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Muslim calligrapher Yasser Abu Saymeh has dedicated the past two months to Christian art, writing the Gospel of Luke in ornate Arabic script to be presented to Pope Benedict XVI when the Roman Catholic leader visits the Holy Land next month.
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Costa Rica is the greenest and happiest country in the world, according to a new list that ranks nations by combining measures of their ecological footprint with the...
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Parents were banned from attending an inter-school sports day to protect pupils from kidnappers and paedophiles.
The host school said they could not prevent...
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Human Rights Watch said Friday that Zimbabwe’s armed forces have taken over diamond fields in the east and killed more than 200 people, forcing children to search...
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The candidacy of Mario Anguiano, running for governor in a state election here Sunday, says a lot about Mexican politics amid the rise of the drug cartels.
A brother...
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United States Marines moved into villages in Taliban strongholds in southern Afghanistan on Friday, meeting little resistance as they tried to win over local chiefs on...
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Very few like me have a gut feeling that BJP will come back. It was a painful experience to witness rise and fall of a substitute to family-run congress. Congress which...
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Max Blumental reports on The Daily Beast that Sarah Palin may have quit her job today because she was trying to avert a major, yet-to-be-disclosed corruption scandal....
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The African Union refused to act on an international war crimes warrant for Sudan’s president, at a summit that also yielded a deal on the powers of a new...
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The latest two-yearly study of the Australian Government’s Productivity Commission damningly reveals that indigenous children are six times more likely to suffer...
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Thirty-one teenage boys have died from complications after botched traditional circumcision rites in South Africa’s rural Eastern Cape region, officials said on...
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From Angela Merkel to Barack Obama, few have emerged unscathed from his peculiar brand of music hall humour, adolescent japes and sexist quips.
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The crown of the famed New York Statue of Liberty will reopen tomorrow for the first time since September 11th, 2001, and what better day than the celebration of...
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American nuns could be said to have their habits in a twist in the face of two investigations by the Vatican into whether they have come to espouse lifestyles and views...
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The Jackson family has decided to hold a memorial for their late son at Los Angeles’ Staple Center. Jackson died last week from what was probably a strong...
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Days before a historic visit of the US President to Russia gambling was narrowed just to four geographical areas of a country, far away from capitals and significant...
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In Penitents Compete (Tovbekarlar Yarisiyor in Turkish), religious leaders will seek to convert at least one of the 10 atheists in each episode to their faith. Those...
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Iran’s nuclear threat was never in doubt during its presidential campaign, but the post-election resistance raised the possibility of some sort of regime change....
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Besides blocking access to food and construction to Palestinians in the Gaza Stripe - and even to a lesser degree in the West Bank - Israel also prevents Palestinians...
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As many as 41 security personnel have been killed after their military helicopter fell down in Feroz Khel area, bordering the Orakzai and Khyber agencies, yesterday...
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For all the complaints from American right-wingers that the European Union is a nation of appeasers whom do not stand up to thuggish regimes, the EU is actually more...
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President Barack Obama on Tuesday chose an Arabic satellite TV network for his first formal television interview as president, delivering a message to the Muslim world...
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President Barack Obama gave his first formal television interview as president to an Arabic cable TV network, telling Al-Arabiya that when it comes to Middle East...
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Excerpts from the draft U.S.-Iraqi security agreement meant to replace the U.N. mandate for American-led forces in Iraq, which expires on Dec. 31. The Associated Press...
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The French government is strongly advocating the teaching of Arabic language and civilization in French schools. Not surprising, considering the number of Arabs and...
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AP, Farmington Hills
Barack Obama poked some fun at his Arabic-derived first name to explain the need for the constitutional right of prisoners to appeal their detention.
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AP, Amman
Young Americans studying Arabic like to joke that Jordan is “Middle East Lite” _ a safe way into a tumultuous region without Lebanon’s violence,...
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AP, Jerusalem
Israelis pored Monday over every detail of 20-year-old pictures just received of their most famous missing soldier _ his injured arm held close, the length of his beard...
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A motley group of foreigners _ English teachers, students of Arabic, even a journalist _ gathered on a recent chilly night in the Egyptian port city of Alexandria,...
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Statements from Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a former driver for Osama bin Laden, during a 40-minute exchange with the military judge presiding over his war-crimes tribunal at...
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Israel’s Shin Bet security service launched English and Arabic Web sites Monday in an effort to lift its traditional shroud of secrecy and soften its image.Tired...
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A new principal has been hired to head the city’s first Arabic-themed public school, five months after the academy’s founding principal said she was forced...
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It may seem like an unlikely place for students from the U.S. or Europe, but Syria has been rapidly gaining ground as a destination for foreigners who wish to learn...
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The founding principal of the city’s first Arabic-themed school, forced out over comments she made to a newspaper about the word “intifada,” is not...
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An educator who helped create the city’s first Arabic-themed public school sued the city on Monday, saying officials forced her to resign following a furor over...
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Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a global issue that is decades old inconsistency and still doesn’t look settled. Games for Change, a non-profit organization...
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The Arabic writing on this t-shirt reads as ‘I am not a terrorist’. Created against terrorism the t-shirt has been actually made so that one can wear it and...
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A Freedom House report in the United States of America said that textbooks used in Saudi Arabia’s schools were promoting religious intolerance. Religions other...
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Seventy-five women have been converted to Islam from January to this month with the help of Discover Islam’s Ladies Section in Bahrain, reports the Gulf Daily...
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A Pentagon research team monitors more than 5,000 jehadist Web sites, focusing daily on the 25 to 100 most hostile and active, reports the AP, a news agency. The news...
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The Giza Pyramids are seen on Saturday, Nov. 22, 2008, outside Cairo, Egypt. Tourism is a large contributor to the Egyptian economy, and as a result many Egyptians speak English.
