Monthly Archives: April 2010

Tens of thousands of Armenians on Saturday marked the 95th anniversary of mass killings under the Ottoman Empire amid fresh tensions with Turkey over the collapse of reconciliation efforts.

A 31-year-old French woman was fined for wearing a niqab while driving, in a further sign of France's bid to clamp down on the face-covering veil which President Nicolas Sarkozy says demeans women.

Iran last month sealed a secret deal to trade oil for enriched uranium from Zimbabwe, which hosted Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad last week, according to the London Telegraph. The deal was signed last month “away from the media glare” when an Iranian minister visited Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, a source from the African country told the newspaper.

An Israeli security expert told Canadian officials their multi-million-dollar investment in full-body scanners for airports across the country was “useless” and could easily be hoodwinked by terrorists.

Syria has threatened it will “send Israel back to prehistoric times” if the Jewish state attacks it with unconventional weapons. Kuwaiti paper Al-Rai quoted on Saturday a source described as being close to the decision-making hub in Syria's leadership as saying that in case of an unconventional Israeli attack, “we will respond in kind.”

An Iranian nuclear scientist has asked for asylum in Israel, Deputy Minister Ayoub Kara, of the Druze community, said Saturday.

Malaysia's conservative Islamic party PAS Friday demanded those behind the satirical U.S. cartoon show "South Park" apologize to Muslims worldwide over its portrayal of the Prophet Mohammed.

The U.S. Army on Thursday withdrew an invitation to a Christian evangelist to speak at a Pentagon prayer service next month following an outcry over his references to Islam as a violent religion.

The Christians of northern Iraq have chosen to defy mounting attacks by extremists by erecting a statue of Jesus modeled on the giant Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro.

Police in the conservative Sharjah emirate are hunting for unmarried couples sharing the same address.