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  • Jordan’s Islamists Condemn Decision Allowing Women to Work in Nightclubs

    Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood on Saturday condemned a labor ministry’s decision allowing Jordanian women to work in nightclubs. “We reject and strongly condemn the government’s decision to open the door for Jordanian women to work in nightclubs. This is against Islam,” Jameel Abu Baker, the movement’s spokesperson, told Xinhua on Saturday. According to local media reports, […]

    Northeast U.S. Endures Record Heat in 2010

    Record heat hit the northeastern United States in 2010 amid a global trend of climate change, according to a new study published Friday. Many cities in the region endured their own all-time hottest year since records began being kept, said the findings posted on LiveScience.com. For the study, researchers at the Northeast Regional Climate Center […]

    Girlfriend of Jackson’s Personal Doctor Takes Stand

    A Houston cocktail waitress made her testimonies in a preliminary hearing held in a Los Angeles courthouse Friday, with prosecutors contending Conrad Murray, late Michael Jackson’s personal physician, ignored him when making a series of telephone calls and texting after administering a potent sedative on the pop icon. Sade Anding, whom Murray referred as his […]

    UN Mission in Nepal Begins to Leave as Term Nears

    With the United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN)’s term expiring on January 15, the UN political mission’s team deputed to monitor arms at the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (UCPN-M) People’s Liberation Army (PLA) cantonments have started to leave, local media reported on Saturday. Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal on Friday said UNMIN’s departure […]

    Iran Says US Woman Arrested for Spying

    Iranian border police said Saturday that they have arrested an American woman suspected of spying, local media reported, contradicting earlier reports. Deputy commander of state border police Ahmad Geravand said at a press conference that a 34-year-old American woman was arrested at the Jolfa border close to Azerbaijan, Fars news agency reported. The report said […]

    Iran says can make own nuclear fuel plates, rods

    Atomic chief Ali Akbar Salehi declared in a report Saturday that Iran is now capable of making its own nuclear fuel plates and rods, technology the West says the Islamic republic does not possess. Salehi, the driving force behind Iran’s contentious atomic programme, said the country has completed the construction of a facility in the […]

    Chile’s recognition of Palestine useless: Israel

    Chile’s recognition of an independent Palestinian state is “useless” and will not help advance peace, a senior Israeli official told AFP Saturday. “It is a useless and empty gesture because it will not change anything,” the official said a day after Chile announced it has recognised Palestine as an independent state, in the footsteps of […]

    4,700 farms closed in German dioxin scandal

    German authorities have stopped more than 4,700 farms from selling their meat and eggs amid a growing scandal over animal feed contaminated with cancer-causing chemicals. Germany’s Agriculture Ministry said on Friday it had no immediate reports of health problems connected to the contaminated products. It said it was stopping the sale of products from farms […]

    Kanishka culprit gets 9 years in prison

    Inderjit Singh Reyat, the only man convicted in the 1985 Air India Flight Kaniska bombing that killed 329 people, was sentenced in Vancouver to nine years in prison for perjury during the trial of two men acquitted in the attacks. In handing down his sentence, British Columbia Superior Court judge Mark McEwan observed Reyat was […]

    Barroso Welcomes Hungarian Priorities for EU Presidency

    European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said in Budapest on Friday that he welcomes Hungary ‘s priorities for its six-month European Union (EU) presidency, and that the Commission is “committed to work hand in hand with Hungary’s presidency to make it a success.” Speaking at a joint press conference with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, […]