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• Call For United Kingdom To Halt Deportation Flight To Sri Lanka
• Canada Closing Its Doors To The Roma – OpEd
• Cyberwar And The Threat To Civilization – OpEd
• Turkey Gold Exports To Iran Surging
• Tunisia: Death Toll From US Embassy Attack Rises To Four
• Is It Just To Offend Muslims? – OpEd
• The Wind And The Sun, And Netanyahu – OpEd
• There Is No End In Sight To Culture Of Hatred – OpEd
• Saudi Arabia: Grand Mufti Denounces Violence Against Embassies
• Iran Says US Must Act Against Anti-Muslim Filmmakers
• Climate Change Severely Impacting Food Prices – Analysis
• Maldives: Time Just Right For Dialogue, Political Reconciliation – Analysis
• Turkey’s Syrian Misadventure – OpEd
• Protest In Ramallah – OpEd
• ‘Defenders’ Law Shakes Macedonia Politics
• Global Economy: Four Years Of Crisis – OpEd
• Pope Benedict Touts Lebanon As Model Of Religious Coexistence
• Ryan Highlights Role Of Faith In His Political Views
• Obama, The Courts And Congress Are All Responsible For Latest Death At Guantánamo – OpEd
• India: Anti-US Protests By Some Muslims In Chennai – Analysis
• India: Will PM Press Ahead With His Economic Decisions? – Analysis
• A Division Of Labor: Ultras Wage Parallel Battles To Shape Egypt’s Future – Analysis
• “Anti-West Fever”: Time To Vaccinate – OpEd
• Spain: Mass Protest In Madrid Against ‘Authoritarian’ Austerity
• Porn Director Pegged As Man Who Shot Now-Infamous Anti-Islam Film
• US Authorities Question Man Allegedly Behind Anti-Islam Film
• Obama: Carrying On The Work Of Our Fallen Heroes – Transcript

Call For United Kingdom To Halt Deportation Flight To Sri Lanka Posted: 15 Sep 2012 10:31 PM PDT The United Kingdom should immediately suspend deportations to Sri Lanka of ethnic Tamils with real or imputed links to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) or who have engaged in activities the Sri Lankan authorities might view as anti-government, Human Rights Watch said today. The next scheduled deportation of Tamils from the United Kingdom [...] To continue reading this article, click on the headline.

Canada Closing Its Doors To The Roma – OpEd Posted: 15 Sep 2012 10:28 PM PDT By John Robles The situation for the Roma in Europe is not improving. Trapped in a cycle of discrimination and poverty where they are not allowed a decent education and therefore cannot obtain decent jobs and in many cases segregated, not allowed proper health care and under constant attacks by ever increasing nationalist groups all [...] To continue reading this article, click on the headline.

Cyberwar And The Threat To Civilization – OpEd Posted: 15 Sep 2012 09:15 PM PDT The American Interest published an essay, Hacking the Next War, which explores the juxtaposition between the traditional internet and the myriad benefits it’s offered to modern society, with the unplumbed destructive capacity of cyberwarfare.  The founding principles of the internet were openness and trust.  Issues like security and anticipation of abuse were after-thoughts, since the [...] To continue reading this article, click on the headline.

Turkey Gold Exports To Iran Surging Posted: 15 Sep 2012 09:07 PM PDT By Dorian Jones In the past few months, there has been a surge in Turkey’s gold exports to Iran. Questions are increasing over whether the gold purchases are the latest attempt by Tehran to circumvent increasingly tough international sanctions. Throughout 2012, Turkish-Iranian trade has experienced record monthly increases. Most is due to gold exports to [...] To continue reading this article, click on the headline.

Tunisia: Death Toll From US Embassy Attack Rises To Four Posted: 15 Sep 2012 09:05 PM PDT The death toll from the Sept 14 attack on the U.S. embassy in Tunisia, provoked by a film that mocks the Prophet Mohammed, rose to four, with 46 people injured, a hospital official said, according to Reuters. Police fought hundreds of protesters who smashed windows, hurled petrol bombs and stones at police from inside and [...] To continue reading this article, click on the headline.

Is It Just To Offend Muslims? – OpEd Posted: 15 Sep 2012 09:02 PM PDT By Hale Yavuz On the anniversary of September 11, after the release of an anti-Islamic movie on YouTube, ‘another Muslim assault’ took place in Libya resulting the death of US ambassador to Libya and three other embassy officials. The timing of the movie, the geographical importance of the attack, the uncertainty of the movie director [...] To continue reading this article, click on the headline.

The Wind And The Sun, And Netanyahu – OpEd Posted: 15 Sep 2012 08:58 PM PDT By William A. Cook Aesop tells the story of the North Wind and the Sun: who is the stronger? They chose a traveler to test their strength; which of the two could force him to remove his cloak. The North Wind went first, whirling furiously down on the traveler, whipping his cloak to wrest it [...] To continue reading this article, click on the headline.

There Is No End In Sight To Culture Of Hatred – OpEd Posted: 15 Sep 2012 08:52 PM PDT By Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed IN 1988, Ayatollah Khomeini provoked religious confrontation when he issued a fatwa (religious edict) to kill a British novelist of Indian origin whom nobody had previously heard of. Up until then, Salman Rushdie’s novel entitled “The Satanic Verses” was virtually unknown. Immediately after the fatwa was issued, the novel became a [...] To continue reading this article, click on the headline.

Saudi Arabia: Grand Mufti Denounces Violence Against Embassies Posted: 15 Sep 2012 08:49 PM PDT Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti, Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Asheikh, yesterday denounced attacks on diplomats and embassies as un-Islamic after deadly protests against a US-made anti-Islam film swept the Middle East. At the same time, he called on the international community to take steps to criminalize any act of abusing great prophets and messengers such as Abraham, [...] To continue reading this article, click on the headline.

Iran Says US Must Act Against Anti-Muslim Filmmakers Posted: 15 Sep 2012 08:44 PM PDT ran’s ambassador to the United Nations has called on the United States to take “serious proceedings” against the makers of the controversial film, “Innocence of Muslims.” The Iranian state news agency IRNA reports that Mohammad Khazai, speaking at the UN, described the production of the film as an “inhumane” act that has led to “religious, [...] To continue reading this article, click on the headline.

Climate Change Severely Impacting Food Prices – Analysis Posted: 15 Sep 2012 08:42 PM PDT By Jaya Ramachandran While there are hardly any signs of substantive and forward-looking agreements being reached at the United Nations climate change conference from November 26 to December 7, 2012 in Doha, latest research cautions that impact of climate change on future food prices is being underestimated. “By the end of the most recent round [...] To continue reading this article, click on the headline.

Maldives: Time Just Right For Dialogue, Political Reconciliation – Analysis Posted: 15 Sep 2012 08:39 PM PDT By N Sathiya Moorthy Now that the CoNI report and the controversy that it was tasked to sort out is behind, it is time Maldives as a nation and Maldivians as a people should pick up the pieces and rearranging the zig-saw puzzle that stares stark at the nation in full bloom. It should be [...] To continue reading this article, click on the headline.

Turkey’s Syrian Misadventure – OpEd Posted: 15 Sep 2012 08:35 PM PDT By Jeremy Salt Turkey’s intervention in Syria has been an act of unprecedented folly. Not since the republic was established in 1923 – not even when the military was in charge – has a Turkish government sought ‘regime change’ in another country.  In sponsoring armed groups seeking to destroy the Syrian government, the collective calling itself [...] To continue reading this article, click on the headline.

Protest In Ramallah – OpEd Posted: 15 Sep 2012 08:32 PM PDT Visiting Ramallah in the West Bank after an absence of several months, I was again amazed by the ongoing building activity. Everywhere new high-rise buildings are going up, and many of them are beautiful. (Arabs seem to have an innate talent for architecture, as any world anthology of architecture affirms.) The building boom seems to [...] To continue reading this article, click on the headline.

‘Defenders’ Law Shakes Macedonia Politics Posted: 15 Sep 2012 08:29 PM PDT By Klaudia Lutovska A draft law that would regulate the special and social rights of those who defended the sovereignty of Macedonia during the 2001 conflict was proposed to parliament on Tuesday (September 11th). The legislation, tabled by the ruling VMRO-DPMNE, has prompted its coalition partner, the Albanian Democratic Union for Integration (DUI), to threaten [...] To continue reading this article, click on the headline.

Global Economy: Four Years Of Crisis – OpEd Posted: 15 Sep 2012 08:26 PM PDT By Anastasiya Pershkina This week Europe narrowly escaped the loss of a major donor to the European Stabilization Mechanism in the face of Germany. Europe could have easily slid to a new economic crunch after four years of the current crisis. Now that things have been straightened out, experts are summing up the results of [...] To continue reading this article, click on the headline.

Pope Benedict Touts Lebanon As Model Of Religious Coexistence Posted: 15 Sep 2012 02:29 PM PDT (RFE/RL) — Visiting Pope Benedict XVI has urged multifaith Lebanon to be a model of peace and religious coexistence for the Middle East. Speaking in Beirut, the Roman Catholic pontiff told a gathering of Lebanese political, religious, and cultural leaders that religious freedom was a basic right for all people. “Lebanon is called, now more [...] To continue reading this article, click on the headline.

Ryan Highlights Role Of Faith In His Political Views Posted: 15 Sep 2012 02:25 PM PDT By Michelle Bauman Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan defended his Catholic faith, pro-life views and economic policies at a conservative gathering in the nation’s capital. “I am a Catholic, not because anyone has ordered me to accept a creed, but because of the grace and truth revealed in my faith,” said the Wisconsin congressman. [...] To continue reading this article, click on the headline.

Obama, The Courts And Congress Are All Responsible For Latest Death At Guantánamo – OpEd Posted: 15 Sep 2012 02:21 PM PDT I felt sick when I heard the news: that the man who died at Guantánamo last weekend was Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif, a Yemeni. I had been aware of his case for six years, and had followed it closely. He had been cleared for release under President Bush (in December 2006) and under President Obama [...] To continue reading this article, click on the headline.

India: Anti-US Protests By Some Muslims In Chennai – Analysis Posted: 15 Sep 2012 01:05 PM PDT A group of about 1500 Muslims staged an ugly demonstration outside the US Consulate-General in Chennai on the evening of September 14, 2012, in protest against a derogatory film on Islam and its Holy Prophet produced by an unidentified person in the US. A video clip from the film with Arabic sub-titles uploaded on to [...] To continue reading this article, click on the headline.

India: Will PM Press Ahead With His Economic Decisions? – Analysis Posted: 15 Sep 2012 01:03 PM PDT The three important economic decisions taken by the Government of Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on September 13 and 14, 2012, are not going to herald an economic miracle for tomorrow. These decisions relate to a significant increase in the price of diesel and permitting foreign direct investment in the civil aviation and retail sectors. [...] To continue reading this article, click on the headline.

A Division Of Labor: Ultras Wage Parallel Battles To Shape Egypt’s Future – Analysis Posted: 15 Sep 2012 12:59 PM PDT Militant soccer fans of arch rival Cairo soccer clubs Al Zamalek SC and Al Ahly SC represent two sides of the same coin in the forefront of a struggle for the future of Egypt. Militants of the Ultras White Knights (UWK), the Zamalek support group, are locked near the US embassy in Cairo into vicious [...] To continue reading this article, click on the headline.

“Anti-West Fever”: Time To Vaccinate – OpEd Posted: 15 Sep 2012 12:56 PM PDT By Konstantin Garibov A wave of protests triggered by a U.S.-produced film said to insult Prophet Muhammad, “Innocence of Muslims” has turned into a global tsunami. After the U.S. embassies, the tsunami has covered the diplomatic missions of Germany and Britain and reached closer to Israeli embassies. The “anti-West fever” has spread from its epicenter [...] To continue reading this article, click on the headline.

Spain: Mass Protest In Madrid Against ‘Authoritarian’ Austerity Posted: 15 Sep 2012 12:53 PM PDT Tens of thousands of protesters from across Spain gathered in Madrid to decry austerity measures enacted by the government. Activists accused leaders of “destroying” Spain with brutal program cuts and tax hikes, aimed at avoiding an EU bailout. ­Some 50,000 protesters converged in waves in the center of the Spanish capital, blowing whistles and waving [...] To continue reading this article, click on the headline.

Porn Director Pegged As Man Who Shot Now-Infamous Anti-Islam Film Posted: 15 Sep 2012 12:39 PM PDT According to the cast and crew of “The Innocence of Muslims,” the man previously thought to have directed it – Nakoula Basseley Nakoula – was just the producer. The moviemaker, it turns out, is known for his work in soft-core porn. In a story broken by American culture website Gawker.com, it turns out that while [...] To continue reading this article, click on the headline.

US Authorities Question Man Allegedly Behind Anti-Islam Film Posted: 15 Sep 2012 12:30 PM PDT U.S. probation officials in California have questioned the man allegedly behind the controversial film that sparked violent protests in the Muslim world. Sheriff’s officials said Saturday that Nakoula Basseley Nakoula was questioned in Cerritos near his home for possible probation violations stemming from a 2010 bank fraud conviction. They say the terms of his probation [...] To continue reading this article, click on the headline.

Obama: Carrying On The Work Of Our Fallen Heroes – Transcript Posted: 15 Sep 2012 12:28 PM PDT By President Barack Obama This week in Libya, we lost four of our fellow Americans. Glen Doherty, Tyrone Woods, Sean Smith, and Chris Stevens were all killed in an outrageous attack on our diplomatic post in Benghazi. These four Americans represented the very best of our country. Glen and Tyrone had each served America as [...] To continue reading this article, click on the headline.