British property developer Safi Qurashi, this week freed by a Dubai court after two-and-a-half years in jail, was rearrested on Tuesday over criminal charges brought against him by debt-ridden developer Nakheel
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Saudi authorities should drop charges and release the editor of the Free Saudi Liberals website for violating his right to freedom of expression on matters of religion and religious figures, Human Rights Watch said today
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A journalist who lost part of his leg after stepping on a landmine in Iraq will be running the Olympic torch relay in London today
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Nearly 180 Filipino workers are said to be on hunger strike in Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh to protest alleged abuse from authorities and employers, and illegal recruitment, reported the Philippine Online Chronicles
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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