Bangladeshi Islamist leader Ghulam Azam has been charged by a special tribunal with war crimes allegedly carried out during the country's 1971 independence struggle against Pakistan. Prosecutors accuse Mr Azam, 89, of committing crimes, including murder and torture, during the …
The upcoming NATO summit in Chicago must ensure that special measures are taken to protect the rights of Afghan women as US-led coalition forces prepare to pull out, UN organisations said Saturday. There is widespread concern that gains women have made in the 10 years since th …
The body of a British Red Cross worker held captive in Pakistan since January was found in an orchard Sunday, his throat slit and a note attached to his body saying he was killed because no ransom was paid, police said. Khalil Rasjed Dale, 60, was managing a health program i …
Wiener was spending time in the Angeles City red light district when he apparently stopped a photographer on the street to take a picture of him posing with a quartet of scantily clad women in an area well known as a hub of prostitution. It turned out, however, the photographe …
Up to 400 women and girls are being held in Afghan prisons for "moral crimes" including running away from home to escape beatings or forced marriage according to a study.Ten years after the toppling of the Taliban government was accompanied by Western promises of a new era of w …
Two ads shown below, click on the image for an enlarged version. The top ad is an anti- Catholic ad the New York Times ran and the one below that is basically the same ad, but the words "Catholic Church" were replaced with the word "Islam," and "liberal and nominal Catholics" …
Apologists sometimes claim that Muhammad himself would be against killing anyone in defense of his own honor - unfortunately for them, he actually had the chance.
West of Eritrea and Ethiopia, and north of Uganda, a new African state has emerged from decades of civil war to gain its independence.
Israel has recently signed a deal to sell China water technology valued at $300 million for use in the agriculture sector, the Israeli Finance Ministry said in a statement. The deal was signed by both countries' finance ministers in Beijing during a visit to China by Isra …
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