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Fragile ceasefire continues in Gaza Officials expected to meet on Sunday Last Updated: Friday, January 23, 2009 | 9:21 PM ET Comments0...
Muslims react with hope, caution to Obama's offer of 'new way forward' Last Updated: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 | 11:58 AM ET Comments47...
Gaza reconstruction to cost billions Last Updated: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 | 6:41 AM ET Comments3...
London - Michael Jackson has become a Muslim. The singer changed his name to Mikaeel in a ceremony at a friend's Los Angeles home just days before he is due in court. Jackson, 50, is facing allegations of borrowing £4.7m ($7.3m) from Arab sheikh Abdulla Al-Khalifa and failing to repay the sum by recording two new albums, writing an autobiography and penning a musical. The cash-strapped star - who was raised as a Jehovah's Witness - was convinced to turn to I...
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Charges dropped against 5 Guantanamo detainees U.S. defence secretary calls for swift closure of prison Last Updated: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 | 8:11 PM ET Comments20...
Officials' actions contributed to men's torture 21/10/2008 7:03:42 PM The actions of Canadian officials made an indirect contribution to the torture of Arab-Canadian men in Syria,...
Canada denies Muslim husband entry visa Immigration department cites differences in 'culture and religion' Last Updated: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 | 9:05 PM ET CBC News Story Tools: E-MAIL | PRINT | ...
Canada concerned over Afghan facing death for being a Christian Last Updated Tue, 21 Mar 2006 16:37:37 EST CBC News Canada has joined the list of countries closely watching a court case in Afghanistan, where under Islamic law a man could be sentenced to death for converting to Christianity. INDEPTH: ...
Iraq election body rejects fraud claims by Tuesday 20 December 2005 8:40 AM GMT Al-Dulaimi demanded a new election be held in Baghdad Iraq's Electoral Commission has rejected a call from the biggest Sunni bloc to rerun last week's vote in Baghdad after partial results showed the ruling Shia Alliance with a big majority in the capital. Adnan al-Dulaimi, one of the leaders of the National Concord Front coalition, said the group rejected th...
Starved, tortured prisoners found in Iraqi cell Last Updated Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:54:58 EST CBC News Iraq is investigating the discovery of more than 170 prisoners in a government bunker in Baghdad where many were found starved, beaten and tortured. * INDEPTH: Iraq Iraqi officials made the announcement Tuesday, two days after U.S. troops surrounded the Interior Ministry compound where the detainees were being held in an underground ce...
Low-altitude flights over Gaza a form of punishment: doctors' groups Last Updated Thu, 03 Nov 2005 16:05:26 EST CBC News Medical groups and the United Nations have condemned Israel's low-altitude air force flights over the Gaza Strip as an abuse of human rights. The Gaza Community Mental Health Program has joined with Physicians for Human Rights to file a petition at the country's Supreme Court seeking to stop the flights, which routinely break the sou...
Arar was tortured, inquiry fact-finder concludes Last Updated Thu, 27 Oct 2005 11:21:24 EDT CBC News Ottawa engineer Maher Arar was tortured while in custody in Syria three years ago and he still suffers from the aftereffects of his treatment, a fact-finder appointed by the Arar inquiry concludes in a report released Thursday. * INDEPTH: Maher Arar 'Arar's psychological state was seriously damaged and he remains fragile... Economical...
Israel to expand West Bank settlement even as it quits Gaza Strip 10:13 AM EDT Aug 04 AMY TEIBEL JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel announced plans Thursday to expand a settlement near Jerusalem, its latest effort to consolidate control over parts of the West Bank even as it prepares to withdraw from the Gaza Strip. The plan to build 72 housing units in the Beitar Illit settlement are liable to put Israel on a collision course with the U.S. government, which oppo...
Saudis debate ban on women drivers by Friday 10 June 2005 5:27 AM GMT Saudi Arabia is the only country that prohibits women drivers A Saudi man's call to lift a decades-old ban against women driving - the only prohibition of its kind in the world - has been met with death threats and opposition. Mohammed al-Zulfa's knew his proposal last month to Saudi Arabia's appointed advisory council, of which he is a member, would stir controversy....
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - A bomb from a suicide attacker tore through a mosque during Wednesday's funeral for a Muslim cleric opposed to the Taliban, killing at least 20 people, and the local governor said an al-Qaida-linked militant was responsible. At least 42 people were wounded. The attack - which came on the heels of a major upsurge in rebel violence in recent months including assassinations, near-daily clashes with rebels and the kidnapping of an Italian ai...
This is what an educated Canadian said on CBC about Ann McLellan's comment about us not being prepared for transit attacks. It's refreshing to see that many Canadians are educated and rational unlike our Liberal government. (If we chose the NDP we know we would not be involved in any unjust or illegal wars that put us in harms way). What some Canadians had to say about McLellan's comments on CBC view point: I have no desire whatsoever to become "psychologica...
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