Muntadar al-Zaidi hailed as a hero in the Arab world for throwing his shoes at former US President George W Bush has been jailed for three years. The journalist, Zaidi told the court his actions were “natural, just like any Iraqi” against a leader whose forces had occupied his country. Shoe hurling is a grave [...]
NEW YORK : 12.5 Million people are jobless as unemployment rate hits a Record high 8.1% in February,taking the unemployment rate to its highest level in 25 years,which brought total job losses over the last six months to more than 3.3 million. The US labour department report said on Friday that 651,000 jobs were lost [...]
Mahatma Gandhi’s five personal items, including the iconic round eye glasses, were bought by Indian businessman Vijay Mallya for USD 1.8 million in a controversial auction in Newyork. Earlier the present owner of these items, James Otis had said that he has decided not to sell these items over the protest from Indian Government and [...]
The International Criminal Court’s decision to issue an arrest warrant against Sudanese President Omar Bashir on charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur sparked anger and disgust among the Sudanese community. Al-Taher Tayeb, an engineer who works in Madinah(KSA), said if Bashir were a Jew or Christian then they would never have [...]
Somali President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, said he had agreed proposals for a truce with the leading rebel group Hizbul Islam, a coalition of groups fighting Somali government forces and African Union peacekeepers, and also accepted the implementation of sharia, or Islamic law, in the country. The president, speaking at his palace in the capital Mogadishu, said local elders [...]
Us defense Secretary Robert Gates accused that all major terrorist networks, that are creating a serious problem for the US in the war against terror , have a safe heaven on Pakistan to operate on. He told that not just for Al-qaida but for the Taliban for the Hakani network, for Gulbaddin Hekmatyar and other [...]
