Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are together again for the first time in almost two years. They will resume direct negotiations Wednesday morning at the State Department. At a group dinner last night, both leaders pledged to do everything in their power to reach a settlement, but hinted at the [...]
90 years ago today the 19th Amendment–the one that allowed women the right to vote–was formally ratified as part of the constitution. And so today, August 26, is officially EQUALITY DAY. The accomplishments of 72 years of hard work and massive effort were finalized with a single signature by Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby who [...]
Philadelphia has sent letters to bloggers telling them they need a $300 business license to continue blogging. According to the law, any blogger who enables advertising is required to register as a business, pay for a license and pay taxes on their profits no matter how small, the Philadelphia City Paper reported last week. Flat [...]
A regular correspondent wondered why Newt Gingrich’s recent declaration on the planned downtown mosque sounded so familiar, and found this.. Gingrich: There should be no mosque near Ground Zero in New York so long as there are no churches or synagogues in Saudi Arabia. Mussolini: There will be a mosque in Rome, the Fascist ruler [...]
A new national survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life finds that a substantial and growing number of Americans say that Barack Obama is a Muslim, while the proportion saying he is a Christian has declined. The news is not good [...]
Indonesia Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Minister Fadel Muhammad said Tuesday he demanded that the Malaysian government apologize over the arrest of three Indonesian maritime officers without legal basis. “There was no reason for Malaysia to arrest our officers. They have to apologize,” Fadel said as quoted by kompas.com. Seven Malaysian fishermen were detained by the [...]
At least 59 people have been killed in a suicide attack on an army recruitment centre in Baghdad, officials say. More than 100 were reported to have been injured in the bombing, in the centre of the Iraqi capital. The suicide attack reportedly targeted people queuing up for recruitment at an Iraqi army division headquarters [...]
President Obama broke his silence on the Ground Zero mosque debate during a speech at tonight’s Ramadan dinner at the White House. He is came out in support of the building of a mosque at the site of the World Trade Center tragedy on 9/11. According to an article in the LA Times, Obama framed [...]
The flood waters which devastated the north-west of the country have moved south to the agricultural heartland of Punjab and on to Sindh. The UN estimates that 1,600 people have died in Pakistan’s floods and the Pakistani government has confirmed 1,243 deaths. Mr Ban told a news conference. More than three million people were affected [...]
The International Assistance Mission, a Christian charity providing health services to the Afghan people, said on its website Saturday the dead people are “likely” members of its eye camp team, who were returning to Kabul after working in Nuristan province. The Taliban has claimed responsibility for killing 10 people, including foreigners, after the bodies were [...]
