Israeli police have fired stun grenades to disperse Palestinian worshippers who threw rocks at them after Friday prayers at the al-Aqsa mosque compound, Islam’s third holiest site, police say. Dozens of officers entered the politically sensitive area in Jerusalem’s Old City on Friday to break up a demonstration of hundreds of protesters, Israeli police spokesman […]
PAKISTAN- Malala Yousafzai 14-year-old education and women’s rights activist has survived a Taliban assassination attempt. She was shot point blank in the head and neck by a Taliban gunmen on October 9th. Malala was ambushed in a van with other schoolgirls, while returning home from school in Mingora. She was targeted because she spoke against the group, supporting […]
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BAGHDAD — An Iraqi court has sentenced an American citizen to life in prison on charges of assisting al-Qaida and financing terrorist activities in Iraq, according to a government statement. The Interior Ministry said Omar Rashad Khalil, 53, was recruited by al-Qaida in Iraq in 2005. Khalil, an architectural engineer, is of Palestinian descent and […]
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Police in the Greek capital of Athens arrested 40 people as they clashed with law enforcers protesting over a recent U.S.-made film considered anti-Islamic, local police reported. Some 600 protesters clashed with police on Sunday forcing them to use tear gas to disperse the crowd. The protesters tried to break through to the U.S. Embassy […]
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