http://www.alarabiya.net/rss/en_intr.xml Updated every 5 minute of every day - FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY ar-ae Fri, 16 May 2008 15:00:02 Asia/Riyadh(AST) Copyright: 2008, Alarabiya News Channel. http://www.alarabiya.net/rss/en_intr.xml http://www.alarabiya.net/files/gfx/img/alarabiya.gif http://www.alarabiya.net/ China struggled to bury its dead and help tens of thousands of injured and homeless on Friday, as a government official said more than 21,500 people have been confirmed dead in Sichuan province from this week's earthquake, with another 14,000 people buried under rubble. Another 159,000 peoplehttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/05/16/49935.htmlThu, 15 May 2008 21:00:00 GMTA 90-year-old Rwandan genocide survivor has been stabbed and burnt to death by a gang that included four assailants who had confessed to taking part in the 1994 slaughter, a body representing genocide survivors said on Thursday. Generosa Mukanyonga, a widow who lost her husband and childrenhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/05/15/49887.htmlWed, 14 May 2008 21:00:00 GMTAn unknown Islamist group said on Thursday it set off coordinated blasts that tore through a packed shopping area in a popular Indian tourist city this week, but police say they were still verifying the claim. Eight bombs, many strapped to bicycles, killed 61 people and injured 216 people inhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/05/15/49893.htmlWed, 14 May 2008 21:00:00 GMTDanish judges will not be allowed to wear Muslim headscarves in court -- and the Christian cross, the Jewish skullcap and the Hindu turban will also be banned, the country's justice minister said Wednesday. "We have decided to prohibit the wearing of (all) religious or political symbolshttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/05/15/49869.htmlWed, 14 May 2008 21:00:00 GMTAustralia is considering taking Iran's president to the International Court of Justice for inciting violence against Israel, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said Wednesday. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had threatened to eliminate the Jewish state and the government was taking legal advice onhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/05/14/49816.htmlTue, 13 May 2008 21:00:00 GMTSeventeen Muslim hardliners who declared an Islamic State of Indonesia will face charges of subversion which is punishable by up to 15 years in jail, a report said Wednesday. The Islamists arrested earlier this month in three locations near Bandung, West Java province, were senior leaders of thehttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/05/14/49832.htmlTue, 13 May 2008 21:00:00 GMTIndian police on Wednesday arrested two men after eight near-simultaneous bombings killed 63 people and wounded 216 in the Rajasthan tourist city of Jaipur, the state's chief minister said. Seven women and 10 children were among the dead after the blasts ripped through crowded markets on Tuesdayhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/05/14/49833.htmlTue, 13 May 2008 21:00:00 GMTChina's most devastating earthquake in three decades killed more than 12,000 people with the toll likely to soar after state media said on Tuesday nearly 19,000 were buried under rubble in one city alone. Storms were hampering rescue efforts in the mountainous area around the epicenter ofhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/05/13/49764.htmlMon, 12 May 2008 21:00:00 GMTDemocratic White House hopeful Barack Obama on Monday promised no let-up in U.S. support for Israel, after an adviser to Palestinian group Hamas reportedly said the group hopes Obama wins the presidency. "I welcome the Muslim world's accurate perception that I am interested in opening uphttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/05/13/49768.htmlMon, 12 May 2008 21:00:00 GMTTaliban insurgents have ordered residents of a province near the capital Kabul to stop watching television, saying the networks were showing un-Islamic programs, officials and local media said on Tuesday. The order is the last in a wave of curbs that the resurgent militants have announced inhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/05/13/49769.htmlMon, 12 May 2008 21:00:00 GMTLawyers for the radical Muslim preacher Abu Hamza al-Masri, convicted in Britain of race-hate crimes and soliciting murder, began a legal challenge Monday against his extradition to the United States. The Egyptian-born former imam of the once notorious Finsbury Park mosque in north London ishttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/05/13/49770.htmlMon, 12 May 2008 21:00:00 GMTFormer Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif said Monday that his party had decided to quit the government over differences regarding the reinstatement of judges sacked by President Pervez Musharraf. All ministers from his Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party will resign from their postshttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/05/12/49735.htmlSun, 11 May 2008 21:00:00 GMTAn Islamic militant on death row for the 2002 Bali bombings was married to his ex-wife on Monday but he was not present at the wedding. "This is the strangest wedding I have ever attended. The groom is not present," said Muhammad Hasan, the militant's former Quranic teacher who gave ahttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/05/12/49731.htmlSun, 11 May 2008 21:00:00 GMTBetween 3,000 to 4,000 people gathered Saturday to protest against the Turin book fair's decision to showcase Israeli writers, an AFP photographer at the scene said. "Free Palestine" organizers put the demonstration's attendance at 10,000, while police said 1,500 had turned out tohttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/05/11/49688.htmlSat, 10 May 2008 21:00:00 GMTTurkish military sources said at least 20 Kurdish separatists and two Turkish soldiers were killed after Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) guerrillas attacked a military base in southeast Turkey late on Friday. Turkish warplanes bombed rural areas along Turkey's border with Iraq after some 50 PKKhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/05/10/49630.htmlFri, 09 May 2008 21:00:00 GMTAuthorities in Myanmar have given approval for a U.S. military aircraft carrying relief supplies to land in the country on Monday, the White House said on Friday. The White House announced the approval at a news briefing. A spokesman said, however, that Myanmar had not approved visas for a teamhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/05/09/49597.htmlThu, 08 May 2008 21:00:00 GMTMuslim preacher Abu Qatada, a Jordanian described by Britain as a "significant international terrorist", was granted bail by an immigration appeals tribunal on Tasahursday, the Home Office said. The decision provoked a sharp response from Home Secretary Jacqui Smith who said she washttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/05/08/49574.htmlWed, 07 May 2008 21:00:00 GMTIraqis employed at the British embassy in Baghdad have called for a government enquiry after staff members said they were sexually abused, the UK Times reported Wednesday. An Iraqi cleaning lady told British diplomats that a British contractor with KBR, a U.S. service company which oversawhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/05/08/49553.htmlWed, 07 May 2008 21:00:00 GMTRussia has signed into law United Nations economic sanctions that world powers agreed to in March, according to a presidential decree published by the Kremlin on Thursday. The United Nations Security Council imposed a third round of sanctions on Iran on March 3 for refusing to suspend sensitivehttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/05/08/49557.htmlWed, 07 May 2008 21:00:00 GMTA German court has ordered a 12-year-old Muslim schoolgirl to attend co-ed swimming lessons, despite the objection of her parents, press reports said on Thursday. The girl's parents had filed a case citing Islamic prohibitions against tight-fitting clothing worn in front of members of thehttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/05/08/49561.htmlWed, 07 May 2008 21:00:00 GMT