The United States will hold talks with Cuba later this month on normalizing ties and migration issues, says the State Department. A delegation led by Assistant Secretary of State Roberta Jacobson, the US top diplomat for Latin America, will travel to Havana, the...

Mahinda Rajapaksa has conceded defeat to his former friend and health minister, Maithripala Sirisena, who defected from the ruling party and turned the election into a referendum on the president and the enormous power he wields over the island nation of 21 million. Early on...

A UN report has revealed that crimes against humanity, including ethnic cleansing, have been committed against the Muslim population in the Central African Republic (CAR) during the ongoing conflict in the country. The 127-page report, compiled by a UN commission of inquiry and...

The men have been unofficially named as Said Kouachi, 34, his brother Cherif Kouachi, 33, and Hamyd Mourad, 19 ...

Also of course on the question of free speech vs. hate crimes – would we be happy for Charlie Hebdo to lampoon Jewish people and gypsies as the Nazis did? The whole point of satire it sees to me is to ring down the powerful – not the product of NATO’s Operation...

Governments from Around the World Admit They Do It Governments from around the world admit they’ve used the bully’s trick … attack first, and then blame the victim: Japanese troops set off a small explosion on a train track in...

With 2014 fresh in our rear view mirror, an honest examination of events and developments of what’s been happening in America to whistleblowers and journalists since 9/11 under the Bush-Obama regime seems a worthwhile review, however disturbing ands foreboding. By definition a...

France finally got its ’9/11 moment’ today, when at least two gunman dressed in black and armed with Kalashnikov rifles, stormed the offices of a magazine, killing two police/security personnel and 10 journalists, and injuring 11 others during the raid. ...

A manhunt is underway after 12 people are said to have been shot dead at the headquarters of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris – but is there more to the story? ...

Heavily armed, well-trained gunmen executed what appears to be a well-planned attack in Paris, France, killing 12, including 2 police officers. Where did these terrorists get their weapons, training, political backing, funds, and inspiration? A short timeline featuring news stories from 2011...

France, as part of a NATO-led coalition, has been arming, funding, aiding, and otherwise perpetuating Al Qaeda terrorists for years, beginning, on record in Libya with the...

Putin did it. Sorry, he didn't. In the end, it was not Russia "aggression" that attacked the heart of Europe. It was a pro-style jihadi commando. Cui bono?  Careful planning and preparation; Kalashnikovs; rocket-propelled grenade launcher;...

President Bashar Assad says the U.S. and Europe are supporting his Islamist opponents, which will come back to haunt them. He also has words for Jordan. Syrian President Bashar Assad warned in a television interview Wednesday that the war against his...

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The details are emerging of a new secret and quite stupid Saudi-US deal on Syria and the so-called IS. It involves oil and gas control of the entire region and the weakening of Russia and Iran by Saudi Arabian flooding the world market with cheap oil. Details were concluded in the September...

Two Northampton councillors have defected from Labour to the Conservatives.  They are Cllr Mohammed Aziz of Castle Ward on...

Clinical psychologist and author, Bruce E. Levine, has compiled an in depth list of reasons why young Americans don’t fight for their rights. His article has, of course, caused a little controversy. One journalist went as far as claiming Levine believes youthful resistance should focus on...

I’m a journalist but I don’t believe in absolute freedom of speech, as there is no such thing as absolute freedom of speech. The Paris killings yesterday were clearly wrong and un-Islamic. There’s simply no sanction among the scholars for freelance...

Some quick points first:  1. Proof of the pudding is in the eating--and forces behind a terrorist attack are unmasked by seeing who has benefitted the most from the incident! 2. To their credit (dis), Israeli leaders have not hidden a sense of...

Republican US Sen. Rand Paul introduced a bill on Wednesday that would immediately halt American aid to the Palestinian Authority, US media reported.  The Associated Press reported that the bill would cut aid until the Palestinian Authority withdraws its bid to join...

Chief Palestinian negotiator and member of PLO, Dr. Saeb Erekat called the ongoing Israeli settlement expansion in Palestinian lands in the occupied West Bank an act of "terrorism," comparing Israeli acts of terrorism with the crimes done by the IS (ISIS). "There is no...

This is incredible: sources close to the Charlie Hebdo killing investigation say the suspects, two brothers, were spotted at a gas station in northern France armed with automatic weapons and rocket launchers. The manager of a gas station near the town of...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has accepted the Palestinian Authority's request to join the Rome Statute, in a move thought to open the way for bringing Israeli war criminals to court.  The president of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute,...

Delhi Police today denied media reports that a legal notice was served to Congress MP Shashi Tharoor in the murder case of his wife Sunanda Pushkar and said it was yet to be decided who will be quizzed. ''No notice has been issued to Shashi Tharoor yet, the investigating...

Shot Thursday morning in Paris, a woman Police officer has succumbed to her wounds.    Two people, including the woman Police officer, were gravely wounded in the shooting on the southern edge of Paris that took place just one day after a deadly attack on a...

In a move thought to open the way for bringing Israeli war criminals to court, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has accepted Palestinian Authority's request to join the Rome Statute.   The President...

Turkey urged all of its remaining citizens to leave Libya amid worsening security in the north African country following a threat made on a Facebook page to shoot down Turkish aircraft. The warning, published on the Foreign Ministry's website yesterday, came a day after Turkish...

Head of the Palestinian prisoner society Qaddura Fares condemned Israel's acquittal of its soldier who had killed Palestinian minister Ziyad Abu Ein as "insolence and persistence in committing crimes." Fares stated said that Israel's attempt...

Car bombs exploded at three checkpoints on the western outskirts of Iraq's holy city of Samarra today, killing three people and wounding 41 others, a security official and locals said. Samarra in central Iraq, 125 km north of Baghdad, is home to a significant Shi'ite shrine and...

North Korea has threatened the United States 'with a hail of bullets and shells on its own territory' if it does not withdraw sanctions, the North's state news agency reported today. US President Barack Obama issued an executive order last week authorising expanded...

The rate of Gaza’s electricity deficit has reached 70% due to frequent outages in the Israeli-run power lines and networks. The Palestinian Energy Authority said in a statement that ten power lines running from Israel to Gaza supply about 120MW while Gaza’s power plant...

Another man has been fatally shot by police in the United States after he tried to buy a plane ticket at an airport in Columbus, Ohio. The police killing took place on Wednesday afternoon outside the departure terminal of the Columbus International Airport. The identity of...

Attempts by the leaders of Turkey's ruling party to cast a Kurdish Islamist party as an alternative to the PKK are raising serious questions and feeding old rivalries.   As Turkey’s Kurdish peace process seems to devolve into a...

Saudi Arabia is struggling to form an effective Yemen strategy as its three main adversaries — the Shiite Houthis, al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood — continue to dominate the Yemeni arena.   Although ...

Supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi have once again poured into the streets to protest against the country's military rulers. The Wednesday rallies were organized by a coalition of anti-government groups and activists, known as the Anti-Coup...

Colombia's second largest leftist guerrilla group has opened doors to peace talks with the government aimed at ending the half-century conflict. In an online video on Wednesday, the National Liberation Army (ELN)’s top commander, Nicolas Rodriguez, said the group is ready to...

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader and former Uttar Pradesh Minister Haji Yaqub Quereshi today said he supported the terrorist attack on office of a French satire magazine in Paris and would given an award of Rs 51 crore to the attackers. Quereshi's statement drew an immediate...

Nusra Front Islamist militants linked to al Qaeda have blown up the 13th century tomb of a revered Islamic scholar in southern Syria, Syrian state news agency SANA and monitoring group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, reported. The mausoleum of Imam Nawawi is in Nawa in Deraa...

  1.One month ago, France lower house voted to recognize Palestine. Israel warned France of `consequences'. Now Palestine is in International Criminal Court, poised to take down Israel for genocide. Suddenly "Islamic terror" strikes France. 2.Charlie Ebdo...

U.S.-led air strikes against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria have damaged or destroyed 3,222 targets since August, including 58 tanks, 184 Humvees, 673 fighting positions and 980 buildings or barracks, the Pentagon said on...

A storm buffeted the Middle East with blizzards, rain and strong winds on Wednesday, keeping people at home across much of the region and raising concerns for Syrian refugees facing freezing temperatures in flimsy shelters. Snowfall and gales in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley destroyed...

Mexican police found 10 decapitated corpses and 11 heads in a southwestern state that has become a major problem for President Enrique Pena Nieto since the apparent massacre of 43 trainee teachers there in September. Several of the headless corpses found in graves about 50 kilometers...

Cuba released three detainees on Wednesday in a sign it was fulfilling an agreement to free a list of 53 people the United States regards as political prisoners as part of a thaw in relations between the two nations. The government freed...

Human Rights First today urged the new U.S. Ambassador to Bahrain William Roebuck to call for the release of Sheikh Ali Salman, the leader of Bahraini opposition group Al Wefaq. The call came in a ...

Right wingers calling for Muslim blood with #KillAllMuslims hashtag after Charlie Hebdo murders, need to be remember that a Police officer shot by terrorists was a Muslim. This is the policeman who ...

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has urged voters to back "the devil they know," and hand him a third term when they go to the polls on Thursday, rather than an "unknown angel" who promises to root out corruption and political decay. There have been no...

Way back in 2012, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney had criticized the “judgment” of a French satirical magazine for publishing cartoons that are critical of the Islamist political movement, amid the routine threat of attacks by Islamists during President Barack Obama’s...

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has urged voters to back "the devil they know," and hand him a third term when they go to the polls on Thursday, rather than an "unknown angel" who promises to root out corruption and political decay. There have been no...

Good news, adolescents, culture war just intensified; you can see Fifty Shades of Grey with your parents. After considering the nudity, mature themes and overall sexy sexiness of the hotly anticipated film, the Motion Picture Association of America has slapped it...

Well, we knew 2013 was bad. And ...

How restful it must be to be Jeremy Hunt. Lesser health secretaries would regard the NHS’ worst ever A&E performance happening on their watch as a damning indictment. More insecure an operator might take the ...

Israelis are very nervous about the political implications of Palestinians going to ICC against war crimes. This can be seen from the following article published in Haartz, a prominent Israeli journal: "We will not allow Israeli soldiers and officers to be dragged to...

Tony Blair may face war crimes charges arising from the findings of a public inquiry into the role Britain played in the 2003 Iraq war, the House of Lords has been informed. Lord Dykes of Harrow Weald, a Liberal Democrat peer, claimed the publication of the long-awaited findings of Sir...

What else can you expect from a superpower that treats its own citizens, African-Americans, like a piece of garbage, to be shot at will, in the 21st century, Ku Klux Clan revival and all, with a black President at the helm! Imagine the cheek--it is now becoming clear that...

Two strange things happened before the attack on Charlie Hebdo: 1. Hollande, the French Premier, called Assad `satan' and regretted not attacking Syria. Probably, he was expecting another Lybia type situation!  2. Israel had warned France of the `consequences'...

It’s now reported that the gunmen told a bystander that the attack on Charlie Hebdo was carried out by Al-Qaeda in Yemen; the gunmen have been described as wearing military dress and armed with Kalashnikovs and a rocket launcher. ...

One of the hallmarks of terrorism is that provokes its audience to prematurely assign meaning. Today’s brutal attack on the offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has swiftly been taken to be an attack on free speech and this meaning seems so...

The al-Shabab militant group in Somalia has reportedly executed four people accused of spying for the United States, Ethiopia and the African country’s government. The people were executed late on Tuesday by a firing squad in the town of Bardhere, in...

Pakistan has executed two more men for terrorism, bringing the number of executions to nine since the country lifted a moratorium on the death penalty. Ghulam Shabbir and Ahmed Ali (alias Sheesh Naag), who were reportedly members of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi...

Officials in Afghanistan say a number of attacks by militants across the country have killed 10 people and injured five others. Authorities said Wednesday that the attacks took place in the provinces of Khost, Baghlan, and Nangarhar. Mobarez Zadran, a...

At least twelve people have been killed and five others critically injured when several masked men armed with automatic weapons stormed the offices of French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in the heart of the French capital, Paris.  Rocco Contento, a...

Fifteen under-trials of Sheohar Divisional Jail last night began a hunger strike to protest alleged ill-treatment by the jail superintendent. Confirming the incident, official sources said the protesters have charged the jail superintendent with serving them poor quality food and also...

A 39-year-old man has become the first victim to die of swine flu symptoms in the national capital here, hospital sources said today. According to the sources, the patient identified as Ravinder Gupta was admitted to Deepak Memorial hospital in east Delhi on January 5 after complaining...

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says Iran needs to be immunized against sanctions imposed on the Islamic Republic over its nuclear program.  “Today, the enemies have created problems for the country by [imposing] sanctions. If they set a...

A number of lawmakers in Hong Kong’s chamber have walked out to protest against the government's insistence on a proposal to screen candidates for the city's top executive in 2017. Legislators aligned with anti-election law...

A political commentator says the arrest of top Bahraini opposition figure Sheikh Ali Salman by Manama was made with the support of the UK, Press TV reports. Tara O’Grady, an independent human rights advocate from Ireland, said in an exclusive interview that the...

EU's foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini called Israel's move to freeze the transfer of Palestinian tax revenues a violation of the Oslo Accords, urging the nation to renew the payments. "The decision of the Israeli government to halt the transfer of tax revenues to...

Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) launched overnight large-scale raid and arrest campaign in Jenin, which led to violent clashes. Local sources said that violent clashes broke out when IOF soldiers in more than 20 army vehicles stormed Rommana and Tiba towns west of the city....

Almost 96% of the groundwater in the blockaded Gaza Strip is unfit for human consumption, a report recently issued by the Palestinian Water Authority revealed. A report issued by the water authority found out that the overall potable water consumption in Gaza reached 103.34 million...

In a statement posted on the UN's treaty website on Tuesday night, the United Nationas secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, said that "The statute will enter into force for the State of Palestine on April 1, 2015." On Monday, ICC registrar, Herman von Herbel...

Palestine Liberation Movement "Fateh" Secretary, Amin Maqboul, revealed that US is trying to to pressurize Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, through some Arab leaders. US purpose is to stop  Abbas from taking the ICC issue further and signing international...

The Central Command of Israeli army has exonerated the soldier who killed Palestinian minister Zaid Abu Ein, Israeli channel reported on Tuesday evening. The tenth Israeli Channel published the results of the investigation conducted by the Central Command of the Israeli army in...

The 2013 data, on the detenue released - which, actually, denotes the figures of detenue held and released during the entire year by the individual states - shows that with 38% each, both the states of Gujarat and Tamil Nadu together detained 76% of all the preventive detenue   in the...

On a day the Delhi police filed a case of murder in the death of Sunanda Pushkar, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor's wife, came another twist. Though various reports have suggested that death was due to poisoning, it took the police almost a year to file a First Information Report or...

BJP MP from Unnao Sakshi Maharaj has again created a controversy when he asked Hindu women to have at least four children to protect the religion. ''The concept of four wives and 40 children will not work in India and the time has come when a Hindu woman must produce at least...

The total number of registered voters has exceeded 14 crore after the special summary revision of electoral rolls carried out across state in the past three months. Election Commission sources here today said now there were 14.05 crore voters in the state including 6.3 crore females...

Syrians have overtaken Afghans as the largest refugee population aside from Palestinians, fleeing to more than 100 countries to escape war in their homeland, the United Nations said today. At more than 3 million as of mid-2014, Syrians accounted for nearly one in four of the 13 million...

A car bomb exploded outside a police college in Yemen's capital Sanaa early today, killing and wounding dozens of people, police sources and residents said. Ambulances were transporting casualties away from the scene of the blast, which appeared to target a group of students...

If the Labour-Conservative battle of spending credibility is a fight to the death, it is clear the Conservatives are falling short, indicating that behind a façade of Conservative tax and spend transparency lie inaccuracies and falsehoods, shielding colossal gaps in their own spending...

Alibaba’s founder Jack Ma on Tuesday warned that the e-commerce giant that made waves across the world in 2014 winning the eye popping record IPO of $25.1 billion, faced increased risks in 2015 and the tasks ahead "will be rather difficult". Ma, the executive...

At a time when most people have given up on any semblance of justice for slain Ferguson teenager Mike Brown, Sherrilyn Ifill and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund have made what may be the biggest game changing request in the case yet. ...

America’s strength comes from its diversity, and some of the country’s most prominent celebrity figures have incredibly diverse ethnic backgrounds–even though you might not know it. So embrace the melting pot, and climb up into these celebrity’s eclectic family...

Turkish police briefly detained a Dutch reporter on terrorism-related charges on Tuesday, highlighting accusations of media persecution on a day President Tayyip Erdogan declared that Turkish journalists enjoyed more freedom than any in Europe. Frederike Geerdink, based in the...

What cost of living crisis? That is the reality for Britain's top bosses, who will have earned £27,000 in 2015 by the time they break for their tea and biscuits on Tuesday afternoon. In what it has dubbed Fatcat Tuesday, the ...

The White House on Tuesday said President Barack Obama would veto Keystone XL pipeline legislation if it passes under the new Republican-led U.S. Congress. A bill that would have forced Obama's hand on the issue failed to clear Congress in its final days last year. But the Congress...

At least nine suspected gang members were killed on Tuesday in the western Mexican state of Michoacan, which is falling back into violence after authorities said it had been stabilized. Alfredo Castillo, the federal government's security commissioner for Michoacan, told a news...

Washington elites have been acting as if trying to get on the bad side of Russia for ages. New Russia military doctrine confirms that is now firmly the case. As if more evidence were needed that the United States and Russia have indeed embarked upon a New Cold War, the news...

The Tory party releases its first general election poster, showing a "road to a stronger economy". But the man who took the original photo tells Channel 4 News the road in question is in Germany. So said Chancellor George Osborne, when he ...

The first case the Palestinians will refer to the International Criminal Court will be the “crimes” Israel committed during summer 2014, including the Gaza war, a legal expert said Sunday. On January 2, the Palestinians presented a formal request to join the Hague-based...

The Israeli attack on the USS Liberty, which killed 34 sailors, wounded 171 other crew members, and severely damaged the ship, was no accident. It was a deliberate act of murder executed by Washington’s key ally in the Middle East. For years, the Israeli and US governments have...

In the crucial battleground of Kobani, in northern Syria, reports say Kurdish fighters now control of 80 per cent of the city - but is this a sign the tide is turning against the Islamic State group? On Tuesday a monitoring group said Kurdish fighters had captured a key security...

Investigators pursuing a major fraud case involving key members of the Yisrael Beytenu party have been looking into allegations that Michael Falkov, a former media adviser to Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman, was involved in a large money laundering racket. The story was cleared for publication...

The Israeli Administration of the Negev Military Prison has banned 50 Fatah prisoners from family visits for one month after they celebrated Fatah’s 50th anniversary, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club (PPC) said yesterday. In a statement, the PPC said that the punishment was...

Seven Israel Defense Forces soldiers abandoned their base on the Golan Heights in the past weeks in protest at their orders, the Ynet news site reported Monday. The troops, members of the Golani Brigade’s 12th battalion, left their base on several occasions in an organized...

:: Glasgow East Scotland feels like uncharted territory politically at the moment. The polls are suggesting an unprecedented SNP breakthrough, and a cataclysmic result for Labour. I went to Glasgow East because people in this constituency have a history of...

Yesterday the Tories trotted out the same message: Labour can’t be trusted with the economy. In response, Labour outlined the savings they would make and Miliband reiterated that none of Labour’s proposals are funded by additional borrowing in ...

Sinjar Resistance Units (YBŞ) commander Zerdeşt Şengali called on all Yazidis (Êzidî) to support the YBŞ, adding that the stronger the force became the better it would be for the Yazidis and for Kurdistan. Şengali said that when ISIS gangs had taken Mosul in June 2014...

Five mass graves in and around the town of Sinune in Sinjar will be opened and documented under the supervision of officials. Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) Spokesman for Mosul, Xiyas Surçî, said in a statement that the mass graves uncovered following the operations of...

“Our community must reinforce its moral responsibility to rid itself of the effects of years of exploitation, neglect, and apathy, and wage an unrelenting struggle against police brutality.” - Malcolm X Speech at the Founding Rally of the Organization...

HPG (People’s Defense Forces) Sinjar Command and YBŞ (Sinjar Resistance Units) General Command issued a joint statement reporting that the operation to liberate Sinjar  continues and that a number of ISIS members were killed in clashes in the last 24 hours. According to the...

YPG (People's Defense Units) Press Centre has reported in a written statement that YPG/YPJ fighters made further advances against the ISIS gangs on the northern and southeastern fronts of Kobani. According to the statement, YPG/YPJ fighters cleansed the area of schools north of...

After scuttling the Palestinian Statehood vote in UN, United States today slammed Israeli action of freezing the transfer of tax revenues to the Palestinian Authority (PA) as a collective punishment for their bid to join the International Criminal Court. "We're opposed to any...

308 Israeli violations of human rights against journalists were reported during 2014 in Palestinian lands, the Palestinian Media Forum said. In its new report, the forum said that 17 journalists including an Italian were killed during Israel’s summer aggression on Gaza and 58...

AlAqsa foundation for Waqf and Heritage Monday issued a report about the digging and judaization of Israeli projects in and around Al-Aqsa mosque during 2014. This is part of the mind game, a...

Rattled by the memory of Gezi Park protests in 2013, and frightened furhter, by Kurd led street unrest in Turkey over the battle of Kobani, Turkey’s government has facilitated detentions and pre-trial arrests through a legal amendment that removed the criteria of...

The Turkish "Aendilkh"  newspaper revealed yesterday that Qatar is most likely to expel the head of the political bureau of Hamas, Khaled Meshaal from its territory to Turkey. The newspaper added that Khaled Meshaal recently...

The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) carried out at dawn Tuesday a large-scale arrest campaign throughout the West Bank. 19 Palestinians were detained during the campaign mostly in al-Khalil. Spokesman for the popular committee...

A Jewish settler put poison into a cattle water trough killing 16 sheep east of Aqraba village in southern Nablus on Monday. Yusuf Deriyeh, a Palestinian of Aqraba municipality said that chemical materials, usually used as insecticides, were put in...

Apple township of Sopore observed a complete shutdown on the 22nd anniversary of mass killing of 55 civilians in an alleged security force firing. Shops and business establishments remained closed and traffic was off the roads while work in government and other offices was also...

Hundreds of American protesters took to the streets again in New York City on Monday in the aftermath of police shooting deaths of unarmed black people. The protesters gathered in the New York City's busiest train and transit station holding space to raise awareness about the...

The 2011 revolution in Yemen ended up with some opposition parties signing a US and Saudi-backed peace initiative that gave power to ousted dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh’s deputy Abd Rebbu Mansour Hadi. For two consecutive years, the opposition parties who had promised to meet the...

At least 23 security forces have been killed and 21 others wounded in two bombings and ensuing clashes in Iraq’s Anbar Province, west of the capital, Baghdad. The incident occurred on Tuesday, when bombers attacked a mosque in the Al-Jubba area of Anbar - where security personnel...

The commander of the Iranian Army’s Ground Forces says Iran has marked a 40-km red zone into the Iraqi border to warn terrorists of any infiltration attempt into Iranian territories. Brigadier General Ahmad-Reza Pourdastan said Tuesday that the Iranian army warned the ISIL about...

Two police officers have been shot in the Bronx after responding to a robbery, the NYPD confirmed late Monday night, but the injuries are believed to be non-life-threatening. A manhunt is underway for two suspects. A 30-year-old officer was shot in his left arm and lower back and a...

A web portal for online approval of movement of Over Dimensional (OD) and Over Weight Cargo (OWC) was launched today in New Delhi by Union Minister for Road Transport & Highways and Shipping, Nitin Gadkari. The launch of this web portal is considered as a step towards corruption...

Flu is widespread in 43 US states, up from 36 states in the prior week, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported. Six children died from the flu during the last full week in December, bringing the total flu deaths to 21 this season, the yesterday's report...

President Juan Manuel Santos called for the smaller of Colombia's two leftist rebel groups, the ELN, to join the larger FARC guerrillas in declaring a unilateral ceasefire as peace talks advance to end a 50 year war. The government has been in exploratory talks with the National...

Two Egyptian policemen were shot dead today as they stood guard at a Coptic Christian church in a city south of Cairo, witnesses and a local security source said. The policemen were killed instantly after being shot by masked men, the source and the witnesses said. The website of...

Pakistani lawmakers today passed legislation for military courts to try insurgents, one of a raft of measures aimed at clamping down on increasingly brutal attacks after Taliban gunmen massacred 134 children last month. The bill secured the unanimous vote of the 242 lawmakers present,...

A senior figure in Islamic State's self-declared police force in Syria, which has carried out beheadings, was himself found decapitated in the eastern province of Deir al-Zor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said today. The man was an Egyptian national and was known as the...

The Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) on Monday renewed the administrative detention of Sheikh Khadir Adnan Mohamed Mousa, 37, for six more months. A renewed prison term had been earlier issued against Khadir, arrested by the Israeli occupation...

A rights group in Mexico has warned of the deteriorating prison conditions in the country, citing them as being overcrowded and manipulated by inmates, Press TV reports. Mexico's National Human Rights Commission’s (CNDH) latest annual report showed that out of the 152 prisons...

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, along with Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon, approved the expansion of an Israeli settlement located on stolen Palestinian land near Ramallah. The expansion of the Beit El settlement will cost...

A Jewish settler on Monday evening suffered injuries when an unknown person stabbed him in Kiryat Yam town, north of the city of Haifa. Israel's channel 7 said an Israeli man was rushed to Rambam hospital in Bat Galim area in Haifa after he suffered...

The World Food Programme notified the Palestinian Health Ministry of its intent to suspend a deal for supplying bread to Gaza hospitals as of the onset of 2015 due to scarce funds. Head of the department of warehouses and general supplies at the Health...

The Israeli military court of Ofer extended the detention of the 14-year-old girl Malak Ali al-Khatib, from Bittin near Ramallah, for one week. The Palestinian Prisoner Society said in a statement on Monday that the extension...

The torture debate in the USA, following the publication of the Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture, has been an exercise in both “American Exceptionalism,” and 21st century horror. If you leave aside the initial efforts to debunk the accuracy of the report, what becomes...

Uttar Pradesh police have arrested one of the two absconding constables involved in the gangrape of a minor girl here on New Year eve inside the police station campus. Police sources here said Avnesh Yadav was nabbed at Bareilly railway station late last night. However, another accused...

Syria has complained to the United Nations that US Senator John McCain, former French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and former US diplomat Peter Galbraith entered the country without visas in separate visits in violation of its sovereignty. Syria's UN ambassador, Bashar...

Two New York City police officers were shot and taken to a local hospital, police said. Yesterday the New York Police Department said, the officers were responding to a reported robbery in the Bronx when the shooting occurred. The conditions of the policemen were unknown. No...

After 26 years in the game, E-40 is still at the height of his powers. And he’s not planning on slowing down any time soon.   Interview Dan Rys It’s been said time and again that hip-hop is a young man’s game. But tell that to E-40...

Information received this week from the highest levels of US counter-terrorism sources have confirmed that the reputed “Queen of Al Qaeda,” Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, a CIA torture victim now serving 87 years in an American “super-max” prison, was a CIA agent when captured and...

THE Green Party today announced plans for an average 10% cut in rail and bus fares, which will be included in its general election manifesto, paid for by increasing public investment in fares by...

U.S lawmakers encouraged officials in Riyadh to arm Syrian rebels. Now that strategy may have created a monster in the Middle East. “Thank God for the Saudis and Prince Bandar,” John McCain ...

Political parties are being incentivised to govern Britain only in the interests of the elderly – because they are the one generation which reliably votes, a leading Labour politician has warned. As all three main parties kicked off the election campaign, Sadiq...

Two protests took place at Bristol Temple Meads today against a rise in rail fares. During both the morning and evening rush hours, campaigners protested against the rise that could see regular train passengers paying up to £200 more each year. The cost of a season...

The U.S. Congress has approved the handover of some leftover naval vessels to allies, pointedly excluding Turkey from the list of recipients. In late December, the U.S. finally ...

Ten more Mexican metropolitan police officers have been detained by federal authorities probing the disappearance of 43 student teachers in the state of Guerrero. The latest arrests bring the total number of people detained in the controversial case to nearly 90, including 58...

The movie Wadjda, by Saudi Arabia’s first female director Haifaa al Mansour, is an entertaining and endearing story of headstrong ten year old Wadjda who can’t make sense of the crippling restrictions that Saudi society imposes...

Michael Twitty, a Jewish African-American culinary historian, who was a guest of the Jewish Film festival in Jerusalem, endured humiliating treatment at Ben-Gurion Airport. Irrespective of religion, race or gender? Not in these parts. He teaches Hebrew in Jewish...

German citizens gathered by the thousands in several demonstrations against the anti-Islam movement "Pegida." Politicians said they were proud of the large numbers of people supporting immigrants. Citizens thronged to streets in German cities to protest the anti-Islam...

At-least nine Pakistanis were killed Sunday in a U.S. drone strike in North Waziristan, the first reported drone strike of 2015. News accounts of the strike are based on unnamed Pakistani government and security officials. The Obama administration has said nothing so far. For years, the...

With the US-led coalition pullout in full swing and Afghan forces having assumed full responsibility for national security, the country’s president has called on to President Obama to reconsider a slower withdrawal schedule. “Deadlines concentrate the mind. But...

It may become a “duty” of nurseries and elementary schools in the UK to track and report any child that shows signs of sympathy with terrorists or is a risk of potential radicalization, according to the government’s plans aimed at preventing extremism. A consultation...

A member of the grand jury that declined to indict the white Missouri police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black 18-year-old sued the prosecutor in the case on Monday, criticizing the way evidence was presented to grand jurors and seeking court permission to speak publicly about the way...

A Connecticut brewery apologized to Indians offended that the company is using Mohandas Gandhi’s name and likeness on one of its beers. New England Brewing Co. sells an India pale ale it calls Gandhi-Bot. The label features a cartoon image depicting a robot version of the late...

Confounding propaganda that they are `Marxists' and `anti-Islamic', Kurds combined the fight for justice of Prophet Mohammad and the essential mesage of struggle against oppression of Marxism. Mousque Mahsûm in Dêrik city of Rojava organized an Islamic memorial...

The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, praised President Goodluck Jonathan Wednesday, after Nigeria pulled a last-minute surprise that helped thwart a resolution calling for an end to Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory by 2017. People do not know much about behind the...

 October 26, Brazil re-elected President Dilma Rousseff, the 66-year old leader of the Workers’Party, whose first term began in 2011. In one of the most dramatic elections in the history of the world’s fourth-largest democracy, Rousseff gained a very narrow victory, securing...

Before the FIFA World Cup began in Brazil, Goldman Sachs forecast that the winner would be the team from the host country. However, ING was confident that the winners would be the “Red” team from Spain, which emerged the victor in the 2010 World Cup. Although past...

The year is 1997. New York rap duo Capone-N-Noreaga have just released their seminal street classic, The War Report. The city's hardcore hip-hop faithful loves it. Featured on the album, and considered to be its mastermind, is rapper Tragedy Khadafi. Tragedy, like...

For the last 30-35 years, the Bush name is associated with Republican Presidential candidacy, dubious victories, and then wars that kill a lot of brown skinned Asian people, and a lot less, Americans. No one has forgotten the two Gulf wars, the false WMD pretext, the still...

The Secretary General of the Islamic Cooperation Organization (ICO), Iyad Madani , was able to reach Al Aqsa Mosque, after he was blocked by Israeli occupation  forces for several hours. Yesterday, Madani  met...

A suicide bomb and gun attack killed two Saudi border guards on the frontier with Iraq early today, the interior ministry said, in what one security analyst called Islamic State's first assault on the kingdom. Saudi Arabia's border with Iraq, defended by earth barriers and...

Sócrates Brasileiro Sampaio de Souza Vieira de Oliveira was the captain of Brazil’s 1982 World Cup squad, a team that did not finish first but whose players’ style was so beloved that they are remembered with more affection, arguably, than any of the country’s many World...

The FBI has asked cyber security experts to consider a career as a special agent, in a recruitment drive designed to ensure the agency stays on top of evolving online threats. In a ...

“They shot the boy… He was trying to get back in the car.” At 9:20pm on Tuesday, Jerame Reid was stopped in a residential neighborhood in New Jersey by Bridgeton Police Officers Braheme Days and Roger Worley. Instead of a routine traffic stop, Reid was shot and...

It has been said that children are our future, and right now the vast majority of our children are being “educated” in public schools that are rapidly being turned into indoctrination centers and prison camps. Our children desperately need to focus on the basics such as...

Former MP and ex-Congress Working Committee(CWC) member Jagmeet Singh Brar today quit the party after putting in nearly 35 years in it. Besides Mr Brar, his brother and former MLA from Kotakpura Ripjeet Singh Brar also resigned from the party. The two announced their decision in a...

Israeli occupation forces opened fire on Monday, towards agricultural lands, south of the Gaza Strip. Witnesses told Medhaj News that Israeli occupying forces positioned at Kissufim military base, directed Monday morning,  heavy fire towards...

While illegally crossing the Iraqi-Syrian border, Canadian Peter Douglas was adamant that his incursion was for humanitarian reasons – to help the people of Syria. Douglas is one of a growing band of foreigners to...

Occupation prevents the Secretary General of the Islamic Conference Organization from reaching Al Aqsa...

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Israeli occupation forces arrested last night, ten Palestinian youths from different parts of the occupied West Bank, including a young man from the village of  Haja near Ramallah. The site settlers said that another two  young men...

Congress leader Digvijay Singh today questioned the silence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the alleged building of a temple and statue of Nathuram Godse, the assassin of Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi. ''We agitate when a beer in the US is branded on Mahatma...

After freezing the transfer of tax revenues to the Palestinian Authority, Israel is taking additional steps to punish the PA’s for its request to join the International Criminal Court at The Hague. A senior Israeli official said on Sunday Jerusalem would be...

The dream team – Aamir Khan and Rajkumar Hirani – seems to have worked its magic again on the Box Office as their recently released movie ‘PK’ is all set to break many records. Firstly, ‘PK’ has garnered almost Rs 557 Cr worldwide within just two...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Sunday he was discussing with Jordan plans to resubmit to the United Nations Security Council, a resolution calling for the establishment of a Palestinian state that failed to win enough votes last...

The Palestinian Forum in Britain held on Sunday a major festival in London in celebration of the birth of Prophet Muhammad and in solidarity with the Aqsa Mosque and the besieged Palestinians in Gaza.  The festival included...

Syria's Western-backed political opposition group, the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, has elected a new presidential committee and a president widely seen as not tied to any of the body's international sponsors. Khaled Khoja takes over as...

A delegation of the International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA) is set to visit Gaza on Monday to join in repairing 10 stadium pitches sponsored by the federation. Palestinian sources said a FIFA team is to arrive in Gaza...

The Israeli prison service (IPS) turned down appeals to end the isolation of six Palestinian prisoners in Nafha jail. Lawyer of the Palestinian Prisoners Society said following a visit he paid to the prisoners that the IPS has ended the...

Political Bureau Member of Hamas, Dr. Mousa Abu Marzouk, voiced Hamas’s disappointment over Egypt’s shooting of a Palestinian youngster at the Rafah border crossing, calling on the Egyptian authorities to unblock the border crossing without further...

The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) arrested a Palestinian man from the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, after summoning him at the northern Erez (Beit Hanun) crossing on Sunday. Local sources said that the IOF arrested...

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said he will visit China and several unspecified OPEC countries during a week-long tour meant to improve the South American nation's finances, which have been weakened by tumbling crude prices. 'I'm leaving today for an international tour...

President Hassan Rouhani has threatened to hold an unprecedented referendum in Iran as he warned hardline opponents of a nuclear deal with the west that the country must end its...

New York City police turned out in their thousands for the funeral of the second of two officers murdered last month, but in a sign of persistent tensions with Mayor Bill de Blasio, hundreds turned their backs when he delivered his eulogy. Politicians, police leaders and other mourners...

Lack of support among Indian-origin and Asian voters could cost Britain's Conservative-led government the 2015 general election, a new independent study of the country's demographics has warned.  Of those voting for the first time in 2015, 18 per cent will be from...

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said he would only seek the release of jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez if the United States agreed to release a Puerto Rican nationalist currently held in a US prison. Lopez was arrested in February after he helped launch a three-month wave...

Syeda Deep had sent me the message to attend the vigil in memory of Salman Taseer, former governor of Punjab murder by his own guard on 4th January 2011 when he tried to defend a working class Christian women accused of blasphemy. While I was attending on the day a Lahore general...

While the dust settles on the proposals just published by the Smith Commission into extending new powers to the Scottish parliament, attention now turns to the final key political event north of the border this side of Christmas: the Scottish Labour leadership election, which concludes on...

Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar today said the circumstantial evidences suggest that suspected Pakistani fishing boat, which sank after being intercepted by the Coast Guard in the Arabian was linked to suspected terrorists. ''I think they were suspected terrorists....as...

A large blast damaged a building belonging to Yemen's Houthi militia in a western district of the capital Sanaa early today, but there were no fatalities, a police source and witnesses said. The Houthis, who control large swathes of Yemen and are regarded as enemies by al...

With Greece facing a snap general election on 25 January 2015, there is the genuine prospect of a radical left government coming to power in an EU country. Syriza, a party born from a coalition of Eurocommunists, social movements and anti-globalisation activists, is riding high.  ...

You may recall, from the dark days of Abu Ghraib, that there was a batch of photos that was never released—images the Pentagon deemed so...

If any one theme dominated economic policy debates and research over the past year, it was income inequality. The debate was kicked into high gear when French economist Thomas Piketty‘s book ...

My Email Correspondence With Noam Chomsky: 01/01/2015 – 03/01/2015 3 January 2015 at 11:13 Note: As I understand legal...

Historians may look back on 2014 as a defining watershed in geopolitical events, the year when the limit of American power was exposed as a waning entity and the contemporary root of global conflict.  It was the centennial anniversary of the First World War when...

A man who was shot by a Wichita police officer Saturday evening has died, Interim Police Chief Nelson Mosley said. Officers were called around 6:45 p.m. to a disturbance in the 500 block of North Oliver. Mosley says 23-year-old John Paul Quintero and his father were sitting in a SUV...

The inescapable news at present involves the complex continuation of fighting over Gaza between Israel and Palestine. It is difficult to fully comprehend the situation due to the varying levels of accuracy reported by the media. Football, as is very often the case, has been used as a vehicle to...

It could be argued that football is predominantly a ‘right-wing’ sport. For example, in our domestic game we see an untouchable hierarchy of wealth, whereby the richer football clubs get richer, isolating the chance of success for teams without financial backing. Our mentality is...

North Korea has blasted the latest round of sanctions imposed by the U.S. as “repugnant” and...

According to a number of global mainstream media sources, the Pentagon is covering up a disturbing...

The Grammy-winning singer talks about Ebola, terrorism and challenging negative media perceptions about Africa. Singer Angelique Kidjo is a symbol of Africa's creativity, energy and beauty. Her music is a unique blend of her own very West African heritage combined with funk, jazz...

On the 2nd of November, Spain’s most read newspaper El Pais published an opinion poll which put the nascent Podemos on 27.7%, compared to 26.2% for the centre-left PSOE and 20.7% for the ruling conservatives, PP. It represented the first time that Podemos had been first in the polls and...

With the General Election a few months away, Sunday Mirror guest columnist, Labour MP Tom Watson, tells why it's vital for the NHS that the Tories are ousted. The NHS is sick. Sick of being stripped, bullied and undervalued. Our most beloved national institution can’t...

“Americans need to understand that they have lost their country. The rest of the world needs to recognize that Washington is not merely the most complete police state, but also a threat to the entire world. The hubris and arrogance of Washington, combined with Washington’s...

A new Left is rising in Europe as the new year begins. Right-wing monetarism is tottering; Keynesianism is in...  Keynesianism is a complex economic theory, but its central insight is simple enough: If every institution stops spending, economic activity will decline. Self-evident...

After suffering crushing defeats in Assembly and parliamentary polls in the past year, Congress put up a good show in the Chhattisgarh civic body elections and won four out of ten municipal seats, while the ruling BJP was reduced to...

Not limiting their activities to the earthly realm, American and British spies have infiltrated the fantasy worlds of World of Warcraft and Second Life, conducting surveillance and scooping up data in the online games played by millions of people across the globe, according to newly...

Al Qaeda-linked fighters battled with members of Lebanese group Hezbollah and the Syrian army in a mountainous area on the Syria-Lebanon border on Saturday, leading to deaths on both sides, security sources said. Three Hezbollah fighters, five Syrian soldiers and more than 15 members...

The United States is dominated by a “white supremacist” and “capitalist” culture that is responsible for the increasing dissatisfaction that Americans feel about their country, a civil rights activist in New York City says. “This culture...

A power struggle over the direction of the upstart Eurosceptic party Alternative for Germany (AfD) burst into the open on Saturday when a group of deputy leaders attacked its founder Bernd Lucke and his plans to take sole control of the party. Chancellor Angela Merkel's...

In recent days, a parade of white power players has descended on Brooklyn to denounce the Black Lives Matter movement. In dueling press conferences and ...

There have been marches in New York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles, and elsewhere demanding “justice” of some sort — or else there would be no “peace.” They’ve been invited to meet with President Barack Obama in the White House, been praised by the Mayor of...

While people is maintaining the border vigil in the villages of Mehser and Misaynter, they formed a human chain and saluted resistance ongoing in Kobanî on the 112nd day, as they do every day. The people joined hands and, after remembering those who have fallen in the struggle,...

Symbol of the resistance Apê Nemir, who remained in Kobanî despite his advanced age and was wounded fighting ISIS gangs, was brought to Pirsûs (Suruç) for treatment. His third son, Muhammed Xelîl, who was wounded while in the public security, has now returned to...

The People’s Defence Forces (HPG) and Şingal (Sinjar) Resistance Units (YBŞ) General Commands have issued a joint statement regarding the ongoing clashes in Şinjar in the operation launched by HPG and YBŞ forces to liberate Şinjar from the ISIS gang groups. The statement reported that...

As the YPG/YPJ fighters continue their advance in Kobanî, YPG commander Alîşêr Agirî evaluated the operation to liberate Mekteba Reş, saying: “With this success we have opened the way to Mistenur Hill.” The ''Liberate Kobanî...

They not only invaded our home, took over our space, and evicted us—they even arrested me and took me to theMaskubya—the police station.  I was put in room number four, alone, for a long time.  Then, a big and tall man, a police officer, entered the...

THIS CAN BECOME ANOTHER RTI KIND OF REVOLUTIONARY IDEA AS THIS WILL GIVE TOOL IN THE HAND OF HONEST BUSINESSES TO PROTECT THEIR INTEREST AND CORRUPTION WILL ALSO REDUCE. Context Research says that 96 % of companies shut down their business within 10 years (80% within a year...

Russian President Vladimir Putin saved the country from falling apart, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said during the presentation of his new book After the Kremlin. Gorbachev also commented on the situation in Ukraine and NATO expansion. "I think all of us - Russian...

The Torah (or Old Testament) is a master work of literature and faith, but it tells many mythological tales that have little or no basis in real history, as Uri Avnery, one of Israel’s founders, has had the courage to declare. The speech below is from the great Israeli...

A candlelight vigil staged in Vienna afternoon Saturday called for lifting the tough blockade imposed by the Israeli occupation on the Gaza Strip for eight uninterrupted years. Dozens partook in the march staged by the Coordinating Council to Support Palestine...

After ICC bid, Netanyahu decides to halt transfer of more than $127m in tax monies collected from Palestinians, Saeb Erekat said on Saturday. The decision to freeze the transfer of more than $127 million in tax monies collected in...

Historians may look back on 2014 as a defining watershed in geopolitical events, the year when the limit of American power was exposed as a waning entity and the contemporary root of global conflict.  It was the centennial anniversary of the First World War when...

Palestinian detainees held in Israeli occupation jails have sent distress signals over their tragic state of affairs due to shortages of blankets in extreme winter conditions. Palestinian prisoners in the Ofer and Shatta jails spoke out against the apathy...

Take a Stand! International Recognition of the Armenian Genocide!! There are so many causes in our world you feel you need to raise your voice for or against. One more? We think so. Otherwise the shadows of the past will be darkening tomorrow´s sunrise. For so many of...

Two Palestinian children died on Saturday evening after a fire engulfed their family home in the blockaded Gaza Strip. Spokesman for the Health Ministry Ashraf al-Qudra said the five-year-old child Amr Mohamed al-Habil and his cousin Khaled, 4,...

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112 Palestinian women were arrested by the Israeli occupation army in 2014, official authorities reported Saturday. The census unit at the Palestinian Department of Prisoner Affairs said 112 Palestinian women and girls were arrested by...

Researchers, officials and residents hold Sydney Sheikh Fedaa Majzoub responsible for two appalling massacres and kidnappings in Northern Syria. Worse, the sectarian sheikh has for some time enjoyed protection from the Australian media as well as from some political figures. ...

Israeli human rights group B’Tselem demanded the Israeli army to stop using dogs to attack Palestinian civilians and protestors, describing it as a horrifying act that is legally and morally reprehensible. Dog were used to punish and kill...

In the cartoon, an image of Recep Tayyip Erdogan stands watch while two thieves empty a safe full of cash. “No need to rush,” one of the thieves says...

The masterful operation that resulted in the neutralization of Abdelmalek Gouri, the Emir of Daesh-IS in Algeria, is the fruit of a long and painstaking intelligence work by the ANP (National People’s Army), the DRS (secret service), the National Gendarmerie and the National...

 The so-called Islamic State (ISIS) has blocked efforts by Muslims to celebrate the birthday of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). In Iraq, the Muslim community is used to making elaborate preparations for the Mawlid, which is a time of great joy and happiness,...

A report on a Lebanese satellite channel on Saturday claimed that an Israeli man who was swept out to sea while swimming off the coast of southern Israel is now being held by Hamas. The report was aired on al-Mayadeen, a channel known for its sympathies with the Palestinian cause...

Rain seeped into the tombs through shattered flagstones. Nearby, marble crosses lay in pieces. Plastic flowers, once lovingly placed on a grave, were torn and stamped into the earth. Beside the desecrated graveyard in the Syrian town of Kessab stood the Holy Trinity Armenian...

It was 'Washington's renewed interest' in Asif Ali Zardari and Rehman Malik and not Benazir that forced Musharraf-once a close ally of Bush-to offer firm opposition to US Late Neo-colonialism to ravage Pakistan. According to Dr Sachithanandam, "politically challenged Pakistani...

December 27, 2014 marks the seventh death anniversary of Benazir Bhutto, who sacrificed her life courageously resisting the agenda of fanatics who are bent upon pushing Pakistan to a theocratic state incapable of progressing towards an egalitarian and democratic polity. Since her assailants and...

“I need to say again, as a Jew and refugee from Nazi Germany  I am ashamed of Israel, a country I once hoped to love.  Zionism has succeeded to activate the rise of anti-Semitism, a result in my view of a grisly, brutal agenda of ethnic cleansing, apartheid and...

Pakistan India Peoples’ Forum for Peace and Democracy (PIPFPD) organized a seminar in Khairpur Mirs’ (Sindh) on the topic Peshawar Attack: Need of Regional Cooperation for Peace & Prosperity. The seminar held on 1st January 2015 to express solidarity...

Australian firefighters are battling a massive wildfire that has burned dozens of homes and displaced thousands in the state of South Australia. The state’s Country Fire Service said Sunday the fire which broke out two days earlier in the Mount Lofty Ranges east...

The head of Greece’s left-wing Syriza party says his party's victory in the coming parliamentary elections will prompt the "necessary change" in Europe, stressing that he will end austerity policies. "Necessary change in Europe begins here, in...

Settlers have often spoken against what they call foreign interference in their affairs, but this is the first known physical attack against diplomatic personnel. Jewish settlers attacked American consular officials Friday during a visit the officials made to the West Bank to...

Edward Brooke, the Massachusetts Republican who was the first African-American to be popularly elected to the U.S. Senate, died on Saturday at the age of 95, the state Republican Party said. Brooke was Massachusetts attorney general when he was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1966, at a...

Ferguson has emerged as the top local (and national) story of the year.  The Aug. 9 shooting death of Michael Brown by Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson has raised questions about policing, poverty, government policy and funding, and safety. But some of the biggest questions...

Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke issued a warning to Republicans who have criticized House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) for speaking to a white nationalist group in 2002, saying they "better be looking over their shoulders." In an ...

For many observers of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, 2014 will be remembered for the images it broadcast to the world from the Gaza Strip. These images depicted children...

Social justice activists determined to feed the homeless have faced eviction for the second time following their attempts to open a soup kitchen in Westminster, in the heart of London. They were forcibly ousted by police Tuesday night. Following their eviction from a listed Victorian...

Iyad Salman was terribly shocked to find out that his son, Mohammad (9), has Osteoporosis, an illness that became hugely spread between the children of Gaza. Iyad assured that he was always keen that his children have a healthy lifestyle. However, his son became ill after buying and...

Muntasser survived an Israeli strike on Gaza this summer which killed his young brother and three cousins. Five months and a suicide attempt later the Palestinian boy remains haunted by the memory. Just a week into the deadly 50-day July-August war, two Israeli...

‘Saudi Arabia’s national airline is allegedly planning to separate male and female passengers on its flights, in accordance to strict rules enforced by the Gulf kingdom. Gulf media report that Saudia will keep men and women segregated onboard, unless they are close...

On Saturday, the second stage of the Gaza buffer zone expansion started in the Egyptian side of Rafah border. 1200 houses were evacuated to build the 500-meter wide buffer zone on the Gaza-Egypt borders. Egyptian security sources reported that the evacuation process is...

What can you say about a man who is not only a smirking hypocrite but a downright liar? Is he a disgusting dreg of humanity? Is he – as the phrase is in Australia and the UK – a nasty piece of work? Is he a toe-rag? Or is he Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime...

Takfiri Boko Haram militants have kidnapped 40 boys and young men in a remote village in the northeast of Nigeria, witnesses say. A number of Boko Haram militants attacked the Malari village in the morning and took away the males, aged between 10 and 23, into a nearby...

At least eight people have been killed in Yemen during clashes between tribesmen and military forces in the eastern city of Ma’rib. According to Yemeni security sources on Saturday, six soldiers and two militants lost their lives after the armed tribesmen...

Forces loyal to Libya's government today staged air strikes on the commercial port of Misrata, a western city allied to a group that holds the capital Tripoli, both sides said. Fighting was also reported near the country's biggest oil export port located in the east, part of a...

The Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party  will launch its nationwide opposition to the Centre's ordinance for changes in the Land Acquisition Act tomorrow with a public meeting at Delhi's Chattarpur. AAP today said the public meeting, a part of the party's ongoing...

Two Army personnel were charred to death and two others security personnel received serious burn injuries in a wild fire on Line of Control (LoC) at Tanghdar sector of north Kashmir. A Border security force (BSF) spokesman told UNI that blaze broke out in the forest on other side of...

Six Left parties today issued a call to organise a protest day on January 24 against the visit of US President Barack Obama to India, who will be chief guest on the occasion of Republic Day. In a joint statement, the Left parties said ''It is a supreme irony that the day which...

Three Kurdish Yezidi girls taken captive by Islamic State (IS) militants last summer escaped the group on Friday evening and contacted Peshmerga forces near Sinjar, said a commander.  Ashti Kocher, a Peshmerga commander in the Sinjar area mentioned that three girls by the...

The Islamic State is becoming even more repressive and violent as it comes under increased military pressure from its many enemies. It shows no mercy to those who resist its rule – such as the Albu Nimr tribe in western Iraq, 581 members of which Isis recently executed. This isn’t...

State Department will 'continue to review' some $400 million in aid to Palestinian Authority following their application to join international court; US law dictates ending aid if Palestinians use court against Israel. The US State Department said on Friday that the...

Greece's parliament has failed to elect a president; which means it must hold elections in little over two years, probably before the end of January. Political and financial instability stemming from Greece again is the last thing many in Europe want. But the looming...

Either Obama and Putin enter negotiations over Ukraine or the war in Ukraine gets bigger and wider “If you see 10 troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you,” said Calvin Coolidge, whose portrait hung...

Since the genesis of the rebel’s most recent offensive in the Al-Quneitra Governorate, the province of Dara’a has become a hotbed for violence, as the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and National Defense Forces (NDF) exchange blows with the Syrian Revolutionaries Front (SRF) and the Al-Nusra...

US wants to make Russia into a pariah state. Beijing knows if that happens China is next Fasten your seatbelts; 2015 will be a whirlwind pitting China, Russia and Iran against what I have described as the ...

Outgunned by the Su-30 family of aircraft and suffering critical design flaws, the American F-35 is staring down the barrel of obsolescence – and punching a gaping hole in western air defences. This article is an excellent read to understand how Russia's...

Iran has rejected a Western media report that it has reached a nuclear deal with the P5+1 group of world powers to ship an enriched uranium stockpile to Russia. “No agreement has been reached yet on any of the issues [being discussed] during...

Clashes erupted on Friday night between Israeli occupation forces and young Palestinian Jerusalemites in Tur suburb in occupied Jerusalem. Eyewitnesses said that Israeli soldiers fired a barrage of teargas canisters, rubber bullets, and sound bombs at young men and houses....

Propaganda is often more about what you don’t say than what you do say — and yesterday provided us with a perfect example. You’ve no doubt heard by now that Alexey Navalny, a prominent Putin critic and political blogger was convicted yesterday of fraud and given a 3.5...

Palestinian fisherman was reported critically wounded after being targeted by mortar and bullets of the Israeli occupation forces in the Sea of Rafah in southern Gaza Strip. Local sources said that occupation forces launched a barrage of shells and bullets at fisherman Jamal...

Israeli newspaper, Haaretzon published the details of the Israeli plan approved by the Israeli government which aims to bring the escalating resistance acts in Jerusalem under control. According to Haaretz, implementing the plan will cost a total of 600 million to 700 million...

Metropolitan Police appeals for witnesses as part of Operation Midland as it is revealed officers are looking into claims of abuse and murders of three young boys (Photograph: Cyril Smith was among the senior politicians named in a dossier detailing alleged child abusers within...

The first half of December 2014 was painful to many moderate American Christians who see their God as a God of love. A Senate inquiry revealed that the CIA tortured men, some innocent, to the point of unconsciousness and even death; evidence suggested that this torture extracted no lifesaving...

A few hours after planting a garden in memory of Palestinian minister Zaid Abu Ein, a group of Israeli soldiers broke into it and destroyed the garden. A group of Palestinians from Atouf, Tmoun, and Tubas along with Tubas Governor Rabeeh Khandakje and martyr Ziad Abu Ein's brother...

British press reports today that a woman  claims that Jewish banker Jeffrey Epstein loaned her to rich and powerful friends as an underage “sex slave.” The woman has alleged in a US court document that she was repeatedly forced to have sexual relations with Prince...

Popular social media outlets Facebook and Twitter have reportedly refused to remove hundreds of Islamophobic postings despite being alerted to the content by anti-racism groups. The investigation published by The Independent on Friday showed that despite bringing hundreds of...

The Palestinian resistance movement, Fatah, pledges retaliation against the United States following the UN Security Council’s refusal to adopt a draft resolution demanding Palestine’s recognition and the Israeli withdrawal. Speaking in an interview with RT Arabia, a Fatah...

Saudi authorities have detained a rights activist in the east of the country as part of a heavy-handed crackdown on dissent. On Thursday, Saudi police arrested Montadher al-Sabti in the city of Awamiyah in the Qatif region, the Interior Ministry confirmed Friday. The ministry...

Seven people, including two women, were injured in a night-long cross border firing in Kathua and Samba sectors. "Pakistani Rangers late last night resorted to unprovoked firing in Samba and Kathua sectors and targeted the forward BoPs and villages along the border," official...

Key organizers of the wave of recent protests over police treatment of African Americans lashed out at Oprah Winfrey Friday over comments she made to People magazine criticizing their...

The city readies itself for the biggest economic, political and social event of the year. Amid complicated and dense analyses of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's invitation to President ...

French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said world powers must tackle instability in Libya but he stopped short of openly backing the military intervention called for by regional powers in the Sahel. Speaking shortly after meeting Le Drian in Niamey, Niger's president, Mahamadou...

Cuban performance artist Tania Bruguera was freed  after three back-to-back detentions in three days, and after more than a thousand artists worldwide signed an open letter to Cuban President Raul Castro calling for her release. The detention of the Cuban artist and other...

Indonesia search and rescue teams hunting for the wreck of an AirAsia passenger jet have located two 'big objects' in the Java Sea, agency chief Fransiskus Bambang Soelistyo told reporters today. The two objects are around 30 metres (90 feet) underwater and the agency is...

Federal prosecutors will not charge John Hinckley Jr in the death of former White House press secretary James Brady, even though a medical examiner ruled his death a homicide. Brady was shot in the head during an assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan in 1981. The shooting...

  Egyptian border troops shot dead a Palestinian youth as he tried to cross from the Gaza Strip on Friday, Palestinian and Egyptian sources said. Cairo has been clamping down on its Sinai frontier with Gaza, seeing a security threat in the Islamist Hamas-controlled...

The manner of death of a woman who died in Cleveland police custody has been ruled a homicide. A report released Friday by the Cuyahoga County medical examiner says the woman died after she was physically restrained in a prone position. A heart condition and bipolar disorder were also...

Thousands of people have taken to the streets of several cities in Sweden denouncing a recent series of attacks on mosques in their country.   The largest rally was held outside the Swedish parliament in the capital Stockholm on Friday, with participants...

Syrian army troops have continued their military operations against foreign-backed militants to flush them out in the northwestern province of Idlib. Syrian soldiers backed by National Defense Forces raided the militants’ bases in the village of Foa near their stronghold of...

Recent events, of white policemen killing unarmed blacks in the US, has shocked the world. The series of incidents, one after the other, after Ferguson, has shaken confidence in America being a post-modern, post-industrial, truly mixed race society, led by a black...

The HPG Amed Provincial Commander, Ertem Karabulut (Numan Amed), and his 10 comrades, who fell in a clash with the Turkish army in the rural parts of Lice district of Amed on 31 December 2012, were commemorated by a ceremony. The commemoration ceremony was held in the Medya Defence...

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has documented death of nearly 76021 persons since 01/01/2014, until 12/31/2014 in Syria alone.  According to the SOHR, the casualties are as follows: Civilians: 17790, including 3501 children and 1987...

A prominent emir (commander) of the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS) was killed in an airstrike in Kobanî. Social media pages of ISIS also confirmed the death of Othman Al Nazih, a Saudi national in the Kurdish city of Kobanî. Al Nazih, was a professor at King Khalid...

YPG held a meeting with the Arab tribes in Dêrik, Girkê Legê, Çilaxa and Til Koçer to discuss the latest developments and attacks on Rojava and Kobanî and how YPG can cooperate with them for security and safety in those regions. The meeting was held at the...

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The Saudi king, Abdulla ibn Abdul Aziz, 91, has been transferred to hospital suffering from undisclosed ailment. The world is watching the internal situation of the ageing kingdom whose Al Saud leaders have not only failed to reform their political system but have acted decisively against the...

Latest reports say that armed clashes have broken out between opposition and Government forces in conflict ridden Bahrain. Here is the background to the clash: Bahrain has been witnessing sporadic risings against the dictatorial, Saudi Arabia and British backed backed...

There is no doubt that 2014 will be remembered as one of the most tragic in Palestinian history. There are reasons to believe, though, that the year was also a game changer, not least because the international campaign for recognition of a Palestinian state and the simultaneous...

Peace and stability in Turkey, in Kurdistan, in the Middle East and in the wider world might seem extremely precarious and elusive prospects in the light of the descent into chaos in Syria and Iraq witnessed in 2014, but there is never an option to entirely give up hope if you believe in life...

Jewish settlers recently uprooted more than 5,000 olive seedlings within one week in east of Turmus'ayya town to the north of Ramallah near the settlement outpost Adei Ad. Local sources said the uprooted seedlings were among 8,000 others recently planted after the killing of...

The Israeli occupation police on Wednesday evening detained a Turkish tourist after physically assaulting him at the Aqsa Mosque. Spokesman for the Islamic Waqf Authority Firas al-Debs said that Israeli policemen engaged in an altercation with a Turkish...

In joining the international criminal court, Mahmoud Abbas has finally used one of the most potent diplomatic weapons in the limited Palestinian armoury after years of unfulfilled threats. It is a gesture of near despair by a leader with little left to lose. Signing the Rome statute opens...

There is no mention of Israel in a new atlas released by one of the world’s largest publishing companies. HarperCollins Publishers, based in the United States, has sold atlases to English-speaking schools in some Persian Gulf countries that have no place named Israel in its...

Israeli forces opened fire at Palestinians in the al-Farrahin area east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Friday. Witnesses said that Israeli forces deployed east of al-Farrahin at the border opened fire on Palestinians as they were hunting birds in an open area...

Israeli occupation forces blew up part of a home and detained three Palestinians during a nighttime raid on Ramallah early Friday, including one reportedly wanted for involvement in stabbing two Israeli policemen in Jerusalem last week. Sources said that Israeli forces...

​ A Palestinian was severely injured late Thursday after Israeli soldiers opened fire on him near the Burin intersection south of Nablus in the northern West Bank. Eyewitness who saw the incident said that he "saw Israeli soldiers open fire at a...

'First-Fire' will not be initiated from Indian side, said Jammu Frontier, Inspector General Border Security Force, Rakesh Kumar Sharma. The statement came in the backdrop of heavy firing from across the border in which a BSF jawan was killed and another injured in the past...

Tug boats hauled the burnt-out hulk of the ferry that caught fire today off the coast of Greece to a southern Italian port on Friday, opening the way for an investigation into the cause of the blaze that killed at least 11 people. Listing visibly to starboard, the Norman Atlantic...

Indian Coast Guards foiled a major terror attack, similar to the 26/11 Mumbai strike, when a boat laden with explosives was neutralised, killing four suspected ultras on board. The midnight operation was carried out just at the beginning of new year. The Defence Ministry...

A new video shows two Italian female aid workers kidnapped by militants in Syria earlier this year calling on Rome to make efforts to secure their release. The footage purportedly shows Vanessa Marzullo and Greta Ramelli, who had been abducted in the Syrian province of...

The Pentagon is developing insect-like drones with the capability of flying at high speeds throughout tight spaces, a report says. According to Fox News, the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has been studying insects and birds like the goshawk in a bid...

An Iranian Sunni Basiji volunteer and a Shia teacher have been killed in a terrorist attack in the southeastern province of Sistan-and-Baluchestan, police say. The terror attack happended in the city of Sarbaz Thursday night, said provincial police...

A man in the US state of Florida has been charged with first-degree murder for beheading his mother on New Year's Eve. Christian Gomez, 23, attacked his mother in garage with an ax, cut her head off and dragged the body to the garbage outside the home, according to Pinellas County...

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Haitian police have clashed with anti-government protesters demanding President Michel Martelly to relinquish power. Police stormed thousands of protesters who set tires on fire in the streets of the capital, Port-au-Prince, on January 1, which marks Independence...

Israeli forces have attacked Palestinians in the West Bank during a rally marking the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Fatah movement. On Thursday, Israeli forces used stun grenades and tear gas to break up crowds of Palestinians in Ramallah’s al-Nabi Saleh...

More bodies are recovered following the recent crash into the Java Sea of a plane operated by the Malaysian airline AirAsia en route from Indonesia to Singapore. Sixteen bodies have been retrieved so far. Seven were announced Friday morning, six of which were found by a US...

Cuban police detained up to a dozen dissidents who had gone to a Havana prison to demand that fellow opponents of the government be released, dissidents said. The detentions follow a series of others since Tuesday in a crackdown against activists who have attempted to test the...

Ahead of high profile visit of US President Barrack Obama to India on the Republic day, new US Ambassador in New Delhi Richard Verma today arrived to take charge of the Mission. He will continue the US Mission’s work in advancing the US-India strategic partnership, the US embassy...

Fighting at the same front in Kobani YPG and YPJ fighters are passionate to liberate whole Syria from the ISIL militants, fighters of Liva Siwar Al Raqqa said. "We, along with YPG and YPJ fighters, will liberate whole Syria after liberating Kobanî", source...

Four days out from Christmas, Blind Citizens Australia (BCA), Deaf Australia, Homelessness Australia and Down Syndrome Australia learned they were to be subject to federal government funding cuts. New Social Services Minister Scott Morrison assured concerned parties that frontline...

Israel's government summoned the French ambassador on Wednesday over his country's support for a failed Palestinian bid to pass a UN resolution setting an end date for Israeli occupation. Foreign ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon told AFP that the ambassador, Patrick...

Cary Nelson, an emeritus professor of English at the University of Illinois who is a leader in effort to counter BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions), last week described BDS as a burgeoning political movement in the U.S. akin to the anti-war movement in the Vietnam era. The Gaza war has...

After much hue and cry over rape and murder of two cousin sisters in Katra village in 2014, May, another similar gangrape case has been reported here on the New Year's eve when two policemen gangraped a minor in the police quarters of Musaghaj police station. In the Katra case too,...

Northerners who went south at the start of the civil rights movement were stunned to find localities where African-Americans represented an overwhelming majority of the population – but not a single black person could be found on the county voting rolls or in the jury pool. The new movie...

International experts equipped with sophisticated acoustic detection devices joined search teams scouring the sea off Borneo on Friday in the hunt for the black box flight recorders from a crashed Indonesia AirAsia passenger jet. Bad weather has hampered the search, keeping divers from...

The extolling of Nathuram Godse as well as the Sangh Parivar's menacing campaign on ghar wapsi and love jihad should persuade the Indian state to slot rightwing violence in the category of terrorism. Such a categorization hasn't happened due to conceptual confusion...

Attitude cited as reason for campaign urging GOP to pick new speaker. Voters across America gave the GOP one of the biggest ever election victories in November, expanding its dominance in the U.S. House, giving it control of the U.S. Senate, dozens and dozens of state...

Shock, horror, grief: that's the gamut of emotions most New Yorkers felt when they heard how Ismaaiyl Brinsley, a troubled, itinerant 28-year-old most recently from Georgia, had come to our city to fire four bullets into the police car occupied by officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos in...

The Pentagon has issued a statement confirming a US military airstrike against Saakow, Somalia today, with an eye toward killing an unnamed senior leader in al-Shabaab. Though officials didn’t say who they targeted, they did say it wasn’t Shabaab leader Ahmad...

In the worst series of attacks targeting the peaceful Sweden Muslim minority, a third mosque arson was reported on Thursday in Sweden's fourth largest city Uppsala, as police launched a manhunt for perpetrators. "Someone threw a firebomb, a Molotov cocktail at the...

In most of the liberal discussions of the recent police killings of unarmed black men, there is an underlying assumption that the police are supposed to protect and serve the population. That is, after all, what they were created to do. If only the normal, decent relations between...

The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) – backed by Hezbollah (Party of God), National Defense Forces (NDF), and the Al-Ba’ath Brigades (Liwaa Al-Ba’ath) – have captured a total of 16 industrial plants at the Al-Shahel Quarter of the Handarat District in Aleppo City; this success has...

The government has reportedly blocked access to 32 websites that were carrying anti-India views and spreading ISIS takfiri propaganda. These websites have been blocked following an...

Herein are specific details of the funding that the powerful Israeli Zionist Lobby and thus the control over specific foreign as well as domestic legialation over which the Israeli-Firsters control the US White House across...

New year presents were distributed to the children in Kobanî town of West Kurdistan, Rojava, where the historic resistance of the YPG and YPJ fighters against the ceaseless attacks of barbarian ISIS gangs is continuing for over three months now. Presents sent by Yekitiya Star,...

Fighting on the same front with the fighters of YPG and YPJ in Kobanî against the gangs of Daesh (ISIS), the fighters of Liva Siwar Al Raqqa said, "after we, along with YPG and YPJ fighters, liberate Kobanî, we will liberate all Syria" said. While the resistance...

YPG (People's Defense Units) have liberated some positions in the Reş school area in Kobanî. Fierce clashes are taking place between the ISIS gangs and YPG forces; the latter are continuing to advance in the Reş school area on the south-eastern front of...

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan today said he is not associated with any ad film of the Narendra Modi government. There were reports that the 72-year-old actor would feature in a TV ad which seeks to ask Indians to rise above religion for inclusive development. Bachchan took to...

It has come to the knowledge of Medhaj News that PDP and BJP are most likely to form the next J&K Government. Though the 1st January meeting between BJP's J&K President and the province's Governor yielded little, undercurrents in both BJP and PDP, the two largest...

The Government may, apparently, be fond of taking ordinance route for framing several laws one by one, but the President Pranab Mukherjee has given the Modi dispensation ample hints that he is not going to sign on the dotted lines without being convinced about the urgency of executive orders...

Political parties react with rage over video showing 'terrorists' dressed as Muslims in mock drill in Gujarat state. Men playing the part of enemies of the state in a 'mock terror' drill in the Indian state of Gujarat were made to wear the traditional Muslim hat,...

According to Press TV, out of 20,206 cases recorded for Ebola infection, the WHO confirmed the death of 7,905 people on Wednesday. Nearly all the death reports were recorded in the three West African countries of Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea. Apart from the worst...

According to Press TV, a wave of panic sell-offs caused by declining crude oil prices resulted in all seven of the Persian Gulf region’s bourses ending in the red for the year’s final quarter. Crude oil lost around 50 percent of its value due to weak demand, excess...

According to Press TV, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham said on Wednesday, “Minimum demands by the Palestinians were not accepted in the UN and international circles,” adding, “This shows that the only way available to the Palestinian nation to reclaim...

Flash floods and mudslides in Sri Lanka have killed at least 39 people and more than 1 million have had to flee their homes in the past two weeks, data from the island's Disaster Management Center showed today. At least another 20 people have been injured and two are still missing...

A JTSA Release Even by the plummeting standards set in the last few months, the decision of the special CBI court in discharging Amit Shah, (accused no. 16 in the second chargesheet; accused no. 1 in the third chargesheet) in the Sohrabuddin encounter case, seems...

France, followed by Ukraine, led the pack in terms of numbers of Jewish immigrants to occupied Palestine in 2014, the Jewish Agency announced in a year end summation released on Wednesday. Immigration overall increased by 32...

“We have brought torture, cluster bombs, depleted uranium, innumerable acts of random murder, misery, degradation and death to the Iraqi people and call it ‘bringing freedom and democracy to the Middle East’. – Harold Pinter British playwright Harold Pinter...

Afghanistan assumed full responsibility for security from departing foreign combat troops today, a day after Afghan army mortar shells killed at least 20 civilians attending a wedding party in volatile southern Helmand province. The move will test the readiness of 350,000 Afghan forces...

The Hamas Movement welcomed the signing of the Rome statute by president Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday, describing it as a step in the right direction. In a press release, Hamas said the step should be followed by other moves, which include decisions...

The Israeli occupation army on Wednesday demolished a Palestinian home in al-Khalil and displaced its residents at the pretext of unlicensed construction. The member of the national committee against settlement activities in Yatta town said that a...

Palestinians voiced deep disappointment as a power crisis rocked the Gaza Strip with the advent of a freezing winter season. Gaza’s Electricity Distribution Company declared an emergency recourse to sporadic power outages for one hour or two in several...

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The Syrian army has evacuated as many as 160 families out of a militant-besieged area east of the capital Damascus. According to reports on Thursday, the army secured a safe passage for the families from the city of Douma in the Eastern Ghouta region. The evacuees...

In response to Israeli and American criticism of President Abbas signing the Rome Statute and 20 International documents, PLO executive member Erekat said: "International Criminal Court is empowered to stop commission of crimes...position of the United States as a...

Sitaram Yechury, Politburo member of the Communist Party of India (M)--known as CPI (M), India's largest Communist Party--today asked India to suspend buying weapons from Israel...

The United States has once again threatened Russian President Vladimir with deploying more than 150 tanks and armored vehicles in Europe. Lieutenant-General Ben Hodges, commander of the US Army in Europe, said the Pentagon planned to deploy the tanks and vehicles by the end of...

A group of settlers in the early hours of Thursday morning stormed the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque, Jerusalem sources said that a group of Zionist settlers stormed the holy  Aqsa Mosque under the protection of the Israeli occupation police. ...

Demonstrations have been held once again across the US on New Year's Eve to protest police violence following the killing of several African-American men by white officers. About 75 people gathered at the police headquarters in Ferguson, Missouri on Wednesday to demonstrate against...

A multi-spectrum war is being waged against Moscow by Washington. If there are any doubts about this, they should be put to rest. Geopolitics, science and technology, speculation, financial markets, information streams, large business conglomerates, intelligentsia, mass communication, social...

Egypt's highest court has agreed for a re-trial of three journalists working for Al Jazeera television today, a defence lawyer said. Australian Peter Greste, Canadian-Egyptian Mohamed Fahmy and Egyptian national Baher Mohamed are serving seven- to ten-year sentences on charges of...

Even though the National Conference (NC) has said it was not interested in any grand alliance, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said all options are still open to end the stalmate following hung Assembly in Jammu and Kashmir. The PDP has a number of options, but the second largest party...

BJP leaders today called on Jammu and Kashmir Governor N N Vohra to discuss government formation issue at Raj Bhawan here. BJP members led by MP and in-charge J&K Avinash Rai Khanna today reached Raj Bhawan to meet Mr Vohra. BJP MLAs Lal Singh, Sukhnandan Choudhary,...

Afghan army mortar rounds killed at least 20 civilians and wounded scores attending a wedding party in Afghanistan's volatile southern Helmand, provincial officials said today. General Mahmoud, the deputy Commander of the Afghan 215 corps in the province, said artillery was fired...

Here’s a telling comment from the leader of a Swedish far-right party that throws a little light on the real reason early last century the great colonial power of the time, Britain, sponsored – through the Balfour Declaration – Israel’s creation. Bjorn...

At least 54 people have died in the Philippines as tropical storm Jiangmi swept over the country causing landslides and flooding. At least 54 people are dead and 13 missing in the Philippines from floods and landslides caused by tropical storm Jiangmi, sources said. The storm...

The Narendra Modi government on Thursday changed Planning Commission’s name to ‘Neeti Ayog’ (Policy Commission).  The decision comes nearly three weeks after...

Saudi Arabia's official news agency says authorities have beheaded a Pakistani man convicted of smuggling "large quantities" of heroin, bringing the number of publicly announced executions to its highest level in at least five years. An Associated Press tally of...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un says he is ready for the “highest-level” of talks with neighboring South Korea, days after Seoul proposed such negotiations between the two sides. Kim made the remarks during his traditional New Year message on...

What if two of America’s super-rich decided just buy itself a political party? What would that cost? The last presidential race cost only about a billion—2% of the Koch brother’s wealth—for both parties. But why spend so much? If you’re clever and secretive, just...

Kurdish fighters have gained control over about 70 percent of Syria’s strategic town of Kobani across from the Turkish border, a Britain-based monitoring group says. ISIL Takfiri militants have lost ground at the Kurdish town where they face forces of the People’s...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad visited a district on the outskirts of Damascus and thanked soldiers fighting 'in the face of terrorism', his office said on its Twitter account, posting pictures of the rare trip. The account said the visit took place in Jobar, northeast of...

Cuba freed some leading dissidents today after holding them overnight to thwart an unauthorized demonstration in a crackdown that has tested its new detente with the United States. Police arrested several political opponents on Tuesday and kept others under virtual house arrest ahead...

A stampede killed at least 35 people during New Year's Eve celebrations in Shanghai, authorities said, possibly caused by people rushing to pick up fake money thrown from a building overlooking the city's famous Bund waterfront district. The Shanghai government said that large...

I must begin by making it clear that the UN of my headline is the Security Council not other component parts of the world body such as the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNWRA) which provides education, health care and social services for more than five million Palestinian refugees in...

Since the start of the so-called “Syrian civil war,” NATO member Turkey has played a decisive role in fueling the conflict by funneling countless weapons and fighters into Syria. Were it not for Turkey’s strong support of terrorists fighting in Syria, the rise of the Islamic...

Hungary Parliament Speaker Laszlo Köver says US undermines European governments. East-Central European states affected by this should stand together " . . . there is not a square centimeter of area that falls outside of their...

Washington has shaped 2015 to be a year of conflict. The conflict could be intense. Washington is the cause of the conflict, which has been brewing for some time. Russia was too weak to do anything about it when the Clinton regime pushed NATO to Russia’s borders and illegally...

Organize a cartel of oil producers Denominate sales in rubles, yuan Dollar is no longer a good store of value With more gold backing ruble, yuan can be A profound transformation of the global monetary system is underway. It is being driven...

Defying a consensus that it is a priority by the world community comprising international rivals like the United States, Europe, Russia and China and regional rivals like Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia, Israel, like Turkey, does not eye the U.S. – led war on the IS as its regional priority....

TEV-DEM (Democratic Movement Society) released a 6 years-program to restructure Kobanî and Rojava. TEV-DEM organized a meeting with attendance of majority of its members in Kobanî and Rojava to discuss the problems that Kobanî-Rojava people have been facing so far and...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has signed the Rome Statute, the founding treaty to join the International Criminal Court, a day after the UNSC failed to adopt the Arab coalition’s bid for the creation of a Palestinian state. The Palestinian Authority could also schedule a...

Cemil Mazlum, one of the YPG Kobanî Commanders, evaluated the resistance mounted against the ISIS attacks in Kobanî and Rojava during 2014, its outcomes and their expectations for 2015. The YPG Kobanî Commander stressed that in the present situation, ISIS gangs have...

Kurdish forces' operation to liberate town of Şinjar continues; last night, clashes broke out between Kurdish forces and ISIS gang members. ANHA correspondent in Şinjar reported that fierce clashes mostly occur in Sûka Jêrîn, Sûka Qesaban and...

In the name of economic reforms and development, the government has taken a significant step backward in India’s march to land justice. The pushing through of the Land Act ordinance violates all democratic norms On Monday, the Bharatiya Janata Party government cleared the...

Greece formally dissolved Parliament today ahead of a general election on January 25 that has cast its international bailout into doubt and set financial markets on edge just as the euro zone grapples with renewed signs of weakness. The traditional decree calling new elections was...

Head of the Census Department of the Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, Abdul-Nasser Ferwana, stated that the Israeli army continues to attack and abduct Palestinian children in violation of international law, kidnapping 3755 children in the last four years, including...

The Human Rights Commission in Iraq announced that 3583 Yazidi Kurds including 1597 women are missing since the control of the so called the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant on large parts of Nineveh province in last June. Member of the Commission Bushra al-Obeidi said in a news...

The UN Security Council has failed to adopt the Arab coalition’s bid calling for the creation of a Palestinian state and an end to Israeli “occupation”. The veto power US and Australia voted against the move with 5 abstentions. ...

Veteran politician Beji Caid Sebsi was sworn in as Tunisian president today, giving the country a democratically elected leader four years after an uprising ousted autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali. Essebsi, a former official in Ben Ali's government, won a second-round runoff...

To watch full interview download Medhajnews Mobile News App from Google Play Store! All India Power Engineers Federation is opposing Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2014, said Shailendra Dubey, Chairman- AIEPF. In an exclusive interview with Medhajnews,...

When the Governor of Punjab Salman Taseer and the Minister of Minorities Affairs Shahbaz Bhatti were assassinated in 2011 in connection with blasphemy laws, certain Pakistani religious circles gave the impression that these laws were perfect, not man-made and amending them construed to...

Israeli forces have once again violated the territorial integrity of Lebanon by making an incursion into the south of the country. More than 12 Israeli troops on Tuesday crossed the Blue Line along the Lebanese border, advancing 100 meters deep into the Lebanese village of Kfar...

India has given up the monopoly of organised violence to non-state actors, especially to those that have signed ceasefires Why is it that insurgent groups in the Northeast that have signed ceasefires with the Union government openly carry their weapons in...

The US Central Intelligence Agency has admitted that half of UFO sightings in the 1950s and 1960s were the country’s U-2 spy planes. "Reports of unusual activity in the skies in the '50s? It was us," the CIA said in a tweet on Monday. The agency explained...

An expected decision by Italy's president to step down next year would leave Prime Minister Matteo Renzi facing one of his most delicate political challenges. After dropping hints for months, 89-year-old Giorgio Napolitano, is likely to indicate in an end-of-year address today...

‘Unfortunately, even the PM has suggested that in the hoary past Indians had learnt plastic surgery of a kind far beyond what is now possible’ Wary of a renewed effort to rewrite Indian history by injecting “ancient mythology and...

A body recovered today from the crashed AirAsia plane was wearing a life jacket, an Indonesian search and rescue official said, raising new questions about how the disaster unfolded. Rescuers believe they have found the plane on the ocean floor off Borneo, after sonar detected a large,...

Bharatiya Janata Party MP Sanjay Dhotre has kicked off a controversy after he said that farmers should be “allowed to die” if they are incapable of, or cannot afford, farming. ...

Close on heels of PDP president Mehbooba Mufti's meeting with Governor N N Vohra at Jammu today, three elected MLAs advocated early formation of a non-Bharatiya Janata Party government in the state. CPI(M) member Mohammad Yousuf Targami, Peoples Democratic Front's Hakeem...

For Palestinians and people of conscience everywhere, 2014 will be remembered as the year in which Israel carried out its bloodiest ever massacre of Palestinians in the besieged Gaza strip. 2014 was also a year of resistance that saw continued resistance and unprecedented international...

It is rather impossible to grasp the magnitude of the crimes against humanity performed by the Jewish state in the name of the Jewish people unless one elaborates on Jewish culture in the light of Judaic teaching. ...

Israeli officials expressed satisfaction on Wednesday after the UN Security Council failed to adopt a controversial resolution on Palestinian statehood setting a 12-month deadline for reaching a final peace deal.  "Every Israeli who wants peace with our...

The Israeli Central Court in Beersheba passes 11-month imprisonment sentence against 60-year-old woman Fatheya Khanfar, from Silat ad-Dhahr village, south of Jenin, after two years of deliberations over her case. The old woman’s family said that the ruling was surprising and...

Member of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) Daoud Abu Sir, released by the Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) on Tuesday afternoon, raised alarm bells over the dire detention circumstances endured by the Palestinian detainees in the Israeli jails. 59-year-old...

Protesting against the screening of Aamir Khan-starrer 'PK', more than 25 Bajrang Dal activists tore posters and the main hoarding at a cinema house in Main Bazar here and raised slogans last evening, police said. The film was screened peacefully later after police arrived,...

Heading into the new year, President Obama is renewing efforts to redeem what is proving to be a very-difficult-to-keep campaign promise: closing the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, camp for suspected terrorists. Shuttering the terrorism-era prison at Gitmo won't be easy, not with an...

Jewish settlers burned on Wednesday, a Palestinian house in the village of al-Dairat east of Yatta town, south Hebron. The coordinator of the Popular Committees Against the Wall and the settlements east of Yatta, Ratib Al Jabour, said that a...

The recent war of words between New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and the president of the city’s Patrolman’s Benevolent Association, Patrick Lynch, is framed by tragedy.  Specifically, the tragedies of Eric Garner's death and the subsequent non-indictment of officer Daniel...

Israeli occupation forces announced that they arrested nine Palestinians overnight in different parts of occupied West Bank. The Israeli occupation forces raided the town of Al Shweeka in Tulkarem and arrested three activists. They stormed...

Theres always that one relative over on the holidays—the one you try to avoid—who has a little too much eggnog and begins to...

Police shot dead a man outside Philadelphia on Tuesday when he tried to run over officers attempting to arrest him for posting YouTube threats against law enforcement, authorities said. The unidentified 52-year-old was wanted for terroristic threats. He was killed about 4:30 p.m. in...

Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh said he was returning home from Chad late yesterday, after gunfire erupted around the presidential palace in the Gambian capital of Banjul last night. The government denied reports of an attempted coup, but a diplomat said gunmen had attacked...

Kazakhstan will invite Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit the Central Asian nation in 2015 to  further cement relations and strengthen trade and economic ties with India. Mr Bulat Sarsenbayev, who recently took over as Kazakhstan’s new Ambassador to India, hoped that in...

Three Yemenis and two Tunisians held for more than a decade at the US military prison at Guantanamo have been flown to Kazakhstan for resettlement, the Pentagon said on Tuesday, the latest in a flurry of prisoner transfers aimed at closing the facility. The transfer of the five men...

The outgoing year in Jammu and Kashmir is ending on a good note having new dispensation ahead,  but on the other hand, the state witnessed spurt in ceasefire violations, besides killings of 110 militants and 32 civilians, thus showing rise in the figure as compared to...

A radioactive leak has been detected at Ukraine’s Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant, the largest in Europe, a media report says, citing the country’s emergency services. Ukrainian officials have denied the report. LifeNews published what it claims is a leaked report by...

Israel needs an upheaval and an upheaval must have an historic, democratic and equitable foundation. The heart aches at the sight of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef being tossed about by his “handlers.” The decline in his status reveals what should have been...

A prominent Turkish female anchorwoman and journalist has been arrested for criticizing the country’s dropping of a controversial corruption investigation involving key allies of the government. The arrest of Sedef Kabas on Tuesday came after she made remarks on Twitter about the...

Hong Kong began culling 15,000 chickens today and suspended imports of live poultry from mainland China for 21 days after the H7 bird flu strain was discovered in a batch of live chickens from the southern province of Guangdong. Authorities also ordered the closure of the wholesale...

Indonesia's search-and-rescue agency has obtained a sonar image it says may be the body of the missing AirAsia jet at the bottom of the Java Sea, the Wall Street Journal said today. The newspaper quoted the agency as saying the image appeared to show an airplane upside down in...

More civilians are killed in attacks by foreign-backed militants in Syria, as militants shell a residential area in the northwestern city of Aleppo. The incident took place in the Sulaimaniya area in the city. Reports from Syria suggest that an unspecified number of people have been...

The Greek prime minister has warned that the country may be forced out of the Eurozone if the anti-austerity Syriza party wins parliamentary polls next month. Greece’s renewed political uncertainty, including the failure to elect a new president, will determine whether the...

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has rejected a draft resolution demanding the recognition of an independent Palestinian state. On Tuesday, the Security Council did not adopt the draft resolution, which called for the recognition of an independent Palestinian state and the...

A chief suspect in a gunfight in western Mexico that killed 11 people turned himself in for questioning today as the government struggles to impose order in a violent state it claims to have pacified. Luis Antonio Torres, alias "El Americano," a former vigilante leader turned...

YBŞ (Sinjar Resistance Units) Commanders Zerdeş Şengali, Dersim Şengal and Kawar Şengal have announced in a press conference the annual balance sheet of war in Sinjar, according to which 553 ISIS members were killed, 134 others wounded, 54 vehicles of theirs were destroyed and 26 others...

YPJ fighters taking part in a historical resistance in Kobanî have occupied an important space in the international media. They have also created an important image in the mind of the society. The YPJ fighters visit people and listen to their problems. They also show a great affection with...

Two borthers who are YPG fighters met after four years on a resistance front in Kobanî. Gîvara Reşo who is from Efrîn joined the resistance in Kobanî after the ISIS gangs started attacks on the city. Reşo noted that he saw his brother Tolhildan Reşo, who was...

Nepalese migrants building the infrastructure to host the 2022 World Cup have died at a rate of one every two days in 2014 – despite Qatar’s promises to improve their working conditions, the Guardian has learned. The figure excludes deaths of Indian, Sri Lankan and...

The ISIL Takfiri group has released a photo showing one of its members preparing to launch a US-made TOW anti-tank missile against rival terrorists in Syria's strategic and mountainous Qalamoun region along the border with Lebanon. The ISIL militant is shown...

The British engineer killed in the French Alps ­secretly held extreme anti-Israeli beliefs which could be the key to the massacre that has baffled police, a close friend claims. To his wealthy neighbours, Saad al-Hilli was a devoted family man. But behind closed doors he is...

Does Israel seek to turn the Israeli-Palestinian conflict into a religious one, the least rational and most bloody form of armed conflict? In November, Adam Everett Livix, an American Christian man posing as a former U.S. Navy SEAL, was arrested on weapons charges in Jerusalem....

Supporters of Islamic militants have reportedly suggested gruesome deaths for the Jordanian pilot, captured in Syria last week. Islamic State militants in Syria who captured a Jordanian pilot last week have initiated a Twitter discussion on the best way to kill the "Jordanian...

Israeli occupation Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon, from the Likud party, ordered legislation to approve El-Matan settlement as part of the Israeli Ma'ale Shomron municipality on Tuesday. El-Matan settlement was established in 2001 on the confiscated lands of Palestinians...

Chinese authorities have dismantled a cross in a Christian nursing home a week before Christmas, an employee said today, the latest example of a growing crackdown on Christianity. Men dressed in plainclothes removed the cross that was on top of the nursing home in the eastern city of...

Mohammed Saadi Hchaime (62) passed away of his injuries suffered two months ago during clashes in Jerusalem. Palestinian radio reported that Palestinian citizen Hchaime was wounded about two months ago when a tear gas canister shot his face during the funeral of the...

The Cold Air of the Dark Ages In 1964, the Brazilian military, in a US-designed coup, overthrew a liberal (not more to the left than that) government and proceeded to rule with an iron fist for the next 21 years. In 1979 the military regime passed an amnesty...

Israeli bulldozers on Tuesday morning demolished two houses in the Mount Scopus southeast Jerusalem neighbourhood. The houses were belongs to Palestinian citizens, Khaled Alhalsah and Imad Abu Mayala near the cemetery of the neighborhood. Witnesses told Medhaj news...

A Bangladesh war crimes tribunal sentenced an Islamist party leader to death today after convicting him of atrocities committed during a 1971 war of independence from Pakistan. A T M Azharul Islam, 62, assistant secretary general of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, was found guilty of five...

Malaysia's worst flooding in a decade has forced nearly a quarter of a million people from their homes, officials said today, with the government coming under renewed fire for its perceived slow response. The National Security Council said that 'exceptionally high' water...

EVER since the 2002 pogrom in Gujarat, physicist-turned-lawyer Mukul Sinha and his physicist wife, Nirjhari Sinha, have been spearheading a movement against the injustices meted out to victims of the communal riots. As founders of the civil rights organisation Jan Sangharsh Manch (JSM), they...

Six bodies have been found and at least three recovered during the search for missing AirAsia Flight QZ8501, Indonesian officials and media say. The bodies were spotted along with debris floating in the Java Sea off the Indonesian part of Borneo, in one of the search zones for the...

A special CBI court on Tuesday discharged Amit Shah in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case and dropped charges against him. Amit Shah who was the home minister of Gujarat then and was an accused in the case had sought a discharge saying he was being targeted by his political...

Many of Kashmir’s politicians and intellectuals — who for years maintained that India could never hold a credible democratic exercise in the Valley — are now active on two fronts. Some have contested assembly elections. Others are telling the world that no elections (even when...

A day after the Islamabad high court suspended detention orders for Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, the Pakistan government re-arrested the 26/11 Mumbai attack mastermind just before his release on Tuesday. The move came after New Delhi summoned Pakistan high commissioner Abdul Basit to register...

Palestinian old man Mohammed Alhhim, who suffered gun-shot injuries at hands of Israeli Police three months ago, is dead.  Resistance groups and people of Palestine have called Alhhim a martyr....

Maharashtra-based social organisation Satyashodhak OBC Parishad has said it plans to convert over a thousand families belonging to OBCs to Buddhism early next year, an initiative that it calls ghar wapsi much like VHP's programme to bring Muslims into the fold of Hinduism. The organisation...

Israeli occupation forces launched at dawn Tuesday, a campaign of mass arrests in the town of Singel, north of Ramallah. The mayor of Singel,  Ayoub Sweden, said that a large force of the Israeli occupation...

Leaders of the Dhangars - a caste of herders from Agra and nearby regions who were recognized in 1950 as Scheduled Caste - held a mahapanchayat in Agra on Sunday and declared that if they were not given SC certificates in a month's time, they would convert en masse to Christianity....

A single bullet to the heart fired by an Israeli soldier was enough to kill 17-year-old Imam Jamil Ahmad Dweikat, a youth from the town of Beita south of Nablus. He was slain today while walking with a friend in his home village. Nael Talat...

Israeli public radio reported that Israeli occupation soldiers fired shortly, at a Palestinian car near Beit Omer. The occupation army claims that an explosive tubular device was thrown towards a military outpost of the army. ...

This article is being reproduced as part of the ongoing national debate over the movie "PK" and the right of freedom of expression, our national institutional structures and the issue of religious sensitivity. I was a little...

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio drew heckles and boos along with applause when he addressed graduating police cadets, two days after thousands of uniformed officers turned their backs on him at a slain policeman's funeral. With the city a focal point in a national debate...

The president of Haiti and heads of the country's two houses of parliament reached a tentative agreement yesterday to avert a political crisis that has sparked nationwide protests. The political accord announced late Monday seeks to open the way for approval by parliament of a new...

An Israeli initiative to exploit a group of Palestinian orphans from Gaza to burnish Israel’s blood-soaked image backfired on Sunday when Hamas, the Palestinian political and military resistance movement, put a stop to it. A group of children whose parents were killed in the...

Democrats pushed through dozens in December, but Republicans have all the leverage now. Democrats are still dancing in the end zone after running up the score on dozens of President Barack Obama’s nominees during the lame duck. They should enjoy the moment, because...

The media network is paying a price for the deal between Qatar and the Gulf states, and Egypt: Its independence is being sacrificed. Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi finally earned the title he deserves: The Al Jazeera media network has started...

An autopsy report on the death of Ezell Ford, an unarmed, mentally ill black man killed by the LAPD in August, revealed that he was shot three times — once in his right arm, once in his ride side and once in his back. ...

President Barack Obama and New York Mayor Bill de Blasio publicly asked that the funeral of fallen NYPD officer Rafael Ramos be a politics-free event. Of course, any issue specifically raised by both the president and the mayor is de facto politicized by virtue of such mention...

The coordinated manipulation of global energy prices, a NATO build-up in Eastern Europe, and the rekindling of terrorism in Russia’s southern Caucasus region all appear to be ever-increasing crescendos toward a much larger event – a “Russian Maidan.” The...

Palestinians have formally presented a resolution to the United Nations Security Council, calling for the recognition of an independent Palestinian state and the termination of the Israeli occupation. The draft resolution, presented on Monday, underscores among other...

A mass grave, which contains the bodies of scores of Syrian people killed by the ISIL Takfiri militants, has been found in the Syria’s eastern province of Deir Ezzor. The corpses of 70 citizens were discovered by the families of the victims in al-Bahra village in...

American officials investigating last month's cyberattack against Sony Pictures are looking at the possibility that North Korea probably hired foreign hackers to carry out the massive strike, according to a US official who is close to the investigation team. Investigators believe...

The US military launched an air strike in Somalia yesterday targeting a senior leader of the al Qaeda-aligned al Shabaab militant group, the Pentagon said. "The strike took place in the vicinity of Saakow, Somalia," Defense Department spokesman Mark Wright said in a...

Countries around Asia today stepped up the search for an AirAsia plane carrying 162 people that is presumed to have crashed in shallow waters off the Indonesian coast, with Washington also sending a warship to help find the missing jet. Soelistyo, head of Indonesia's search and...

Two women’s rights campaigners detained in Saudi Arabia will face a tribunal on charges of “terrorism”, following their campaigning activities, which led to one being arrested for trying to drive over the border from the UAE. According to the activists who spoke to...

Pakistan observes the 7th anniversary of the slaying of the country’s first female prime minister, Benazir Bhutto, as there is still little progress in finding the perpetrators behind her assassination, Press TV reports. Bhutto was assassinated on December 27,...

A Pakistani court on Monday suspended Laskhar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist and key 26/11 handler Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi's detention under the Maintenance of Public Order (MPO).  The detention was ordered after Islamabad came under fire for leaving loopholes in the 26/11 case...

A US-based risk management and consulting company has put the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in its category of ‘Threat Group’ and called it “a shadowy, discriminatory group that seeks to establish a Hindu Rashtra, a Hindu Nation.” ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has urged Moscow to use its influence over pro-Russia forces in eastern Ukraine to restore peace and stability to the restive region. "A stabilization of the situation can only come if the agreed contact lines are finally...

Right-wing activists mostly belonging to  on Monday intensified protest against Aamir Khan-starrer PK for “hurting” Hindu sentiments as they went on a rampage in Ahmedabad and Agra, attacking the theatres screening the movie, besides holding demonstrations in several other...

It’s time Muslims seriously considered making a long overdue New Year’s resolution: bidding farewell to the state of denial, saying “no more” to conspiracy theories. How does the mere condemnation of the cold-blooded massacre of schoolchildren in Peshawar by a...

The anti-Iran terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) has openly expressed support for the ISIL militants and their acts of terror in a clear indication of its wrath over Iran-Iraq cooperation against the Takfiri group. In a statement on Saturday, the MKO said...

Report published by Palestinian Bureau of Statistics says even as the average Palestinian family decreases in size, number of Palestinians living in both Israel and territories will exceed that of Jews beginning in 2016. Starting in 2016, the number of Palestinians living in...

On Saturday morning, the Syrian Arab Army’s (SAA) 11th Tank Division and the National Defense Forces (NDF) carried out a raid on an Al-Nusra Front (Jabhat Al-Nusra) hideout near the city of Salamiyya in the Hama Governorate, killing scores of militants and seizing the contents inside the...

Last week, the hacker organization “Anonymous,” symbolized by the famous “Guy Fawkes” mask, hacked Israel’s Mossad. ...

PG (People's Defense Units) Press Centre yesterday announced in a written statement about the ongoing fighting in Kobanî that the ISIS attacks continuing since 15 September have left 105 days behind. The statement pointed out that the ISIS gangs that have suffered heavy...

One hundred children between the ages of 6 and 12 have begun school at the Bağlar Educational Support House in Amed. The expenses of the students will be met by the Bağlar Municipality, and will have classes 5 days a week. The children will learn Kurdish in the Latin alphabet, Arabic and...

International coalition warcrafts targeted ISIS gangs at the Culture Centre in Jarablus on December 27. The bombardment left 82 members of the gangs dead. According to the information obtained by ANHA correspondent Dîcle Ehmed from reliable sources in Jarablus, the Culture and...

Fierce clashes took place on the south western front between YPG forces and ISIS gangs on December 27. Ten ISIS members mounted suicide attacks and a total of 36 gang members were killed. Hawar News Agency (ANHA) correspondent Nesrîn Ebdî reported that ISIS mounted bomb...

Female prisoners are part of any conflict. Yet what distinguishes Palestinian women pushed into Israeli jails is their beauty. Yes, these are beautiful women; women who could have been our mother, sister, daughter, love, wife, friend; they resemble our close female confidantes....

Three members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), sent to reinforce border police, were killed in an attack in the southeast of Iran near Pakistan, according to Iranian media reports today. Armed 'bandits' killed the IRGC members late yesterday near the city...

“Iran has announced it is ready to give gratuitous aid to the Lebanese army, and will do so as soon as the Lebanese side makes an appeal for it,” said Shamkhani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, noting that the issue had been seriously reviewed with...

Maoist activities in the district, particularly in the Tribal agency areas, came down in 2014 as compared to the last five years, due to efforts by the police. Addressing reporters here today, Superintendent of Police Koya Praveen said a total of 14 cases were reported during 2014 as...

The Italian Coast Guard said early Monday that rescuers worked to save the 281 passengers who remained on the “Norman Atlantic” ferry. A total of 197 out of the 478 passengers and crew members on the boat have been rescued so far, most having been airlifted by...

A Palestinian youth was reported to have been shot dead by Israeli occupation forces at the Tappuah checkpoint south of Nablus in the northern West Bank on Monday, Israeli media reported. Israeli news site Arutz Sheva quoted an...

Cameroon's army killed at least 41 Islamist militants as it fought off a wave of attacks along its border with Nigeria over the weekend in an escalation in the conflict, the government said. The coordinated assaults on five towns and villages showed a change in tactics by Nigerian...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved a new plan for sending 400 policemen to Jerusalem, provided with modern technologies for monitoring and control, to tighten security in the old city of Jerusalem. The plan came during a meeting specified for assessing the security...

Private security guards at the Jewish settlement of Ofra north of Ramallah detained a 27-year-old Palestinian man near the entrance to the nearby village Silwad after reportedly assaulting him on Monday. Yasser Abu Zeina was walking near the entrance of the settlement on his...

Shia clerics in Bahrain have protested against the recent arrest of the leader of the country’s main Shia opposition party, Al-Wefaq, Press TV reports. Dozens of the clerics gathered in Imam al-Sadiq (AS) Mosque in al-Guful village in the northwestern part of the...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved a new plan for sending 400 policemen to Jerusalem, provided with modern technologies for monitoring and control, to tighten security in the old city of Jerusalem. The plan came during a...

Taliban militants in Afghanistan say the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has been defeated, a day after the US-led forces officially ended their 13-year war in the country, Press TV reported. In a statement released on Monday, the militants said they considered the official...

Commission  of Prisoner Affairs said on Monday that the health status of the detainee  Joseph Alnoadjah and Ashraf Abu Al Hawa is getting worse. Israeli authorities are following a policy of medical negligence.  The...

Jordanian parliament members have warned Amman against any potential military cooperation with the US ground forces in the Middle East.    The lawmakers said that the Jordanian government should refrain from getting involved in the US war against the ISIL...

A funeral procession has been held for a senior Iranian military officer who lost his life in Iraq while on a mission to give consultation to Iraqi troops fighting the ISIL Takfiri terrorists. The ceremony was held in the Iranian capital, Tehran, on Thursday with...

Villagers and members of al-Shaitaat tribes in Syria’s eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr have reportedly joined the army in its fight against the ISIL Takfiri militants. According to Syria’s local sources, the tribesmen and villagers have formed a new unit,...

Israeli extremist groups today broke into Al-Aqsa mosque compound from Al Maghariba gate accompanied by private forces. Local sources said that the attacks on the mosque took place through small but successive groups, making provocative...

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas said that a draft resolution will be submitted to the United Nations Security Council on Monday. The resolution calls for ending the Israeli occupation on 1967 war borders within a 3 year deadline. Abbas...

Hopes are fading for the release of Australian journalist Peter Greste, who has been in jail in Egypt for a year, after Cairo sent mixed signals about his case, Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said today. The Al Jazeera reporter is serving seven to 10 years for crimes that...

Bethlehem has always loomed large in our imagination. For generations, the feelings evoked by this town have been captured in multiple art forms, serving to inspire both believers and non-believers with its message of hope and the joyful promise of new...

China is looking at signing an agreement with the United States to target assets illegally taken out of China by corrupt officials, a newspaper said today, as the government tightens the screws in its anti-graft battle. China has vowed to pursue a search, dubbed Operation 'Fox...

Eyewitnesses and Palestinian shepherds on Sunday complained about the factories in the Zionist Industrial Zone of "Burkhan" in the Israeli Settlement near Salfit, North West Bank....

Dozens of Jerusalem’s Israel Arts and Sciences Academy alumni publish a letter calling on future graduates to refuse to serve the occupation. Orly Noy sat down to speak to one of the signatories about the legality of the letter, militarism in the educational system and the...

A mass grave was discovered in the compound of a high school in Imphal during excavation work. The remains — seven skulls and other skeletal parts — were found when authorities were carrying out work within the compound of Tombisana High School, about 300 meters from Kangla Fort in...

The establishment of diplomatic ties between the US and Cuba has been widely hailed as an event of historic importance. Correspondent John Lee Anderson, who has written perceptively about the region, sums up a general reaction among liberal intellectuals when he writes, in the New Yorker,...

A Twitter account believed to be led by Iran's supreme leader office, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has lashed out at the US establishment over police violence and racism, tweeting out messages under popular protest hashtags and appealing to Jesus Christ’s sufferings. In a series...

Hundreds of passengers have endured a freezing night on a stricken ferry, more than 24 hours after a fire broke out on the vessel en route to Italy in the Adriatic Sea. Smaller helicopters with night vision equipment worked through the night to pull passengers off the ferry, one by...

The official investigation into the downing of MH17 is without precedent in the history of aviation, writes James O'Neill, as it gives one of the prime suspects, Ukraine, a veto power over publication of the report. Grieving families of the victims may never know the truth, as...

Hello to all, For the last week we heard that the FSA and other Radical Islamic terrorists in Turkey were meeting and actively planning another attack on Kassab.  Kassab has suffered missile and mortar attacks, but no deaths in the recent past. Several days ago, on...

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras faces a vote in parliament today that will decide whether the country goes to snap elections that could bring the leftwing Syriza party to power and derail an international bailout. In the most hotly contested vote for president since Greece joined...

Mexico called for an overhaul of the United Nations Security Council, envisaging more member countries across a wider geographical swathe, as the government steps up efforts to raise its profile on the global stage. Tasked with maintaining global peace, the UN Security Council meets...

U.S. crude rose more than $1 in early Asian trade on Monday, reversing a fall in the previous session as escalating clashes in Libya threatened oil exports and supply disruptions from the OPEC member. Both U.S. crude and Brent climbed on renewed geopolitical concerns and the...

Sony Pictures said "The Interview" has earned more than 15 million dollars in online sales and another 2.8 million dollar in theaters, an impressive return made possible by the publicity surrounding the alleged cyberattack on North Korea. The raunchy comedy that depicts the...

An AirAsia plane carrying 162 people that went missing after its pilot failed to gain permission to alter course to avoid a storm is believed to have crashed into the sea, a senior Indonesian rescue agency official said today. Indonesia was searching the Java Sea today for the AirAsia...

Hours after the disappearance of missing AirAsia flight QZ8501 aviation experts began comparing the incident with still-missing Malaysia Airlines MH370. The Indonesia AirAsia jet, an Airbus 320-200 carrying 155 passengers and seven crew, lost contact with Jakarta air traffic...

AirAsia Flight QZ8501 went missing Sunday morning while flying from Indonesia to Singapore. Conspiracists are already compiling theories comparable to MH370. ...

Late Sephardi spiritual leader made a range of inflammatory comments — involving snakes and sinners, gentiles and Blacks The late Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, was a revered Halachic scholar whose rulings found solutions for Jews caught in complex situations, brought countless Jews...

The idea of a 'homogenous nation' would be problematic and the pluralist structure of India needs "constant nurturing", Vice-President M. Hamid Ansari said Sunday. "We live in a world of nation states but the idea of a homogenous nation state is clearly...

A car plowed into a crowd protesting against Police atrocities and shooting of unarmed blacks by law enforcement agencies in prime time, celebrity-driven Sunset Boulevard (Hollywood), LA, on Saturday night.  A heated twitter war broke out soon over the...

Jyoti Chaurasia from Ayodhya and Kishwari Jahan from Amroha can't bear talk of ghar wapsi or Ram mandir. They won't indulge neighbours either when there is discussion around the faith divide in Uttar Pradesh that has pitched Hindus against Muslims in large swathes of this restive state....

On Saturday, #MillionsMarchLA demonstration ended early with a crowd rendition of “We Shall Overcome” and the promise that there would be “action” later, including a “family friendly” die-in in Oakland. Also included in the march after-party was...

Nasrallah is reportedly mediating between Hamas on the one hand and Iran and Syria on the other in order to patch up the alliance that has been damaged due to the war in Syria.  ...

On the night of 28 December 2011, Turkish Armed Forces' warplanes bombed an area on the border with South Kurdistan (Iraqi Kurdistan). The bombs killed 34 mostly young men on their way back from the Iraqi border they had crossed for "Border Trade" from the villages of Gülyazı...

Clashes between ISIS and Kurdish forces in Şinjar town in South Kurdistan are reported to have got heavier as of this morning. Intense fighting is continuing in the town centre, especially in the lower Kasaplar bazaar area. Heavy weapons are reportedly being used in the ongoing...

A woman was killed, and several sustained injuries when a low intensity bomb went off outside Coconut Grove Restaurant on Church Street on Sunday evening. 38-year-old Bhavani from Tamil Nadu, was rushed to Mallya Hospital, succumbed to injuries. Hospital sources said the reason of...

Organisation of "the Democrats" swept Karachi Press Club elections for year 2015 by winning all seats. According to official results announced by Chief Election Commissioner Prof Dr Taseef Ahmed Khan, Fazil Jamili was elected the president by bagging 458 votes. The...

The People’s Defence Units (YPG) have announced statistics relating to 2014, saying during 2014 nearly five thousand ISIS gang members have been killed in clashes and operations in different parts of Rojava. The YPG’s official...

One week of intense fighting between Kurdish Peshmerga forces and the Islamic State (IS) has left many militants dead, especially inside the town of Shingal (Sinjar in Arabic), said Rudaw correspondent. Kurdish military officials said that they have killed 227...

Kobani Crisis Coordination released a statement, claiming that the Turkish government only helped with the lodging of 10,000 refugees from the Kurdish city Kobani in Syrian Kurdistan who came to Turkey in the past three months and left the remaining 180,000 to municipality...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, while congratulating Christmas and the advent of the year 2015, said the intellectuals in the Islamic and Christian countries are duty bound to get people acquainted with the spiritual message of religions and stand against the deviation from divine...

Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said during his visit in Iraq on Thursday that the way the US is treating the issue of terrorism is distrustful. In a meeting with the Leader of Supreme Islamic Council of Iraq Ammar al-Hakim, he said suggesting such issues as...

Two Palestinian teens were detained in clashes in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Wadi al-Joz Friday evening.  Witnesses say that Israeli undercover forces raided the area and arrested a Palestinian after beating him. Palestinian youths burnt tires and threw...

3 Palestinian civilians were injured by Israeli occupation soldiers, Sunday, near Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip. Israeli occupation soldiers opened fire at dozens of young men who approached the border after participating in a...

Ismail Radwan, a Hamas Movement leader in Gaza, implored Israel, on Palestinian national day, to end the siege on Gaza Strip.  Radwan said, that the continued closure of crossings and stalled reconstruction is a war crime against the...

With the election of Takeshi Onaga as the new governor of Okinawa, the Okinawa people have once again expressed in clear terms their opposition to the attempts by the U.S. and Japan to turn their already militarized island into "the largest concentration of land, sea, and air military...

Israel has approved an exploratory oil drilling programme in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, at a time when the unrest in Syria means that no party is fully in control of the region. Israel’s Makor Rishon newspaper...

Palestinians around the world on Saturday commemorated the sixth anniversary of the beginning of Israel's 22-day offensive on the Gaza Strip in 2008-9 that left more than 1,400 dead. This year's commemorations take place in...

A referendum at the University of Exeter to boycott illegal Israeli settlement products has passed in a landslide. 1,040 students voted in the referendum, the highest voter turnout in the history of the university's political referenda,...

Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) lawyer confirmed that the Palestinian captive Amal Jihad Taqatqa,  21 years female of Beit Fajar, held by Israel in the hospital, Hadassah Ein Karem, developed health complications which pose fatal risk to her...

While RSS's plan for ghar wapsi has sparked a raging controversy, Congress-ruled Karnataka is looking at a ghar wapsi of its own. For the first time in the country since 1931, Karnataka will conduct a census based on caste,...

US Senator Lindsey Graham threatened to stop US funding of the United Nations in case the body took "unilateral" steps for the Palestinians in the Security Council. The newspaper "Israel Haume" wrote that Senator Graham,...

During a Palestinian march in the east Shijia area, Israelis have reportedly resorted to heavy gunfire in order to disperse the crowd. Detals are awaited but a number of Palestinians seemed to have been injured. Onlookers heard several shots, cries for help, and smoke as soon as...

Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, MLA from Dera Baba Nanak in a statement issued here today reminded Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal that Punjab is today suffering from the synthetic drugs made and consumed locally. Assertion of Mr Badal that drugs are coming from across border, for...

Israeli Prison Services banned Ahmad Saadat, the secretary-general of the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine party, currently being held in detention, from receiving visitors for three months. Saadat has been banned from receiving visitors since September,...

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has embarked on an undisclosed visit to Paris, where he is likely to meet a Gulf figure, Israel's daily Maariv reported on Friday. "It is likely that Lieberman has headed to Paris to meet a certain Gulf figure for...

A seven-year-old Palestinian boy from the village of Zif south of Hebron was hit Sunday morning by a vehicle driven by an Israeli settler. Locals identified the victim of the incident as Hamada Ali Ayish Qareesh.  The boy was struck by the car while...

Former world soccer player of the year George Weah has won a seat in Liberia's Senate to represent the capital, defeating the son of the president and boosting his political fortunes ahead of a presidential election in 2017. Weah won the Montserrado County seat that includes the...

Extremist Jews from Susia Settlement in Yatta town south of Hebron sprayed chemicals on lands belonging to Palestinian citizens, causing damage to their crops. Member of the popular committee against settlements and the Apartheid Wall in...

Passengers aboard a car ferry that caught fire off the coast of Greece early today pleaded for help as rescue vessels struggled to approach the burning vessel in high winds and rough seas. The Norman Atlantic, carrying almost 500 passengers and crew and more than 200 vehicles, was 44...

Al Khalifa regime forces have raided the houses of pro-democracy protesters in the Bahraini village of Sanabis, west of the capital Manama. According to activists, security forces made a dozen arrests during their latest act of aggression against dissent in the Persian...

A US warship has left the area where Iran is performing major military exercises following a warning issued by an Iranian naval patrol aircraft, Iranian channel Press TV reports. The patrol aircraft belonging to the Airborne Division of Iran’s Navy warned the...

BJP and PDP are likely to form the next "conditional" coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir for the next six years, according to sources. The BJP state unit has demanded that the saffron party must head the government for the first three years. Reiterating the...

As with Abu Ghraib and other atrocities committed by American troops, the new US Senate report on CIA torture under the Bush administration has made waves in the West, but not in the Arab and Muslim worlds, whose peoples have long been at the receiving end of such violations. That is...

Uttar Pradesh is set to get its new state Director General of Police on New Year with the retirement of its present DGP A L Banerjee on December 31. Similarly, on January 1, 18 senior Indian Police Services (IPS) officers of the state are slated to be promoted with 7 each from IG to...

Men ride on one side and women on the other, divided by a curtain, on buses plying routes in ultra-Orthodox communities in some parts of the US.  The public commuter bus between Brooklyn and the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community of Kiryas Joel has cushioned seats, small televisions...

The city refuses to provide affordable housing, yet won’t tolerate people living outdoors. When San Jose dismantled the “Jungle,” the nation’s largest homeless encampment, many of its residents with nowhere to go scattered. They found hiding places in...

I think it's safe to say that if U.S. neighborhoods were living under siege, folks like Rand Paul wouldn't take it The carnage in Gaza continues after the latest collapse of cease-fire talks and over four weeks of asymmetrical bombardment by Israel. With the death of more...

The Congress today reiterated its support to any party on the conditions of forming a secular Government in Jammu and Kashmir. Talking to media here, AICC General secretary Ambika Soni said the Congress was ready to support any party which was willing to form a secular government in...

Cuba's most prominent dissidents say they have been kept in the dark by US officials over a list of 53 political prisoners who will be released from jail as part of a deal to end decades of hostility between the United States and Cuba. For years, dissident leaders have told the...

A woman is critically ill in Hong Kong with the deadly H7N9 strain of bird flu, the first confirmed case in the city this winter, the Hong Kong government said. The woman, 68, was admitted to hospital on Thursday after falling ill on December 19, the Hong Kong government said in a...

The missing AirAsia aircraft had been flying at 32,000 feet and had asked to fly at 38,000 feet to avoid clouds, Indonesian transport official said. An Indonesia AirAsia flight went missing today about half way between its origin of Surabaya in Indonesia and its destination of...

"You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong." Warren Buffett  Warren Buffett’s words should be an eye opener for Indian companies that have landed in a soup in their zest to conquer the...

AirAsia flight number QZ8501, bound from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore, has lost contact with air traffic control, the airline has confirmed. The missing flight is an Airbus A320-200 with up to 162 people on board. Indonesia air transport authorities have provided...

BJP's legislative wing leader Raghubar Das was today sworn-in as the new Chief Minister of Jharkhand along with four Cabinet ministers. Mr Das was administered the oath of office and secrecy by Jharkhand Governor Syed Ahmad at a function held at the Birsa Munda Football Stadium...

Russian supplies of coal and electricity to Ukraine without prepayment prove Russian President Vladimir Putin's goodwill to provide real support to the Ukrainian people, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Saturday.  He confirmed Ukraine's reports...

Hundreds of civilians in Libya have been killed in fighting since late August, the United Nations said on Tuesday, warning commanders of armed groups that they could face prosecution for possible war crimes including executions and torture. The North African country is struggling with...

Sony Corp worked for a third day to restore services to its PlayStation network as the FBI said it was looking into the disruption, which began on Christmas Day. "We are aware of the reports and are investigating the Sony PlayStation matter," Federal Bureau of Investigation...

A London court has sentenced a pro-Israel British man to 16 months in jail for attacking British lawmaker George Galloway earlier this year. Judge Aidon Marron of the Isleworth Crown Court sentenced former BBC employee Niel Masterson on Thursday for assaulting the Bradford lawmaker in...

The way white Americans view police treatment of African Americans is very different from the way blacks experience police injustice, Press TV reports citing a poll result. According to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll released on Saturday, only 1 in 10 African Americans says blacks...

The United States is in real trouble when the story about the hacking into Sony Pictures computers and their decision to pull an inane comedy totally big foots the deeply troubling Senate Intelligence Committee’s study of the CIA’s Detention and Interrogation Program. Talk...

Political prisoners at a detention center in Bahrain have gone on a hunger strike to show their anger at the regime's harsh treatment of detainees. The prisoners at the Jaw Prison in eastern Bahrain have staged a hunger strike in protest at the torture and mistreatment of the...

Saudi Arabia and Western governments have for decades remained silent on the occupation of Saudi islands by Israel, Press TV reports. Many wonder where these islands are and why Saudi Arabia never tries to regain its sovereignty over them. The latest initiative to end the...

"While Revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, you cannot kill ideas" - Captain Thomas Sankara Ebola and the Islamic fundamentalist terrorism. These are the key words which dominate the present world discourse on the mineral and natural resources rich region...

It was the most thrilling bureaucratic document I’ve ever seen for just one reason: it was dated the 21st day of the month of Thermidor in the Year Six. Written in sepia ink on heavy paper, it recorded an ordinary land auction in France in what we would call the late summer of 1798. But...

Almost all wars begin with false flag operations. The coming conflicts in North Korea and Russia are no exception. Mass public hysteria is being manufactured to justify aggression against Moscow and Pyongyang, in retaliation for acts attributed to the...

The Worldwide control of humanity’s economic, social and political activities is under the helm of US corporate and military power. Underlying this process are various schemes of direct and indirect military intervention. These US sponsored strategies ultimately consist in a...

In downtown Worli, it is common to hear the strange greeting of 'Assalamu-Alaykum, Guruji' whenever an 80-year-old Muslim man steps out of his modest home.He is none other than renowned Sanskrit scholar Pandit Gulam Dastagir, who over six decades has impressed the Shankaracharyas, late...

Seventy years after South Carolina executed a 14-year-old boy so small he sat on a phone book in the electric chair, a circuit court judge threw out his murder conviction. On Wednesday morning, Judge Carmen Mullins vacated the decision against George Stinney Jr., a black teen who was...

Isis’s vaunted exercise in state-building appears to be crumbling, as living conditions deteriorate across the territories under its control, exposing the shortcomings of a group that devotes most of its energies to fighting battles and enforcing strict rules. Residents say...

Maria Claudia Garcia, an Argentine dotor who has come to Kobanî to provide medical care, called on her Argentine colleagues to support the 'epic resistance' in Kobanî. International interest is increasing in the Kobanî resistance in the health and social...

Women fighting the barbarian ISIS gangs in the ranks of the YPJ (Women's Defense Units) as part of the ongoing resistance in Kobanî are not abandoning their emplacements despite all the difficulties they are facing. YPJ fighter Awaz Xelîl who sustained injuries on the...

With every passing day, the controversial issues between Egypt and Hezbollah are shrinking. The iceberg reached a pinnacle on January 28, 2011 when Sami Shehab escaped the Egyptian prisons. But all that happened afterwards served to thaw the ice. Today, there is no longer an iceberg but rather a...

YPG Press Center released a statement on the latest situation in Kobanî. The statement says, "ISIS attacks in Kobanî continue on 102nd day. Our forces carried out operations to liberate Kobanî and conduct investigations in the regions liberated so...

 Proddatur police on Thursday arrested a fake saint who hugs and kisses devotees to "remove" their affliction and "solve" financial and domestic problems. The bogus baba, popularly known as "Kissing Baba", has been "treating" people suffering from ill...

Last week, the hacker organization “Anonymous,” symbolized by the famous “Guy Fawkes” mask, hacked Israel’s Mossad's super spy systems.   The hack, initially exposing a hidden network of 30,000...

The power of lies, deceptions and disinformation as Americans pay the price of collective stupidity. “You know very well, and the stupid Americans know equally well, that we control their government, irrespective of who sits in the White House. You see, I know it and you know...

"These five conglomerates are Time Warner, Disney, Murdochs’ News Corporation, Bertelsmann of Germany, and Viacom (formerly CBS)." Heavy distortions and suppressions of information regarding current Ukrainian events are appearing in US media. You might wonder...

For many years – Israel has been monitoring the social media accounts of pro-Palestinian activists. The Israeli government has a long track record of arresting Palestinians indiscriminately where they can and do detain every day Palestinian citizens in military prisons for up to 6 months...

ISIS has made a new rule: if you get caught reading the Bible, you will be executed. According to one report: The statement...

Chris Hedges was invited to speak at the University of Pennsylvania. Then he likened Israel to ISIS, and got disinvited. At Truthdig (12/21), he reports this latest...

The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria “ISIS” is reportedly turning Christian churches in Syria and Iraq into torture chambers and selling artifacts from the churches on the black market, The Washington Times said Thursday in a report by Douglas Ernest. Back...

Ravi Kishan Production & Medhaj Production present first teaser of biggest blockbuster of 2015. Superstar Ravikishan with one of the biggest fan base is going to be in altogether new Avatar in the most awaited Bhojpuri movie of 2015. The buzz around the movie is already...

Swedish centre-left Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said today his government had reached a deal with the mainstream opposition that would allow the minority coalition of the Social Democrats and Greens to continue in power. 'This agreement means that Sweden can be governed even in a...

The floor of Buraq Square in Al Magariba gate at Al Aqsa Mosque collapsed on Friday afternoon due to excavation of Israeli occupation forces, Medhajnews reports. According to eyewitnesses, the collapse of the ground was more than 2 meters deep. No injuries were recorded in the ranks of...

The Gulf states will pay a steep price in Arab public opinion if they were to have open relations with Israel. Many believed that Operation Protective Edge presented Israel with an opportunity to strengthen its ties with the Sunni-royalist bloc in the region, which, like Israel, is not...

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Approximately two million Iraqi citizens, mainly from the country’s central and western governorates, sought refuge from the Islamic State group ISIS in the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan in 2014, an official from the Iraqi Ministry of Displacement and Migration said. ...

Palestinian activists on Saturday began construction of an anti-settlement village near the settlement complex of "Gush Etzion" south of the occupied West Bank. The activists said to Medhaj News, the village construction is an effort to protest the confiscation of...

Afghanistan's NATO-led foreign force killed three civilians in an air strike, Afghan officials said today, less than a week before most foreign troops are due to pull out at the end of a 13-year mission. The killing of civilians in air strikes has been a source of anger throughout...

Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiran Rijiju today expressed his anguish over the foreign agencies funding Bodo terrorists in Assam but added the government was firm on blocking such help. Talking to mediapersons here on his way to Mundagod Tibetan Refugee Camp to participate...

Amid a whirlwind visit of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to access the plight of displaced people from neighbouring Assam, the Adivashi people here today observed a 12-hour strike in parts of north Bengal protesting massacre of ethnic people in Kokrajhar, Assam. Ms...

Pakistan once again violated ceasefire and targetted forward Border out Post (BoP) in Arnia sub-sector of Jammu.     "Pakistani rangers late last night violated the truce by firing small arms on forward Bikram BoP in Arnia sub-sector," official sources...

The Speaker's court in the Bihar Legislative Assembly today terminated four JD (U) MLAs - Ajit Kumar Singh (Kanti), Raju Kumar Singh (Sahebganj), Suresh Chanchal (Sakra) and Poonam Devi (Digha) - as members of the lower House on disciplinary grounds for not voting for party candidates in...

With three weeks left for the expiry of deadline for the formation of next government in Jammu and Kashmir, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was yet to respond to the unconditional support offered by Congress and National Conference (NC), though it has held initial round of talks with...

Last night, in Beijing, I sat in a historic Szechuan restaurant with a friend who happens to be a Chinese diplomat. We exchanged some stories, ordered food, and then, suddenly, my throat felt dry and my eyes got misty. I bowed and thanked her for the heartfelt offer China made to...

JetBlue flew 730 officers from law enforcement agencies across the country to New York for the wake and funeral of a slain NYPD officer. Spokesman Morgan Johnston said Friday the New York-based airline committed to finding space for two officers per agency that wanted to send...

Israeli occupation forces on Friday detained a leader of the leftist Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine at a checkpoint east of Jerusalem. Nader Jaffal, 42, was taken from a checkpoint set up near the Maale Adumim Jewish settlement, which occupies a strategic...

Israeli naval boats opened fire at fishermen off the coast of northern Gaza on Friday, witnesses said. Locals said gunfire was heard from the shore of Gaza City as fishermen were at sea. An Israeli occupation army spokeswoman said “a few vessels deviated from the...

On Palestine, the choice is very clear. The choice for the Modi Government is to either choose to be part of the emerging powers led by the BRICS nations, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). Or then by standing with a pariah...

The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at dawn on Friday rounded up eight Palestinian civilians, including minors, from Azzoun town, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilya. Eye witnesses at the scene said the mass-abduction campaign cropped up as IOF troops stormed the...

Three Palestinian children were nabbed at dawn Friday and transferred to Israeli detention centers in occupied Jerusalem. Local sources confirmed that large numbers of Israeli soldiers violently stormed Mussa Owda’s home in Silwan town to the south of al-Aqsa Mosque and...

Those who genuinely believe that the US and the West have unleashed a full scale economic war against Russia because of its position on Ukraine have no idea how much mistaken they are. In fact, it was planned much earlier, precisely a year ago, when a closed meeting between senior authorities of...

Demand for awarding Bharat Ratna to Aligarh Muslim University(AMU) founder Sir Syed Ahmad Khan has gained momentum after Banaras Hindu University(BHU) founder  Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya was conferred the highest civilian award on December 24. Some students of the AMU have written...

UN chief Ban Ki-moon is pressing Pakistan to end capital punishment and restore a moratorium on the death penalty the government lifted in terror cases following the Taliban school massacre in Peshawar, Dawn news reported. Ban spoke with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday to...

Amid speculation that India may be contemplating a shift in its Palestine policy, the government reiterated on Friday that there was no change in New Delhi's policy of extending "traditional support'' for the Palestinian cause even as it continues to maintain good relations with...

North Korea called President Barack Obama "a monkey" and blamed the U.S. on Saturday for shutting down its Internet amid the hacking row over the comedy The Interview. The country's internet was down for nine hours and 31 minutes starting...

Mexicans have held another large rally to protest against the disappearance and likely massacre of 43 students in late September. Thousands of people took to the streets of the capital, Mexico City, on Friday, demanding explanation from authorities for the mysterious...

The African Union on Tuesday branded militia targeting Muslims in Central African Republic as "terrorists" and said they would be treated as enemy combatants, a day after a Congolese peacekeeper was killed. The statement suggested deepening international frustration at...

A 14-year-old Syrian boy has given himself in to Iraqi guards wearing a vest full of explosives, The New York Times reports. The teenager, recruited by the Islamic State, said that a mission to bomb a Shiite mosque was his only chance to escape militants. Usaid Barho, 14, told a NYT...

Studio 7's The Three Paise Opera is an adaptation of the German play The ThreePenny Opera   Studio 7's The Three Paise Opera is an adaptation of the German play The ThreePenny Opera and stars Raymon Das Shrestha (in black) and...

Egypt has banned Hollywood's big screen biblical epic 'Exodus: Gods and Kings,' a 20th Century Fox spokesman said. The studio owned by Twenty-First Century Fox Inc declined to give a reason for the ban, but films that depict biblical figures have been prohibited before in...

A fist fight has broken out between Georgian ruling and opposition lawmakers during a legislative session in the country’s parliament. The brawl happened on Friday when the MPs were discussing Georgia’s delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the...

Thousands of Jordanian protesters have taken to the streets to denounce the government’s plan to sign a multi-billion-dollar gas deal with Israel. Members of various political groups as well as ordinary citizens took part at the major protest rally in the capital Amman on...

Pakistani security forces have arrested hundreds of terror suspects as the government intensifies its crackdown on militants following a deadly attack on an army-run school in the country’s northwestern city of Peshawar. Police said the suspects were detained...

Any new Greek government would have to respect austerity pledges made by the current and past ones and the country's debt situation would not change in the event of a snap election, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said today. In an interview with Bild newspaper,...

Protesters hold a demonstration in the US state of Alabama to slam ongoing police brutality against African Americans. The “Black Lives Matter” demo was organized in the city of Birmingham on Friday. The demonstrators gathered outside a Walmart...

Ukraine's government and pro-Russian separatists exchanged hundreds of prisoners of war while Kiev said it would suspend all train and bus service to Crimea, effectively creating a transportation blockade to and from the region. The agreement to swap 150 Ukrainian servicemen for...

Turkey is too big, too Islamist and too un-European for the EU; it is too little Islamist and a disliked former colonial power for most of the Arab street; a sectarian and regional rival for Iran, and a security threat to the bigwigs in the Shanghai Cooperation...

Russia’s vision of the Eurasian Union is one in which it sits at the center of an interconnected supercontinent, with Moscow taking the initiative in bringing all sides closer together for their joint and multivectoral benefit. The West’s confrontation with...

The same issues which drove war and terrorism in the Middle East in the 1930s and 1940s are still driving it today The best way to see this is to start with today, and work backwards … The U.S. is bombing Iraq again in order to ...

Since the anti-war protests on Vietnam, the U.S. government has made “perception management” of the American people a high priority, feeding them a steady diet of propaganda about foreign crises, even getting “peace groups” to buy into “pro-democracy”...

On the morning of Christmas Eve, the militants from the Al-Nusra Front (Jabhat Al-Nusra) and the Liberators of the Levant Movement (Harakat ‘Ahrar Al-Sham) attempted to infiltrate into the northern Latakia city of Kassab from the Turkish border; however, they were repelled by the Syrian...

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC) and the Palestinian Liberation Army (PLA) carried out a series of operations on 30th Street, Yarmouk camp, Syria, targeting a large presence of Al-Nusra Front (Jabhat Al-Nusra) fighters entrenched in the buildings...

The number one crude oil exporter, Saudi Arabia, has projected a $39 billion deficit in 2015. The impact of lower oil prices, along with the decision not to cut production, is putting pressure on the country’s finances. The figure was part of the endorsed 2015 budget, which was...

Presbyterian Church USA (PCUSA) considered banning the word “Israel” from its prayers. In a report on the ...

The documentary filmmaker was first told that festival organisers had received threats, but students claim it was a miscommunication. A year after Hindutva activists ...

In another city by the Arabian Sea, traces of a long-separated sibling. Not long ago, the metropolis that is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra, was called Bombay. It is now called Mumbai. Among the many traits that neighbours Pakistan and India share between...

Jesuits came to the Mughal court hoping to convert the emperors. Instead, the Indian rulers used Christian images for their own royal propaganda. ...

Medhaj News Survey report had predicted long back that Ragubar Das would be sworn in as the 10th Chief Minister of Jharkhand. Following BJP's victory in the state assembly polls, Jharkhand Governor Syed Ahmad also has invited BJP’s legislature wing leader Raghubar Das to form...

Once again the Saudi authorities have committed serious crimes against the people of the Eastern Province. On Saturday 20th December its forces attacked Al Awwamiya Town and wreaked havoc on its inhabitants. At least five people were killed and more than 40 injured as a result of the use of...

YPG forces continue operations to liberate Kobanî from ISIS gangs. Today YPG announced that its forces took the municipality and al-Khansai School under its control and the operation is continuing. It is also reported that YPG forces launched another operation near Asayîş...

Women from the Peace Mothers Initiative in Dîlok (Antep) and Wan (Van) have called for people to join the border vigil on the Kobanî-Pirsûs (Suruç) border to prevent ISIS gang members in disarray fleeing across the border. Peace Mothers joined the vigil in the...

It has emerged that ISIS gangs suffering heavy losses in 'cleansing operations' being mounted by YPG/YPJ fighters to the south and south west of the city are either burning the corpses of their dead or burying them in mass graves in the houses in which they has set up...

The Iranian Army has launched the second phase of major military exercises code-named Mohammad Rasoulallah (Blessings of God upon him and his Progeny) in the country’s south. In this stage of the maneuvers on Friday, the Iranian Army’s Ground Forces practice striking...

Russia would take appropriate retaliatory measures against NATO's possible eastward expansion, Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said Thursday.  "I'd stress that the NATO's possible further enlargement eastward would inevitably lead to a very...

The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood movement says it will not negotiate with military-backed rulers in the country and will continue to organize its peaceful anti-government demonstrations, Press TV reported. The outlawed Egyptian group made the remarks in a statement published on its...

Speaker of the Russian State Duma Sergei Naryshkin says the United States should be investigated for the atomic bombings against two Japanese cities during World War II. Speaking at a press conference on Thursday, the Russian official compared the 1945 atomic bombings...

A New Zealand bar manager today pleaded not guilty in a Myanmar court to charges of insulting religion after publishing a psychedelic image of Buddha wearing headphones to promote his bar in Yangon. The case comes amid a surge in Buddhist nationalism in Myanmar - which emerged in 2011...

The number of Palestinians confirmed killed in Syria during the ongoing civil conflict has reached around 1,200-1,300, while an equal number are considered missing, the Palestinian Embassy in Syria announced Thursday. The statistics reveal the devastating impact the war has...

Two Israeli settlers were injured after a Molotov cocktail was thrown at their car as it drove in the Jewish settlement of Maale Shomeron, in the Qalqiliya region. A woman was severely burned and her husband was lightly injured after the Molotov cocktail hit the vehicle they were...

Two Israeli occupation policemen were attacked with a knife by an unknown person on Friday morning in the vicinity of Al Aqsa Mosque, Israeli forces said. Israeli Channel 7 reported quoting sources in the Israeli force that an anonymous person stabbed policemen from border guards...

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) today criticised the BJP of imposing its political agenda for the formation of government in Jammu and Kashmir. The politburo, in a statement, said here that the Government formation has become complicated, as no party got a clear majority in the...

Following the blind suicide bombings and killing of our innocent people, now the dreadful massacre of school children in Peshawar, puts on sorrow the heart of every aware and conscientious human being. The ruthless killing of approximately 150 innocent children and adults and...

The Awami Workers Party Islamabad/Rawalpindi hosted a public meeting on Tuesday to discuss the escalating threat of religious fascism and terrorism in Pakistan and devise practical mechanisms to organize and challenge it in society and state. The meeting was presided by central leaders of the...

Bahraini security forces have attacked anti-regime protesters in several villages as the ruling Aal-e-Khalifa regime continues its crackdown on the opposition. The Saudi-backed Bahraini forces attacked protesters in the village of Bouri, Karzakan and Sitra on Thursday, Press TV...

Hundreds of thousands of people viewed illegal copies of 'The Interview' in China and South Korea today, just hours after the controversial movie on the fictional assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was released in the United States. Most viewers said they watched...

What I remember most of the first hours after learning about the tsunami was radio silence. Aceh, it seemed, had ceased to exist. The limited infrastructure in Indonesia's northernmost province was decimated and none of the survivors was able to update the outside world. To...

Two suspected US drones fired missiles at militant hideouts in northwest Pakistan today killing at least seven fighters, Pakistani intelligence officials said. The attacks took place in the same area where the Pakistani army has been mounting an air-and-ground operation against...

From Interstellar to Batman and Star Wars the venerable religion has been the driving philosophy behind many hit movies. Why? Interstellar’s box office total is $622,932,412 and counting. It is the eighth-highest-grossing film of the year and spawned an endless raft of think...

Lebanon’s Hezbollah has detained a senior party official it accused of spying for Israel and “sabotaging security operations” abroad, a source close to the movement said on Thursday. “Three months ago, Hezbollah’s security apparatus detained a man...

Seven-year-old Kalu Todu, who is battling for his life at Gauhati Medical College Hospital (GMCH), took seven bullets as Bodo militants went on rampage in Assam's Sonitpur and Kokrajhar districts on Tuesday.  He is one of the 17 wounded civilians, mostly Adivasis, brought...

When Sohagi Soren reached Bengal Thursday morning, she had walked nearly 70km with her 10-day-old son, who is yet to be named, in her arms for over 30 hours. Sohagi, an Adivasi labourer in her twenties from Assam’s Kokrajhar district, is one of over 2,000 people from the...

Antibiotics have been detected in water near sewage plants and the Guangzhou segment of Pearl River, xinmin.cn reported, quoting experts from the Guangzhou Chinese Academy of Sciences. The total concentration of nine common antibiotics, including erythromycin, roxithromycin and...

An arsonist set fire to a mosque in the Swedish town of Eskilstuna on Thursday, injuring five people, police said, an incident which comes amid an intense debate over immigration. The immigration debate has pitted the far right, which wants to cut the number of asylum seekers allowed...

China wants relations with Vietnam to proceed along a 'correct path', a visiting senior Chinese leader said, vowing to improve mutual trust, amid tension between the neighbours over competing claims in the South China Sea. Yu Zhengsheng, who heads a largely ceremonial advisory...

Chinese police have fired on Tibetan protesters demonstrating after a series of deadly self-immolations by people from Tibet campaigning against Chinese rule of their Himalayan region, a rights group said today. A monk was shot in the arm after police used teargas and opened fire...

Former Port-au-Prince mayor and veteran politician Evans Paul was nominated as prime minister by President Michel Martelly in the latest attempt to resolve a political crisis over long-delayed elections in Haiti. Paul, who rose to political prominence in the 1990s as an ally of...

More than 100,000 people have been evacuated from their homes by authorities in five northern states of Malaysia hit by the Southeast Asian' nation's worst monsoon floods in decades. Extremely high levels of floodwater and bad weather have made relocating victims and the...

The latest of a series of official Canadian verbal darts aimed at Russian President Vladimir Putin was published [8] December 15 on BuzzFeed. The content...

Official visits between heads of state, worldwide, follow strict protocols and schedules determined far in advance. That means the schedule on Thursday, when German Chancellor Angela Merkel carries out the official part of her visit to Mongolia, is already common knowledge. First, the Mongolian...

Iranian scientists have constructed a radar tracker that is capable of detecting drugs, explosives, and people, the country’s national media has said. The inventor of the device told Mehr news agency that it can identify humans, both alive and deceased. The radar can spot drug...

When India ceased to be part of the Empire on 15 August 1947 and was partitioned into two independent states, India and Pakistan, there were profound implications for British intelligence. From every point of view, economic, geographic and political, India remained of key strategic interest to...

After restoration of Indian-Israel relations in 1992, Mossad, the Israeli secret service, is active in India. It is known as the world's most lethal killing machine. But it is also a casual machine, to the point of being lazy. Mossad agents carry their bravado up their sleeves, something a...

The allure of a Yemeni barber shop is difficult to resist. For only $5 to $7, the patron can enjoy a scissor cut, a surgically precise straight razor shave and delightful conversation. I can understand how frustrated...

A 2011 internal CIA manual that instructs operatives on how to get through some of the world's toughest airport security screenings without blowing their cover was released by Wikileaks this week. The guide was produced...

Belying conservative media reports that Christmas eve  is "bound to pass peacefully", protesters took to the streets of Berkeley, Mo., for a second night on Wednesday after a white police officer killed a black teenager who police said pointed a gun at him. Dozens of...

An alliance between the BJP and the PDP would be the coming together of two ideological opposites and could be a problem for both parties The recently concluded State Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir have been historic for a number of reasons. First,...

In the furore over conversion, there is a need for dialogue where religion must debate belief within a constitutional framework. There must be an assumption that every citizen has two critical texts to follow — his own religious code and the Constitution. There must also be a shedding of...

Tribals worse off, facing alienation, says high-level panel report. Govt suppresses report recommending radical reforms to improve their socio-economic status as it goes against Centre’s rapid industrialisation agenda. ...

On 16th May, I felt a great sense of jubilation over the victory of Mr. Narendra Modi. The political space in India had become so corrupted that everyone wanted to get rid of misrule or rather chaos emanating from a 200 years old party which seemed to have become outdated in every...

For a moment, classic warfare returned as Kurdish fighters and ISIS got locked in a passionate, hand-to-hand combat during a battle in Kobani. Here is the full story... YPG (People's Defense Units) Press Centre has released a statement providing information about operations...

People from the village of Merdesimbêl of Kobanî brought their vehicles to an area 50 metres from the Mert Ismail military post on the Pirsûs (Suruç) border around 2 months ago, then crossed the border. Using heavy weapons, with Turkish Mert İsmail military...

Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) was founded in September 1985, a time of rising Sunni-Shia tensions in the Punjabi city of Jhang. With support from the regime of Zia al-Huq and funding from Saudi Arabia, the SSP soon became Pakistan's most prominent anti-Shia militant group. It has since been...

YPG forces brought down another ISIS frone in Kobanî. "YPG forces downed the third drone belonging to ISIS gang members in Sûk al-Hal (the grocery bazaar)", reported an ANHA correspondent on the...

The leader of a banned Pakistani sectarian militant terror group who was set to walk free from jail is being held for two more weeks in a murder case, officials said. Malik Ishaq, the head of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) which is dedicated to killing minority Shiite Muslims, was to be...

The Israeli right fears the campaign has moved from the “Iran nuke danger” to “Hamas’ takeover of the West Bank,” ignoring regional concerns for Israel’s security and aligning with their wish to avoid Hamas empowerment. The main term in the...

Sierra Leoneans observed a sombre Christmas in their homes today, after the government banned traditionally boisterous holiday celebrations to prevent the spread of deadly Ebola in the worst-hit country. Small groups of Christians in formal attire were permitted to attend church...

Pope Francis condemned the 'brutal persecution' of minorities by Islamic State insurgents in his Christmas message today and urged people not to be indifferent to the suffering of so many around the world. Tens of thousands of people turned out on St. Peter's Square to hear...

YPG Press Center released a statement on the clashes ongoing in Kobanî and announced ID of one of the YPG fighters, Rojvan Kobanî, who lost his life in the operation to liberate the culture center in Kobanî. YPG says Rojvan Kobanî is the symbol of brotherhood of peoples...

Against the backdrop of a highly fractured mandate in the Assembly elections, outgoing Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah held hush hush parleys with the ruling BJP leaders here today, party sources said. The BJP officially denied the meetings. Mr Abdullah, who...

HPG (People's Defense Forces) Sinjar Command and YBŞ (Sinjar Resistance Units) General Command has released a statement providing information about the ongoing clashes between the Joint Forces of Resistance and ISIS gangs in Sinjar town of South Kurdistan. 17 members of the gangs were...

ANHA correspondent Xezna Nebî was wounded while covering clashes in the south-east side of Kobanî yesterday.  Xezna Nebî sustained injuries on the arm; she treatment and is reported not to be in a life-threatening...

At least four people have lost their lives and 29 others have been injured in a bomb explosion in Pakistan’s southwestern city of Quetta. According to Press TV, a remote-controlled bomb fixed on a motorbike blasted outside a food shop on a busy street in the capital of...

Senior Russian and Syrian diplomats have held talks in the Russian capital, Moscow, on a political settlement of the Syrian crisis. According to Press TV citing the Russian Foreign Ministry, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov and Syrian Ambassador Riyad Haddad on...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said that 21st century would be known as a century of knowledge and India has a key role to play in this era. "We should encourage initiatives that will help our future generations. Our education apparatus can't be one that produces...

Some 226 Jewish immigrants from Ukraine, among then dozens of families fleeing fighting in eastern Ukraine, landed in Occupied Palestine. The Jewish immigrants who arrived on Monday, the seventh day of Hanukkah, are the first in an expected group of over 400...

More than 75 people, mostly children and women, have been killed in recent violent attacks by Bodo militant group NDFB(S) on the villagers in Kokrajhar and Sonitpur district of Assam. The situation continues to be tense with retaliatory violence being reported and the...

Tens of thousands of Palestinian and international pilgrims crowded the streets of Bethlehem on Wednesday to mark Christmas according to the Western Christian calendar. The celebrations mark the beginning of Bethlehem's Christmas season...

China hopes that Japan continues down the 'path of peace', the defence ministry said today, in Beijing's first direct reaction to the appointment of a new Japanese defence minister who has a desire for a stronger pre-emptive strike capability. 'We believe that no matter...

Israeli occupation forces Thursday morning, opened fire at farmers, towards Palestinian houses in the southern Gaza Strip.  Local sources said that Israeli occupation troops stationed at military sites, as well as in vehicles...

A group of people from Jerusalem, on Thursday morning, buried the bodies of the martyrs Ghassan and PFLP member Uday Abu Al Jamal, executors of the November attack on the Jewish synagogue in the city of Jerusalem, which killed seven settlers and wounded...

Israeli occupation forces late Wednesday afternoon shot a 5-year-old Palestinian child in the face with a rubber-coated steel bullet in East Jerusalem as he was getting out of a school bus on his way home, relatives said. ...

Israeli occupation authorities gave final approval late Wednesday to the construction of 380 new settler homes in two areas of occupied East Jerusalem, a local official said. "The municipal commission has given...

President Pranab Mukherjee today strongly condemned attack by militants in Kokrajhar and Sonitpur districts of Assam. In a message to Governor of Assam P B Acharya, the President said "I am extremely saddened to learn about the cowardly attack by Bodo militants on the villagers in...

D.C. police are investigating an officer involved shooting in Southeast Washington, where an armed robbery suspect was killed on Christmas Eve. It happened in the area of Alabama Avenue, between 30th Street and Naylor Rd. A few blocks around Naylor Rd. are closed for the...

Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha cited China as a good example of economic development in a year-end speech to government officials seven months after he seized power in a military coup. Prayuth, a former army chief who led the coup, said Thais should 'stop bickering' and...

Supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and outlawed Muslim Brotherhood movement have once again held anti-government demonstrations in Egypt. The demonstrators gathered on Wednesday in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, and the city of Fayoum, calling for...

The death toll in the killing spree  in Assam has crossed 75 with recovery of bodies since late last evening with the affected and adjoining areas under curfew.     Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, his MoS Khiren Rijiju, Union Tribal Affairs Minister Jewel Oram...

Angry Americans took to streets in Berkeley, Missouri on Wednesday after police shot and killed another black teenager Tuesday night. 18-year-old Antonio Martin was shot dead by a police officer near a gas station in Berkeley. Police say the officer had no choice but to shoot Martin...

Peace negotiations between representatives from the Ukrainian government and pro-Russia forces have reportedly concluded in the Belarusian capital Minsk without any results. One of the representatives of the pro-Russia forces said on Wednesday that the negotiations...

Representatives from the Ukrainian government and pro-Russia forces have launched peace negotiations in Belarusian capital, Minsk, to reach a stable ceasefire in violence-scarred eastern Ukraine. According to AFP, on Wednesday, Ukrainian and pro-Moscow envoys along with delegates from...

Russian investigators say they have new evidence provided by a secret witness that a Ukrainian warplane was behind the shooting down of the Malaysian airliner MH17 in Ukraine earlier this year. According to the reports, the unidentified witness, who worked at an aerodrome in the...

A university in northwestern China has banned Christmas, calling it a 'kitsch' foreign celebration unbefitting of the country's own traditions and making its students watch propaganda films instead, media said today. The state-run Beijing News said that the Modern College...

Demonstrators tried to disrupt holiday shopping on New York’s Fifth Avenue today, defying Mayor ...

A Texas grand jury declined to indict a Houston officer in the shooting death of an unarmed black suspect he feared was reaching for a gun, in a fourth such decision favoring police in the U.S. since a Ferguson, Missouri, officer was...

An Ohio shopper shot and killed a 16-year-old outside of a mall when the teen tried to steal his newly bought, limited-edition Nike Air Jordans. Jawaad Jabbar died Tuesday from a gunshot wound to his torso, police said. Miami Township police said two groups — three...

A white police officer shot a black teenager to death at a gas station in the city next door to Ferguson, Missouri, touching off clashes early Wednesday between demonstrators and law enforcement. The mayor said that video from the confrontation, in the city of Berkeley, appeared to...

An 18-year-old black man was shot and killed by police late on Tuesday at a gas station in a St Louis, a US suburb, near where unarmed teen Michael Brown was killed by a white officer in August, police and local media said. A video feed showed the gas station cordoned...

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Director of the Department of Statistics in the Palestinian Prisoners' Affairs Committee, Nasser Ferwana, said that arbitrary and collective arrests of Palestinians by Israeli forces have increased dramatically in the second half of this year. ...

The spokesperson of the Sinjar Resistance Units (YBŞ), Berxwedan Tolhildan, commented on the operation to liberate Sinjar, saying that the YBŞ fighters had fought together with the HPG/YJA STAR guerrillas for 4 months in Mount Sinjar and said: “Saving the sacred Êzîdî...

YPG's operations to liberate Kobanî Canton continue. During the operations carried last night, YPG forces liberated 5 more regions from ISIS in Kobanî center. It is also reported that YPG seized an important amount of ammunition belonging to ISIS...

While the ‘Clean-up operation’ launched by the YPG/YPJ against ISIS gangs in Kobanî city is continuing, young people who previously left are returning. It is now more than 3 months since the YPG and YPJ fighters started their historic resistance against the ISIS...

PYD Co-chair Salih Muslim said: "Peshmerga, YPG and HPG are the forces of all the Kurds." PYD Co-chair Salih Muslim has praised the role of the Kurdish Peshmerga forces fighting hand in hand with YPG (People's Defense Units) and HPG (People's Defense Forces) fighters....

It is reported yesterday that while liberating town of Şingal (Sinjar), Kurdish forces exploded an ammunition base belonging to ISIS gang members. The operation of Kurdish forces continue on the 4th day and they inflict heavy blows on ISIS. Botan Gulan, a journalist on the ground,...

The battle for the Syrian town of Kobanî has been raging for over three months. Though outgunned by “Islamic State” militants, Kurdish forces are gaining ground – but it’s a dangerous task, as Hermione Gee discovered. Keeping the night watch at a border...

Though it is very chilled atmosphere in Gujarat, but RSS along with its sister organisations like VHP, Bajrang Dal are leaving no stone unturned to boil this Hindutva Laboratory state with continuous conversion plans. Now RSS would show its strength at a three days workers shibir...

J&K elections have thrown up a hung assembly. BJP has not done as well as expected. True, a jump from 12 seats, party’s tally in the 2009 assembly elections, to 25, marks, by any standard, a substantial advance. BJP’s vote percentage has doubled. Yet, there is disappointment and...

The Dal Khalsa today castigated the SAD (Badal) and other splinter Sikh groups for allowing the saffron party to have a field day in Punjab in the wake of BJP failing to get a single seat in the Muslim dominated Kashmir valley. In a statement here, party head H S Dhami said Muslims of...

An international team of observers comprising members from Scotland, Estonia and Russia visited the cities of Kirovsk and Alchevsk in Dontesk People's Republic in the newly created Federal State of Novorossiya, in former Eastern Ukraine. The purpose of their visit was to...

Palestinian killed, while a Zionist officer was seriously injured by clashes between the resistance and the occupation soldiers stationed on the borders of Khuza, east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. ...

Moscow said today Kiev's decision to give up its neutral status and seek closer ties with NATO was a result of pressure from the Atlantic bloc, which wanted to turn Ukraine into a 'front line of confrontation'. Ukraine's parliament this week renounced Ukraine's...

Israeli occupation tanks" ,Wednesday morning, launched a barrage of artillery shells towards houses around Khuza'a area east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. Witnesses said that Israeli tanks fired heavy fire at...

Most concerning of all, he said, was Isis fighters’ belief that “all religions who agree with democracy have to die”. He said the view that kept being repeated was that ISIS want to “conquer the world” and all who do not believe in the...

Neoliberalism may be the most domineering socio-politico-economic influence in the history of humankind, far and away. Moreover, when left unregulated, neoliberalism goes bonkers by concentrating wealth into fewer and fewer and fewer and fewer hands. The evidence is everywhere, same as...

A suicide bomber killed 17 people and wounded 33 others in Madaen, 45 km south of Baghdad today, Iraq police and medical officials said. The dead were 14 Sunni pro-government fighters and three soldiers. The bomber blew himself up near a line of pro-government fighters waiting for...

“Most of the regime is Sunni, most of its supporters are Sunnis, many [if] not most of its soldiers are Sunni,” he writes. “The regime may be brutal, authoritarian, corrupt and whatever else it is described as, but it should not be seen as representing a...

Security forces resorted to lathicharge and burst teargas shells to remove Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik and his supporters who are sitting on a hunger strike at Maisuma near here today. Malik is demanding immediate release of all detenues,...

A warplane was downed in Syria's eastern Raqqa province in territory controlled by Islamic State militants and the pilot was taken captive, a monitoring group and Islamic State supporters on social media said today. Events in Syria are difficult to confirm because of restricted...

An 18-year-old black man was shot and killed by police at a gas station in a St Louis suburb near where unarmed teen Michael Brown was killed by a white officer in August, police and local media said. A live video feed showed the gas station cordoned off by yellow tape and lined by...

Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) is a Punjab-based extremist anti-Shia sect group. This Islamist terrorist group adheres to radical Deobandi sect ideology. The LeJ is considered to be a breakaway faction of its parent sectarian organization  Sipah-e-Sihaba (SeS : Army of the companions)....

  With Cuba and North Korea dominating the headlines, Americans may have missed the good news from a corner of the world that has provided very little: Iraq. Kurdish peshmerga fighters have inflicted a series of defeats on Islamic State forces, freeing a broad swath of northern...

How long does it take a continent to forget its past? Three generations – if Europe's attitude to Middle Eastern war refugees is any indicator. The Secretary-General of the Norwegian Refugee Council Jan Egeland believes the numbers fleeing conflict are at their worst since...

Israeli occupation forces on Wednesday morning arrested 10 people from different parts of the West Bank, Israeli occupation sources reported. According to the same sources, all the detainees are suspected of involvement in "popular terrorist activities "; like throwing stones...

The government has ordered a cut of nearly 20 percent in its 2014/15 healthcare budget due to fiscal strains, putting at risk key disease control initiatives in a country whose public spending on health is already among the lowest in the world. Two health ministry...

Palestinian activists on Tuesday garnished a Christmas tree in Bethlehem's Manger Square with leftover Israeli tear gas canisters and stun grenades from routine clashes in the city. Head of the independent commission for human rights in the south, Farid al-Atrash,...

President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday said the PA will cut ties with the Israeli government if the draft resolution presented last week to the UN fails to pass. Speaking to reporters in Algeria, Abbas said if the UN Security Council resolution fails the leadership will be...

Maulana Islahi "It is being said that qital (killing, violence, armed struggle) and use of force were confined only to “survival and protections and restoration of human rights” whereas the main purpose of qital is rooting out mischief and making Deen of God an effective force....

The Syrian army has prevented an attempt by ISIL Takfiri militants to enter a city in northeastern al-Hasakah Province. According to a source in the province, Syrian forces on Tuesday foiled an attempt by the Takfiri militants to attack Tal al-Gazal area in southeast...

JKLF chairman Yaseen Malik started hunger strike amid Kashmir stages mass protest demanding release of prisoners immediately. Life was badly affected in the civil lines, including historic Lal Chowk, as hundreds of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) activists took to the...

The United States is using corruption allegations against some Hungarian public officials as a 'cover story' to boost its influence in central Europe amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said. Orban's comments come amid a wider souring of relations...

A general election to return Thailand to democracy will be held in February 2016 at the earliest, a deputy prime minister said after talks with a US diplomat, a delay Washington later called 'unwise and unjustified.' The military government, established after a May 22 coup,...

Pakistan Rangers today fired small arms at forward Border out Post (BoP) along the International Border in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir. "Pakistan fired small arms at forward area in Pansar border at around 0130 hrs," an official here said. The BSF...

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and National Conference working president Omar Abdullah will submit his resignation today to Governor N N Vohra. National Conference had won 17 seats, including two independents from Zanskar and Udhampur. Mr Abdullah gave an indication about his...

A meeting of a so-called contact group aimed at ending violence in eastern Ukraine is planned for today, Russian state television quoted Denis Pushilin, vice speaker of the ' 'People's Council' leadership body, as saying. The meeting was planned for 3 pm Moscow time...

Police in southwestern China shot dead one person and detained 21 others who were part of a group of 'religious extremists' trying to cross the border into Vietnam, state media said today. The reports, carried by state television and the official Xinhua news agency, did not say...

Former US President George HW Bush, 90, was hospitalized in Houston, Texas, last night after experiencing shortness of breath, a spokesman for the 41st commander-in-chief said in a statement. Bush's latest health scare came two years after he was struck by illness during the 2012...

People have taken to the streets in the US city of Milwaukee to call for justice after prosecutors declined to charge an officer who fatally shot a mentally ill black man eight months ago. The demonstrations began after District Attorney John Chisholm decided on Monday...

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said today he hoped to avoid a snap general election next year after an improved result for his candidate in the second round of a parliamentary vote to elect a new president. Samaras, who follows a pro-NATO, pro-IMF/World Bank line,...

ISIS gang members are fleeing by crossing Turkish border after YPG and YPJ forces started a cleansing operation in Kobani. Kurdish volunteer guards  holding resistance vigil at the Suruç-Kobani border since the beginning of the ISIS attacks on Kobani, witness each of these...

Turkish army is digging trenches on the border between North Kurdistan and Efrîn Canton of West Kurdistan.  The trenches at the border were first dug in April 2014 and ANHA reporters in Cindêris town of Efrîn stated that Turkish army deployed many...

Fierce clashes reportedly broke out between YPG forces and ISIS gang members in Til Hemis town of Cizîre Canton, Rojava. YPG Press Center released a written statement on the clashes and noted that the clashes broke out last night around Ebu Qussaib village and continued till...

Torture, including rape and other forms of sexual violence, suffered by women and girls from Iraq’s Êzidî (Yezidi) minority who were abducted by the armed group calling itself the Islamic State (ISIS), highlights the savagery of ISIS rule, said Amnesty International in a new...

Clashes between the Joint Forces of Defense and ISIS gangs have continued all night long in Şingal (Sinjar) where weather conditions are getting severer and also negatively influencing the thousands of civilians on Mount Sinjar. The Operation to Liberate Sinjar is continuing despite...

The Joint Resistance Forces of Şingal have rescued a mother, two children and a wounded youth who have been held captive by the ISIS gangs in...

The operation launched by joint forces of Şingal's resistance against ISIS gangs continues. Last nights the joint forces carried out several attacks and killed at least 2 ISIS gangs and seized an important amount of ammunition. The attack took place in Heyunasir neighborhood of...

The most awaited election results were declared today in J&K and Jharkhand. A BJP wave was predicted in both; BJP won Jharkhand but lost J&K.  Even big media houses expected more than 30 seats for BJP in Jammu and Kashmir. The BJP itself was claiming 44 plus seats; but...

1. Akhnoor -Rajeev Sharma BJP 2. Amira kadal -Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari JKPDP 3. Anantnag -Mufti Mohd Sayeed JKPDP 4. Bandipore -Usman Majeed INC 5. Bani -Jewan Lal BJP 6. Banihal -Vikar Rasool Wani INC 7. Baramulla -Javid Hassan Baig...

The war barged into Aleppo city rudely and was an uninvited guest, bringing with it not only death and suffering, but also the dangerous specter of extremist radicalization...

Akbar spent a fortune translating Sanskrit texts into Persian. The Ramayana is one of them. In the late 16th century, Tulsidas began to compose the Ramcharitmanas in Awadhi, one of the earliest vernacular versions of the Ramayana. At around the same time, Mughal emperor Akbar...

Israeli occupation forces on Tuesday morning demolished several shops in the suburb of North Balou in Al Beera city, located on the opposite side of the settlement "Bethel" built on Palestinian lands in Al Beera. Occupation bulldozers demolished the shops under...

"Walla" Jewish website claimed that Qatar has provided unprecedented support for Israel despite the support provided at the same time for Hamas in Gaza Strip. The website claimed that recently Qatar has provided support to the Israeli army, paying an amount of 2.5...

Israeli occupation forces last night and on early morning on Tuesday arrested 10 young Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. According to the settlers, 7 Hamas activists have been arrested in Al Fouqa village south of Nablus and Dura al Qari'a north east of Ramallah and...

More imports than exports running into Rs 89,400 crore over the past eight years hurt India's interest and labour. Difference between expected export and actual exports over the past 10 years could be Rs.2.3 lakh crore When the Indian newspaper DNA reported on November 20...

John McCain’s meeting with commanders of the Free Syrian Army just over a year ago is old news.   But, it keeps coming back   There are some pretty damning photos of the meeting and those who attended floating around the internet..  I, along with many others,...

Barely four months after a bloody Israeli military offensive battered Gaza, experts warn that a new war could be in the offing if reconstruction is not accelerated and political divisions remain. Since the end of the deadly 50-day war between Israel and resistance, which killed nearly...

Israeli occupation forces issued five demolitions orders to Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem, the owners said. Akram al-Shurafa said that his home in al-Tur, which was built in 1938 and inherited from his grandparents, was slated for demolition. The property has...

Jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouthi on Monday criticized the UN resolution submitted to the Security Council by the PLO, urging the Palestinian leadership to reword the proposal. In a letter smuggled from jail, Barghouthi said the UN resolution is an "unjustified...

The prediction of Medhaj News pre poll survey of Jharkhand Assembly Elections exactly matched the actual counting results. They went at par with the election results today. The latest counting updates as follows. BJP – 42 JMM – 17 Cong...

BJP leading in Jharkhand; Medhaj News predicted this 2 months back. We are the only news organization that gave BJP big gains in J&K. 15:28 PDP's Haseeb Drabu wins from Rajpora Congress Candidate Asgar Karbalai wins from...

From the skies of the Baltic to the South China Sea, a new era of confrontation with Russia and China is pitting US and allied pilots against their counterparts on a scale not seen since the Cold War era. It is, current and former officials say, a major shift for...

Fighting between Libya's competing governments has spread to a third oil port, curbing gas exports to Italy and cutting crude production to less than needed to cover the North African country's own domestic requirements, officials said. The OPEC producer...

Cizîre Canton Ministry of Local Administrations and Municipalities opened the Municipality of Çilaxa town in Girkê Legê. The minister Ebdilmesîh Coxo, representatives of TEV-DEM (The Democratic Society Movement), the Institution of Martyrs' Families,...

The YJA STAR (Free Women's Troops) Central Command has said it will take revenge for Êzidî (Yazidi) women by inflicting a mortal blow on the fascism of ISIS. The Command has issued a statement regarding the ‘Liberation operation’ carried out in...

At least five people were killed and 35 wounded in clashes between Libyan pro-government forces and Islamist fighters in Benghazi, medics and military officials said. Army Special Forces and troops led by former general Khalifa Haftar have been fighting to oust Islamist groups in the...

Fresh clashes between protestors and police in Tunisia broke out when youths demonstrate against official from old guard who declared he had won Sunday’s presidential vote, residents said. The protests in Hamma erupted after veteran politician Beji Caid Essebsi declared victory...

Myanmar police fired on protesters near a mine at the centre of a long-running land dispute today, killing one person and wounding 20 others, media reports said, as the China-linked company announced plans to expand the project. A Myanmar television station and website, the Democratic...

Seven Turkish soldiers including a battalion commander were wounded today when their armoured vehicle drove over a land mine in mainly Kurdish southeast Turkey, the military said. It did not say who planted the mine, or when, but Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants have carried out...

A senior IDF intelligence officer suspected of statutory rape allegedly maintained contact online with ten other minors between the ages of 14 and 16, Times of Israel reported quoting police on Sunday. The officer, whose name remains under a gag order, was arrested last week, and his...

Following a power change in India and improvement of its relations with Israel, the government of Narendra Modi is considering changing its UN voting policy regarding the Palestinian issue. According to the popular newspaper The Hindu, the Indian government, which for many years has...

A blast in bus station in the northeast Nigerian city of Gombe today killed at least 15 people and wounded 21, an official from the national emergency services said. The cause of the blast was not immediately clear but Islamist group Boko Haram has repeatedly set off bombs targeting...

Settlers today morning stormed Al Aqsa mosque, on the occasion of "Lights festival" Hebrew Hanouaka Festival, amid a protest organized by dozens of worshipers stationed in the external door of Al Maghariba gate one of the main gates of Al Aqsa. Guards of Al Aqsa Mosque...

In 2012, then-Israeli ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren penned an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal in which he claimed that "Christians in [Gaza and the West Bank] suffer the same plight as their co-religionists throughout the region." While the...

An Israeli official has warned that a new Israeli war on the Gaza Strip is coming soon. He stressed, however, that wars are only decided on by politicians, local media has reported. "In the light of the current escalation, war with Gaza is just a matter of time," claimed the...

Around 5000 Yazidis have been killed in the attacks by the Islamic State militants since June, according to a Iraqi government report. The number of killing was confirmed by the Iraqi Ministry of Human Rights in a statement on Sunday, citing a report issued by the Ministry of...

Kurdish and Yazidi fighters battled to take the strategic northern Iraqi Kurdish town of Sinjar back from Islamic State IS on Sunday after breaking a months-long siege of the mountain above it. Seizing the town would restore the majority of Iraq's Kurds territory...

Authorities in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba have recently converted an historic mosque into an Islamic museum despite the fact that 10,000 local Muslims still have nowhere to pray, locals said. Locals said that an exhibit showcasing a collection of Muslim prayer rugs was...

Israeli source said that the occupation forces discovered Monday morning, a large bomb ready to go off in the parking lot of "Tel Aviv". The area has been evacuated and closed while also the nearby areas have been evacuated from buildings and...

Israeli occupation forces on Monday morning stormed several areas in the occupied West Bank and arrested eight people. A spokesman of the Israeli army said, the occupation forces arrested two Palestinians in the city of Al Beera under the pretext of belonging to...

Hundreds of settlers at dawn on Monday stormed "Joseph's Tomb" in the city of Nablus, under the protection of a large force of the Israeli occupation army; that imposed full closure on the eastern neighborhoods of the city and the neighboring Balata refugee...

Saudi demonstrators have taken to the streets of Qatif in Eastern Province to protest against the Riyadh regime’s unjust imprisonment of political activists, Press TV reports. During the Sunday rally, the demonstrators also called for the immediate release of the...

After around month long election process, Jammu and Kashmir is all set to see some ‘surprising’ results as counting will begin here tomorrow amid tight security arrangements. Tight security and other arrangements have been put in place for the counting of votes in 87...

An Australian court today ordered bail revoked for the partner of a self-styled Sheikh who last week stormed a Sydney cafe at gunpoint, sparking a 1+6-hour hostage crisis that left three people dead, including the gunman. Amirah Droudis, on bail after being charged with the murder of...

The ''Janata Parivar'' parties are holding a rally here today in a bid to put a joint front against the Narendra Modi government for its 'failure to fulfill election promises'. These parties, including the Janata Dal (United), Indian National Lok Dal, Rashtriya...

Suspected Maoists attacked a Forest department outpost at Vellamunda in hilly Wayanad district of Kerala early this morning. Police today said the window panes of the building were smashed and a cot in the premises was set on fire. They quoted information they had received this...

Computer systems at South Korea's nuclear plant operator have been hacked, but only non-critical data has been lost and there is no risk to the safety of nuclear installations including the country's 23 atomic reactors, the company and the government said today. The attacks...

A senior Chinese leader will visit Vietnam this month, China's state media said today, amid tension between the neighbours over competing claims in the South China Sea. Yu Zhengsheng, who heads a largely ceremonial advisory body to China's parliament but is ranked fourth in the...

It’s become even harder for Syrians to flee the war-ravaged country after Syrian authorities stopped the ferry service between Tartus and the Turkish port city of Mersin, Al-Monitor reports.   On Dec. 8, the Syrian authorities issued a decision to halt the ferries...

Yemen’s Shia Houthi movement says its Ansarullah fighters have managed to retake the Arhab district near the capital Sana’a from al-Qaeda-linked militants, Press TV reports. According to Press TV, the Ansarullah fighters on Sunday took full control of the...

China opposes all forms of cyberattacks and cyber 'terrorism', the country's foreign minister told US Secretary of State John Kerry. Foreign Minister Wang Yi made the remarks in a telephone call with Kerry last night, according to a statement posted on the foreign...

Russia vowed to take retaliatory measures against fresh US and Canadian sanctions, calling the moves as evidence that the West lacks interest in settling the Ukraine crisis. "The United States and Canada still cannot put up with the results of free declaration of will in Crimea...

A total of 185 wanted people from Damascus, Lattakia and Homs turned themselves in to the authorities. Informed sources told the State News Agency SANA on Saturday that all gunmen handed over their guns to the relevant authorities and asked for governmental pardon. The source...

Veteran politician Beji Caid Essebsi declared victory in presidential run-off vote, seen as the last step in Tunisia's shift to full democracy four years after an uprising ousted autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali. Official results are not due until today and his rival, the incumbent...

China is willing to help Russia if needed but believes that the country has the ability to overcome its current economic problems, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi was quoted as saying in a state newspaper today. The rouble has dropped about 45 percent against the dollar this year,...

Democratic Union Party (PYD) Co-President Salih Muslim reacted angrily to Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu's comment that Turkey did not support ISIS, proposing that an independent international commission be set up to carry out an inquiry. Defence line...

Tariq Ali, welcome to Democracy Now! Can you just respond to this horrific attack with 132 schoolchildren dead, 145 altogether including teachers? TARIQ ALI: Amy, two things need to be said about this straightaway. This has very little to...

Press Release The Left Stands United Against Religious Fascism and State-Sponsored Terrorism  Hundreds of Left activists demonstrated in Lahore against Peshawar school massacre, and talibaisation of the state and society. The protest was jointly organized by Awami...

It was December of 1991 and I was serving as Legal Advisor to the Palestinian Delegation to the Middle East Peace Negotiations in Washington DC. The Israelis were stalling,not even negotiating in bad faith, and the Americans under Baker and Ross were doing nothing to get the...

A Syrian military source said Sunday that the Syrian army shot down an Israeli drone over Quneitra province. The source said the UAV, Skylark 1, was taken down near al-Hadar village in Quneitra. The unmanned aircraft is made by the Israeli Elbit electronics company, it is...

The world is still hell-bent for hydrocarbon-based energy. Russia is the world’s largest producer of energy. Russia has recently announced that in the future she will no longer trade energy in US dollars, but in rubles and currencies of the trading partners. In fact, this rule will apply...

Five months ago the world watched in horror as the bully of the Middle East, Israel, launched the most brutal massacre on the Palestinians of Gaza since the Nakba (perhaps more brutal, Palestinian friends in Gaza have said). Lasting over twice as long as the 2008-09 war on Gaza...

"The Congressional Record will show only 3 of the 425 members were present on the floor to consider the sanctions bill. Two of the three feigned objection, creating the legislative equivalent of a ‘time out.’ They entered a few words of support, withdrew their...

Over the past month, attacks on both oil and the Rouble have created economic turmoil around the world, and especially in the economies of Russia and the European Union. And despite the fact that the United States has chosen Ukraine as...

Oil doesn't carry quite the overriding importance for Russia as it is commonly believed The ruble is by now greatly unervalued Russia's central bank is pursuing a wise, non-interventionist course The Russian ruble has been in...

No major incidents occurred and police made no arrests Saturday, during 10 hours of protesting over the fatal shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice. Protesters from Cleveland and Ferguson, Missouri demonstrated at several different locations across the city. "No...

Today Dr. Paul Craig Roberts warned King World News that the Russians are going to unleash what he called the "ultimate black swan" against the West. Dr. Roberts also discussed how a terrifying series of events would then bring the Western financial system to it knees as the banking...

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio faced the biggest crisis of his time in office today following the fatal shooting of two police officers, in an attack intended as retribution for recent US police killings of unarmed black men. Police said the daylight yesterday shooting was the work of a...

Brief prepared for the Indian political leadership –  Summary The Jewish Religion and the Zionist state of Israel sees...

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 Olive Association of Aid distributed 100 packages of aid of food and 432 packages of clothes to the poor families in Efrin. The Olive Association is under the supervision of Aid Center of Ministry of Social Affairs. It is reported that the Amrican Medilac Association delivered...

Written by Cyril Almeida in the post-Peshawar attack ongoing phase, an article in Pakistan’s Dawn seems to have raised the hackles of the Pakistani administration. More so, as the piece questions the role played by Punjab—Pakistan’s most powerful province that...

The Turkish government does not have a great record on media freedom. Earlier this year, leaked phone recordings revealed the president (he was prime minister at the time), Recep Tayyip Erdogan, giving directions to a board member of a national media network about its television and newspaper...

A secret CIA review published recently by WikiLeaks reveals that Israel has been among the least successful countries regarding the targeted killing of opponents, Lebanese newspaperAl-Akhbar reported on Thursday. The review shows that the killings carried out by the US and its ally...

The official version of this event cannot be trusted fully. But in the wake of drug mafia connections emerging in the Peshawar attacks, the discovery of contrabond drugs in the possession of an alleged Lashkar operative in India seems to point towards the drugs and terrorism...

District administration has imposed Section 144 ahead of counting process in mountainous Ramban district  of Jammu and Kashmir. District Magistrate Ramban Farooq Ahmad Shah today in exercise of powers vested in him under Section 144 CrPC, "imposed...

Lebanon hopes France will deliver helicopters to its army faster than planned so it can fight pseudo-jihadis/criminal ISIS gangs encroaching from neighbouring Syria, Lebanese Prime Minister Tammam Salam said in an interview today. France and Lebanon signed a 3 billion...

US president Barack Obama said in a TV interview set for broadcast later today that he did not consider the cyber attack on Sony Corp which has been blamed on North Korea to be an act of war, but rather cyber vandalism. Obama and his advisers are weighing up how to...

Egypt opened the Rafah border crossing today for incoming passengers from the Gaza Strip for the first time in almost two months, Palestinian and Egyptian officials said. Rafah is the only major crossing between impoverished Gaza, home to 1.8 million Palestinians,...

Tunisians voted today in a presidential run-off election that completes the country's transition to full democracy nearly four years after an uprising which ousted autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali. With a new progressive constitution and a full...

Uttar Pradesh Minority Commission team which visited Madhu Nagar slum in Agra, where recently 57 Muslim families were converted to Hinduism, termed the conversion a farce. Shafi Azmi, one of the four commission members who met the slum dwellers for a report on the...

Congress President Sonia Gandhi who was admitted to Sir Gangaram Hospital on December 18 for treatment of the infection of lower respiratory tract, is stable and feeling better, doctors said today. ''Ms Gandhi is feeling better. Her condition is stable.  She has undergone...

US President Barack Obamawas briefed on the fatal shootings of two New York polic officers, a White House official said on Saturday. Obama was informed of the shootings while playing golf in Kailua, Hawaii, where he is vacationing for two weeks with his...

Tamil actor D Napolean, who was among many stars who had taken the plunge into politics as is the tradition in Tamil Nadu, today left the DMK and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party. Mr Napolean joined the BJP in the presence of  party's national president Amit...

Three months after the historic YPG/YPJ resistance to ISIS attacks on Kobanî began, and as the gangs are being forced back, the people who took refuge in Suruç and other places have begun to return. On the 98th day of the resistance by the YPG and YPJ fighters, the ISIS...

ISIS has executed close to 100 foreign fighters who wanted to leave as the organisation loses ground in Iraq and Syria. According to the Financial Times there is disarray in ISIS as it suffers defeats at the hands of the Kurds and the Iraqi army. It is reported that close to 100...

Solidarity between Kurdish and Arab women increases as YPJ (Women's Defense Units) becomes more effecive in the fight for liberation of women, democracy and equality. Arab women from village of Aliya Xwarê noted that YPG and YPJ forces liberated the village four months...

In Qamişlo, the second training program for the people who were registered by the Ministry of Defense after the law of self-defense was approved and completed. The ministry previously announced that these units are called Defense Forces. The training program started in Til Merûf...

In south of Kobanî, YPG forces inflicted heavy blows on ISIS gangs and killed at least two of them last night. According to ANHA correspondent in the canton, severe clashes broke out last night between ISIS gangs and YPG forces. ANHA reporter also said that the clashes continue...

Senior officials from the Palestinian Authority admitted over the weekend that they were under heavy pressure not to request a vote on the Palestinian resolution presented last week to the United Nations Security Council. Despite previous...

According to a quote ​by Nasser Al Sudani, head of the Iranian Parliament's Palestine committee.posted on the website "Al Resalah net," Iran is willing to arm Palestinians in the West Bank.  Al Sudani told the...

Israeli news website "Rotter" said that Palestinian youths threw stones on cars of settlers of the settlement of "Gush Etzion" south of the occupied West Bank. According to the site, settlers were injured by stones and...

A Palestinian man from the northern West Bank says that a group of Jewish settlers attempted to kidnap his four-year-old son from a parked car on Friday evening. Majd Asous told media agencies that he left his four-year-old son...

The Organization of the Temple Mount Union published  calls via the Internet, to break into Al Aqsa  mosque at 9 AM, Monday morning. Referrals indicate that the intrusion will be at the occasion of...

Israeli occupation forces arrested, last night and at dawn on Sunday, three Palestinians from the occupied West Bank. According to Yediot Ahronot site, two of the three belong to Hamas; all of them have been moved to an unknown...

Israeli occupation forces, on Sunday, opened fire on farmers and fishermen in the cities of Khan Younis and Gaza, amid the flight of military aircraft in the air at low altitudes. Witnesses said that IOF troops stationed in the military...

At least seven pro-Taliban terrorists have been killed in two separate attacks by Pakistani security forces on their hideouts in the volatile northwest. According to local media reports, in the first incident on Saturday, police and paramilitary soldiers attacked militant hideouts in...

Three people were killed and four others seriously injured in a powerful blast in Manipur's capital city of Imphal Sunday morning, police said. The injured have been rushed to the Regional Institute of Medical Science and Hospital. There condition were stated to be...

A former French airline boss says there was a cover-up in the mysterious disappearance of Malaysian Flight MH370 earlier this year, stating that the aircraft was likely hijacked and possibly shot down by the US. Marc Dugain, who is the former head of Proteus Airlines and a well-known...

Security forces in Sweden say two separate car bomb attacks have ripped through the Scandinavian country’s southern city of Malmo, with no immediate reports of human loss. According to AFP, police spokeswoman, Linda Pleym, said one of the bombs went off at the foot of a building...

South Korea has suspended imports of US poultry and poultry products because of an outbreak of bird flu in the United States, the Agriculture Ministry said in a statement today. The suspension, from Saturday, comes as South Korea is struggling to contain its own outbreak of bird flu in...

Clashes have broken out between police and Occupy Democracy demonstrators, demanding what they refer to as a genuine democracy in Britain. British police swamped a peaceful demonstration staged by Occupy Democracy protesters calling for “genuine democracy free from corporate...

Most news accounts of Syria paint a desolate, sectarian country where people in areas secured by the Syrian army are miserable and where people, above all, want to see Bashar al-Assad gone. In all regards I found the opposite. In particular, I found wide-spread, and usually ardent, support for...

French police have shot and killed a man they claim attacked three policemen with a knife in the central city of Tours.  According to the French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve the assailant inflicted facial wounds to one of the officers before he was shot in...

A gunman ambushed and fatally shot two New York police officers on Saturday and then killed himself, police said, and a social media post indicated it may have been in revenge for the police chokehold death of an unarmed black man. The officers were killed without warning as they sat...

Turnout for Liberian parliamentary elections appeared to be low as concerns about Ebola kept many voters at home. Polling stations were largely empty yesterday, after voting began at 8 am (1330 IST) in the seafront capital Monrovia, with voters occasionally drifting in, despite...

Security forces killed four militants in eastern Saudi Arabia in a raid on a hideout used by gunmen who killed a policeman in the area last week, the interior ministry said. The shootout was the deadliest incident in recent years in Awamiya, a village that has been witnessing unrest...

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon praised US President Barack Obama for what he called courage and vision in renewing ties with Cuba and said he had asked Washington to pursue such a course. Cuban President Raul Castro also demonstrated leadership in reciprocating the opening, Ban said...

Tunisians vote today in a presidential run-off election that completes the country's last steps to full democracy nearly four years after the uprising that toppled autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali. With a new progressive constitution and a full parliament elected in October,...

The Peshawar Massacre is a turning point against the forces of religious extremism, terror and the Anglo-Zionist Imperial war-machine. The struggle against these very reactionary forces, will define the course of our collective human history and over the course of the coming...

The Hamas movement on Saturday called Israeli airstrikes against a military base in Gaza a "dangerous escalation" as political parties across the Palestinian political spectrum condemned the first bombing since a ceasefire ended the...

From the past few days the opposition has been attacking the Narendra Modi government on issues like religious conversions and contrioversial statements made by BJP leaders. All this has also stalled the progress in Parliament as the opposition parties create ruckus on thse issues in the house...

 The final and fifth phase of elections in Jammu & Kashmir concluded on 20th December with voting on 20 seats which fall in the Jammu region. After analyzing all the five phases of election and the perception of local voters in Jammu, Kashmir and Laddakh, the...

 After 96 communes in the neighborhoods and villages of Qamişlo were established, their executives held a congress to establish an assembly called Assembly of Qamişlo Province. Also they elected 20 people for People's Assembly of Cizîre Canton. The...

YPG (People's Defense Units) Press Centre has announced that YPG/YPJ forces acting together with HPG/YJA STAR and YBŞ forces have reopened the corridor between Rojava and Mount Şingal (Sinjar). According to YPG Press Centre, YPG/YPJ forces have launched an operation in order to...

YPG (People's Defense Units) Press Centre has announced in a written statement that the attacks of ISIS gangs aiming to occupy Kobanî continued on the 95th day. A total of 33 gang members were killed in the last 24 hours of clashes. Southern...

In a major blow to ISIS ambitions, military officials on Mount Şingal (Sinjar) have announced that HPG guerrillas, YJA-STAR forces and YBŞ fighters have launched an operation to liberate Şingal. It has also been reported that guerrilla forces have encircled Şingal and advanced up...

Minister of Power, Coal and Non-Renewable Energy Piyush Goyal today said 'crony capitalism' played a major role in the entire coal-gate scam which rocked the basis of power sector in the country. Interacting with industry leaders at FICCI Annual General Meeting here, he said...

Angry Jordanian protesters have poured out into the streets to condemn the government’s plan to sign a multi-billion-dollar gas deal with Israel. Members of various political groups as well as ordinary citizens took part in the Friday protest...

11 month old infant girl child, Balqis Ghawadra, is now the youngest prisoner in the world. Her Story On Wednesday 26 November 2014, Nihal, a Palestinian woman, headed to the Ishel Israeli prison in Beer Sheba, with her daughter Balqis, 11 months old, and son...

Vitaly Churkin, Russian Permanent Representative in the UN, on Thursday told the media that Russia is ready to support a draft resolution moved in the UN Security Council to establish a Palestinian state. "The text is good. I believe that we will certainly support it," Said...

“There is a delink between policy and research which is affecting the sector and this gap needs to be urgently bridged by platforms like this said Parathsarathy Sen Sharma, 1994 batch IAS officer who has spent large part of his professional life leading implementation of education...

In an outrageous incident, an Israeli court extended the detention of seven Palestinians from Jerusalem for "incitement" via Facebook for at least three more days on Friday. The head of a committee for the families of...

The former Norwegian Premier, Kjell Magne Bondevik, has named the Islamic Republic of Iran as a powerful player in the Middle East region. According to IRIB World Service, the former Norwegian premier, in an interview with the Saturday edition of Tehran-based daily “Iran”,...

In what can be seen as growing Israeli isolation on the international stage, a UN non-binding resolution said that 'environmental disaster' caused by destruction of oil tanks in IAF strike during 2006 Second Lebanon War resulted in an oil slick that covered the...

Newly-released footage shows the ISIL Takfiri group threatening to kill Lebanese soldiers who are held hostage by the terrorist group. The footage, obtained by AFP, shows a French-speaking terrorist belonging to the ISIL group, warning that three senior Lebanese politicians, opposed to...

Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu says his country may start training and equipping terrorists fighting in Syria by March as part of a deal with the United States. According to Press TV, Cavusoglu said on Friday "We have reached a clarified framework on the training...

F-16 Israeli occupation warplanes launched at dawn, on Saturday, a raid targeting Hittin freed settlement, west of the city of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. F-16 aircraft flying at low distances in the atmosphere of the Strip...

Israeli occupation  police arrested two young Jerusalemites in Jerusalem in the Wadi Joz neighborhood last night. Occupation forces make daily arrests campaigns in the neighborhoods and towns of Jerusalem, on...

Israeli occupation gunboats on Saturday morning, opened heavy fire at several boats of Palestinian fishermen off the coast of Alsoadeneih area northwest of Gaza Strip. According to witnesses, the fire targeted small fishing boats...

President Barack Obama called it his 'who's been naughty, and who's been nice' list: a checklist of reporters to call on during his traditional year-end news conference. But the list, prepared by his press secretary Josh Earnest yesterday, was anything but traditional....

Cuba will defend its socialist principles and will not return to capitalism just because it has agreed a detente with the United States, the daughter of President Raul Castro said, dispelling any notion that US companies would be free to roll into Cuba. "The people of Cuba...

If President Obama has managed to ride the political crisis staring him, it is by no means due to  compromise with right wing Republicans. In restoring relations with Cuba amd creating new jobs, Obama was seen at his best, combating the right with a good Kennedy era appeal to liberal-left...

Cyber empathy between the tweeple of India and Pakistan was never more heartfelt. Following the Peshawar school killings on Tuesday, the hashtag #IndiaWithPakistan started doing the rounds on Twitter. As per Twitter's "reverb" tool, which measures hashtags in real time, the number...

Imams and preachers used Friday sermons to lambast the "barbarians" who massacred over 100 innocent schoolchildren at an army school in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Tuesday.  Drawing heavily on the policy of pardon and mercy on the unarmed children and women, as laid by...

Polling started on a peaceful note in all  the 20 Assembly constituencies of three border districts in the  fifth and final phase of Jammu and Kashmir Assembly polls amid chill and tight security arrangements. Braving intense cold conditions, voters thronged the...

The plunge of the Russian currency this week is the drastic outcome of policies implemented by the major imperialist powers to force Russia to submit to American and European imperialism’s neo-colonial restructuring of Eurasia. Punishing the Putin regime’s interference...

"Putin was so cool, calm, collected – and eager to delve into details - at his press conference because he knows Moscow is able to move in total autonomy. This is – of course – an...

"The past few months in Ukraine have been jam packed with events: elections, vote counting, and controversy over how power would be divided among powerful interest groups," columnist Ivan Zatsarin writes. After all these exciting things passed,...

Its an outdated strategy which worked against the USSR, but won't work against contemporary Russia Falling ruble insulates Russia from budgetary problems which might have resulted from falling oil price US is destroying its own shale industry while leaving...

It must be so frustrating for the Obama administration. They are pulling their hair trying to muster up some good old fashioned American regime change in Russia, only to be faced with sky high approval ratings for Vladimir Putin. It’s a US color revolution, full court...

Imagine a western leader doing a live, three hour Q&A session with a hostile media? Could President Obama speak in front of hundreds of journalists for over three hours, unscripted and without a teleprompter? Highly doubtful. How about Hillary? Can Mrs. Clinton take on the...

An advertisement for buying Syrian girls has been circulating in Saudi Arabia’s capital, Riyadh, as the deadly war in Syria goes on with no sight in end. According to al-Watan Arabic language newspaper the advertisement embodies a telephone number belonging to someone enlisted as...

This observer has long sought an extended visit to the old city of Aleppo which is also one of this cradle of civilizations cultural and educational centers. Despite being in a continuing war zone, the visit materialized when security authorities granted permission and assistance to this...

What kind of mind believes that it can ascend to paradise from the graves of 132 innocent schoolchildren? The same mindset that kills at least 150 women, many pregnant, because they refuse to become sexual slaves in the Iraqi province of Al Anbar. At around the same time that a suicide...

Some might have wanted to become engineers, doctors or sportspersons. Yet others would have dreamt of travelling around the globe in 80 days. But all the dreams and desires of 132 children were brutally interrupted on Tuesday in Peshawar, Pakistan when a group of seven Taliban attacked an...

It was reported recently that Germany’s broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) investigated what turned out to be hundreds of trucks a day carrying billions of dollars in supplies, flowing into Syria and directly into the hands of the so-called “Islamic State”...

US foreign policy makers who claim to be fighting a war on terror are actually supporting terrorism: Their wars are terror and they fund terror groups and their victims are the same ones as the terror groups as well The US is the largest sponsor of terror world-wide. And now we see the...

As US President Barack Obama announced his surprise «historic» bid to normalise relations with Cuba this week, the New York Times swooned with glowing news. ‘US to Restore Full Relations With Cuba, Erasing a Last Trace of Cold War Hostility’ was how its top headline put...

A mourning cum protest meeting was organized by Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist), Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India (Marxist), Communist Ghadar Party of India at Dadar Railway Station (East), Mumbai to condemn the Peshawar School Massacre by the Tehrik-e-Taliban...

A lawmaker from one of the small Greek parties whose support the government needs to avert a snap election said today he had been offered a bribe to cast his ballot for the ruling coalition's presidential candidate. The accusation by Pavlos Haikalis, an actor and member of the...

With the introduction of SVEEP programme by the Election Commission of India in the year 2010, a greater awareness and enthusiasm about the importance of voting right has been observed amongst the electors.  "During the four phases of current assembly elections...

Syrian businessmen and trade officials say they are worried the economic lifeline provided by Iran is under strain from plunging oil prices, despite public messages of support from Syria's strongest regional ally. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has relied on oil-producing Iran to...

Russia's Foreign ministry said today it was deeply disappointed US President Barack Obama had signed into law a new bill on sanctions against Moscow over the Ukraine crisis and said the bill was 'anti-Russian by its nature'. Obama said yesterday no new sanctions against...

Turkey has issued an arrest warrant for US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, who President Tayyip Erdogan accuses of seeking to overthrow him, state broadcaster TRT Haber reported today. Gulen, who has lived in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania since 1999, has been in open conflict...

Pakistan executed two prominent militants on Friday, sources said, in a clear response to this week's massacre of more than 130 children at a school.     The hanged militants had no links to the Taliban's assault in the city of Peshawar on Tuesday,...

The most hated man in Pakistan is a 36-year-old father of three and volleyball enthusiast nicknamed 'Slim'. His real name is Umar Mansoor and the Pakistani Taliban say he masterminded this week's massacre of 132 children and nine staff at a school in...

In 2013, 12 people died in terrorist attacks in the west compared with 22,000 in non-western countries. How can poor Muslims escape the scourge of Islamist extremism? Those who suffer most from Islamist extremism are not people in rich western nations, but other poor...

JD (U) heavyweight and former chief minister Nitish Kumar today said the proposed merger of JD (U) and RJD would be formalised in the third meeting of Janata Parivar constituents. Talking to mediapersons outside the Bihar legislative council today, he said two...

Comrades of MLKP fighter Sibel Bulut (Sarya Özgür), who died a week ago while fighting in the ranks of the YPJ in Kobanî, said Bulut was a warm, spirited, sincere and ideal militant, adding: “We will fight to the end for the ideals of the fraternity of peoples, equality and...

Yekîtiya Star formed two communes for women in Qamişlo city of Cizîre Canton. In order to organize women in Rojava, Yekîtiya Star launched a campaing to establish communes for women. Yekîtiya Star opened Martyr Rûken and Martyr Şîlan communes in...

While people are maintaining the border vigil in the villages of Mehser and Misaynter, they formed a human chain and saluted the ongoing resistance in Kobani on the 96th day, as they do every day. The people joined hands and, after remembering those who have fallen in the...

Cizîre Canton Ministry of Education is going to award Kurdish teachers for their successful performance during the first semester of academic year 2014-2015. The ministry released a written statement on the approachin anniversary of establishment of Rojava Democratic Autonomy....

Nine Palestinians were injured on Friday as Israeli occupation forces suppressed a march in the Ramallah-area village of Turmusayya. Demonstrators were attempting to set up a memorial for Ziad Abu Ein, a PA minister who died in the village on...

A rocket fired from Gaza Strip landed in southern Israel on Friday, with no damage or injuries reported, Israel's army said. Rrocket siren sounded in the Eshkol regional council at around noon, with residents reporting blasts shortly afterwards. Israeli occupation...

The United Nations Security Council could vote on a draft UN resolution that sets terms for a final Israeli-Palestinian peace deal within 24 hours, PA Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki said Friday. The PA officialsaid that the UN vote...

New Delhi “There is a delink between policy and research which is affecting the sector and this gap needs to be urgently bridged by platforms like this said Parathsarathy Sen Sharma, 1994 batch IAS officer who has spent large part of his professional life leading implementation...

Israeli occupation forces arrested, on Thursday evening, a young man from the village of Al Areqah west of Jenin, and wounded a number of citizens during the storming of the village and firing gas bombs in the streets. According to local security sources the Israeli...

Lina Khattab, 18-year-old first-year media student at Bir Zeit University and dancer in the El-Funoun Palestinian cultural dance troupe, was arrested on 13 December during a march by Bir Zeit University students to Ofer military prison. She is active in Palestinian national and...

Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Ya'alon recently ordered the relocation of two military bases which are positioned on "state land" in the occupied West Bank to allow the expansion of two illegal settlements, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported...

Majority leaders of different separatist organisations were released after their detention shortly before five phased poll process started on November 24 to ensure peaceful polling in the Kashmir valley. However, chairman of the hardliner Hurriyat Conference (HC) Syed Ali Shah Geelani...

One million people have been wounded during Syria's civil war and diseases are spreading as regular supplies of medicine fail to reach patients, the World Health Organisation's Syria representative said. A plunge in vaccination rates from 90 per cent before the war to 52 per...

Two months after donors pledged 5.4 billion dollar to help rebuild Gaza after the war between Israel and Hamas, Palestinian, UN and other officials say barely 2 percent of the money has been transferred. The conference in Cairo had been hailed as a success, with Qatar promising 1...

A crowd gathered outside the main entrance of Lal Masjid in Islamabad on Thursday evening to hold a candlelight vigil for the victims of the Peshawar school attack. The vigil started just after evening prayers with a two-minute silence for the school attack victims. It soon swelled to...

The city administration on Thursday averted a possible clash between protesting citizens and Lal Masjid cleric and madrassa students of the  mosque. Civil society activists and common citizens had assembled right in front of Lal Masjid’s main entrance gate to hold a...

China said today it had lodged a protest with the United States after President Barack Obama signed into law legislation authorising the sale of up to four Perry-class guided missile frigates to Taiwan. Foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang said the Taiwan issue was one of China's...

The Pakistani army killed 32 militants in an ambush in a remote valley near the Afghan border, the military said today, and 27 in other clashes, four days after a Taliban massacre of children at a school. The ambush took place overnight in the northwestern Tirah valley in the Khyber...

Iran has criticized as “political” a resolution by the United Nations General Assembly on alleged human rights violations in the country. According to Press TV, Iranian Deputy Ambassador to the UN Gholam-Hossein Dehqani dismissed the resolution as “political,...

The United Nations has called for USD 8.4 billion to provide emergency aid for the Syrian people displaced by the ongoing crisis in the country. According to Press TV, the UN’s appeal for the year 2015 was made in the German capital, Berlin, on Thursday and is aimed at helping...

Three Maoists -- wanted in connection with recent Kirandul ambush and Koriras blasts – were arrested while five other Naxals, including a woman, surrendered in insurgency-hit Dantewada district, police said. Ganga Mandavi (20), Handa Ram (25) and Linga Mandavi (28), all active...

The fate of 213 candidates, including eight women, in 20 Assembly constituencies will be decided as  a total of over 18 lakh voters will cast their ballot in the fifth and final phase of Jammu and Kashmir elections tomorrow. An official said a strong 18,28,904 electorate,...

US counter-terrorism officials backed negotiations with two prominent jihadi clerics in a failed attempt to save the life of an American hostage who was later beheaded by Islamic State militants, the Guardian newspaper reported today. Citing emails, the Guardian said talks with the...

It was the most deadly attack on any school by religious fanatics. 146 were killed in a Peshawar Army Public School, including 136 children, ages ranging from 10 to 17 years. They asked the children to recite Kalma and then fired at them. It was an attack on Muslim children by Muslim...

China must crack down 'harshly and quickly' on cases involving terror attacks, national security and social stability in its restive region of Xinjiang, the country's top judge said, in comments likely to further worry rights groups and exiles. Resource-rich Xinjiang is...

The chief of the most powerful Tuareg tribe in northern Mali died, signalling a change of leadership as Tuareg separatists are locked in peace talks with the government. The 87-year-old patriarch Intallah Ag Attaher, who had led the Ifoghas tribe for several decades, died yesterday in...

At least 25 people have been killed and 103 wounded in the past eight days of fighting between pro-government forces and Islamist groups in Libya's second city Benghazi, medics said. That brings the death toll to around 475 since the army and forces led by former general Khalifa...

A Chinese court has jailed for three years the captain of a plane that crashed four years ago killing 44 people after finding him guilty of negligence, state media reported today. Qi Quanjun, in charge of the fatal Henan Airlines flight, was charged with failing to...

Suspected Boko Haram gunmen kidnapped 172 women and children and killed 35 other people on Sunday during a raid on the northeast Nigerian village of Gumsuri, residents said. Although no one has claimed responsibility, the attack bore the hallmarks of Boko Haram, which abducted more...

Two UN officials have asked Kabul not to ignore the challenges that lie ahead. The challenges include simmering insecurity and an escalating drug problem despite the fact that Afghanistan upon recent political developments such as the formation of a unity...

Following Obama's decision to restore ties with Cuba, fight between conservatives and the American liberal-left has sharpened. Republicans in Congress searched for a strategy to sink or at least slow President Barack Obama's plan to normalize US relations with Cuba, drawing a...

Saudi Arabia’s oil Minister Ali al-Nuaimi has downplayed the recent price fluctuations in the oil market, saying the country cannot reduce its output despite falling prices. “It is difficult, or even impossible, for Saudi Arabia or OPEC (the Organization...

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff vowed to help implement the toughest corporate governance standards at state-controlled oil producer Petróleo Brasileiro SA, which is grappling with the worst corruption scandal of its history. At a speech in Brasilia, Rousseff, 67, urged...

The Yemeni parliament has given a vote of confidence to the government of Prime Minister Khaled Mahafoudh Bahah following months of severe political crisis. The majority of over 200 lawmakers who were present at the voting session in Yemen's 301-seat legislature approved the new...

Afghanistan Defense Ministry said that 59 suspected militants were arrested in military operations in different parts of Kabul Province. A statement issued by the ministry on Thursday said that during these operations, security forces confiscated military uniforms, binoculars, mines,...

The Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha wants to install Nathuram Godse's bust at public places in cities across India, the far-right political party's national president Chandra Prakash Kaushik said on Thursday. Social scientists feel the move might not only be a ploy to catch eyeballs but...

South Korea's Constitutional Court ruled today to disband a minority left-wing party accused of pro-North Korea activities that it said violated the basic principles of free democracy and stripped its five members of parliament of their seats. Eight of the court's nine judges...

Eight children have been killed and a woman injured, police said today, during what several media outlets reported was a mass stabbing in Australia's tropical northern city of Cairns. Australia is already in a state of heightened alert after police stormed a Sydney cafe early on...

This morning Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tweeted pictures of his candle-lighting ceremony with an Israeli army unit on...

The international community delivered a stinging rebuke to Israel's settlement construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, saying Wednesday the practice violates its responsibilities as an occupying power. A declaration adopted by consensus among 126 of the 196...

Deir Azzor A Syrian military source near the Deir Ezzor Military Airport has confirmed to Al-Masdar News that the Syrian Arab Army’s 104th Brigade of the Republican Guard is now approaching the Deir Ezzor Aquarium. The source was not able to provide more information; however, he...

The "wooden" Ruble is a fiat currency issued by a bank with a low basic capital ratio and too few real assets. Dollar is worse.  Last night, the Russian central bank announced a shock decision to hike up its key interest rate from 10.5% to 17%, effective immediately....

US Secretary of State John Kerry reportedly told the Palestinians the United States will veto a proposed Palestinian resolution "to end the occupation" at the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday, Palestinian sources said. Kerry, however, told a press conference on...

Physicians for Human Rights called for federal investigation on CIA torture program participation, calling rectal feeding technique ‘form of sexual assault Health professionals who assisted in the CIA’s torture programme of terror suspects “betrayed the most...

Draft reports of the official inquiry into the Iraq war have sent shockwaves through Whitehall, with key players fighting to tone down or even delete the criticism contained in them. Extracts from the much delayed report by Sir John Chilcot, which in some cases run to hundreds of...

The floodgates have begun to open across Europe on recognition of Palestinian statehood. On Friday the Portuguese parliament became the latest European legislature to call on its government to back statehood, joining Sweden, Britain, Ireland, France and Spain. In coming days similar...

“John Kerry, the US Secretary of State, allegedly struck a deal with King Abdullah in September under which the Saudis would sell crude at below the prevailing market price. That would help explain why the price has been falling at a time when, given the turmoil in Iraq and Syria caused by...

Latin America's transition out of dictatorship hinged on two words the U.S. would be wise to heed: "Never again." The Senate Select Intelligence...

PRESS STATEMENT We meet you at a time when the entire world, every parent on earth, is grieving the loss of 132 innocent children shot dead in Peshawar in Pakistan. That such brutality is seen in the 21st century is evidence of the dangers of fanaticism and extremism hate and...

A driver for ride-sharing company Uber in Boston was charged with the kidnapping and rape of a woman who used the service earlier this month. The driver, Alejandro Done, pleaded not guilty in Cambridge District Court yesterday, the Boston Globe reported. The incident allegedly...

When you can't beat your enemy, make fun of him/her; then, if that does not work, talk banal, and `invite' him/her for talks, which you have jeopardised and repeatedly failed in years on end! Israel seems to follow this dictum--hours after Likud foreign minister dismissed...

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte cancelled a trip to Brussels, where he was due to take part in an EU summit, to deal with an escalating domestic political crisis at home. Rutte said in a letter to parliament today he would not attend the European Council meetings,...

The Portuguese government moved today to halt a four-day strike at the TAP national airline planned for the busy Christmas period, invoking special powers that allow dismissal or in some cases criminal charges against strikers. Portugal's UGT umbrella union...

The European Union has slapped additional bans on Crimea, which reunified with the Russian Federation earlier this year. The new sanctions, which were announced on Thursday, ban all investment and limit cruise ships from Crimea’s ports as the bloc says...

In what could be termed as the irony of the year 2014,  British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, announcing the end of a two year review of his country's relations with the EU bloc, said that the bloc must relinquish power 'in many areas' in favour of member...

Cameroon's army killed 116 Boko Haram militants yesterday when they attacked a base in the Far North region of the country, said defence ministry spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Didier Badjeck. Militants ambushed a column of army vehicles using an improvised explosive device and...

The CBI has filed three charge sheets in connection with alleged irregularities in the implementation of National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) funds in Uttar Pradesh in the Court of Special Judge in Ghaziabad. "In first case, charge sheet has been filed against the then DPO/CMO...

India today condemned a Pakistan court ruling of granting bail to 26/11 mastermind Zaki-ur-Rahman Lakhvi. It was unacceptable that a person designated as international terrorist was being released on bail, External Affairs Ministry spokesman Syed Akbaruddin said. ''We...

 A new training session on traffic has just started for female members of Asayîş (Public Security) and Traffic Office of Cizîre Canton in Rimêlan city. The training to which 40 women are attending is held at the Star Thought and Ideology Center....

 Cizîre Canton Ministry of Defense opened many Self-Defense Centers in the canton to inform families about the Law of Defense and register young members of the society for joining YPG forces. The law was approved on July 23 and requires young people join the...

Accessed by Medhaj News, People's Defense Forces Press Centre (HPG-BIM) announced in a written statement that HPG guerrillas had carried out two suicide attacks against ISIS gangs in Keywan hamlet in Kirkuk yesterday noon. Two members of the ISIS gangs were killed in the HPG...

The PLO on Wednesday presented a draft UN resolution laying out terms for a final peace deal with Israel but sought to avoid a clash with the United States by saying they were open to negotiations on the text. The draft...

Israeli occupation soldiers shot and injured a Palestinian man during an arrest raid in the Nablus refugee camp of Askar early Thursday, Palestinian security officials said. Several Israeli occupation military vehicles stormed the camp...

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani says Tehran supports the fight against terrorism in all regions of Iraq. According to Press TV, President Rouhani in a meeting with visiting Iraqi Parliament Speaker Salim al-Jabouri on Wednesday said: “The Islamic Republic of Iran has always...

A Delhi Sessions Court today sentenced to life imprisonment all the four convicts in former Railway Minister Lalit Narayan Mishra murder case. All the four accused were held guilty by the court after 39 years of the occurrence. Mishra was killed in a bomb blast at Samastipur...

   Statistic released under the title: ‘List of Foreign Deaths in Fight Against Syrian Army’ on 03 January 2014 shows an estimate of the composition of the so called ‘Syrian Rebels’. The attached image counts the first 20...

At least 28 people were killed and dozens were injured in the latest clashes between armed groups in the Central African Republic, police said on Thursday. According to AFP, an official from the armed police said: “Violent clashes broke out on Tuesday in the centre of...

A military-appointed council in Thailand has suggested stripping the country’s parliament of the power to pick a prime minister and cabinet. According to the reports, the recommendation by the so-called National Reform Council came as the body, which is appointed by the ruling...

Five hardcore Naxals, including two deputy commanders carrying reward Rs 8 lakh each, have surrendered in Chhattisgarh's rebel-stronghold Dantewada district, police said. The surrendered rebels were identified Barsha Sukhram and Rajaram Kashyap (both Deputy Commander of Company one...

Two bodies were recovered under suspicious circumstances in the Kashmir valley, official sources said here today. They said panic gripped Khazan Matti area when some locals saw a body in a nallah in Kralpora in Kupwara district. Police took away the body for identification,...

This bill was passed by Congress on December 3, 2014 and goes to the President next. The text of the bill below is as of Dec 5, 2014 (Passed Congress/Enrolled Bill). One Hundred Thirteenth Congress of the United States of America 2d...

Kadir Çakmak who was initially reported to be 17-year-old but later confirmed as 16 was murdered by Turkish police in Sur district of the main Kurdish city Amed (Diyarbakır) late yesterday. Witnesses speaking about the execution, who asked...

Head of Hamas Political Bureau Khaled Meshaal yesterday reiterated that his movement runs the file on "Israeli prisoners arrested in Gaza during the summer's war in a special way", local Palestinian news agency Safa reported. ...

The number of Palestinian women being held as prisoners in Israeli occupation jails has reached 21, of whom three are minors, a prisoners' rights group said Wednesday. The Palestinian Prisoner's Society said that the numbers...

A senior Pakistani Taliban commander, Latif Mehsud, has reportedly been handed over to Pakistan by the US from Afghanistan. The US military confirmed it "transferred custody" of three Pakistanis, but did not reveal their identities. The Afghan government was not...

Three groups of Zionist settlers on Thursday morning, broke into Al Aqsa mosque, and roamed  in various precincts under the protection of the Zionist occupation police. Al Aqsa  guards said that the...

Israeli occupation military boats positioned along the Sudanese region north of Gaza Strip launched its heavy weapons Thursday morning, towards Palestinian fishing boats.  Witnesses said the shooting led...

On December 16, suicide bombers sent jointly by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan and al-Qaeda killed 141 people in an Army Public School branch, 131 of them boys aged between 10 and 20. The school caters to 500 sons of army personnel. The killers were dressed in official paramilitary...

At least one person has been killed and five others have been injured in clashes between police and protesters against the re-drawing of local districts in Peru. The deadly clashes erupted in the city of Cusco on Wednesday when riot police used tear gas to push back thousands of...

Local sources in the western village of Al Laban in the north west of the city of Ramallah said that a Jewish settler ran over a Palestinian child at the age of six and then fled. According to sources, the child Amr Osman...

Ahead of elections in Nigeria, which will most likely see victory of anti-incumbent candidate Muhammad Buhari, ending thus the rule of pro-US President Jonathan,   the Boko Haram terrorist group has killed as many as 32 people and kidnapped scores of others in the restive northeastern part...

Want to see how a superpower goes bonkers over trifles when its patronising assumptions are challened? Visit the controversy over North Korea hacking the Sony film `The Interview', a raunchy comedy revolving around the fictional assassination of a North Korean leader, which...

A Nigerian court martial has sentenced 54 soldiers to death for refusing to fight Boko Haram Takfiri terrorists. According to Associated Press, the soldiers’ lawyer said that a court martial in the Nigerian capital city of Abuja condemned the soldiers to death by firing squad...

One policeman was killed and two were injured on the outskirts of the Afghan capital today, in a blast caused by a suicide bomber attempting to enter Kabul in a vehicle laden with explosives, an interior ministry spokesman said. "A patrol was sent around 7 am...

East Europe is now emerging as a major theater in the burgeoning war between NATO alliance and Russia. prompting Hungary to strile conciliatory notes towards NATO Germany. "Hungary's most important goal in foreign policy next year is to strengthen its alliance...

Overtly, the Israeli superpower of the Middle East has been keen to posture as having no role whatsoever in the four-year old devastating conflict in Syria, where all major regional and international powers are politically and militarily deeply involved and settling scores by Syrian blood....

The European Parliament has adopted a resolution recognizing Palestinian statehood in principle. A total of 498 MEPs voted in favor, while 88 were against. A parliamentary session in Strasbourg on Tuesday could not decide on the matter, opting for further negotiations, but on Wednesday...

A European Union court has removed the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas from its terrorist list, it was announced on Wednesday. Hamas appealed a 2001 decision by the E.U. to place it on the list...

The United States will restore full diplomatic relations with Cuba and open an embassy in Havana for the first time in more than a half-century after the release of an American contractor held in prison for...

Fellow countrymen, Since my election as President of the State Council and Council of Ministers I have reiterated in many occasions our willingness to hold a respectful dialogue with the United States on the basis of sovereign equality, in order to deal reciprocally with a wide variety...

The Taliban gunmen who stormed a school on Tuesday in the Pakistani city of Peshawar killing 148 people, including 132 children, have been identified by the militant group. The Pakistani Taliban released the pictures as they issued a statement claiming the attack was justified...

One trillion dollars on the war in Afghanistan. Another $1.7 trillion on the war in Iraq. These are the figures paid by US taxpayers for the horrific wars of this century. The obscenity of continuing with endless wars while forcing cut backs in everything from libraries to healthcare at...

The United States has conducted an escalating campaign of deadly airstrikes against the extremists of the Islamic State for more than a month. But that appears to have done little to tamp down the conspiracy theories still circulating from the streets of Baghdad to the highest levels of Iraqi...

Today, organizations from across the secular spectrum came together at Dadar station, where the representatives of the 'Vidyarthi Bharti', led by Kishore Japtap, 'Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan', Noorjehan Safia Niyaz, 'Bharat Bachao Andolan', Feroze Mithiborwala...

Three Cuban `intelligence agents' who had served 16 years in US jails returned to Cuba today as part of a prisoner exchange in which Cuba freed an American foreign aid worker who had served five years in a Cuban prison, President Raul Castro said. Castro said he...

In a deft political move, meant to disarm pro-west opponents, Nigeria's main opposition contender Muhammadu Buhari, who has been a victim of secret American `oil politics' plans to ensure his defeat, has picked southern Christian lawyer Yemi Osinbajo to be his running...

More than 230 bodies of people believed to have been killed by Islamic State militants have been found in a mass grave in Syria's eastern Deir al-Zor province, a group monitoring the country's war said today. The bodies were believed to be members of the...

Women from Kobanî, who had to take flight to Suruç following the attacks of the ISIS gangs on the town, are now organising themselves under women's assemblies in the tent cities they are staying, and continuing the work they started in the wake of the revolution in...

A moderate intensity quake, measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale, shook northern Sumatra  region in Indonesia at 2055 hrs today.   The temblor was epicentred at 02.8 degree North latitude and 96.0 degree East longitude, India Meteorological Department...

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) executed at least 150 women who refused to marry its militants in the western Iraqi western province of al-Anbar, Iraq's Ministry of Human Rights said. According to a ministry statement released Tuesday, ISIS militants carried out a number...

Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi today said that the heinous crime of barging into Peshawar's Army Public School and murdering children was perpetrated by forces that are feeling isolated and weak. "When news was received yesterday regarding innocent minors...

Chinese construction of a new rail link between Belgrade and Budapest should begin by the middle of next year, Serbia's prime minister said today, as China pursues plans to accelerate the flow of goods through the Balkans. China, Serbia and Hungary signed a memorandum...

Iraq has requested a one-year deferral of a 4.6 billion dollars reparations payment for destroying Kuwait's oil facilities during its 1990-91 occupation, a UN official said today. The request comes as Iraq's economy is being battered by both low oil prices...

Tehran backs Russia's efforts to host a new round of peace talks between Damascus and the Syrian opposition, Iran's deputy foreign minister said today during a visit to Moscow. Russia and Iran have sided with President Bashar al-Assad in the conflict in...

To All Those Who Care About Peace, Justice & Humanity.- We at AIDCA (All India Dawah Centers Association) an umbrella body of various Dawah organisations and individuals across India condemn in the strongest terms possible the brutal killing of innocents.. children, men and women...

Aam Adami Party (AAP) today declared its state executive body, announcing former Kangra Lok Sabha member of Parliament and BJP rebel Rajan Sushant its state convenor. Party state observer Khem Jageer told media here this morning that national executive body of AAP, "political...

Panic gripped Huda City Centre Metro station when an anonymous caller informed about planting of a bomb there, driving security agencies into a tizzy and leading to suspension of running of metro trains on the Huda City-Rajiv Chowk route. Bomb disposal squads rushed to the site. No one...

European Parliament presented on Wednesday, initial support for the recognition of the State of Palestine, but without inviting members of the European Union countries to do so as several political blocs had asked for. The European...

After importing defence equipment for decades, India for the first time has struck a big deal to the tune of Rs 350 crores for supplying a large offshore patrol vessel to Mauritius. India, in the past has been gifting some of the naval platforms to the neighbouring friendly countries...

NATO is using the current crisis in Ukraine as a pretext to increase its aircraft flights near Russia’s western borders, Russian Air Force chief says. Russian Air Force Commander-in-Chief Lieutenant General Viktor Bondarev made the remarks in a press conference on Tuesday, saying...

In what seems to be an unstoppable momentum towards emergence of Palestine as a nation, the Luxembourg Parliament advanced recognition to the State of Palestine and recommended to the government of the country, recognition of the Palestinian...

The European Parliament adopted a resolution supporting Palestinian statehood in principle today in a compromise motion that did not follow some European national legislatures in backing immediate recognition of a Palestinian state. Following a deal among the main parties, the motion...

AICC vice president Rahul Gandhi today flayed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for just announcing a relief of Rs 1,000 crore for the flood ravaged Jammu and Kashmir. Addressing an election rally in Mahgama while campaigning for party candidate Rajesh Ranjan, Mr Gandhi said,"for the...

A 17-year-old boy was shot dead during armed clashes between police and assailants in mainly Kurdish southeast Turkey overnight and one police officer was wounded, security sources said today. It was the latest in a series of deaths highlighting the fragility of a two-year-old peace...

The Church of England appointed its first ever female bishop today, overturning centuries of tradition in a Church that has been deeply divided over the issue. It named Reverend Libby Lane, 48, as the new Bishop of Stockport in northern England. Prime Minister David Cameron...

A bill to extend an expiring federal terrorism insurance program effectively died when the US Senate failed to reach an agreement to hold a vote before Congress wraps up its business for the year. The program, created after the September 11, 2001, attacks that provides a federal...

Iranian Minister of Energy, Hamid Chitchian, has reported on the agreement of Iran and Armenia for construction of hydroelectric and wind-powered power stations. According to IRIB World Service, the Iranian minister of energy, in an address to reporters, on the sidelines of the...

The Spokesman for Iran Atomic Energy Organization, Behrouz Kamalvand, says that the Zionists provide false and baseless data on Iran’s nuclear activities to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). In a televised interview with IRIB on Tuesday night, Kamalvand went on to...

KCK (Kurdistan Communities Union) Executive Council Co-Presidency has released a statement commemorating MLKP (Marxist Leninist Communist Party) fighter Sibel Bulut, with code-name Eylem Deniz/Sarya Özgür, who lost her life in the battle in Kobani on 12...

Five years after Greece sparked a sovereign debt crisis that threatened the euro's survival, the country again has the potential to rattle its currency partners if Greeks have to elect a new government next month. But this time any fallout for the euro zone could be more political...

Kurdish Peshmerga forces have launched a massive ground attack against Islamic State (IS) militants near the town of Shingal (Sinjar) west of Mosul, said a Peshmerga commander on the frontline. “We launched the attack on three fronts at 7:00 a.m. Wednesday and we are making rapid...

A shootout between rival vigilantes in Mexico's western Michoacan state has left 11 dead, authorities, in the clearest sign yet of renewed unrest in an area President Enrique Pena Nieto's government said had been pacified. The federal government's security commissioner for...

The PLO is to push on Wednesday a draft UN resolution demanding an end to Israeli occupation despite warnings that the United States is ready to veto the measure. An Arab-backed text setting November 2016 as the deadline for an...

Hamas praised the issuance of the European Court of Human Rights decision to erase Hamas from the terrorism list. The political bureau member of Hamas Moussa Abu Marzouk said in a statement, "Thanks to the European Court on its recent...

Al Aqsa Mosque is witnessing new incursions by extremist Jewish groups, from al Maghariba Gate, guarded by special forces and reinforced by the Israeli occupation  police. The raids are made in small straight sets, and carried out with...

Suspected Taliban militants detonated a suicide bomb then stormed a bank branch in the southern Afghan province of Helmand today, engaging in a firefight with security forces while an unknown number of civilians were inside, police said. A Reuters witness at the scene heard the blast...

Sierra Leone will start house-to-house searches for Ebola patients today and impose internal travel restrictions as part of a new push to combat the epidemic, President Ernest Bai Koroma said. Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia are at the heart of the world's worst recorded outbreak...

Old City of Jerusalem saw last night, violent clashes between angry youths and Israeli occupation forces against the backdrop of the death of the young man, Mahmoud Abdullah Odwan of Qalandia refugee camp, north of Jerusalem, at dawn yesterday. ...

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said today that nuclear talks with major powers were being conducted in a good atmosphere, "good steps" had been taken and more would be taken. US and Iranian diplomats began a two-day meeting in Geneva on Monday to pave the way...

Over 10,000 people on Tuesday afternoon participated in the funeral procession of Mahmoud Odwan who was killed hours earlier during an Israeli occupation raid on Qalandiya refugee camp.  Over 30 Palestinians were injured...

An amount of Rs 6.20 lakh has been sanctioned in favour of militancy-affected families of Bandipora district in north Kashmir, official sources said here today. District Level Screening-cum-Consultative Committee (DLCC) sanctioned Rs  6.20 lakh in favour...

In the 1950s, the Korean Peninsula witnessed first hand, the bitter taste of the cold war that had just begun; in 2010s, US-Russia rivalry is witnessing arms deals, diplomatic maneouvrings etc, all meant to heat up the region US defence firm Northrop Grumman Corp has won a 657.4...

In a new low for American politics, just as his family's name receives a beating in the wake of the damning CIA torture report, Jeb Bush, the politically regressive, and politically retarded, younger brother of George W Bush, has decided to make a bid for US Presidency in...

President Barack Obama signed a $1.1 trillion spending bill passed by Congress last week that lifted the threat of a government shutdown. The legislation funds most government agencies through September 2015. The Department of Homeland Security will be treated differently, getting a...

Two US security officials cast doubt on a threat against theaters planning to show Sony Corp's controversial movie about an assassination of the leader of North Korea, but police across the country vowed to take extra precautions. Sony executives, meanwhile, told theater owners the...

Tough new security laws and the bail system failed to prevent a deadly hostage crisis in the heart of Sydney, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said today, as the country debated if and how similar attacks could be stopped in future. Three people were killed,...

After Veena Malik, Fawad Khan and Humaima Mallick, Pakistani actor Mahira Khan is set to make her debut in Bollywood with Shah Rukh Khan-starrer 'Raees'. Mahira, famous for her role in the TV show 'Humsafar' will feature opposite Shah Rukh Khan in 'Raees',...

Top U.N. officials have recently said that “All senior U.S. officials and CIA agents who authorized or carried out torture like waterboarding as part of former President George W....

The Central Intelligence Agency cobbled together the forerunner of the present Muslim jihadist terrorist network in the late 1970s to battle Soviet troops in ...

As the recognition by European countries of a so called “State of Palestine” continues, it is becoming obvious that this is nothing but an old colonial trick dusted and reused. The fact that liberal Zionist hypocrites the likes of the Israeli writers Amoz Oz and David Grossman are...

Recent strikes on Syria by Israel have been alleged to be part of a regional plan by the US, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Israel to establish a no-fly-zone (NFZ) over Syria, just as NATO did in Libya in 2011 effectively handing the entire nation over to Al Qaeda and now “Islamic State”...

The European Council on Foreign Relations and Berlin think-tank Friedrich Ebert Stiftung have just reached more or less the same conclusion. If the dangerous stand-off between the EU and Russia over Ukraine is not solved, the EU could face, up to 2030, a military build-up in eastern...

Nicaragua’s president said he is banning Sen. Marco Rubio and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen from traveling to the Central American country in protest of the Venezuela sanctions the two helped pass in Congress on Wednesday, according to a newspaper report. “Just like they (U.S....

Ex-US vice-president insists CIA's enhanced interrogation techniques worked and says 'I'll do it again.' Former US Vice President Dick Cheney has defended the US' now-banned programme that tortured al-Qaeda suspects, describing the CIA operatives who ran it as...

The US needs reforms similar to those during Perestroika in the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev told RT's Sophie Shevardnadze. The former Soviet leader also spoke about Washington’s policy of pressure and intervention into conflicts. “The US needs an enemy in order to...

A visit to Birobidzhan, the size of Switzerland, where Jewish autonomy hasn’t exactly worked out — and yet, the sign for Lenin Street is still written in Yiddish and public monuments commemorate Sholem Aleichem. Last summer, after three months of teaching in...

Taliban gunmen who attacked a school in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday made no demands and started killing children as soon as they entered the building, a military spokesman said. "They didn't take any hostages initially and started firing in the hall," said Major...

From December 1 to 9, I had the privilege of visiting Rojava as part of a delegation of academics from Austria, Germany, Norway, Turkey, the U.K., and the U.S. We assembled in Erbil, Iraq, on November 29 and spent the next day learning about the petrostate known as the Kurdish Regional...

Moldovan activist Paul Grigorchuk, a journalist and leader of the Social Forum of Moldova, wrote this powerful statement in prison, where he has been held since before the Nov. 30 parliamentary elections in Europe's poorest country. It is in the form of an appeal to the...

 In 1996 the Urban Development Department (UDD) Maharashtra issued a circular to all Municipal Corporations in the State instructing that water should not be supplied to those living in unauthorized structures.  On the basis of this circular, the Municipal Corporation of...

After British PM David Cameron who travelled in a tube and posed for photoops with other fellow passengers and Indian Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar who flew economy class in a budget airline, it is now the turn of Mrs. Dimple Yadav, wife of Uttar Pradesh CM Akhilesh Yadav, daughter-in-law of...

A special court today ordered the CBI to further investigate a 2005 coal block allocation involving top industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla's company and asked the agency to record the statement of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who was holding charge as Coal Minister at the...

Including 84 students, a total of 126 people have been killed and scores are critically injured in the school seized today by Taliban Gunman in Peshawar. Taliban gunmen in Pakistan took hundreds of students and teachers hostage today in a school in the northwestern city of Peshawar,...

Published on Dec 16, 2014 Filmed and directed by Ibrahim Abu Saif, Middle-East Correspondent, Medhaj News, this video has not...

Israel's indifference to a generous financial, economic and defense package offered by the European Union, combined with the failure of the US peace initiative, have persuaded the Europeans to change the rules of the game and seek a proactive peace. One can assume that the...

In Turkey, one alleged crime always leads to a larger conspiracy theory, demonizing and punishing a large group of people. On Dec. 14, Turkey woke up to ...

When the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was created in 1960, it brought together a powerful club of oil producing countries that wielded considerable influence on the oil market. Such was the power of the cartel that it has been used to promote...

Germany plans to finance part of the cost of four new corvette warships for the Zionist navy made by German firm Thyssen Krupp under a deal struck with the Jewish entity in November, the government said on Monday. Following approval by German parliament's budget committee...

Every night before 27-year-old Arin goes to bed, she hangs her Makarov, a Russian semi-automatic pistol, from a steel coat rack by the entrance to her one-bedroom apartment in a small, dusty town on the Syrian border with Iraq. The pistol was an award for her...

Palestinian UN envoy Riyad Mansour told member-states of the International Criminal Court in a first address on Monday that the Palestinians plan to join the ICC "at an appropriate time." Mansour made the address after the...

Around 100 Syrian soldiers and 80 psuedo-jihadi fighters were killed during a two-day battle in which insurgents took the Wadi al-Deif military base, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said today. The British-based group said al Qaeda's Syria wing, the...

Israeli occupation forces tortured last night, the family of Alsiauri during a storming of their house in the neighborhood of Ras al-Amud in the town of Silwan, south of Al-Aqsa Mosque. Eyewitnesses reported that Israeli occupation army attacked...

Indian-American physician Vivek Murthy has now become the 19th Surgeon General of the US when the Senate voted him ratifying President Barack Obama’s nomination. Dr Murthy, 37, is the youngest person to hold the position. Mr Obama nominated him for the post in November...

Israeli occupation forces directed heavy machine fire on Tuesday morning at farmers to the east of the town of Qarara, Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. Eyewitnesses reported that Israeli occupation forces opened fire...

Japan's Agricultural Ministry today confirmed a case of a highly pathogenic H5 strain of avian influenza at a poultry farm in Miyazaki prefecture in southwestern Japan. Three chickens tested positive at the farm and all of the roughly 4,000 chickens there have been culled, an...

Violent clashes erupted at the Qalandiya checkpoint north of Jerusalem on Tuesday morning in the wake of  the announcement of the death of Abdullah Odwan, a young  man from the Qalandiya refugee camp. ...

Today Tuesday  dawn a young man called Mahmoud Abdullah Odwan 21 years, from the Qalandia refugee camp north of Jerusalem died after occupation soldiers shot him with a live bullet in his head. This came during clashes between...

Twenty students have been killed and 35 others are critically injured in the school seized today by Taliban Gunman in Peshawar. Taliban gunmen in Pakistan took hundreds of students and teachers hostage today in a school in the northwestern city of Peshawar, military officials at...

Taliban gunmen in Pakistan took hundreds of students and teachers hostage today in a school in the northwestern city of Peshawar, military officials at the scene said. A journalist at the scene could hear heavy gunfire from inside the school as soldiers surrounded it. Ambulances were...

The Syrian army ambushed and killed all the elements of a terrorist group which was trying to infiltrate from al-Waer neighborhood to that of al-Dar al-Kabira in Homs, according to Al-Manar TV. The Syrian military continued its anti-terrorism operations, inflicting heavy losses...

At least five people were shot dead early Monday by a suspected gunman outside the northeastern U.S. city of Philadelphia, local media reported. The shootings, which ABC television affiliate WPVI said were thought to have been committed by a male military veteran, were said to...

Despite the narrowing of lead, Greece's anti-bailout, radical-left Syriza party is more popular than Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' New Democracy. a day ahead of the first round of a crucial presidential vote. The survey conducted by GPO pollsters for MEGA TV showed support...

The Iraqi army has been planning to launch a major military operation to clear Salahuddin Province from Takfiri terrorists. According to the report, the operation is aimed at liberating several cities, including the city of Tikrit, from the Takfiri terrorists. The Iraqi...

New photos have emerged online showing the mass execution of 13 men, believed to be anti-ISIL Sunni tribal fighters, at the hands of the Takfiri terrorists in northern Iraq. According to Press TV, a terrorist forum as well as pro-ISIL social media accounts published three pictures on...

The beheading of journalists by Islamist militants in Syria this year showed that reporters face a dangerous new threat, media freedom organisation Reporters Without Borders said today. While the overall number of journalists killed around the world was down 7 percent on 2013, to 66,...

1) Aleppo: in Aleppo are closer than ever to being completely under SAA siege. SAA, and NDF units took al-Malah, Western and Eastern Handarat in Aleppo. Handarat is the main supply route from Turkey for terrorists, and its only a matter of time until it is in SAA control. When it is under...

Man Haron Monis, aka Mohammad Hassan Manteghi, has a criminal record, including 22 counts of aggravated sexual assault and 14 counts of aggravated indecent assault relating to six women. In 2002 he faced charges in a plot to murder his first wife in Sydney. The woman, Noleen Hayson...

As predicted, the suspect amid the "Sydney Siege," has long been on the radar of Australian law enforcement, as well as a frequent visitor to Australia's court system.  Before that, however, he came to Australia as a political refugee, an opponent of what he...

Former CIA Director Mike Morrell said terrorists will attack the U.S. “sometime over the next year or so, guaranteed.” Morrell was commenting on the current Sydney, Australia, hostage situation on CBS Monday when he claimed jihadist militants will likely carry out a similar...

In 'The Jews: A Native People of Rus', author AM Burovsky develops a very non-standard account of the origin of the Jews in Russia. 'Are the Jews aliens on Russian soil? Are they not the bold and clever strangers, descendants of Semitic tribes that infiltrated Rus...

Secretary of state John Kerry tried to suppress publication of the CIA torture report, citing fears of a blowback against US targets in the Middle East. But the truth is that the region barely flinched in response to the publication of the 528-page...

"Netanyahu’s new bill proposes that the bodies of alleged Palestinian terrorists will not be released to family members, but be disposed of in an undisclosed location There is approximately one bright side to the current Israeli approach to the Palestinians - and it is that...

Israel's Jerusalem municipality on Monday delivered demolition orders for the family home of martyr Mutaz Hijazi, who is suspected of attempting to assassinate far-right Israeli activist Yehuda Glick. Uday Hijazi, Mutaz' brother said...

Similar to the anarchy seen in Iraq, turmoil in Libya is linked to failures of Western-NATO intervention in the country and killing of Gaddafi. United Nations special envoy to the Sahel region said today talks to resolve a crisis in Libya had stalled and warned several countries in the...

As ISIS attacks on the city of Kobanî continue, it is important to understand how the civilian population of the city, who constitute a significant part of the resistance, are managing to survive in the harsh conditions imposed by conflict and the onset of winter. Early in...

Any mention of Iraq is incomplete without analysing the mess and sectarian strife created by the US invasion, and the consequent, deeply flawed US administration, of the country, since 2003; in fact, the direct-indirect role of the US can be seen in the rise of ISIS as well; still, without...

Religious leaders and ordinary Australians sought to defuse communal tensions today, after a siege at a Sydney cafe by a gunman who forced hostages to display an Islamic flag raised fears of a backlash against the country's Muslim minority. Within hours of the...

In a move good for the country and ethical standards everywhere, but one which the biased western media, in all likelihood, is bound to ignore, authorities in China have demoted about 1,000 government officials with relatives abroad who refused to return home, state media said...

On 12th December 2014, in an article on upcoming elections in Nigeria, Medhaj News had pointed out with evidence that US was behind current incumbent President Jonathan, and wary of opposition candidate Muhammad Buhari, who, if he wins, can upset the US applecart in the oil rich...

Australian security forces on Tuesday stormed the Sydney cafe where several hostages were being held at gunpoint, in what looked like the dramatic denouement to a standoff that had dragged on for more than 16 hours. Heavy gunfire and loud bangs rang out shortly...

Cornered over the arrest of her associate in the Saradha scam, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today hit back by declaring that the portion of land, which was bought by JSW for steel plant at Salbony, will be returned to the farmers. Mamata Bannerjee's...

Yemeni security forces shot dead a prominent leader in the southern separatist Herak Movement in Aden today, residents said, ratcheting up tensions in the city where residents have been observing a weekly protest to push for independence. Rising demands for separation by southern...

A group of Islamist scholars criticised Egypt today for seeking an Interpol arrest warrant for their leader, a Qatar-based cleric whose outspoken support for the Muslim Brotherhood contributed to a diplomatic rift between Gulf Arab states. Interpol this month issued a Red Notice alert...

A gunman holding three labourers hostage in the Saudi capital Riyadh shot dead a member of the security forces when police tried to free the captives, police said today. The gunman was later arrested and the three labourers were freed, a police statement yesterday's incident said....

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, brushing aside suggestions that a low turnout tarnished his coalition's election win, vowed today to stick to his reflationary economic policies, tackle painful structural reforms and pursue his muscular security stance. But doubts persist as to...

The Syrian branch of al Qaeda, the Nusra Front, said today it had taken control of a base next to the country's main north-south highway. Until now, forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad had managed to repel numerous attacks on Wadi al-Deif, which has been surrounded by...

Seven Myanmar soldiers were killed and 20 wounded in an attack by rebels in the northeastern frontier with China five days ago, state media said today. The military accused insurgents of ambushing an army patrol and laying siege to a base near Kunlong, about 30 km from the Chinese...

Hong Kong authorities arrested several pro-democracy activists today as they cleared the last of three protest sites, marking the closure of demonstration camps in the city that have blocked streets for more than two months. About 100 police swept into Causeway Bay, a shopping district...

Rebels from the Islamist al Shabaab group attacked a military base in southern Somalia early today, killing at least 10 soldiers and burning three military vehicles, officials said. African Union and Somali troops launched an offensive this year that has driven al Shabaab out of its...

Five people have reportedly escaped from a café in the central Australian city of Sydney, where at least one gunman took an unknown number of people hostage early Monday local time. According to witnesses, some six hours into the siege three men emerged from the cafe and ran for...

Israeli occupation soldiers surrounded a high school near Nablus on Monday and fired gunshots and tear gas canisters into the yard, a local official said. Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlement activity in the northern West Bank, said hundreds of children were trapped...

PLO chief negotiator Saeb Erekat said Sunday that a resolution to end the Israeli occupation will be submitted to the UN Security Council "in the coming few hours, or maybe on Monday." Erekat told the official Palestinian radio station that he would meet...

The resistance military of Palestine, Hamas, organised a massive military Parade in Gaza city on its 27th foundation anniversary. Hamas officials announced two weeks ago that the movement decided to cancel Gaza City celebrations for the 27th anniversary of the movement. Later they...

Dozens of Jewish settlers on Monday morning, stormed the courtyards of Al Aqsa Mosque, amid tight protection of the Israeli occupation soldiers. Local sources said, that members of the Israeli occupation police escorted the settlers' groups. Jewish organizations...

Followers of Middle Eastern affairs know two things: always expect the unexpected, and never write off Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who has more political lives than the proverbial cat. Only yesterday came news that ...

Israeli occupation forces at dawn on Tuesday arrested five young Palestinians from different parts of the occupied West Bank and another one from Jerusalem. In the village of Deir Abu Mashal, near Ramallah, one of them was arrested for allegedly belonging to Hamas, another one...

The Rajya Sabha today witnessed uproar over the issue of religious conversions with the Opposition demanding a discussion on the row. The Opposition's uproar led to adjournment of the House thrice -- once during the Zero Hour till 1200 hrs and twice -- first till 1212 hrs and then...

Canada is set to sign a deal with China to return ill-gotten assets seized from those suspected of economic crimes, the official China Daily reported today, as Beijing works to track down corrupt officials who have fled overseas. The world's second-largest economy has vowed to...

Syrian army continued its mop-up operations against the foreign-backed militants in Idlib, and inflicted heavy losses upon them on Sunday. Syrian army troops targeted a hideout of the Takfiri terrorist organizations in Hallouz village, 56 km southwest of the Northern Province of Idlib,...

Trinamool Congress members in the Lok Sabha today staged a walk out in the Lok Sabha in protest against alleged misuse of the CBI and for 'targeting the party-led government in West Bengal'. When the House met for the day, Trinamool members were on their feet to raise the issue...

Some Asian and European states have offered to build new nuclear power plants for Iran, Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi said. "Some European countries have contacted us and demanded us not to be in a rush for signing contracts on the...

I was told years ago by a pro-Palestinian activist that the trouble with the people from the West Bank and Gaza was the colour of their skin. Squirming in revulsion at what I thought was going to be some racist outpouring against those with olive-coloured skins, he added quickly: "What...

A Hamas-run television channel on Saturday displayed a footage it said was taken from the Israeli army's computer network. The video, which seems to have been captured by an Israeli drone, showed fighters from Hamas' military wing, Ezzedine al-Qassam Bridages, returning from an...

Militants from the alleged Houthi group in Yemen blew up the office of a political party affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood in Sanaa's northern district of Arhab, eyewitnesses said Sunday. According to the witnesses, the Houthi militants destroyed the three-story building...

Here’s a personal example. In response to an article I wrote for an Indian daily some five years ago, I received a polite call from the secretary of the public relations department of the Maharashtra state unit of the JIH. The JIH, I was told, had some issues with what I had written about...