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Morgantini Leads Fact-Finding Mission of MEPs to Palestine and Israel 
Palestine News Agency - Oct 26 3:48 AM
STRASBOURG, October 26, 2006 (WAFA) - Italian MEP Luisa Morgantini will lead a fact-finding mission of European parliamentarians to Israel and Palestine from Friday 27 to Tuesday 31 October 2006.Palestine Observer to UN: Lack of Response by International Community towards Israeli Deadly Actions is Highly Palestine News Agency - Oct 25 2:01 PM
NEW YORK, October 25, 2006 (WAFA)- Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, said Wednesday the most unfortunate and highly disheartening is the lack of response by the international community towards Israeli deadly actions against the Palestinian people.Palestine businesses wilt under Israeli curb Gulf News - Oct 27 2:11 PM
Ramallah, West Bank: Mazen Sonnoqrot, a Palestinian entrepreneur and former economy minister, makes a strong case for not doing business in his homeland.The People s Struggle in the Middle East: An Interview with Ramzy Baroud, by Joshua Frank UN Observer - Oct 27 4:04 PM
2006-10-27 | Ramzy Baroud is an American author and journalist, currently based in London. He is the author of newly published The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People's Struggle (Pluto Press, 2006). He is also the Editor-in-Chief of The Palestine Chronicle . Here Baroud talks with Joshua Frank about the latest crisis in the Middle East and how it threatens the U.S. and Israel s Palestine: 3 Palestinians killed in West Bank raids AngolaPress - Oct 27 3:33 AM
West Bank, 10/27 - Three Palestinians were killed Friday in Israeli army raids in the northern West Bank, medics and relatives said. In the refugee camp of Al Faraa, Saadi Subuh, 23, and Mustafa Abu Zalat, 17, were shot and killed, their relatives and medics said.Prince Claus Fund awards middle-eastern culture laureates Middle East Online - Oct 27 4:28 AM
Marking its 10th anniversary, the fund awards candidates from Iran, Lebanon, Palestine in its support for culture.US lawmaker chides Carter Cleveland Jewish News - Oct 27 1:30 AM
(JTA) - A leading US black congressman called former President Carter to chide him for titling his new book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.Bread or democracy International Herald Tribune - Oct 27 12:51 PM
It is not fair to ask the Palestinian people to choose between bread and democracy.Palestinian banks walk economic tightrope Reuters via Yahoo! News - Oct 27 11:39 AM
Bankers in the Palestinian territories worry less about boardroom battles and more about the daily fight to stay in business.CORRECTED: Palestinian banks walk economic tightrope Reuters via Yahoo! News - Oct 27 11:09 AM
(In paragraph 15, corrects amount banks have invested in the nascent Palestinian stock market to $100 million instead of $100,000).P-W School Board sets special meeting Forrest City Times-Herald - Oct 26 1:28 PM
The Palestine-Wheatley School Board will meet in special session at 7 tonight in the administration office at the high school. The meeting is for board members to consider a resolution for facility projects.L'Anguille River Festival set for this weekend Annual event to feature area bands, motorcycle poker run and contests Forrest City Times-Herald - Oct 26 1:13 PM
The annual L Anguille River Festival in Palestine will offer fun and excitement on both Friday night, Oct. 27, and all day on Saturday, Oct. 28. Many of the events the festival have become famous for are returning as well as some new ones.Nuclear holocaust: A risk too big even for martyrs? International Herald Tribune - Oct 27 12:40 PM
The anti-Israel statements of the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, coupled with Iran's support for Hezbollah and Hamas, might lead one to think that the Arab states would welcome Iran's nuclear program. But the prospect of an Iranian nuclear bomb worries Sunni Arab leaders.Loss hurts, but Dragons feel proud The Indianapolis Star - Oct 26 1:55 AM
NEW PALESTINE -- Eventually, pride replaced disappointment after New Palestine's 4-1 loss to Avon in last Saturday's boys soccer North Central Semistate.Eric Alterman: "Oh Never Mind, Mr. President" HuffingtonPost - Oct 27 11:39 AM
Center for American Progress: Think Again In addition to a presidential press conference, this past week offered up a couple high-profile television interviews with President Bush. Yet are we any closer to the truth about what has gone so horribly wrong with the war in Iraq and virtually every other aspect of policy, both foreign and domestic? To ask the question is to answer it. It 2006 olive harvest Scoop.co.nz - 1 hour, 15 minutes ago
HARIS, Salfit; October 27, 2006 - The International Women's Peace Service (IWPS) launches its fourth olive harvest campaign with the help of delegations from the United Kingdom, Austria and Germany.James Zogby: The Gap is Huge HuffingtonPost - Oct 27 8:39 AM
Arab Americans will vote overwhelming Democratic this year, expanding on a trend that began in 2002. Bottom line, it is frustration with the Bush administration's domestic and foreign policy that is shaping Arab American preferences. Throughout the 1990s Arab Americans, like most first and second generation immigrant communities split their votes between the parties, with Democrats edging out J&K leaders to bridge West, Islam gap Hindustan Times - Oct 26 1:21 AM
Top Kashmiri leadership will travel to Egyptian capital Cairo next month with roadmaps to resolve the Israel-Palestine conflict and suggestions as to how to bridge centuries-old gap between Islam and the West.The point of departure Guardian Unlimited - 2 hours, 34 minutes ago
Close to its end, just as at its beginning and all through its execution, the occupation of Iraq has been shaped by miscalculation, haste and deceit.Somali Refugee Influx Into Kenya Decreases Scoop.co.nz - 15 minutes ago
The arrival rate of Somalis pouring into neighbouring Kenya to escape factional fighting has dropped to about 300 people a day from a high of over 1,000 three weeks ago, the United Nations refugee agency said today, citing border officials.US Military Courts Breach International Obligation Scoop.co.nz - 15 minutes ago
The Military Commissions Act (MCA) signed into law by President George Bush earlier this month violates the international obligations of the United States under human rights laws in several areas, including the right to challenge detention and to see exculpatory evidence, a United Nations expert on terrorism said today.Counter-Terrorism Should Not Undermine Rights Scoop.co.nz - 15 minutes ago
Countries need to pay increased attention to ensuring that critical basic freedoms of peaceful assembly and of association are not unduly compromised in the fight against terrorism and that any restrictive measures be necessary, proportionate and subject to judicial safeguards, an independent United Nations expert warned today.Pro-Poor Mortgages Will Soon Be Needed Scoop.co.nz - 15 minutes ago
Mortgages that allow poor people to buy housing will soon be needed to curb the worldwide growth of slums and improve living standards, the head of the United Nations agency charged with promoting socially and environmentally sustainable housing has warned, saying that her organization has already begun testing various financing methods.Top UN Court Is Still Short Of Vital Law Clerks Scoop.co.nz - 30 minutes ago
Sixty years after the International Court of Justice ( ICJ ) was established, the United Nations top tribunal still suffers from a shortage of law clerks to assist its 15 sitting judges, who today handle a growing docket of fact-intensive cases, threatening its ability to provide timely judgments, according to its president.Work Needed To Strengthen Peace And Stability Scoop.co.nz - 30 minutes ago
The senior United Nations envoy in Liberia has called on the mission s senior military officers to work harder to strengthen peace and stability as the West African country consolidates its transition to democracy from 14 years of civil war.Responding to HIV the Pacific way Scoop.co.nz - 45 minutes ago
Thursday 26 October 2006, Suva The response to HIV and other STIs in the Pacific is equal to none other in the world, except perhaps for the region s cousin in the Atlantic, the Caribbean.Field Needs To Consider Future - PM on Agenda Scoop.co.nz - 1 hour, 45 minutes ago
Prime Minister Helen Clark believes people can see the direction the Philip Field affair is going in.Review: A Lover of Unreason by Assia Wevill Guardian Unlimited - Oct 27 3:52 PM
Assia Wevill was airbrushed from the Hughes/Plath heritage. Peter Porter welcomes her restoration by Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev in A Lover of Unreason.The invisible woman Guardian Unlimited - Oct 27 3:58 PM
Looking yourself up in the index, Norman Mailer-like, might be a good way to joke-start a review, but not, I think, here.Forward.com Forward - Oct 25 8:25 PM
Morton A. Klein s opinion article condemning Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice s speech to the American Task Force on Palestine is wrong at nearly every turn ( Condi s Shocking Speech, October 20).Friday Night Football FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2006 Forrest City Times-Herald - Oct 27 2:59 PM
Bomber Stadium at Mountain Home 7:30 p.m.Stage set for spect-actors The Telegraph - Oct 27 4:10 PM
Muktadhara II began late on Thursday. The celebrated guest who was to illustrate the link between acting and activism, Medha Patkar, was over an hour late.Muslims Urged to Counter Campaign Against Islam Arab News - Oct 27 4:19 PM
JEDDAH, 28 October 2006 A.P. Aboobacker Musliyar, secretary-general of the Sunni Cultural Center (Markaz) in Calicut, has denounced the move by adversaries to link Islam and its Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) with terrorism and extremism and has urged Muslims to stand against this deliberate campaign.art October 28 - November 3 at Chitrakoot Art Gallery, 55 Gariahat Road; 3 pm - 8 pm: The Telegraph - Oct 27 4:08 PM
Solo exhibition of paintings by K.C. Murukesan. October 28 - November 10 at Artists Circle, 46 Circus Avenue; 2 pm - 7 pm: Southern Alternative , paintings by renowned artists from south India. Inauguration this evening at 6.Leader: Iraq Guardian Unlimited - Oct 27 4:06 PM
Guardian leader: Close to its end, the occupation of Iraq has been shaped by miscalculation, haste and deceit.MacArthur shuts down FC Junior High Mustangs Forrest City Times-Herald - Oct 27 2:58 PM
JONESBORO Cowan Wright scored two touchdowns and MacArthur s defense shut out Forrest City the final three quarters in a 22-6 victory Thursday in junior high football.Kenya awards 2nd national operator licence to VTEL Reuters via Yahoo! Asia News - Oct 27 6:57 AM
NAIROBI, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Kenya on Friday awarded a long-delayed second national telecommunications (SNO) licence to a consortium led by Dubai-based VTEL, hoping to lower prices and boost competition against the state-owned operator.Analysis: Trying to stop Palestinian war UPI - Oct 27 1:45 PM
TEL AVIV, Israel, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- With the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and the feast of Eid al-Fitr, some of the restraints on Palestinian infighting are over and the prospects for a bloody power struggle are increasing.Other statewide races on the November ballot KRIS-TV Corpus Christi - Oct 27 1:16 PM
They rarely garner as much attention and television advertising as the races for governor or U.S. Senate, but a number of other statewide offices will be up for grabs when Texans go to...PALESTINE: News photographer kidnapped in Gaza City AsiaMedia - Oct 25 11:56 AM
Gaza City --- A Spanish photographer for Associated Press news agency was kidnapped on Tuesday by gunmen off a Gaza City street, the latest abduction of a Westerner in the increasingly lawless Palestinian territory.Forward.com Forward - Oct 27 12:58 PM
Democrats in Congress are arguing that the Bush administration s handling of the war in Iraq harmed Israel and is tying America s hands in dealing with Iran s nuclear threat.Ain-Al-Yaqeen - October 27, 2006 - Article 4 Ain-Al-Yaqeen - Oct 27 4:09 PM
THE CUSTODIAN OF THE TWO HOLY MOSQUES AND THE CROWN PRINCE VISIT THE SOUTHERN REGION NEXT WEEK. A SERIES OF DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS WILL BE LAUNCHED AND THE FOUNDATION STONE FOR NEW PROJECTS WILL BE LAID.Indie film festival spotlights area directors Traverse City Record-Eagle - Oct 27 7:58 AM
TRAVERSE CITY Mary Pierce didn't go to Arizona planning to shoot a film. The Northwestern Michigan College English instructor brought her new video camera on the school-sanctioned border trip strictly for personal enrichment.Romney goes to bat for Healey Boston Globe - Oct 27 1:40 AM
Governor Mitt Romney, in a rare political appearance on behalf of his would-be successor, insisted yesterday that Republican Kerry Healey's "campaign for governor is the most important governor's race in the country to me."Iran denies Argentina charge BBC News - Oct 26 4:14 PM
Iran rejects Argentine charges of involvement in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish centre as "a Zionist plot".The Wine of Israel and the Bible Blogcritics.org - Oct 27 2:05 PM
Israel is a nation possessing a rich past. The turning pages of history find it at the center of the Bible, while the present day finds it at the center of conflict. A country known for many things, wine is not necessarily one of them. Going into a liquor store and requesting their finest bottle of Israeli wine isn t something many people do. The reason for this is because wine, until ZENIT - The World Seen From Rome Zenit News Agency - Oct 27 3:48 PM
ROME, OCT. 27, 2006 ( Zenit.org ).- The Second Vatican Council declaration "Nostra Aetate" facilitated a new era of peaceful interfaith relations, says the founder of the Raoul Wallenberg Foundation.Gaza ICRC Bulletin No. 12 / 2006 AlertNet - Oct 27 6:21 AM
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) - Switzerland Latest report on ICRC activities in the field Berkeley This Week Berkeley Daily Planet - Oct 27 9:08 AM
Impeachment Banner Fridays at 6:45 to 8 a.m. on the Berkeley Pedestrian bridge between Seabreeze Market and the Berkeley Aquatic Park, ongoing on Fridays until impeachment is realized. www.South Africa: SA to Seek "Synergies" Between AU, UN AllAfrica.com - Oct 27 10:00 AM
South Africa will seek to create "synergies" between the work of the African Union's Peace and Security Council and the United Nations Security Council.The Middle East - close up Edwardsville Intelligencer - Oct 27 10:18 AM
Barukh Binah, consul general of Israel to the Midwest, brought a first-hand account of Middle East conflicts to SIUE Thursday. Binah's appearance was sponsored by the Religious Studies program in the SIUE Department of Philosophy.GETTING BIBLICAL: Shohreh Aghdashloo's New Epic Drama Payvand Iran News - Oct 27 7:53 AM
What is amazing about Shohreh Aghdashloo is that one cannot second guess her eclectic film choices. Her career has been one of ups and downs and yet she has pursued her path with determination and most importantly for an actor with an immense Faith in her Art which was often at odds with that of her community and generation. -Darius KADIVARFranti shares world view in music, on film Chicago Sun-Times - Oct 26 11:01 PM
Musician Michael Franti knew something was missing from the war coverage he saw on the nightly news. The numbers reminded him of football scores: two car bombs, seven killed, 12 wounded. They were too simple, he thought, to convey the real human cost of the conflicts.Iran Sparked Islamic Divide, Iran Only Can Defuse It News From Bangladesh - Oct 27 11:30 AM
Tehran for the first time and at the highest level has this week went public on the so far taboo Sunni-Shiite divide, accused the American Great Satan of exploiting and fuelling the historic Islamic sectarian tragedy, which is true, but offered no way out of the divide except a verbal call for unity, which has to be tested against the Iranian policies on the ground in Iraq, where the Iranian call Islamic Fascism? Payvand Iran News - Oct 27 7:53 AM
President George W. Bush and the neoconservative handlers of his administration have added a new bogeyman to their long and evolving list of enemies: "Islamic fascism," also called "Islamofascism." This wonton flinging of the word "fascism" in reference to radical movements and leaders of the Muslim world, however, is not only inaccurate and oxymoronic, but it is, indeed, also ironic. Of course, Longview 4024US259 North 663-8881 Henderson 505Highway79 North 903-657-3297 Kilgore News Herald - Oct 25 3:53 PM
Longview 4024US259 North 663-8881 Henderson 505Highway79 North 903-657-3297 Kilgore 108Midtown Plaza 983-3770 Tyler 620S.SE Loop323 593-9884 Gilmer 1013US271 North 843-2016 Jacksonville 1638 S.Jackson 586-3339 Palestine 1006E.Palestine Avenue 723-2121 MT.Pleasant 302W1st. 572-1821 Se Habla Espanol BLAKE FURNITURE We re Everywhere You Are, With Everything You Need! 50%OFF ofStringTagPrice The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine: Israeli Academic Analyzes the Root Cause of the Conflict [Press Release] PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance - Oct 23 7:45 AM
Ilan Pappe addresses the Palestine-Israel conflict and links the ethnic cleansing of 1948 to prospects for a lasting peace in the region in his new book, "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine" .ICRC: Lack of Cash Acutely Affects Gaza's Economy Palestine News Agency - Oct 27 9:03 AM
GAZA. October 27, 2006 (WAFA) - International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said Friday the lack of cash income for civil servants and farmers continues to seriously affect Gaza's economy.Free Food and Art Exhibit Open to Entire Community Brigham Young NewsNet - Oct 27 9:02 AM
For many aspiring artists, getting the opportunity to show their work can be a rare opportunity. Even more rare is a chance for people in Provo to attend an art exhibit that focuses on art that is outside the traditional mediums.Speaking Truth to Power Ohmynews - Oct 27 12:20 PM
"It's rather bizarre that the President of the United States would receive a visit from Israeli Prime Minister Olmert a month before the Israelis decided to attack Lebanon... Free nations attach no value to biased UNSC resolutions - Khatami Islamic Republic News Agency - Oct 27 6:48 AM
Iran - UNSC - Resolutions Provisional Friday Prayer Leader of Tehran Hojatolesalam Ahmad Khatami said here that the free world nations attach no value to biased UN Security Council resolutions, like the one on Iran's peaceful nuclear program.Back from the war zone Odessa American - Oct 27 5:38 AM
After serving in three conflicts, Dr. John Delcambre said he s prepared to go back to Iraq. I could go today, the general surgeon at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center said. Well, tomorrow maybe. 4 SHAWAL-UL-MUKARAM 1427 AH SRINAGAR SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2006 Greater Kashmir - Oct 27 10:56 AM
Srinagar, Oct 27: The chairman of his faction of Hurriyat Conference Mirwaiz Moulna Muhammad Umar Farooq today claimed that International pressure was mounting on India and Pakistan to resolve Kashmir issue and demilitarization on either side of Kashmir was a right and timely proposal towards the just and viable resolution.LETTER: Palestinians should be able to re-enter the country The Daily Free Press - Oct 27 6:56 AM
n After being away from my parents and family for more than a year, I decided to go back and visit for a few weeks. My ticket was to Ben Gurion Airport in Lod, Israel in July 2006. As it turns out, I couldn't go back since Israel was no longer allowing Palestinians with foreign citizenship into the West Bank or the Gaza Strip.Hutsonville Basketball Coach killed in wreck Daily Clay County Advocate-Press - Oct 25 2:01 PM
An accident on Illinois 121 has claimed the life of a Little Illini Conference basketball coach. Greg Lauritzen, 43, was killed in a Sunday night automobile accident. Lauritzen was the Hutsonville-Palestine Pioneers head boy's basketball coach and athletic director.main Kavkaz Center - Oct 27 7:34 AM
Can you please illustrate the approach and the general plan of the Movement to rid Eritrea from the Christian regime?Porter Bechtel Goshen News - Oct 27 7:24 AM
ELKHART, Ind. Porter Theodore Bechtel Jr., 79, 21544 Ind. 120, died Wednesday at 4:45 p.m. of an apparent heart attack. He was born on April 30, 1927, in Elkhart, to Porter T. and Lenora (Jewell) Bechtel Sr.Romney: Deval, Duke one and the same Boston Herald - Oct 26 9:02 PM
Making a rare appearance on the stump for Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey, Gov. Mitt Romney called her Democratic rival, Deval Patrick, a "Mike Dukakis liberal" yesterday and warned against the one-party...Global suicide? cmi santiago - Oct 27 4:17 AM
Fall-out of nuclear weapons tested the past 6 decades is slowly killing all living beings. But logically that includes the warmongers and their Dr. Strangeloves too? Are we killed by madmen digging their own graves, secretly also 'suiciding' us? What's up? Collective Hara Kiri?Dana Shalash: Ramadan Ended! Now What? The Palestine Chronicle - Oct 27 7:13 AM
While Ramadan is believed to be the holy month during which people get closer to Allah, I am not pretty sure this was the case with us Palestinians. So today is the third day of Eid Al Fitr that all Muslims worldwide celebrate right after the culmination of the month of Ramadan.The vital role of Italy in Lebanon Haaretz Daily - Oct 27 1:39 AM
In the aftermath of Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi's visit to Lebanon, weeks after the UN troops deployment in the south of the country, it is useful to assess the approach of the Italian contribution to the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon mission, known as UNIFIL II.Christian Zionism: An Egregious Threat to US- Middle East Understanding The Palestine Chronicle - Oct 27 6:42 AM
A new Zogby International poll shows that 31 percent of those surveyed in the national poll strongly believe or somewhat believe in the ideas behind Christian Zionism.New UT International Center Focuses on Youth and War [Press Release] PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance - Oct 27 7:00 AM
A new initiative at the University of Tennessee aims to unite nations around the world to deal effectively with the impact of war on their country's youth.East Central Indiana High School Football preview capsules The Star Press - Oct 27 12:26 AM
The Star Press Online Service is the website of The Star Press newspaper, which is located in Muncie, Indiana.The forgotten people The Age - Oct 26 5:50 PM
The asylum seeker cases dumped in the too-hard file.The '3 Iraqs' solution WorldNetDaily - Oct 26 10:17 PM
It appears now that even the Bush administration is looking for a way to honorably withdraw from Iraq. With midterm elections approaching, key figures in both major U.S. political parties are losing faith in the "stay the course" policy and are looking for a fast way out.Obituaries, Oct. 25, 2006 djournal.com - Oct 26 10:11 PM
Melvinia Alexander, Oxford James Bailey, Tupelo L.C. Bell Jr., Verona Ophelia Clark, Aberdeen Gladis Copeland, Guntown Bobby Davis, Ripley Annie Gray, Glen Barbara Haddon, Birmingham Ridge David Hancock, Myrtle Louise Keenum, New Albany Jimmy Lambert, Corinth Fannie Lee, Tupelo Mitch Liggins, Oxford Howard Long, Tupelo Henry Luster, Corinth Linda McDaniel, Iuka Jane Moore, Fulton Marine Morrow, East Texas Fishing Report The Daily Sentinel - Oct 26 9:17 PM
NACOGDOCHES: Lake Nacogdoches is about 2 1/2 feet low and clear. Water temp is in the low 70s. Black bass are fair on soft jerk baits and light Texas rigs worked along outside grass edges. A few fish also taking chrome Rat-L-Traps and shad pattern cranks. Topwater bite has been sporadic.Primary school enrolment has dropped, says UN report The Star Online - Oct 26 4:34 PM
PETALING JAYA: Malaysia has been identified as one of 24 countries that recorded a drop in its primary education enrolment between 2000 and 2004, according to a Unesco report.Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign to Organise Week for Action against Apartheid Wall Palestine News Agency - Oct 25 4:46 AM
RAMALLAH, October 25, 2006 (WAFA)-The Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign has announced to organise, in Palestine and all over the world , a week in solidarity with Palestinian communities in struggle against the land grab and expulsion by Israeli authorities.Is Halloween a family holiday? Clinton Herald - Oct 26 8:09 PM
Halloween is troublesome for me - I won t lie. On the one hand, I like the decorations and fun surrounding it. I like the look and smell of carved pumpkins, the fall colors, cooler weather, hay rides, candy corn and hot cocoa.Assad: Syria not seeking to be nuclear state Asahi.com - Oct 26 8:51 PM
DAMASCUS--Far from seeking nuclear weapons of its own, Syria's ultimate aim is to make the entire Middle East nuclear-free, according to President Bashar Assad.Finding her roots Herald Journal - Oct 27 1:11 AM
We Jews are made without spirit or soul; we are just blood and ashes. Listen closely to Liat Ben-Shay. To the words she uses. To the ones she doesn t.Islamabad in dilemma over Taliban role: report Gulf Times - Oct 27 3:03 AM
NEW YORK: Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf is torn between his desire to support the Taliban and, at the same time, not wanting to offend the United States, according to the imam of Peshawar s 17th-century Mahabat Khan Mosque, who is also director of the Jamia Ashrafia, a Deobandi madrassa.Candidate for Congress speaks Ball State Daily News - Oct 26 10:23 PM
About 40 students trekked through the cold, wet and dreary night to learn where Democratic candidate for Congress Barry Welsh stands on issues such as education.Romney tells independents there's danger in one-party rule Boston Globe - Oct 26 8:31 AM
Gov. Mitt Romney, largely absent from this fall's governor's race, reached out to independent voters Thursday by warning them that taxes would rise and businesses would avoid the state if Deval Patrick was elected and joined a Statehouse already dominated by Democrats.www.bullardnews.com phone 903-894-9306 fax 903-894-9308 114 N. Houston Street, Bullard Weekly News - Oct 26 9:52 PM
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Stateside With Rosalea: Arrogance And Stupidity - Stay after school, Mr Fernandez, and write 500 times: "I must not say 'there has been arrogance and stupidity' by the US in Iraq." Bad diplomat! Climb back into your Green Zone bubble and hush your mouth! See...Karl Rove Announces Plans to Steal Election '06 Scoop.co.nz - Oct 26 6:44 PM
White House political head honcho Karl Rove was interviewed by National Public Radio yesterday. He effectively announced plans to steal the coming elections. The polls point decisively to a Democratic majority in the House, and possibly in the Senate.Severe Election Problems Seen in 10 States Scoop.co.nz - Oct 26 6:44 PM
A nonpartisan organization tracking election reform across the United States released a report Wednesday warning that 10 states are likely to experience severe problems on November 7 because of electronic voting machines and new voter identification laws that could call into question the results of some races.Public Address 27/10/06 - If You Hum It ... Scoop.co.nz - Oct 26 6:44 PM
PUBLIC ADDRESS 27/10/06 - If you hum it ... If you hum it ... | Oct 27, 2006 11:49 Russell Brown's Hard NewsRice & Dominican Republic Pres. Leonel Fernandez Scoop.co.nz - Oct 26 5:59 PM
SECRETARY RICE: I would just like to welcome you, Mr. President. We have a wonderful relationship with your country. I know that you've met with the President and we can follow up on any matters of interest to you, but welcome to the United States. 'Thousands of Armenians Converted to Islam' Turks.US - Oct 26 6:52 PM
Abdulilah Firat, grandson of Sheik Sait, asserted that thousands of Armenians converted to Islam and became Kurds during the Ottoman era. More than 500 Armenian villages converted to Islam during his great-grandfather s lifetime alone, Firat stated and in doing so, instigated a new debate.Exhibit shows how dress expresses identity The Times of Northwest Indiana - Oct 24 10:50 PM
CHICAGO | An exhibit of 19th and early 20th century clothing from Palestine will be shown at the Oriental Institute Museum from Nov. 11 to March 25, 2007. The exhibit titled Embroidering Identities: A Century of Palestinian Clothing is a joint project of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago and the Palestinian Heritage Center in Bethlehem/West Bank-Palestine.Briefing on the Resignation of Christopher Burnham Scoop.co.nz - Oct 26 5:44 PM
I am sad to hear of Chris Burnham's resignation as Under Secretary General for Management at the United Nations.Bigotry in the Name of God and Religion Arab News - Oct 26 4:22 PM
It was truly incredible. The stuff that dreams are made of. There I was sitting in my Riyadh living room in the last week of Ramadan with two women whom I respect and revere immensely. There we were, a Christian, a Muslim and a Jew discussing in earnest what was happening to our shared world.Posted: 26-10-2006 , 17:41 GMT Al Bawaba - Oct 26 10:43 AM
Lebanese singer Nancy Ajram is scheduled to hold her first performance in Germany on 11 November at Tempodrom Einlass, one of the largest concert halls in Berlin.John Chuckman: Israel, Palestine and Canada The Palestine Chronicle - Oct 24 4:10 AM
Harper's definition of democracy appears to be the American one: those governments are democratic who agree with American policy. Canada's Thirty-Percent Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, just made a speech at a B'nai Brith banquet.Greenpeace forced out of Apple Mac Expo Scoop.co.nz - Oct 26 4:44 PM
London, October 26, 2006 -Greenpeace's high profile 'Green my Apple' stall was shut-down today at the start of the Mac Expo (1) Organisers of the Mac Expo claimed they had received complaints from unnamed sources.Scoop Pacific Islands Forum 2006 FULL COVERAGE Scoop.co.nz - Oct 26 3:59 PM
Scoop has been on location at the Pacific Islands Forum in Nadi, Fiji and reports that it has been one of the most highly charged Pacific leaders meetings for years.