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Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser
(photo: UN / Paulo Filgueiras)
UN officials underline religions' role in promoting global harmony
United Nations
| General Assembly President Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser. UN Photo/Evan Schneider7 February 2012 – The President of the General Assembly Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser today stressed the potential of all of the world's religions to promote global peace and stability, saying that faiths have common princi...
SOMALIA, Mogadishu: In a handout photograph released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team 15 August, Ugandan soldiers serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) sort through a haul of munitions that were used by the extremist group Al Shabaab to make improvised explosive devices. AMISOM troops and Transitonal Federal Government (TFG) forces dislodged remnants of Al Shabaab from the site following the withdrawal of most of the extremist group's forces from the city ten days ago, discovering the bomb making facility at the former steel factory in northern Mogadishu which contained evidence that the group had used the site to manufacture improvised explosive devises, suicide vests and car bombs. AU-UN IST / STUART PRICE.
(photo: UN / Stuart Price)
Will the London conference change Somalia's future?
Al Jazeera
| - The upcoming London Conference on Somalia is, potentially, a promising occasion to finally put the country on the road to peace, stability and democracy. Whether this opportunity is realised will be largely contingent upon the willingness and ability of the participants to chart a new cours...
ObamaCare's Great Awakening
Wall Street Journal
| The political furor over President Obama's birth-control mandate continues to grow, even among those for whom contraception poses no moral qualms, and one needn't be a theologian to understand why. The country is being exposed to the raw political ...
Nasrallah praises Tehran support for Hezballah, Palestine
Irna
Beirut, Feb 8, IRNA -- Lebanese Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallh said Iran expects nothing in return for the support it gives to Hezballah and Palestine and sees the help as a religious duty which is truly praisworthy. | Seyyed Hassan Nasrall...
The law's great mysteries
The Star
| A breathtaking variety of approaches to the law light up the legal firmament in so many spectacular ways that one cannot fail but be impressed. | EVERY judge, lawyer and law teacher has to grapple with some central and eternal riddles that surround...
Food from the heart
The Star
| One man is continuing the family tradition of giving food to devotees during religious occasions. | IN 1959, V. Seenivasagam, then 49, began serving free food to those who had gathered at Batu Caves in Gombak, Selangor, to celebrate Thaipusam. Twen...
Why the president is wrong
Tampabay.com
| By Bishop Robert N. Lynch | Bishop Robert N. LynchTampa Bay Times In Print: Wednesday, February 8, 2012 | In all Roman Catholic churches in the Diocese of St. Petersburg last weekend, this letter from Bishop Robert N. Lynch was either read by the p...
Why the bishop is wrong
Tampabay.com
| By Roy Peter Clark, special to the Times | Roy Peter ClarkTampa Bay Times In Print: Wednesday, February 8, 2012 | The Most Rev. Robert N. Lynch is my shepherd. But I am no sheep. | His Sunday letter to area Catholics became a bully's pulpit to infl...
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, and Donald Trump, arrive for a news in Las Vegas, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012, where Trump endorsed Romney.
AP / Gerald Herbert
Romney Should be Concerned about Poverty, Especially His Own
WorldNews.com
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. | "Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?", asked Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Jesus answered, "You...
File - A Syrian army defector stand guards in front of closed shops at the mountain resort town of Zabadani, Syria, near the Lebanese border, on Friday Jan. 20, 2012.
AP
Syrian army 'steps up Homs offensive'
Al Jazeera
| The Syrian army has stepped up its attacks on opposition fighters in Homs, activists and witnesses have said, a day after a UN Security Council resolution aimed at endi...
Mormons need not be such a mystery
WN / Marzena
Mormons need not be such a mystery
Cincinnati
| Spencer Daems, 9, spends three hours every Sunday morning in Sunday School classes and worship services. | He spends 10 minutes every day studying scripture. | He sets aside 10 p...
Obama’s lack of conscience
The Washington Times
Story TopicsFollow Us OnFacebookFollow @washtimes | During Thursday’s national prayer breakfast, President Obama said, “I am my brother’s keeper, and I am my sister’s keeper.” The problem is that he actually believes it....
Reaction to the ruling on Calif's gay marriage ban
The Charlotte Observer
| A look at reaction to the ruling by a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel declaring California's same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional: | - "When Proposition 8 doesn't allow parents like mine to marry, it isn't just defining their love as tabo...
The compelling case against Ed Davey
The Daily Mail
| True to my in the Daily Mail, the new Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Davey has dashed the naive hope that he would end the Coalition’s suicidal green fanaticism and return Britain to Planet Reality over man-made global warming.  ...
Human Rights
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrives for a meeting with Israel's President Shimon Peres, not seen, in Jerusalem, Tuesday, June 29, 2010.
(photo: AP / Ariel Schalit)
Russia's Lavrov says al-Assad committed to halting violence
m&c
| Beirut/Damascus - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held Tuesday what he described as 'very useful' talks with embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and said that Damascus was committed to halting the bloodbath in the country. | Russia, along with China, vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution on Syria at the weekend. | Lavr...
Society
Ceremony to celebrate Slovakia's entry to the euro area with, from left to right: Lucas D Papademos, Vice President of the ECB, Joaqun Almunia, Member of the EC in charge of Economic and Financial Affairs, Jn Figel', Member of the EC in charge of Education, Training, Culture and Sport, Jn Poiatek, Slovakian Minister for Finance and ?
(photo: EC / European Community 2008)
Greeks to brief eurozone on tentative debt deal
The Wichita Eagle
| BRUSSELS — A spokesman for Greece's private creditors says Greek Premier Lucas Papademos will soon tell eurozone finance ministers the contents of a deal to reduce the country's massive debt. | Frank Vogl said representatives of the Institute of International Finance, which has been leading the talks for private bondholders, had a "construc...



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