After a long fancy speech filled with Allah’s beautiful verses, Chief Judge Ahmed Refaat stated his final verdict as the Haqq (righteous). The verdict sentenced Hosni Mubarak; dictator for the past 30 years, and former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly to a life sentence over the deaths of demonstrators. The chief judge, making a mockery of [...]
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Friday that a new surge in attacks by Syrian government forces on protest cities violates the U.N. Security Council’s united demand for a peaceful end to the conflict. The U.N. secretary general indicated that he believes Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is using an April 10 deadline to pull troops and [...]
Israel’s military may have negotiated access to strategically placed air bases in Azerbaijan that could be used in an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, US officials have said. The unconfirmed report in Foreign Policy magazine suggested deepening co-operation between Israel and the Caucasian republic, which shares a border with Iran. It said that Israel and [...]
Syrian artillery hit parts of Homs city as anti-regime protesters rallied across Syria on Friday to denounce Arab states’ inaction in the face of a bloody crackdown on dissent after an Arab summit only urged dialogue to resolve the crisis. As many as 42 people have been killed by the fire of Syrian forces across [...]
The U.N.-Arab League envoy on the Syrian crisis, Kofi Annan, urged the Security Council to overcome its deadlock and unify in support of his efforts to end the violence that has brought Syria to the brink of civil war, U.N. diplomats said on Friday. Addressing a closed-door meeting of the 15-nation council via video [...]
The leader of Syria’s main opposition group has rejected calls by former Kofi annan, the former UN chief, for dialogue between the government in Damascus and the opposition, describing them as unrealistic. In a telephone interview from Paris, Burhan Ghalioun told The Associated Press that Mr Annan already has disappointed the Syrian people. Mr Annan, who [...]
A female student in Saudi Arabia has been killed during an anti-government protest rally in the southwestern city of Abha, the capital city of Asir Province. The epileptic student reportedly died of a head injury she had sustained on Wednesday after Saudi regime forces attacked a gathering of female students of King Khalid University in [...]
Israeli warplanes have fired two missiles at a site on the outskirts of the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah, causing serious damage to a cement factory. Ambulances and firefighters rushed to the scene, but no injuries were reported. Israeli military sources confirmed the strikes and claimed that the target was a weapons factory. More [...]
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I am sure they take pleasure in their sadistic acts in those lands....
