Iran: Rescue of the fishermen by U.S. Navy is a humanitarian gesture
Posted by: crown62
Tehrān :: Iran | updated 2012-02-18 14:45:23 -0800 | humanitarian-news
Iran described as a humanitarian gesture to the rescue by U.S. Navy made thirteen Iranian fishermen captured by Somali pirates. Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi, said his country had also rescued many foreign seamen at the hands of pirates,...
Iran to conduct more exercises in the Strait of Hormuz
Posted by: prabirghose
Tehrān :: Iran | updated 2012-07-28 01:47:38 -0700 | humanitarian-news
After the recent 10-day exercise in the Strait of Hormuz, Iran has announce fresh military exercises in the region – it wants to impress upon the global community that if sanctions are imposed on Iran, it would precipitate matters and...
Fresh bomb attacks in Baghdad leave 68 dead
Posted by: prabirghose
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2012-07-28 01:48:09 -0700 | humanitarian-news
It was a series of well coordinated and planned bomb attacks in and around the Shiite Muslim pilgrims in Baghdad in southern Iraq that took the lives of at least 68 persons. It was the bloodiest day after the 15th...
Saudi Arabia by law now permits sale of lingerie by women only
Posted by: Nina Rai
Riyadh :: Saudi Arabia | updated 2012-07-28 01:49:19 -0700 | humanitarian-news
Report By: Nina Rai Riyadh, 03 Jan., 2012 In a conservative Islamic society like Saudi Arabia, women are not permitted to take up any vocation (other then exceptional spheres) which may lead to men and women assembling together like malls,...
Only females can sell lingerie in Saudi Arabia
Posted by: prabirghose
Riyadh :: Saudi Arabia | updated 2012-07-28 01:49:22 -0700 | lifestyle-news
The law is finally being enforced in Saudi Arabia so that its women are saved the blushes while buying lingerie and other intimate garments in lingerie shops where men sit behind the counters. Invariably, in such circumstances, the men have...
Invisible Revolution-Welcome to our World 2012
Posted by: akashma
Gaza :: Palestine | updated 2012-03-31 07:23:17 -0700 | humanitarian-news
Marivel Guzman On the surface of our world right now There is war, violence, and craziness And things may seem dark. But calmly and quietly At the same time Something is happening underground. An inner revolution is taking place And...
IRAN : Sakineh Mohammadi Prepare Execution
Posted by: RositaRose
Tehrān :: Iran | updated 2012-04-10 15:45:56 -0700 | humanitarian-news
Tehran - Iran's government continued to carry out the execution plan for Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtianti accused of killing her husband. Iran said it would continue plans to punish Sakineh, stoned to death. The country is even considering to replace stoning...
Iran still undecided on stone-to-death case of adulteress
Posted by: prabirghose
Tehrān :: Iran | updated 2012-07-27 17:40:39 -0700 | humanitarian-news
The fate of the Iranian woman accused of adultery still remains in the balance – should Iran go ahead and implement the stone-to-death decision that had outraged the world or go in for hanging? The woman Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani was...
MEMBER STATE OF UN WITH FLAGRANT DISREGARD OF HUMANITY.
Posted by: Elderly1933Extrovert
Riyadh :: Saudi Arabia | updated 2012-07-27 17:48:42 -0700 | humanitarian-news
We sell them armaments; buy their petroleum; honour their rulers with state visits, But these very same people are monsters in their practice with judicatory habits. A Saudi woman arrested by religious police, beheaded by order of the authority, Charged...
Do You Know Why?
Posted by: cmiller
Netivot :: Israel | updated 2012-04-18 13:50:06 -0700 | humanitarian-news
Special children are not comprised of just a computer printout of IQ’s and IEP’s. They are children like all children. But their needs? Their needs are special. And their sisters and brothers? Their mothers and fathers? The people who love...
A hero today, tomorrow, forever.
Posted by: shimarazipour
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2011-12-12 22:10:00 -0800 | humanitarian-news
In a whirlwind of emotions, time, and departure, our nation has felt the wrath of war in recent years. Beginning 2011, deep embodied in my thoughts, I dreaded the month of September. A month that seemed for many, far away,...
The Palestinians insist on trying to join the United Nations.
Posted by: Vicky247
Ramallah :: Palestine | updated 2012-04-19 12:37:57 -0700 | humanitarian-news
"Abbas sticks to his stance of achieving a place in UN with every effort possible." Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said yesterday that the initiatives in the Security Council on the application for membership of the UN of a Palestinian State...
BAQUBA, Iraq: A suicide bomber and a car bomb targeted anti-Qaeda militiamen near Baquba, north of ...
Posted by: abdulmohaiman
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2012-04-12 16:57:41 -0700 | humanitarian-news
The suicide bomber detonated his explosives about 9:15 am as Sahwa (Awakening) militiamen gathered near an Iraqi army base to pick up their salaries, a colonel in the Baquba operations command said.A car bomb exploded about 10 minutes later in...
AMMAN: Syrian security forces shot dead at least nine villagers when they stopped at a roadblock in ...
Posted by: abdulmohaiman
Amman :: Jordan | updated 2011-12-23 01:55:10 -0800 | humanitarian-news
A YouTube video was distributed by the activists opposed to President Bashar al-Assad purportedly showed several bodies, gagged and with their hands tied behind their backs, near the village of Kfar Laha in the Houla region- a pro democracy area.Their...
SANAA: Three Yemeni fighter jets were destroyed and several others damaged in overnight explosions ...
Posted by: abdulmohaiman
Sanaa :: Yemen | updated 2011-12-23 01:55:46 -0800 | humanitarian-news
“Unknown assailants appear to have planted explosive devices in the fighter jets which were loaded with ammunition in preparation for a combat mission planned for Monday morning,” a military official said on condition of anonymity.“Three fighter jets went up in...
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