Nationalist feelings in both Cambodia and Thailand have resulted in border clashes, thanks to a disagreements about the ownership of the ancient Preah Vihear Hindu temple, on what is today the border between the two countries, according to CNN. Preah
World officials are shocked at the violent response of the Bahrain government to peaceful protesters, including women and children, in Manama, the capital city. At dawn on Thursday, police smashed into demonstrators wit guns, clubs and teargas, killing at least
I’ve received a number of questions about Egypt and the Muslim Brotherhood. Muslim Brotherhood logo Here’s one that arrived today: “I subscribe to your RSS feed and happen to find your analysis interesting. However, I am curious how you can
For the third time, Egyptian officials have postponed the reopening of the Cairo stock exchange. It was closed on January 27 after having fallen 20% in a few days. It’s now scheduled to reopen on Wednesday. Cairo / Dhaka stock
Egypt has been thrown into completely unknown territory by the decision of Hosni Mubarak to resign as President. Somber Omar Suleiman, vice-president of Egypt, delivering Mubarak’s resignation announcement Vice president Omar Suleiman delivered the following extremely dramatic address, according to
Egypt is in chaos today, after Egyptian officials first signaled president Hosni Mubarak’s intention to “meet all the protesters’ demands” (i.e., step down), but then did not step down. In his speech, he said he’d stay on until the September
For the last two months, North Korea has been frantically begging for food around the world, according to South Korea’s JoongAng Daily. The request has extended to dozens of countries, including China, the U.S., EU, and countries in southeast Asia.
After the London subway bombings on 7/7/2005, the subsequent investigation found that the bombings had been perpetrated by British citizens, young Muslims who had been influenced by radical Islamist terrorists in Pakistan. David Cameron in Munich (AP) As shocking as
There was bloodshed in Egypt again on Thursday, as pro- and anti-Mubarak fought each other in Cairo and Alexandria. Still, the streets were quieter on Thursday than they had been for the preceding couple of days. Cairo (AP) A may
No sooner had Egypt’s president Hosni Mubarak finished his speech on Tuesday evening vowing to step down in September, then pro-Mubarak and anti-Mubarak started throwing sticks and rocks at each other. Hosni Mubarak giving speech on Tuesday (Telegraph) Egypt’s president
Some of the Western press is treating the riots in Egypt as a blessed event. “A new Egypt is likely to emerge from Revolution that seeks not Islam but Freedom,” gleefully proclaims the New York Sun. At the other extreme,
Ten years’ worth of previously secret documents on the Mideast peace process from the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Fatah have been leaked to Al-Jazeera. Al-Jazeera has been releasing them from Sunday through Wednesday as a series of “revelations.” They were
A top official of the Russian Orthodox Church has called for an official Russia-wide dress code for men and women. Christian Century quotes Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin as saying: “Vulgar external appearance and vulgar behavior is a straight path to misery.
Gunfights erupted in major Tunisia cities on Sunday, two days after president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled the country from deadly protests, after 23 years in power. It appears that the gun battles were between the army and security
China’s President Hu Jintao was possibly hugely embarrassed on Tuesday during a meeting with US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in Beijing. Robert Gates and Hu Jintao on Tuesday (VOA) The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) conducted a major test of
Riots continued in Algeria for a fifth day on Sunday over high food prices and unemployment. Since they began on Tuesday, three young people have been killed, and more than 1,000 have been arrested, according to the Interior Minister quoted
Islamist lawyers showered Mumtaz Qadri with roses when he arrived in court on Wednesday to face charges of having assassinated Salman Taseer, the governor of the province of Punjab in Pakistan, according to Dawn (Pakistan). And MEMRI has translated a
The year 2011 marks the 400th anniversary of the completion of the King James Bible, possibly the most influential English language book in history. Psalm 23, King James Version In his 2011 New Year message, the Archbishop of Canterbury said:
According to Andrew Breitbart, two of the bravest people in the world are Irshad Manji and M. Zuhdi Jasser, because they’re outspoken Muslims who are standing up to the standard pro-Islamist narrative adopted by much of the mainstream media. Breitbart
In 2005, the Department of Defense announced the Future Combat System program. (See “Army’s ‘Future Combat System’ calls for autonomous robot soldiers by 2014.”) The plan was that a network of intelligent battlefield robots, including aircraft, ground vehicles, and units
One of the most remarkable occurrences in modern warfare occurred just a few months after World War I had begun. On December 24, 1914, the German and British soldiers laid down their arms, crossed into the “No Man’s Land” separating
On Sunday, 10,000 red-shirted protesters from the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) crowded into a major intersection in central Bangkok, according to Bangkok Post. Thailand’s red-shirt protests (Bangkok Post) They were commemorating the 91 protesters that were killed
South Korean and U.S. military forces are remaining on high alert after North Korea backed down from threats of retaliation for South Korea’s live fire artillery drills near Yeonpyong Island on Monday, according to Yonhap. North Korea had deployed multiple
Moscow police detained more than 1,000 people in Moscow and other Russian cities, after internet postings threatened new ethnic violence on Wednesday evening. Most of the detainees were ethnic Russian football (soccer) fans, although a few migrants from the Caucasus
