Monthly Archives: January 2010

Group claims Mahmoud Mabhouh, who was suspected in murder of 2 IDF soldiers in 1988, was killed on Jan. 20 in UAE capital; abducted soldier's mother: I'm happy his death was avenged.

Anti-Semitic Vandalism at a Strasbourg Jewish cemetery was discovered on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

The head of a mosque in Drancy, a northeastern suburb of Paris, was targeted Monday by a gang of Islamic radicals who interrupted the services and threatened to “liquidate him, this imam of the Jews.”

The drive-by shooting of Coptic Christians by extremist Muslims after celebrating the Orthodox Christmas Eve midnight Mass in the southern town of Nagaa Hammadi on January 6, causing the killing of 6 and wounding of 9, (AINA 1-7-2010) was  condemned by public opinion worldwide.

Hariri urges Arab solidarity with Beirut against "Israeli threats"

Italy's foreign minister Franco Frattini on Wednesday voiced his opposition to the face veil. Women wearing the garment pose security issues and symbolise "a refusal to integrate" by Muslim immigrants in a host country, he said.

Al Shabaab extremists threaten widow of slain pastor of underground church.

A Filipino nurse with ten years in Saudi Arabia talks about the dramatic situation of Christian workers, forced to embrace Islam just to keep their job. Despite abuses and violence, migrants still choose the Middle East because of the availability of work.

Sudan's ruling National Congress Party said late on Wednesday it would support former foe Salva Kiir for president of the semi-autonomous south in April elections in an attempt to revive a faltering partnership.

The Nile Delta, Egypt's bread basket since antiquity, is being turned into a salty wasteland by rising seawaters, forcing some farmers off their lands and others to import sand in a desperate bid to turn back the tide.