US military commanders in Afghanistan say that the Florida church's plan to burn copies of Islam’s holy book on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks could endanger US troops' lives.
Two senior US commanders said on Monday that the planned burning of Quran copies will undermine US President Obama's effort to reach out to the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims. They said it could also trigger retaliation against US forces serving in Afghanistan.
The acting Palestinian Authority (PA) Chief Mahmoud Abbas says he would leave direct talks with Israel, should he be asked to backtrack on the Palestinian demands.
The direct negotiations began in Washington on September 2 after breaking off at the turn of 2009, when Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip killed more than 1,400 Palestinians.
Union officials said that the South African public sector workers pay strike has been suspended on Monday.
The strike by 1.3-million workers has affected education, healthcare and the judiciary. Strikers have demanded a double inflation 8.6% pay rise and a R1 000 a month housing allowance.
Amid fresh flooding several hundred thousand more people have been forced to flee towns and villages in Pakistan's southern Sindh province.
Flood waters are gushing towards the Dadu district after a breach in the Toori dam in the north of the already flood-hit region. So far 19 out of 23 districts of the Sindh province have been flooded. The Toori dam was washed away in August, causing the waters of the River Indus to split in two.
A leaked Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) memo released by WikiLeaks last month has revealed Washington's long tradition of exporting terrorism abroad, supported by radical American Jews. The memo, penned by a CIA group known as the ‘Red Cell,’ warns that the US has long ignored "home-grown terrorism" exported overseas by Jewish extremist groups, a report published by alertnet.org said.
On Sunday, the 27th night of Ramadaan, over three million Muslims attended special prayers at the Grand Mosque in Makkah and the Prophet’s (sallallahu alayi wasallam) Mosque in Madinah, seeking the blessings of Lailat-ul-Qadr (the Night of Power).
The Grand Mosque in Makkah overflowed with hundreds of thousands of Muslims as they came to perform Umrah, attend Taraweeh and Qiyamullail prayers.
According to the Kashmir Media Service (KMS) Indian troops, in their continued acts of state terrorism, have killed 72 innocent Kashmiris - including 31 teenagers and 4 women - during the month of August.
The data compiled by the Research Section of KMS stated that three Kashmiris were killed in custody and the killings rendered three women widowed and nine children orphaned.
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