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In latest row between Israel and EU, Romania refuses to allow its workers to build illegal settlements in the West Bank. A diplomatic spat has erupted between Israel and Romania after Bucharest reportedly refused to allow Romanian construction workers to be employed in settlements being built in the occupied West …

jmtsa.co.za “And do not think that Allah is unaware of what the evildoers are doing: He but grants them respite until the Day when their eyes will stare in horror” (14:42) The Muslim world is caught in a whirlwind of political upheaval which has claimed over five million lives since …

The real Mandela: Don’t let his legacy be abused By John Wight December 07, 2013 The manner in which Nelson Mandela’s legacy is being misinterpreted and appropriated is an obscenity. This has been brought into sharp focus in the immediate aftermath of his passing. The driving force and inspiration of …

    By Jonathan Cook   06 December, 2013 Countercurrents.org   Offering a dissenting opinion at this moment of a general outpouring of grief at Nelson Mandela’s death is not likely to court popularity. It is also likely to be misunderstood.   So let me start by recognising Mandela’s huge …

    By Farooque Chowdhury   06 December, 2013 Countercurrents.org       Mandela, the name, needs no annotation, no analysis, no explanation. It stands with its own dignity, own strength, own activity, own journey along the path of humanity. It was his, Nelson Mandela’s journey for humanity, his journey …

South African NGO, The Re-focus and Upliftment Foundation (RAUF) offers individuals struggling with an addiction to drugs, with the positive help and support needed to fight the hold of narcotics. On Sunday, the foundation visited the VOC studios to share the work they have done and hopefully reach audience members …

    Abdul Aziz Gazzawi Okaz/Saudi Gazette JEDDAH – As the new Umrah season is around the corner, the Ministry of Haj has completed all preparations to receive around five million pilgrims from all over the world. Issa Rowas, Deputy Minister of Haj for Umrah Affairs, said that the process …

    Azhar Vadi | Cii Analysis | 27 November 2013   While governments, media houses and advocacy groups that champion the right to freedom, dignity and human rights deliberate and analyse the various international interests and global dynamics playing out in Syria, a catastrophe of unparalleled proportions has been …

More than 11 000 children have died in Syria’s civil war, including 128 killed by chemical weapons in a notorious attack and hundreds targeted by snipers, a British think-tank said on Sunday. The Oxford Research Group, which specialises in global security, said in a new study that there were 11 …

By Bill Van Auken 22 November, 2013 WSWS.org A draft agreement reached late Wednesday night between Washington and the puppet regime of President Hamid Karzai calls for as many as 15,000 foreign troops, the vast majority of them American, to continue occupying Afghanistan through 2024 and beyond. The deal would …