Authorities in Mauritania have always denied the presence of slavery in their country but an article in Le Monde late last month by Christophe Châtelot proved otherwise. Biram Ould Dah Ould Abeid, a prominent anti-slavery activist in this northwestern African nation, was imprisoned for “violating Mauritanian Islamic values” after an anti-slavery rally was held
When Dr Zabina Shahian married Pervez Choudhry she thought he would be the man with whom she would settle down for the rest of her life and start a family. But she did not know the former Conservative party leader on Slough Borough Council was still married. Choudhry, 54, who claimed he did
Syria has the biggest chemical weapons stocks in the world and missiles and rockets that can reach any point in Israel, the Jewish state’s deputy military chief warned. Maj. Gen. Yair Naveh said if Syria had the chance, it would “treat us the same way it treats its own people.” Naveh’s remarks, made
U.S. computer security researchers said on Sunday that the Flame computer virus, which struck at least 600 specific computer systems in Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Sudan, Saudi Arabia and the Palestinian Authority, has gotten orders to vanish, leaving no trace. AFP reported that anti-virus company Symantec said in a blog post that late last
Democracy has allowed “thieves” to plunder and pillage Iraq, the secretary of Hizbullah said in an interview on Saturday, Al-Arabiya news reported. “The drawback of a democratic system is that it allows thieves to pillage what they want,” Wathiq al-Battat was quoted by the Cairo-based Al-Sharqiya News as saying. “We have yet to
Women in Iran are being banned from watching live public screenings of Euro 2012 football games because of an “inappropriate” environment where men could become rowdy, a deputy police commander said Sunday. “It is an inappropriate situation when men and women watch football in (movie) theatres together,” said Bahman Kargar, Iran’s deputy police commander
U.S.-based Georgia Power is interested in joining Turkey’s nuclear power plant project, its Chief Executive Officer Paul Bowers announced on Friday, The Hurriyet Daily News reported. “Turkey wants to be independent in the energy arena. We can help them because we have been constructing nuclear power plants for the past 30 years,” Bowers told
Yasser Arafat’s former financial adviser, who was recently found guilty of embezzlement and sentenced in absentia, has revealed that Fatah has a secret bank account in Jordan with a balance of $39 million. Mohammed Rashid, who was the late Palestinian leader’s “moneyman,” said he has “all the necessary documents” to prove the existence of
Militants attacked two churches in northern and central Nigeria on Sunday, spraying the congregation of one with bullets and blowing up a car in a suicide bombing at the other, hundreds of kilometers away, witnesses said. There was no immediate word on casualties and no claim of responsibility, although attacking churches has become a
Up to 12 people were killed in a gunfight between members of two tribes from a southern Egyptian village sparked by a long-running row over land ownership, security sources said on Sunday. The fighting erupted on Saturday evening over which of the two tribes owned a piece of agricultural land near al-Hikma village in
