‘Obama’s Asia trip underscores re-engagement strategy’
October 29th, 2010 - 8:26 am ICT by IANS
Washington, Oct 29 (IANS) US President Barack Obama's visit to Asia next month underscores his Asia strategy of renewed engagement, a top aide has said.According to Xinhua, US engagement in ... Read more...
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Six militants killed in fresh US drone strike in N. Waziristan
October 19th, 2010 - 12:59 pm ICT by ANI
Miranshah, Oct 19 (ANI): At least six militants were killed in the latest US drone strikes in Pakistan's North Waziristan region.A senior security official confirmed that US drones fired missiles into ... Read more...
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4 suspected militants killed in US drone attacks in Pak tribal region
October 15th, 2010 - 5:26 pm ICT by ANI
Mir Ali, Oct 15 (ANI): Four suspected militants have been killed in the latest US drone strikes in Pakistan's North Waziristan region.The missiles were fired in two drone attacks today in the ... Read more...
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8 militants, including foreign nationals, killed in US drone strike in Pak tribal region
October 14th, 2010 - 12:15 pm ICT by ANI
Miranshah, Oct 14 (ANI): Eight militants, including four foreign nationals, were killed in a US drone strike in Pakistan's North Waziristan region, officials said.According to an official, three missiles were fired ... Read more...
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Halal cosmetics gaining popularity among Islamic women
October 10th, 2010 - 4:03 pm ICT by ANI
London, Oct 10 (ANI): Halal beauty products produced without alcohol or pork have become Islamic women's favourite.The word halal, Arabic for permissible, describes meat slaughtered and prepared in line with Islamic law.Halal ... Read more...
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Fresh US drone strike kills 4 suspected terrorists in Pak tribal region
October 2nd, 2010 - 5:11 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, Oct 2 (ANI): At least four people were killed in a US drone attack in the tribal areas in North Waziristan.According to a private channel, three missiles were fired at ... Read more...
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CIA to continue drone attacks in Pak after getting 100% results: Leon Panetta
September 30th, 2010 - 3:14 pm ICT by ANI
Lahore, Sep 30 (ANI): Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Leon Panetta has reportedly said that the CIA will continue staging drone attacks in Pakistan, a private TV channel reported.In his meeting ... Read more...
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CIA steps up drone attacks in Pakistan
September 28th, 2010 - 1:37 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, Sep 28 (ANI): The Obama administration has enthusiastically embraced the CIA's drone program, an ambitious and historically unusual war campaign by American spies, which has launched nearly four times as ... Read more...
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Pak Danish embassy bombing case: Court acquits trio for “insufficient evidence”
September 26th, 2010 - 1:53 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, Sept 26 (ANI): A Pakistani court has reportedly acquitted three men accused of involvement in the bombing of the Danish embassy in Islamabad because of "insufficient evidence".According to the BBC, the ... Read more...
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Dr Aafia’s sentence to intensify hatred against US among Muslim world, warns Imran Khan
September 25th, 2010 - 6:42 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, Sept 25 (ANI): While condemning the 86 year sentence to Dr Aafia Siddiqui by a US court, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman, Imran Khan, has announced launching a countrywide protest against the ... Read more...
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French Parliament passes bill to ban wearing full veil in public spaces
September 15th, 2010 - 3:47 am ICT by BNO News
PARIS, FRANCE (BNO NEWS) The French Parliament on Tuesday passed a bill to ban women from wearing burka or niqab (Islamic full face veils) as lawmakers consider it to be a ... Read more...
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Top U.S. Commander In Afghanistan Slams Dove World Outreach Center’s Proposal To Burn Quran
September 7th, 2010 - 8:15 pm ICT by GD
By Gina Gomez
Kabul, Sep 7, (THAINDIAN NEWS) The top US commander in Afghanistan has expressed his view about a proposal by an American church to burn copies of the Islamic holy book ... Read more...
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Danish ‘Mohammed’ cartoonist to receive German prize
September 7th, 2010 - 5:22 pm ICT by IANS
Berlin, Sep 7 (DPA) Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, who in 2005 portrayed the Prophet Mohammed wearing a bomb in his turban, is to receive the M100 Media Prize in Germany Wednesday, organisers ... Read more...
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Middle East peace: Clinton facing crucial test
September 5th, 2010 - 7:52 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Sep.5 (ANI): U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton faces a crucial test with the proposed resumption of Middle East peace talks.According to the New York Times, Clinton will be in the ... Read more...
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UN chief condemns Pakistan attacks
September 4th, 2010 - 5:00 am ICT by IANS
New York, Sep 4 (DPA) UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Friday "strongly condemned" the bomb attacks in which scores of people were killed this week in Pakistan's cities of Quetta and Lahore.
A ... Read more...
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Pak scholar warns Muslims will fail in modern world until modernity accepted
August 27th, 2010 - 6:28 pm ICT by ANI
Lahore, Aug 27 (ANI): A renowned scholar Khaled Ahmed has warned that Muslims will fail to adjust in the modern world and achieve socio-economic progress until they accept modernity.Speaking at the Ali ... Read more...
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Islamic Conference to meet in Pakistan on relief effort
August 25th, 2010 - 7:04 pm ICT by IANS
Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), Aug 25 (DPA) Muslim humanitarian aid agencies will hold a meeting in Pakistan next week to help coordinate relief efforts for the millions of flood victims there, the Organisation ... Read more...
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Imam’s old remarks stir fresh controversy over 9/11 mosque
August 24th, 2010 - 6:34 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Aug 24 (ANI): A jaw-dropping speech made five years back by Feisal Abdul Rauf's, the Islamic cleric who wants to build a mosque two blocks away from Ground Zero, saying, "US ... Read more...
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‘Ground Zero’ imam on Mideast tour to ‘Americanize’ Islam
August 22nd, 2010 - 1:33 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Aug 22 (ANI): In the midst of the controversy, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the organizer of the planned Muslim community center and a mosque in Ground Zero in Manhattan, is undertaking ... Read more...
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Obama sends best wishes to Muslims on Ramadan
August 12th, 2010 - 8:47 am ICT by IANS
Washington, Aug 12 (IANS) US President Barack Obama has extended his best wishes to Muslims around the world as Ramadan, the holy month of fasting, starts.
"On behalf of the American people, ... Read more...
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Al-Qaeda new planning chief’s mom calls him “kind, loving, caring”
August 8th, 2010 - 6:12 pm ICT by ANI
New York, August 8 (ANI): The mother of a Saudi-born American and allegedly al-Qaeda's new head of global operational planning, Adnan G. Shukrijumah, whom the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has termed ... Read more...
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Worldwide terror attacks down in 2009
August 6th, 2010 - 1:02 am ICT by IANS
Washington, Aug 5 (DPA) The number of worldwide terrorist attacks dropped in 2009, but rose sharply in Afghanistan as the Taliban stepped up attacks on international forces as well as civilians, ... Read more...
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Two women appointed to male-dominant Malaysian Sharia court bench
July 30th, 2010 - 1:33 pm ICT by ANI
Kuala Lumpur, July 30 (ANI): Two Malaysian women have been cleared to hear the same cases as their male colleagues in Sharia court.According to the Christian Science Monitor (CSM), they will ... Read more...
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White House denies NASA Administrator’s comments on Muslim outreach role
July 13th, 2010 - 4:29 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, July 13 (ANI): White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs has said that NASA Administrator Charles Bolden must have misspoken when he told Al Jazeera last month that one of his ... Read more...
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Indian Muslims are not terrorists, says US official (Lead)
July 10th, 2010 - 8:34 pm ICT by IANS
By Arun Kumar
Washington, July 10 (IANS) India's 160 million Muslims are not terrorists and are tired of their community being defined as terrorists just because someone of their faith "does something bad", ... Read more...
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Indian Muslims are not terrorists: Farah Pandith
July 10th, 2010 - 7:42 pm ICT by IANS
By Arun Kumar
Washington, July 10 (IANS) India's 160 million Muslims are not terrorists and are tired of their community being defined as terrorists, asserts a top Indian-American official of the Obama Administration ... Read more...
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‘US reaching out to Muslims to end negative perceptions’
July 10th, 2010 - 10:51 am ICT by IANS
By Arun Kumar
Washington, July 10 (IANS) The Obama administration is reaching out to Muslims across the world in an attempt to change what a person charged with the effort says is ... Read more...
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Muslim outreach push ‘deeply flawed’: Ex-NASA director
July 7th, 2010 - 1:12 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, July 7 (ANI): A former head of NASA has described as "deeply flawed" the idea that the space exploration agency's priority should be outreach to Muslim countries, after current Administrator Charles ... Read more...
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Thousands attend funeral of Hezbollah leader
July 7th, 2010 - 12:40 am ICT by IANS
Beirut, July 6 (DPA) Tens of thousands of mostly Muslim Shiites Tuesday attended the funeral of Lebanon's leading Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah.
Fadlallah, who was regarded as the spiritual mentor ... Read more...
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Obama assigns NASA Chief engaging with Muslim world as his ‘foremost’ mission
July 6th, 2010 - 1:53 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, July 6 (ANI): NASA Administrator Charles Bolden has said that his 'foremost' mission as the head of America's space exploration agency is to improve relations with the Muslim world.According to ... Read more...
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Obama less favorably viewed among Muslims: Survey
June 18th, 2010 - 6:43 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Jun 18 (ANI): US President Barack Obama's ratings among Muslims has gone down this year as per a Pew Global Attitudes survey.Obama continues to be popular and to lift America's ... Read more...
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US’ image high in Europe, weak in Muslim countries
June 18th, 2010 - 12:59 am ICT by IANS
Washington, June 17 (DPA) The US' image in Western Europe remains high, while Muslim nations still have a negative view of the US and are sceptical about President Barack Obama's policies, ... Read more...
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Osama warns US against executing 9/11 mastermind
June 15th, 2010 - 7:49 pm ICT by IANS
Dubai, June 15 (IANS/AKI) Dreaded terrorist Osama Bin Laden has warned US against executing 9/11 terror attack mastermind and other Al Qaeda prisoners, saying the outfit will kill any American it ... Read more...
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Muslims asked to help dispel doubts about Islam
June 11th, 2010 - 2:36 pm ICT by IANS
Abu Dhabi, June 11 (IANS/WAM) Muslim intellectuals from across the world have asked people from the community to be more involved in public life in an effort to dispel misconceptions about Islam.
Experts ... Read more...
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Obama’s stature among Muslims slips over Israeli-Palestinian standoff
June 5th, 2010 - 4:44 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, June 5 (ANI): Sixty percent of Arabs say that US President Barack is too weak to deliver on a Middle East peace agreement.The YouGov statistic surfaces a year to the day ... Read more...
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