First Capital Connect’s security message for Olympics called ‘completely unintelligible’ A British train company has been criticised after producing an Olympics security poster in Arabic which reads as gibberish
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AWMWC joins the ‘Do not spend an evening with a rapist’ campaign calling the Guildhall at Portsmouth to cancel its dinner event where Tyson, a convicted rapist, is invited as a guest of honour. 
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By Iqbal Tamimi The Journalists’ union in Egypt continued its intensive efforts to release female colleague Shaima Adel, who has been detained in Sudan since the second of July
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Hidden in the Apple Dictionary version 2.0.3 (51.5) © Copyright 2005-2007, is this prejudiced and exasperatingly simplistic description of Islam and the role that women play within the faith. The source appears to be a 1996 CNN... Read more
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A timely and powerful symbol of the recognition by Scotland’s Islamic communities of their national identity has been registered on 29 June 2012 as official Scottish Islamic Tartan, set out in the Scottish Register of... Read more
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The United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva adopted for the first time ever a resolution on human rights and the internet. Sweden, Brazil, Nigeria, Tunisia, Turkey and the United States are the initiative takers behind the resolution... Read more
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By Iqbal Tamimi Journalism is getting more dangerous than ever in the Middle East, with recurrent incidents of physical attacks between guests live on air, including hitting with shoes, biting, kicking, abusive wordings, furniture and now fire... Read more
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Lebanese Parliament Member, Bahia Hariri, received at her office in Majdelyoun a delegation from the Palestinian Association for Human Rights (Witness), including the Director of the Association Mahmoud Hanafi, Public Relations and Media... Read more
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Gathered together in Istanbul from June 28 to July 1st, the Advisory Council of the Anna Lindh Foundation and representatives from the Euro-Mediterranean Youth leaders from 35 countries have confirmed and defined the agenda of the Anna... Read more
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By Iqbal Tamimi A Facebook campaign has been created to search for Timothy MacColl who went missing in Dubai for five weeks. The online campaign that attracted more than 117,000 followers is called Bring Timmy Home. MacColl, a member of HMS... Read more