Protestors riot at Sweden-Israel tennis match

A group of anti-Israeli protesters clashed with riot police outside an Israeli-Swedish Davis Cup tennis match in Sweden on Saturday, but did not break through police lines.

Obama to visit Turkey next month

American President Barack Obama will visit Turkey, a Muslim country, on his next month his top diplomat, Hillary Clinton, said Saturday, holding Turkey up as proof that democracy and Islam can coexist.

Women's Day marks crisis of poverty, violence

Women rallied worldwide Sunday to demand equal rights and protest against domestic violence and growing poverty in the global economic crisis as they marked International Women's Day. Thousands gathered in public squares from Bangalore to Kinshasa to the capitals of Europe, drawing attention to discrimination and fears facing women in their respective countries.

Women can hold mufti position: UAE fatwa

The Grand Mufti of Dubai, the leading Islamic legal scholar, has ruled that women can hold the position of mufti and issue religious rulings relevant to both men and women on every aspect of life. Dr. Ahmed al-Haddad, Director of the Dubai Fatwa Department, issued a fatwa stating women can apply alongside men for the position of mufti.

Kuwait in political chaos as PM faces new quiz

The Gulf state of Kuwait plunged further into political turmoil on Monday after an Islamist lawmaker submitted a request to quiz the prime minister, the third such move in a week. Islamist lawmaker Mohammad Hayef accuses Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Mohammad al-Ahmad al-Sabah of being responsible for allowing the demolition of two mosques built illegally on state land.

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Iraq still at odds with Iran over border

Iraq and Iran remain seriously at odds on defining their land and sea borders despite an ease in ideological tensions that thawed after Saddam Hussein was ousted, Baghdad's foreign minister said in comments on Monday."We have very big problems with the Iranian side with setting and drawing the land, sea and coastal borders," Hoshiyar Zebari told Iraqi television station al-Sharqiya.

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Sudan releases opposition leader Turabi

Sudanese authorities have released opposition leader Hassan al-Turabi nearly two months after he was detained following a call for President Omar al-Bashir to surrender to the International Criminal Court, his family said Monday.Hassan al-Turabi, 76, was freed from prison in Port Sudan and flown to his home in the capital Khartoum in the early hours without explanation, his son Siddig told Reuters.Sudanese security officers arrested Turabi on Jan. 14, two days after he urged Bashir to surrender to the ICC, saying he thought the head of state was "politically culpable" for the crimes committed in Darfur.

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UK aid convoy Viva Palestina makes it to Gaza

After trekking across two continents, seven countries and more than 10,000 kilometers (6,214 miles) a British convoy loaded with aid destined for Gaza reached Egypt’s Rafah border Monday following extensive border negotiations with Israel.109 Viva Palestina trucks laden with medical aid and escorted by 500 people, headed by British MP George Galloway, crossed the Rafah border into Gaza in the final leg of a 24-day journey to reach thousands of destitute and displaced Palestinians in war-torn Gaza just in time for Prophet Mohammed’s birthday.

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Israeli West Bank mines 'illegal'

An Israeli human rights group has filed a petition at the High Court demanding an immediate halt to Israeli mining operations in the West Bank.
The group, Yesh Din, accuses Israel of breaking international law by exploiting the occupied territory's resources for its own gain.

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Tibetans rally to mark anniversary

Tibetan exiles have kicked off worldwide rallies outside the White House marking the 50th anniversary of a failed uprising that led to the exile of the Dalai Lama.
Hundreds of Tibetans and their supporters rallied in front of the White House on Monday with cries of "Free Tibet!" and anti-China slogans.
In the Tibetan regions in China, the authorities were enforcing a lockdown to prevent a repeat of rioting that took place a year ago.

Source: Aljazeers

Obama recognized .. America lost and the Taliban won

Despite the declaration last February for the increase in the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan by about 17 thousand soldiers, but this did not prevent the sudden exit of Obama's remarks were just stating that America was not winning the war there, and it is inevitable that what he called a dialogue with moderate elements in the Taliban movement, rather to send more troops

Monetary Fund cut its growth forecasts by half in Asia

Although the financial plans of the rescue taken by the unprecedented number of countries in east Asia, particularly Japan and China to face the repercussions of the global crisis, however, excludes the International Monetary Fund, where a quick recovery to reduce the estimates of growth in that area to almost half to be within the limits of 2.7% this year compared to expectations the former was assumed that the growth economies of East Asia, on average, up to 4.9%.

Saudi Internal" hunting 83 Saudis, Yemenis involved in terrorism abroad

Interior Ministry of Saudi Arabia announced it had identified "85" required security, including 83 Saudis and two Yemenis, all of them outside the country waiting for opportunities to implement or assist in criminal acts in the Kingdom.

According to the Saudi News Agency, "the OAS" has shown the interior in a statement that it took the families of those wanted by the police as they handed over the international "Interpol" Recovery applications

U.S. banks receive new impetus from the funds of rescue plan

The U.S. Treasury Department said that it provided 1.5 billion $ to 42 bank in the U.S. as part of the financial rescue plan adopted by Congress in last October at the cost of $ 700 billion.
This is the second installment since President Barack Obama Authority last month.
359 financial institution has received in the 45's state until now the amount of 195 billion dollars.

Ford sales dropped 40% and Toyota 32%

Ford Motor Co. said U.S. sales of cars fell by 40% last month at the beginning of pessimistic for the new year, while Toyota also said that sales dropped by 32% as well last month.

Mysterious virus destroys 15 million computers in the world

The news sources confirm that a virus causes mysterious unknown spreads very quickly and so far has damaged more than 15 million computers around the world.

The sources said that the names of the virus known as "Dawn's father" or "Konfikr" or "Kaidu" polluted six million computers in the past three days and beaten more than 3000, including the British Ministry of Defense hospitals, municipalities and large corporations.

Israel seeks to change the laws to prevent the prosecution of officials

Israel announced Saturday that it seeks to modify or repeal laws in several countries in the world in order to forestall some of those working for the prosecution of Israeli officials on charges of commission of "war crimes" in Palestine. The Israeli radio reported that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will this action to prevent "hostile" in a number of countries in the world, including Britain, Spain, the follow-up of Israeli officials present or former.

20 million Chinese lost their jobs because of the financial crisis

A top Chinese official said Monday that some 20 million migrant workers from rural areas have lost their jobs due to the economic slowdown caused by the effects of the global financial crisis.

bad weather Deepen the wounds the UK economy

Ice storm caused severe damage to the British economy, which are groaning under the weight of the global financial crisis. The Union of small firms in Britain that the storm damage may be left up to 3.5 billion pounds (5 billion U.S. dollars). He estimated the number of people whom could not performe their work on Monday to six million people or about a fifth of the workforce in Britain, when, when all means of transport because of the intensity of snowfall, which had been the largest in the country in 18 years

Canadian and European concern of the orientation of the U.S. focus on domestic goods

The Canadian and European officials that the adoption of the U.S. Congress that the plan to only use products and a solid American-made goods in public works projects financed by the new program to stimulate the economic harm the leading role of the United States in the world. Canada's ambassador to the United States, Michael Wilson, in a letter to the leaders of the Senate "if the logo (the U.S. purchased goods) as part of the economic stimulus legislation, the United States will lose its moral authority to put pressure on others to refrain from adopting protectionist policies."