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Muslim immigrants leaving crisis-stricken Iberia
Source : Agencies | 23 Mar 2013
Spain and Portugal were considered the Iberian Dream not long ago but mostly Muslim immigrants have begun leaving these countries due to the recession and ensuing unemployment, Foreign Policy reports.
More people left the county in 2011 than entered and the trend increased in the first semester of 2012, the Spanish Institute of Statistics reported.
U.S. war in Iraq costs more than $2 trillion: study
Source : Reuters | 15 Mar 2013
The U.S. war in Iraq has cost $1.7 trillion with an additional $490 billion in benefits owed to war veterans, expenses that could grow to more than $6 trillion over the next four decades counting interest, a study released on Thursday said.
The war has killed at least 134,000 Iraqi civilians and may have contributed to the deaths of as many as four times that number, according to the Costs of War Project by the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University.
THE ROVING EYE Syria: A jihadi paradise
By Pepe Escobar | Asia Times | 07 Mar 2013
So Bashar al-Assad hath martially spoken - for the first time in seven months - predictably blaming the Syrian civil war on "terrorists" and "Western puppets".
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, he of the former "zero problems with our neighbors" policy, commented that Assad only reads the reports of his secret services. C'mon, Ahmet; Bashar may be no Stephen Hawking, but he's certainly getting his black holes right.
US military struggling to stop suicide epidemic among war veterans
By Ed Pilkington | The Guardian/UK | 02 Feb 2013
Last year, more active-duty soldiers killed themselves than died in combat. And after a decade of deployments to war zones, the Pentagon is bracing for things to get much worse.
Israel boycotts U.N. human rights council, first ever country to do so
By Al Arabiya | 30 Jan 2013
Israel has boycotted a review by the U.N.’s human rights council, the first time any country has done so reported the BBC on Wednesday.
Revealed: America’s Arms Sales To Bahrain Amid Bloody Crackdown
By Justin Elliott | ProPublica | 16 Jan 2013
Despite Bahrain's bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, the U.S. has continued to provide weapons and maintenance to the small Mideast nation.
Defense Department documents released to ProPublica give the fullest picture yet of the arms sales: The list includes ammunition, combat vehicle parts, communications equipment, Blackhawk helicopters, and an unidentified missile system. (Read the documents.)
Arab Spring 2013: Revolutionary wave enters a third year
By Sharif Nashashibi | Al Arabiya | 02 Jan 2013
Israel arrests 900 Palestinian children in 2012
By Naif Zaydani | Al Arabiya | 28 Dec 2012
The Palestinian Authority is currently looking into the possibility of filing a complaint to the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Israel for arresting 900 Palestinian children in 2012.
In taking such an action, Palestine will be using its newly-acquired rights as an observer state at the United Nations, said Eissa Karakea, Palestinian Minister of Detainees’ Affairs.
Exclusively Islamic? Malaysian Christians call for using the word ‘Allah’ in their Bible
By Al Arabiya | 28 Dec 2012
The Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party, PAS, has responded to a re-ignited debate surrounding the use of the Arabic word for God, ‘’Allah’’, as Christian groups claim the right to use the term in their own religious scripts.
