Britain’s unemployment rate has topped a 17-year record high with the total numbers hiking to 2.64 million, new figures show. (JNN 15′dec 2011) The figures published by the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed another 128,000 people have joined the army of jobless with youths and women being the hardest hit, British media [Continue]
Millions of long-term jobless Americans may lose their unemploymentbenefits on New Year’s Eve as the US Congress remains divided over the issue, failing to legislate an extension for the jobless relief program. (JNN 15′dec 2011 0 The US government’s long-term unemployment insurance benefits are due to expire at the stroke of [Continue]
Turkey is reportedly planning to enter into negotiations with Syrian minorities in a bid to persuade them to withdraw their support from the government of President Bashar al-Assad. (JNN 15′DEC 2011 ) In a bid to help fuel the unrest in Syria, the European Union, Arab League, US and Turkey have been in contact and supporting [Continue]
(JNN 15′ DEC 2011 ) Thousands of Iraqis have taken into the streets in thewestern city of Fallujah to celebrate the withdrawal of US troops from the country. Burning US and Israeli flags and carrying photos of Fallujah residents killed by US forces after the 2003 US-led invasion, the demonstrators on Wednesday described resistance against [Continue]
“The differences between Shia and Sunnis are not fundamental,” said Grandmufti of Egypt Dr. Ali Jumma. “The differences between Shia and Sunnis are not fundamental,” said Grand mufti of Egypt Dr. Ali Jumma. “The differences among Islamic denominations are in minor issues and all the Islamic schools have common principles in fundamental [Continue]
(JNN13′ DEC 2011 ) Iran’s Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi has once againstated Tehran’s opposition to any treaty that would enable the US forces to remain in Afghanistan. Describing the existence of foreign military bases in the region as the cause of instability in regional countries, Salehi said on Tuesday that Iran believes [Continue]
(JNN12′DEC 2011) A senior Pakistani official says amid escalating tensionsbetween the United States and Pakistan, Islamabad has warned that it will shoot down any American assassination drone intruding its airspace. A senior Pakistani military official told NBC News “Any object entering into our airspace, including US drones, will be [Continue]
(JNN 12′DEC 2011) Hizbullah criticized on Saturday military tribunal judge Alice Shabtini’s decision to release six convicted Israeli spies, questioning her motives and deeming the incident as a dangerous development, reported the daily An Nahar on Sunday. Hizbullah criticized on Saturday military tribunal judge Alice Shabtini’s decision [Continue]
Syrian security forces have arrested a member of armed terrorist groupswhile trying to plant an explosive device in a residential area of the western city of Hama. (JNN 12′ DEC 2011) According to the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), the arrest was made in the Qussour neighborhood of the city on Sunday. The explosive device was defused [Continue]
(JNN12 dec 2011) Grand source of emulation Ayatollah Sistani rejected arequest by Arab League Secretary General Nabil Al-Arabi to meet with him. Grand source of emulation Ayatollah Sistani rejected a request by Arab League Secretary General Nabil Al-Arabi to meet with him. Al-Arabi, who is in Iraq on a visit, had asked to meet with the Shia [Continue]
(JNN 11′dec 2011) The Palestinian flag will be raised at the headquarters ofthe United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Acting Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas will be present at the flag-raising ceremony in the French capital Paris on Tuesday. A spokesperson for Abbas said he will also meet with [Continue]
The official website of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei is the most popular website among all political leaders in the Middle East, according to the German all-news broadcasting network n-tv. It quoted a study published by the Profile Group based in occupied Palestine as saying the website had the highest number of clicks [Continue]
It was absolutely clear that the unrest in Moscow streets was supported,gfinanced and encouraged by the United States, a Russian political analyst tells Press TV. (JNN 10′ dec 2011 ) The Moscow-based analyst, Vyacheslav Matuzov said that some big American advertising agencies like Omnicom Group motivated and financed the protesters. Matuzov [Continue]
( JNN08′dec 2011) Hundreds of Iraqis have taken part in a protest rally to demand the expulsion of members of the terrorist Mojahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) from their country. The protesters rallied outside the notorious Camp Ashraf in Diyala Province on Friday where the MKO has been based since the early 1980s, urging the Iraqi [Continue]
(JNN08′dec2011) Iran’s recovery of a downed U.S. surveillance drone publicized America’songoing covert war on Iran, a part of the Obama administration’s strategy even more bellicose than his predecessor’s. In a statement on Thursday, President Obama reiterated this confrontational approach with a popular euphemism for [Continue]
Afghan President Hamid Karzai says that Pakistani extremists are behindTuesday’s attacks that left nearly 60 Shia mourners dead in Kabul and the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif. (JNN07′dec 2011) “We will pursue this issue with Pakistan and its government very seriously,” Karzai said on Wednesday. Pakistani terrorist group [Continue]
Pakistani terrorist group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi has claimed responsibility for the recent bomb attacks in Afghanistan that left dozens of Shia Muslims dead. (JNN07′dec2011 ) Nearly 60 Afghans lost their lives in two separate bomb attacks in Afghanistan’s Kabul and Mazar-i-Sharif on Tuesday as Shia Muslims were commemorating the martyrdom [Continue]
At least 54 Afghans have lost their lives in two separate explosions inAfghanistan’s Kabul and Mazar-i-Sharif as Shia Muslims were commemorating the martyrdom of the third Shia Imam, Imam Hussein (PBUH). (JNN 07′dec 2011 ) On Tuesday, a bomb went off in the centre of Kabul, where Shias had gathered to commemorate the day of Ashura [Continue]
Libya has denied allegations by the US officials that Iran had supplied thetoppled regime of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi with weapons. (JNN06′dec 2011 ) Mustafa Abdel Jalil, Libya’s interim leader, dismissed the recent comments by the US officials that Iran had provided the former Libyan regime with hundreds of special artillery [Continue]
Separate bomb attacks have killed at least 33 Shia mourners and wounded101 others across Iraq, police sources say. (JNN06′dec 2011) “A car bomb was parked near a Shia pilgrims’ procession inside the Nile area, and it killed 16 people, mostly women and children, and wounded 45 others,” a police source told Reuters on [Continue]
