by Karen Fish If you mow your lawn and cut off the tops of the weeds the weeds will always come back. Unless you get down on your hands and knees with your $2 weeder and pull out the roots of the weeds the...
The world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa is in Dubai and was inaugurated on January 5, 2010.Burj Khalifa is the new name for Burj Dubai. Burj Khalifa can be translated as Khalifa Tower. The tower is named...
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New Delhi: Somali Pirates hijack three ships in the Gulf of Aden. Ending 2009 with a flurry of hijackings in one of the most profitable years to date, the Somali sea bandits' latest catch on Tuesday was the St...
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Homosexuality can still be sentenced by death in seven Muslim nations, but one organization called Al Fatiha --that means the opening -- has started a confidential and anonymous survey of lesbian, gay, bisexual,...
There can be no bigger travesty of justice. Saudi Arabia's ruling Saud royal dynasty has been a staunch ally of the US and the West, but treats women like dirt bags."The District Court in Jeddah pronounced...
"Lack of commitment to new supply, a halt to Nigerian oil production and bitter divisions among oil producers are expected to deliver the reverse of the intended consequences to the Jeddah energy conference: a spike in oil prices to test the $150 a barrel market this week."
" Oil prices remain very high and the Jeddah international conference will be keenly watched by observers this week. A coordinated move to dampen oil prices by increased supply is, however, unlikely to impress markets now eyeing the security implications of Israel’s dummy...
Saudi Arabia will be hosting a meeting of oil producing and consuming nations to discuss the rapidly rising cost of oil around the world.Wouldn't a consumer of oil be every country though?"The US and other...
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"Jeddah (ANTARA News) - Prince Sultan bin Salman, Secretary-General of the Supreme Commission for Tourism (SCT), has announced recently plans to establish an Islamic heritage museum in Makkah and a Qur`an museum in Madinah. He said the two museums would be established in...
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"The Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Prof. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu voiced his deep concern over the dangerous implications of the recent spate of Islamophobic actions, IINA reported.He made the remarks after the inaugural session of the open...
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"Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (ANTARA News/AFP) - The Islamic world`s biggest political bloc on Friday condemned the killing of eight Israeli teenagers in a Jerusalem religious school, saying it abhorred "violence and terror."In a rare reaction to an anti-Israeli attack, the...
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Mecca (ANTARA News) - A total of 312 Indonesians have died in Saudi
Arabia up to Monday (Dec. 31) during this year`s hajj pilgrimage,
according to data from the Indonesian hajj information center.
Currently, 33 Indonesian hajj pilgrims were being hospitalized in Saudi
Arabia,...
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"In 2007, the number of Indonesians already deported had reached 22,116.
The deportation cost was covered by the Saudi Arabian government including for the deportation of 600 Indonesians who were arrested in Aziziah, Mekkah, last Friday.
As to the newly arrested Indonesians,...
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"A spokesman for the Philippine government was quoted by IINA as saying that his government and the IDB had the experience and ability to use the money for the Moro people. The OIC called the meeting in order to preserve the gains achieved through the 1996 peace...
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"The pilgrims were said to have been inspired by a similar journey by Shahid Qurbanov last year. Qurbanov became the first pilgrim from the former Soviet bloc to travel on foot to Makkah when he came for Haj 2006,...
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