http://www.alarabiya.net/rss/en_intr.xml Updated every 5 minute of every day - FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY en-us Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:10:09 Asia/Riyadh(AST) Copyright: 2009, Alarabiya News Channel. http://www.alarabiya.net/rss/en_intr.xml http://www.alarabiya.net/files/gfx/img/alarabiya.gif http://www.alarabiya.net Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao sought to reassure the world's Muslims about his country's goodwill towards them in Cairo on Saturday, at a time when Beijing is criticized for the treatment of its own Muslim minority. "The relationship between Chinese civilizationhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/11/07/90556.htmlAl ArabiyaFri, 06 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMTPakistan's military said Saturday it had killed 12 Taliban militants as government troops pressed a major offensive in the South Waziristan tribal area bordering Afghanistan. Some 30,000 troops backed by fighter jets and helicopter gunships launched a fierce air and ground offensive intohttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/11/07/90515.htmlAl ArabiyaFri, 06 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMTU.N. chief Ban Ki-moon said late Friday that he would soon transmit to the Security Council a controversial report alleging that Israel and the Palestinians committed war crimes during the Gaza war nearly a year ago. "As requested by the General Assembly, I will transmit thehttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/11/07/90490.htmlAl ArabiyaFri, 06 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMTThe World Health Organization on Friday called for close monitoring of farm workers and animals for influenza A viruses, following recent cases in a wider range of creatures than pigs. Although the WHO stressed that the cases were isolated and had no impact on the way the A(H1N1)http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/11/06/90431.htmlAl ArabiyaThu, 05 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMTTurkey's President Abdullah Gul accused the European Union on Friday of "interfering" after the bloc asked Ankara to reconsider a decision to invite indicted Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir to an Islamic summit in Istanbul. The exchange underscores the risk for EUhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/11/06/90427.htmlAl ArabiyaThu, 05 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMTAmerican President Barack Obama urged Americans on Friday not to jump to conclusions on the motive behind the mass shooting at the sprawling Fort Hood army base in Texas. The U.S. military has earlier ordered bases across the country to tighten security after the shooting rampage which left 13http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/11/06/90387.htmlAl ArabiyaThu, 05 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMTThe United Nations said on Thursday it would temporarily evacuate hundreds of its international staff from Afghanistan due to deteriorating security, a sharp blow for Western efforts to stabilise the country. “Around 600 non-Afghan staff will be temporarily relocated," U.N. spokesman Danhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/11/05/90279.htmlAl ArabiyaWed, 04 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMTAn Italian judge sentenced 23 former CIA agents to up to eight years in prison on Wednesday for the abduction of a Muslim cleric in a symbolic ruling against "rendition" flights used by the former U.S. government. The Americans were all tried in absentia after the United States refusedhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/11/04/90250.htmlAl ArabiyaTue, 03 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMTFormer Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic appeared for the first time at his trial for genocide in the Bosnian war on Tuesday but said he would take no further part unless he had more time to prepare his defense. Karadzic, who is acting as his own attorney, refused to attend the opening of thehttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/11/03/90121.htmlAl ArabiyaMon, 02 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMTAfghanistan's re-elected President Hamid Karzai handed an olive branch Tuesday to his Taliban "brothers" and urged them to come home as he vowed to form an inclusive government and wipe out corruption after stern warnings from Western supporters. "We call on our Talibanhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/11/03/90065.htmlAl ArabiyaMon, 02 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMTFrench secret service documents have cast doubt on a theory that Islamist militants were responsible for a 2002 bomb attack in Karachi that killed 11 French nationals, a source close to the case said on Monday. The documents were declassified in October at the request of magistrates who willhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/11/03/90032.htmlAl ArabiyaMon, 02 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMTA Moroccan woman who hid a computer memory stick in her burka containing thousands of files on making explosives, was sentenced to two years in jail on Monday after pleading guilty to possessing material likely to be useful to terrorists. Houria Chentouf, 41, from Manchester, admitted twohttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/11/02/90007.htmlAl ArabiyaSun, 01 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMTPakistan's military spokesman said Monday that troops had taken full control of Kanigurram, one of the biggest towns in South Waziristan and formerly a key Taliban operational center as 33 people were killed in a large blast in Rawalpindi. "Kanigurram area has been completely clearedhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/11/02/89944.htmlAl ArabiyaSun, 01 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMTThe White House declared Hamid Karzai the legitimate president of Afghanistan on Monday and said President Barack Obama's decision on whether to send more U.S. troops there is still weeks away. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Obama planned to telephone Karzai shortly sincehttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/11/02/89957.htmlAl ArabiyaSun, 01 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMTOpposition candidate Abdullah Abdullah announced on Sunday that he was pulling out of next weekend's run-off presidential election in Afghanistan because demands he made for a fair vote had not been met by the government and election officials. "I will not take part in the election ...http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/11/01/89858.htmlAl ArabiyaSat, 31 Oct 2009 21:00:00 GMTNATO asked Gulf States to help with its war in Afghanistan and called for cooperation in shared interests and said Arab and Muslim countries have an advantage of added cultural value over the West to help ease the crisis in Afghanistan, at a security conference in the UAE last Thursday. NATOhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/11/01/89892.htmlAl ArabiyaSat, 31 Oct 2009 21:00:00 GMTThe man on trial for murdering a pregnant Egyptian woman in a frenzied anti-Islamic attack in Germany is suicidal, his mother said in a press interview on Sunday. "He no longer wants to live," Larissa Wiens told the mass-circulation Bild am Sonntag newspaper. "Hehttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/11/01/89893.htmlAl ArabiyaSat, 31 Oct 2009 21:00:00 GMTThe Obama administration has sent six Uighur Chinese detainees from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay to the Pacific island nation of Palau, the U.S. Justice Department said on Saturday. China had demanded that the Uighurs be returned there but the U.S. government has said it could nothttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/11/01/89856.htmlAl ArabiyaSat, 31 Oct 2009 21:00:00 GMTFormer U.S. president George W. Bush briefly stepped back into the limelight on Saturday, using a conference speech in New Delhi to defend his record and to crack jokes about his retirement. Bush chose an annual gathering of business leaders in India, a country where his reputationhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/10/31/89808.htmlAl ArabiyaFri, 30 Oct 2009 21:00:00 GMTBritish parliamentarians travelled to Libya at the weekend to press for compensation for families of Irish Republican Army (IRA) victims who say Muammar Gaddafi's government helped arm the paramilitaries. The campaigners say the Libyan authorities shipped Semtex explosives in the 1980s andhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/10/31/89812.htmlAl ArabiyaFri, 30 Oct 2009 21:00:00 GMT