‘colour

Ethnic Tensions in China Turn Bloody as Uighurs and Han Chinese Clash in Western China

Most of the world is aware of the tension in China over the occupation, and some might say, oppression of the Buddhist majority of Tibet by the majority Han people

Egyptians Looking for Clues About Their President’s Plans

President Mubarak, 81, who has held office for nearly 28 years, has given no indication that he plans to retire, and his allies have suggested that he is likely to

Qaradawi’s Revisions

His book, described by the Egyptian newspaper al-Masry al-Youm last week in a seven part series, is far more important than the much-discussed "recantations" and "revisions" of former jihadist intellectuals

Love in the time of sharia

TODAY in Pakistan there are two extremes: there are those who wish to impose a rigid, literalist interpretation of religion and then there are the world-weary agnostics who are blindly

CAIR: U.S. Leaders Asked to Address Growing Islamophobia

A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today cited recent anti-Muslim incidents nationwide in calling on American leaders to address what it said is a "growing level of

A Thank You, and a Koran, for Obama

President Obama will soon receive a thank-you gift for his speech to the Muslim world in Cairo. Inspired by the address, in which Mr. Obama quoted the Koran, the Council