Islamabad, Mar. 17 (ANI): The staff of Cairo-based IslamOnline website have gone on strike following a move by the site’s management to restrict “editorial independence.” The site was plunged into chaos after its bosses in Qatar decided to take control of its content from editorial offices in Egypt. The move is likely to result in loss of 350 jobs at the website, which draws over 120,000 visitors per day. (Continue reading)
Washington, March 17 (ANI): Reports indicate that a team of archaeologists has unearthed two large red granite statues in southern Egypt at the mortuary temple of one of the most powerful pharaohs, who ruled nearly 3,400 years ago. (Continue reading)
Washington, Mar 17 (ANI): Babies born to obese mothers and exposed to passive smoking are more likely to face health problems, a new study claims. (Continue reading)
Panaji, March 16 (IANS) The Goa Police are moving Interpol to question the Swedish girlfriend of Israeli drug peddler Atala arrested here last week.
Deputy Superintendent of Police Chandrakant Salgaonkar told IANS that the sting operation in which Atala was filmed naming police officers allegedly involved in drug trade was shot by his girlfriend. (Continue reading)
Caracas, March 16 (IANS/EFE) Hooded and armed men Monday kidnapped Carlos Roca, news chief of the Televisa de Zulia television channel in the northeastern Venezuelan state of Zulia, said authorities in Maracaibo, the state capital.
"They forced him" into a vehicle that was later found abandoned, Odalis Caldera, said Zulia's public safety secretary. (Continue reading)
Jerusalem, March 15 (DPA) Israeli security forces arrested a Hamas military leader suspected of heading cells responsible for the murders of 70 Israeli civilians during the Palestinian uprising which broke out in 2000, the Israeli military spokesman said Sunday.
Maher Udda was arrested in Ramallah Saturday night, the statement said. He was on Israel's wanted list for 10 years. (Continue reading)
Washington, March 14 (ANI): A new book by a Binghamton University history professor examines the history of human rights. Published by University of Pennsylvania Press, "Advocating Dignity: Human Rights Mobilizations in Global Politics" by Jean Quataert says average people have helped shape the human rights movement. (Continue reading)
Cairo, March 13 (DPA) The northern Egyptian town of Marsa Matruh was quiet Saturday, following violent clashes between Muslims and Christians that left 30 people injured the night before, police said.
The clashes, which started when Muslim residents of the Mediterranean port threw stones at workers they believed were building a church, left 30 people injured and nine houses burned, and again called attention to the country's simmering sectarian tensions. (Continue reading)
Cairo, March 13 (DPA) Thirty people were injured when clashes broke out between Christians and Muslims in a rural area in northern Egypt, media reports said.
Fighting erupted late Friday in the north-western governorate of Mersa Matrouh over a fence Muslims said had been built to take over a piece of land to build a church, the BBC reported. (Continue reading)
Panaji, March 12 (IANS) The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has contacted the Goa Police over the alleged involvement of some of its officers with the narcotics mafia, state Chief Secretary Sanjeev Srivastava said Friday.
"The NCB has already contacted the Goa Police on the drugs issue," Srivastava told IANS. (Continue reading)