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Global health authorities warned Wednesday that swine flu was threatening to bloom into a pandemic, and the virus spread farther in Europe even as the outbreak appeared...
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AP, Mexico City
Global health authorities warned Wednesday that swine flu was threatening to bloom into a pandemic, and the virus spread farther in Europe even as the outbreak appeared...
made popular Apr 30 2009
AP, New York
The swine flu outbreak is unleashing a side effect the global economy is in no condition to handle: fear.
made popular Apr 28 2009
AP, Madrid
Spain grabbed world headlines a decade ago by indicting Chile’s former dictator Augusto Pinochet, and has since probed alleged atrocities as far away as Tibet and...
made popular Apr 22 2009
AP, Sydney
Global mining giant BHP Billiton on Wednesday reported a sharp drop in quarterly copper production, along with declines in iron ore and aluminum, as demand for minerals...
made popular Apr 22 2009
AP, Washington
Losses at financial institutions could approach $4.1 trillion worldwide, the International Monetary Fund said Tuesday as it urged countries to take bolder action to...
made popular Apr 21 2009
AP, Washington
The International Monetary Fund says U.S. financial institutions will suffer $2.7 trillion in losses from the global credit crisis, part of a worldwide total expected...
made popular Apr 21 2009
AP, Seattle
Global shipments of personal computers fell 7.1 percent in the first three months of the year, but the decline was smaller than expected and research group IDC on...
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AP, Paris
France’s rejection of a global role for NATO puts Paris on a collision course with the bolder NATO ambitions of other powerful alliance members _ most notably the...
made popular Mar 18 2009
AP, Washington
The skies are dimming, for most of the world. Increases in airborne pollution have dimmed the skies by blocking sunlight over the past 30 years, researchers report in...
made popular Mar 12 2009
AP, Tokyo
Global sales of the Nintendo DS handheld topped 100 million in 4 years and 3 months _ a milestone reached at the quickest pace for any video game console _ the Japanese...
made popular Mar 12 2009
The stock-market panic is not the only reason for rising investment demand.
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Energy Secretary Steven Chu, a champion of renewable energy and biofuels, has no delusions about the future of oil. Global demand for it will increase over the next two...
made popular Feb 19 2009
AP, Moscow
Russia will likely see more forest fires, droughts and floods in the coming century due to global warming, and policy makers need to prepare for large-scale change,...
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AP, Lima
Global climate change threatens the complete disappearance of the Andes’ tropical glaciers within the next 20 years, putting precious water, energy and food...
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AP, Washington
A senior Treasury official says the Obama administration wants to see America’s major allies taking bold actions to deal with the global economic crisis.
made popular Feb 11 2009
AP, Washington
When it comes to global warming, the canary in the coal mine isn’t a canary at all. It’s a purple finch. As the temperature across the U.S. has gotten...
made popular Feb 10 2009
AP, San Francisco
The federal government has settled a lawsuit that accused two U.S. agencies of financing and insuring projects overseas that may contribute to global warming.
made popular Feb 6 2009
AP, United Nations
Thirteen years after the world rallied to curb overfishing, most nations are failing to abide by the U.N.’s code of conduct for managing fisheries, scientists...
made popular Feb 4 2009
The world is at a crossroads in its existence as war and a new kind of freedom are escalating between competing views of globalization and human rights. At times both...
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A Saudi religious scholar is accusing a royal tycoon and another Saudi businessman of being as dangerous as drug dealers because the TV channels they own broadcast...
made popular Mar 1 2009
It is designed to be explanatory, for Muslims, and non-Muslims alike, on the status of the veil, and its more oppressive forms, such as the one-eyed niqab. If you are a...
made popular Oct 14 2008
With some overly friendly comments to Gov. Sarah Palin at the United Nations, Asif Ali Zardari has succeeded in uniting one of Pakistan’s hard-line mosques and...
made popular Oct 3 2008
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Saudi Arabia’s top judiciary official has issued a religious decree saying it is permissible to kill the owners of satellite TV networks that broadcast immoral...
made popular Sep 12 2008
The Hindi-Urdu film industry, right through its transition from Bombay to Mumbai, has had an interesting relationship with what one may call the Muslim dilemma in...
made popular Jul 1 2008
Thousands of Muslims gathered in New Delhi on Saturday to denounce terrorism, with leading Islamic seminary Darul Uloom issuing a fatwa declaring it as the “most...
made popular May 31 2008
Every time you turn around, a Muslim cleric is issuing a religious edict (fatwa) about something. Whether it’s giving fellow Muslims permission to murder...
made popular Feb 25 2008
The act of vandalism carried out on the BJP headquarters has been described as ‘premeditated act of violence’ carried out at the behest of DMK ministers....
made popular Sep 25 2007
A leading Muslim cleric issued a fatwa that the face of controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen be blackened for her alleged comments against Islam and...
made popular Aug 11 2007
The Muslim women victims of molestation, rape and domestic violence have no right to seek justice in the face of fatwa welding Mullahs and Imams, who are very eager to...
made popular Jul 14 2007
The religious fanaticism and chauvinism is on its supreme when the Pakistani tourism minister, Nilofer Bakhtiar, is issued a fatwa (edict) from red Mosque clerics for...
made popular Apr 16 2007
Back in time girls were bound in chains, had no permission to step out of their homes, had a selected group with which they could communicate and share their lives....
made popular Apr 14 2007
A judicial body in Pakistan issued a fatwa against tourism minister Nilofar Bakhtiar for posing in an ‘obscene manner’ with French paraglider pilots,...
made popular Apr 10 2007
A commercial that proclaims ‘jihad on the U.S. auto market’ and offering ‘Fatwa Fridays’ with distributing swords to the kids has jeopardize as...
made popular Sep 25 2006
Taslima Nasreen, the debatable writer from Bangladesh is yet again caught up in a controversy. Syed Noorul Rahman Barkati, the Imam from the Tipu Sultan Mosque in...
made popular Jun 26 2006
Taslima Nasreem from the beginning has been snowed under with difficulties and successes, and along with that she has been a continuing object of ridicule of die-hard...
made popular Jun 26 2006
A recent Fatwa issued by some of the prominent Muftis based in city of Hyderabad prohibits all the Muslim students from singing the Vande Mataram in schools as it is...
made popular Jun 8 2006
A monaqqaba (women dressed in full niqab) broke into the Hassan Heshmat Museum in May 2006 and destroyed a number of statues including The Victory Leap, the...
made popular Jun 5 2006
If people like you and me, think that, the fatwa issued by the Muslim religious leaders and scholars, have anything to do with violence and war that would be a mistake....
made popular May 22 2006
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A Saudi man drinks Arabic coffee as he watches Satellite TV at his home in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia ,Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008. Arabs are denouncing a Saudi cleric’s edict that it is permissible to kill the owners of satellite TV stations that show...
