Turkey’s
former Islamic prime minister Necmettin
Erbakan plans to run as an independent
candidate in early elections, defying a
five-year ban on political activity for
anti-secular activities that got him
ousted after a one-year term... more>>
U.S.
President George W. Bush opposed new aid
to Egypt to protest the 7-year jail
sentence handed down last month to
Egyptian-American human rights activist
Saad Eddin Ibrahim, the White House
spokesman confirmed Thursday, August
15... more>>
More
than 600 relatives of victims of the
9/11 terror attacks filed a civil suit
Thursday, August 15, against three
members of the Saudi royal family,
Sudan, and several Gulf banks, accusing
them of providing covert financing to
Al-Qaeda... more>>
Defying
a widely condemned policy of
“collective punishment”, the Israeli
army arrested for the second time
Thursday, August 15, a Palestinian
activist’s wife, who had taken refuge
at a friend’s house in Nablus after
her house in Jenin was destroyed... more>>