http://arabtimesonline.com Add News en-US admin@arabtimesonline.com LONDON, May 22, (AFP): A bill to legalise gay marriage in Britain passed a crucial hurdle in parliament on Tuesday, despite efforts by lawmakers from Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative party to wreck the plans. Members of the House of Commo... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/196506/reftab/69/Default.aspx John Fernandes Thu, 23 May 2013 06:13:27 GMT LONDON, May 22, (AP): Dozens of Mohandas Gandhi’s personal items have been sold at an auction, but a sample of blood purportedly from the Indian independence leader didn’t draw high enough bids. The memorabilia offered by British auction house Mullo... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/196505/reftab/69/Default.aspx John Fernandes Thu, 23 May 2013 06:12:23 GMT ORLANDO, Fla/WASHINGTON, May 22, (RTRS): An FBI agent shot and killed a man of Chechen origin who turned violent while being questioned on Wednesday about his connection to Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of two Chechen brothers suspected of carrying out the... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/196495/reftab/69/t/FBI-kills-man-in-questioning-on-Boston-bombing/Default.aspx John Fernandes Thu, 23 May 2013 05:34:37 GMT LONDON, May 22, (AP): A brutal attack in broad daylight near a military barracks in London left one man dead and two suspects hospitalized Wednesday after a shootout with police. British Prime Minister David Cameron said the attack appeared to be te... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/196494/reftab/69/t/Man-killed-in-possible-terror-related-attack/Default.aspx John Fernandes Thu, 23 May 2013 05:33:38 GMT LONDON, May 21, (RTRS): Two microscope slides bearing the blood of former Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi are to go on sale in London on Tuesday and are expected to fetch from £10,000 to £15,000 ($15,200-$22,800). The slides were obtained in 1924 when ... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/196477/reftab/69/t/Gandhi-blood-sample-up-for-auction/Default.aspx John Fernandes Wed, 22 May 2013 06:38:46 GMT KABUL, May 21, (RTRS): About 600 Afghan women and girls are behind bars for so-called moral crimes, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Tuesday, the highest number since the Taliban were toppled almost twelve years ago. Running away from home, usually ... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/196476/reftab/69/t/Women-jailed-over-moral-crimes/Default.aspx John Fernandes Wed, 22 May 2013 06:37:07 GMT RIYADH, May 21, (AFP): Saudi Arabia on Tuesday executed five Yemenis and displayed their bodies in public for killing a national and forming a gang that committed robberies across several towns in the kingdom, the interior ministry said. The ministr... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/196475/reftab/69/Default.aspx John Fernandes Wed, 22 May 2013 06:36:21 GMT KATHMANDU, Nepal, May 21, (AP): The first woman from Saudi Arabia to scale Mount Everest said she doesn’t intend to inspire a movement, but would be happy to change people’s opinions of Saudi women and Saudi women’s opinions of themselves. Raha M... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/196469/reftab/69/t/First-Saudi-girl-scales-Everest/Default.aspx John Fernandes Wed, 22 May 2013 05:53:29 GMT ISLAMABAD, May 20, (RTRS): Pakistan has told civil servants not to wear socks as the country turns off air-conditioners amid a chronic power crisis and soaring temperatures. The government has turned off all air-conditioning in its offices as the co... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/196429/reftab/69/Default.aspx John Fernandes Tue, 21 May 2013 06:04:34 GMT GAZIPUR, Bangladesh, May 20, (RTRS): A Bangladesh factory where Wal-Mart Stores Inc and Inditex SA inspectors spotted cracks in the wall this month is still making Wrangler shirts for the world’s largest apparel maker, US-based VF Corp. VF confirmed... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/196428/reftab/69/t/Bangladesh-banned-factory-still-makes-Wrangler-shirts/Default.aspx John Fernandes Tue, 21 May 2013 06:03:19 GMT BAGHDAD, May 20, (Agencies): A wave of attacks killed at least 86 people in Shiite and Sunni areas of Iraq on Monday, officials said, pushing the death toll over the past week to more than 230 and extending one of the most sustained bouts of sectari... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/196423/reftab/69/t/War-on-mosques-rages-in-Iraq/Default.aspx John Fernandes Tue, 21 May 2013 05:42:49 GMT MANILA, May 20, (AFP): The Philippines said Monday it had signed a historic agreement with Saudi Arabia that would protect thousands of Filipina maids from being exploited in the Middle Eastern kingdom. The agreement guarantees Filipina maids benefi... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/196420/reftab/69/t/Manila-seals-deal-for-maids-in-Saudi/Default.aspx John Fernandes Tue, 21 May 2013 05:36:20 GMT RIYADH, May 19, (AFP): Chastened by the experience of Afghanistan, where hundreds of Saudis fought before returning to sow terror at home, the kingdom is battling to avoid similar blowback from the conflict in Syria, analysts say. In recent months, ... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/196415/reftab/69/t/Saudi-vies-to-avoid-Afghan-style-blowback-from-Syria/Default.aspx John Fernandes Mon, 20 May 2013 06:55:19 GMT DHAKA, May 19, (AFP): Bangladesh’s top court on Sunday ordered police to prevent the owner of a garment factory that catered to top Western retailers from leaving the country, six months after 111 of his employees died in a fire. Delwar Hossain, the... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/196414/reftab/69/t/Factory-owner-barred-from-leaving-Dhaka/Default.aspx John Fernandes Mon, 20 May 2013 06:53:29 GMT RIYADH, May 19, (AFP): A Saudi man escaped a sentence of paralysis for stabbing and paralysing another man by offering him compensation, media reported on Sunday, although the authorities have denied issuing the punishment. The sentence was dro... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/196387/reftab/69/t/Saudi-man-pays-spared-paralysis/Default.aspx John Fernandes Mon, 20 May 2013 06:05:48 GMT RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, May 19, (AP): A Saudi newspaper says a vegetable seller who set himself on fire in Riyadh after police confiscated his goods for standing in an unauthorized area has died. The website for newspaper Sada reported that the m... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/196384/reftab/69/Default.aspx John Fernandes Mon, 20 May 2013 05:59:45 GMT FAIRFIELD, Connecticut, May 18, (AP): Two commuter trains packed with rush-hour commuters collided in an accident that sent about 70 people to the hospital, severely damaged the tracks and threatened to snarl travel in the congested Northeast Corrid... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/196365/reftab/69/t/Two-trains-with-700-people-on-board-collide-in-US/Default.aspx John Fernandes Sun, 19 May 2013 06:40:12 GMT MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan, May 18, (AFP): A Chinese man working on an energy project in Pakistanadministered Kashmir was being held Saturday after hundreds of protesters attacked his company offices over the alleged desecration of a Holy Quran, officia... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/196357/reftab/69/t/Chinese-held-in-P-a-K-over-Quran-abuse/Default.aspx John Fernandes Sun, 19 May 2013 06:22:37 GMT JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia, May 18, (AFP): ASaudi woman, Raha Muharraq, on Saturday reached the summit of Everest, the world’s highest peak, in a first for the conservative Muslim kingdom where women’s sports are severely restricted, her proud father said... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/196356/reftab/69/t/Saudi-woman-climbs-Everest-in-first/Default.aspx John Fernandes Sun, 19 May 2013 06:21:12 GMT RIYADH, May 18, (AFP): A new case of the deadly coronavirus has been detected in Saudi Arabia where 15 people have already died after contracting it, the health ministry announced on Saturday on its Internet website. “One new case of novel coronavir... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/196349/reftab/69/Default.aspx John Fernandes Sun, 19 May 2013 06:10:36 GMT MAKALONDI, Niger, May 17, (RTRS): About 14,000 villagers from 20 communities in Niger took a public vow to end female genital mutilation (FGM) and forced underage marriage as the West African country’s government steps up its fight against such abus... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/196323/reftab/69/Default.aspx John Fernandes Sat, 18 May 2013 05:06:21 GMT MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, May 17, (Agencies): Nigerian forces used jets and attack helicopters to bombard militant camps in the northeast on Friday, their biggest offensive since Boko Haram began an insurgency almost four years ago to try create a breakaw... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/196322/reftab/69/t/Thirty-killed-as-Nigerian-forces-bombard-Islamist-militant-camps/Default.aspx John Fernandes Sat, 18 May 2013 05:03:54 GMT RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, May 17, (AP): Saudi Arabia says it has dedicated nine additional laboratories to help investigators track a deadly new respiratory virus related to SARS that appears to be centered in the kingdom. Thursday’s Health Ministry ann... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/196313/reftab/69/t/Saudis-add-labs-to-track-coronavirus/Default.aspx John Fernandes Sat, 18 May 2013 04:44:05 GMT NEW YORK, May 16, (AP): A deadly new respiratory virus related to SARS has apparently spread from patients to health care workers in eastern Saudi Arabia, health officials said Wednesday. The Ministry of Health in Saudi Arabia told world health offi... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/196280/reftab/69/t/SARS-like-virus-hits-Saudi-health-workers/Default.aspx John Fernandes Fri, 17 May 2013 05:23:07 GMT QARA ZAGHAN, Afghanistan, May 16, (AFP): After scrambling up a steep mountainside in north Afghanistan, Morad Ali crouches beside a gap cut in the slope and touches some reddish-brown rock. “The gold is in here,” he says. Ali was one of generations ... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/196293/reftab/69/t/Afghan-gold-mine-lures-modern-day-prospectors/Default.aspx John Fernandes Fri, 17 May 2013 05:43:52 GMT GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories, May 16, (AFP): Junk-food starved Gazans can now order Kentucky Fried Chicken to go thanks to a new smuggling service which brings takeout from Egypt via a network of underground tunnels. It’s not exactly “fast” — ... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/196292/reftab/69/Default.aspx John Fernandes Fri, 17 May 2013 05:41:17 GMT LONDON, May 15, (RTRS): Britain said on Wednesday there would be “consequences” for Sri Lanka if its leaders did not address international concerns over human rights abuses, ahead of a Commonwealth summit scheduled to be held in Colombo in November.... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/196273/reftab/69/t/UK-warns-Lanka-on-abuses-ahead-of-CW-meet/Default.aspx John Fernandes Thu, 16 May 2013 06:32:00 GMT NEW DELHI, May 15, (AFP): A defendant on trial over a fatal gang-rape in New Delhi last December is critically ill after being attacked in prison, his lawyer said Wednesday, weeks after the main accused died in the same jail. Vinay Sharma was rushed... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/196272/reftab/69/t/Delhi-gang-rape-accused-critical/Default.aspx John Fernandes Thu, 16 May 2013 06:30:49 GMT LONDON, May 15, (AP): Seven men were convicted in London on Tuesday for sexually abusing underage girls, including one who was just 11, by plying them with alcohol and drugs before forcing them to commit sex acts. The guilty verdict followed five mo... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/196271/reftab/69/t/7-men-convicted-of-sex-crimes/Default.aspx John Fernandes Thu, 16 May 2013 06:29:54 GMT DETROIT, May 15, (Agencies): A Saudi man arrested at Detroit Metropolitan Airport after federal agents accused him of lying about why he was traveling with a pressure cooker knew nothing about the device’s use in Boston Marathon bombings, his attorn... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/196270/reftab/69/Default.aspx John Fernandes Thu, 16 May 2013 06:28:57 GMT KATHMANDU, May 14, (AFP): The annual rush to the hills by villagers keen to harvest a rare aphrodisiac fungus dubbed “Himalayan Viagra” has emptied rural schools in Nepal and forced them to shut, a local official said Tuesday. Parents, students and ... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/196237/reftab/69/Default.aspx John Fernandes Wed, 15 May 2013 06:28:00 GMT DETROIT, May 14, (AP): A Saudi man was arrested at Detroit Metropolitan Airport after federal agents said he lied about why he was traveling with a pressure cooker, but his nephew said Monday that it was all a misunderstanding about a device he simp... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/196236/reftab/69/t/Saudi-man-traveling-with-pressure-cooker-held/Default.aspx John Fernandes Wed, 15 May 2013 06:26:08 GMT ALGIERS, May 14, (Agencies): The Saudi owner of an Algerian cargo ship whose crew were held by Somali pirates for 10 months admitted paying $2.6 million to free them in November 2011, an Algerian paper reported Tuesday. The MV Blida, carrying 17 Alg... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/196235/reftab/69/Default.aspx John Fernandes Wed, 15 May 2013 06:25:00 GMT LONDON, May 13, (AP): British police say a 15-year-old boy has been charged in connection with an acid attack on a woman in northeast London. The 28-year-old victim - who police have named only as Tara - suffered injuries to her face and torso w... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/196202/reftab/69/Default.aspx John Fernandes Tue, 14 May 2013 07:02:55 GMT DUBAI, May 13, (AFP): Three Emiratis arrested in Tanzania after a deadly attack on a church there a week ago have been freed and are back home, the Al-Khaleej daily reported on Monday. Tanzanian authorities had arrested them “because they happened, ... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/196201/reftab/69/t/Tanzania-frees-3-Emiratis-held-after-bombing/Default.aspx John Fernandes Tue, 14 May 2013 06:54:08 GMT LONDON, May 13, (Agencies): Two respiratory viruses in different parts of the world have captured the attention of global health officials — a novel coronavirus in the Middle East and a new bird flu spreading in China. Last week, the coronaviru... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/196188/reftab/69/t/Panic-grips-Saudis-amid-fears-of-SARS-like-virus/Default.aspx John Fernandes Tue, 14 May 2013 06:20:52 GMT ISLAMABAD, May 12, (Agencies): Toppled in a 1999 military coup, jailed and exiled, Pakistan’s Nawaz Sharif has made a triumphant election comeback and looks set to form a stable government capable of implementing reforms needed to rescue the fragile... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/196164/reftab/69/t/Sharif-poised-to-form-stable-govt-after-Pakistan-election/Default.aspx John Fernandes Mon, 13 May 2013 06:37:59 GMT RIYADH, May 12, (AFP): Saudi Arabia beheaded one of its citizens on Sunday after he was convicted of killing a relative in the kingdom’s north, the interior ministry said. Awad Rawili stabbed to death Jazaa Rawili, a relative, during an argument , s... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/196163/reftab/69/Default.aspx John Fernandes Mon, 13 May 2013 06:36:05 GMT RIYADH, May 12, (AFP): A Saudi court jailed a Lebanese man for six years and sentenced him to 300 lashes after convicting him of encouraging a Saudi woman to convert to Christianity, local dailies reported Sunday. The same court sentenced a Saud... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/196162/reftab/69/t/Saudi-jails-man-for-helping-woman-to-convert---300-lashes/Default.aspx John Fernandes Mon, 13 May 2013 06:35:30 GMT RIYADH, May 12, (RTRS): World Health Organisation (WHO) officials said on Sunday it seemed likely a new coronavirus that has killed at least 18 people in the Middle East and Europe could be passed between humans, but only after prolonged contact. ... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/196155/reftab/69/Default.aspx John Fernandes Mon, 13 May 2013 06:10:18 GMT India’s new sex crime laws do not go far enough to protect women or tackle gender inequality, the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women said on Wednesday. The legislation was passed following the fatal gang rape of a student on a Delhi... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/196126/reftab/69/Default.aspx John Fernandes Sun, 12 May 2013 06:06:00 GMT ISLAMABAD, May 11, (RTRS): The parties of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan appeared to be well ahead of their rivals in Pakistan’s election, according to a partial count of votes cast on Saturday. The e... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/196125/reftab/69/t/Khan-and-Sharif-appear-ahead-in-Pak-vote-count/Default.aspx John Fernandes Sun, 12 May 2013 06:05:09 GMT  AL-TIWANA, Palestinian Territories, May 11, (Agencies): Vandals believed to be Jewish extremists have uprooted dozens of olive trees and scrawled graffiti near a Palestinian village in the southern West Bank, police and witnesses said on Friday. ... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/196124/reftab/69/t/Olive-trees-targeted-in-hate-crime/Default.aspx John Fernandes Sun, 12 May 2013 06:03:25 GMT SOUK AL-JUMMA, Tunisia, May 11, (AP): On the day he chose to die, Adel Khedri woke up at 6:30 am, took his black backpack and headed down to the busy boulevard where he worked as a cigarette peddler. It was the last in a series of odd jobs that... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/196118/reftab/69/Default.aspx John Fernandes Sun, 12 May 2013 05:52:55 GMT RIYADH, May 10, (AFP): The Saudi government warned on Friday that illegal foreign workers risk being slapped with prison sentences and fines after a three-month grace period runs out on July 3. Additionally, employers or those who shelter illegal wo... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/196087/reftab/69/t/Saudi-warns-illegals-face-jail/Default.aspx John Fernandes Sat, 11 May 2013 05:44:03 GMT NEW YORK, May 10, (Agencies): The sophistication of a global network of thieves who drained cash machines around the globe of an astonishing $45 million in mere hours sent ripples through the security world, not merely for the size of the operation ... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/196083/reftab/69/Default.aspx John Fernandes Sat, 11 May 2013 05:41:38 GMT SAVAR, Bangladesh, May 10, (AFP): Bangladeshi rescuers pulled a woman alive from the ruins of a collapsed garment factory complex on Friday after she spent 17 days trapped in a basement under the rubble. Hours after officials had announced that the ... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/196081/reftab/69/t/Bangladesh-building-collapse-survivor-rescued-after-17-days/Default.aspx John Fernandes Sat, 11 May 2013 05:39:41 GMT NEW YORK, May 10, (AP): A Tunisian man linked to a plot to derail a train bound for Canada was charged with trying to stay in the United States illegally to build a cell for international acts of terror such as poisoning a water system with bacteria... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/196080/reftab/69/t/US-charges-Tunisian-man-linked-to-Canada-train-plot/Default.aspx John Fernandes Sat, 11 May 2013 05:37:23 GMT BAMAKO, May 10, (AFP): Suicide bombers targeted troops in two towns in war-torn northern Mali on Friday, leaving five of the attackers dead and two Malian soldiers wounded, military sources said. The first attack was against soldiers from neighbouri... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/196078/reftab/69/t/Five-suicide-bombers-die-in-Mali-attacks/Default.aspx John Fernandes Sat, 11 May 2013 05:36:17 GMT CLEVELAND, May 9, (Agencies): A former school bus driver accused of kidnapping three young women and raping them during a decade of captivity in his house was on Thursday ordered held on $8 million bond in a Cleveland court, his head bowed and his f... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/196047/reftab/69/Default.aspx John Fernandes Fri, 10 May 2013 06:28:04 GMT PHOENIX, May 9, (RTRS): An Arizona climber has been found dead, dangling from a rope on a cliff face south of Tucson, after apparently being stung to death by bees, police said on Wednesday. Steven Wallace Johnson, 55, a counselor with some 30 years... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/196046/reftab/69/t/Climber-dog-stung-to-death-by-bees-/Default.aspx John Fernandes Fri, 10 May 2013 06:24:24 GMT DHAKA, May 9, (AFP): A war crimes court sentenced a top Bangladeshi Islamist to death on Thursday for masterminding the slaughter of at least 120 farmers in one of the bloodiest single episodes of the 1971 independence war. In a ruling likely to fur... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/196045/reftab/69/Default.aspx John Fernandes Fri, 10 May 2013 06:21:55 GMT MIRANSHAH, Pakistan, May 9, (AFP): An unknown group Wednesday warned that women in a restive Pakistani tribal region should not vote in Saturday’s general election, threatening punishment. “The people of Waziristan are hereby warned that they should... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/196044/reftab/69/t/Group-warns-Pak-tribal-women-against-voting/Default.aspx John Fernandes Fri, 10 May 2013 06:20:50 GMT DHAKA, May 8, (Agencies): Bangladesh has shut down 18 garment plants for safety reasons after a building housing five of the factories collapsed and killed more than 800 people, a minister said Wednesday. The move comes days after Bangladesh ag... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/196033/reftab/69/t/Bangladesh-shuts-18-textile-factories/Default.aspx John Fernandes Thu, 09 May 2013 07:18:15 GMT KABUL, May 8, (AFP): Afghanistan’s education minister has threatened to punish schoolgirls who claim to suffer from alleged “poisonings” that many officials believe are actually temporary psychological illnesses. Scores of girls’ schools over r... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/196032/reftab/69/t/Min-vows-punishment-for-fainting-girls/Default.aspx John Fernandes Thu, 09 May 2013 07:16:14 GMT DUBAI, May 8, (RTRS): The United Arab Emirates (UAE) said three of its citizens had been arrested in Tanzania in connection with the bombing of a church that killed two people and wounded six. Tanzanian officials initially said four Saudis were be... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/196031/reftab/69/t/3-Emiratis-held-over-Tanzania-bombing/Default.aspx John Fernandes Thu, 09 May 2013 07:15:02 GMT KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, May 7, (AP): Pakistan warned Afghanistan on Tuesday that it would not be responsible for the consequences if a border spat between the two countries escalated further, even as hundreds of Afghans rallied in a southern city to ... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/195997/reftab/69/t/Pakistan-warns-Kabul-to-show-restraint/Default.aspx John Fernandes Wed, 08 May 2013 07:11:39 GMT AMRITSAR, India, May 7, (AFP): Relatives of a Pakistani prisoner savagely attacked in an Indian jail travelled to India Tuesday to visit the inmate who remains critically ill in a “deep coma” in hospital. Sanaullah Ranjay suffered massive head inj... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/195996/reftab/69/Default.aspx John Fernandes Wed, 08 May 2013 07:10:10 GMT LONDON, May 7, (AFP): Veteran British comic Jimmy Tarbuck has become the latest celebrity to be arrested in connection with a historical child sex abuse investigation, media reported on Tuesday. North Yorkshire Police confirmed that a 73-year-old ... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/195994/reftab/69/t/Tarbuck-arrested-over-child-abuse/Default.aspx John Fernandes Wed, 08 May 2013 07:08:53 GMT LONDON, May 7, (Agencies): Somalia won international pledges of extra cash and military assistance on Tuesday at a major conference convened to help the East African country cope with the twin threats of Islamic militancy and piracy. Somalia’s ... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/195992/reftab/69/t/Somalia-wins-cash-military-aid-at-London-donor-summit/Default.aspx John Fernandes Wed, 08 May 2013 07:08:14 GMT KABUL, May 6, (RTRS): Afghanistan warned Pakistan on Monday that it will bear the consequences of more clashes on their contested border, hours after a new bout of fighting erupted between the neighbours. The clash is the latest indication of a sh... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/195957/reftab/69/Default.aspx John Fernandes Tue, 07 May 2013 06:13:23 GMT ARUSHA, Tanzania, May 6, (AFP): Two people were killed in Sunday’s attack during a mass at a Tanzanian church, officials said Monday, as President Jakaya Kikwete called the explosion an “act of terrorism”. Six people have been arrested, including ... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/195956/reftab/69/t/4-Saudis-arrested-after-Tanzania-church-blast/Default.aspx John Fernandes Tue, 07 May 2013 06:12:37 GMT NAIROBI, May 6, (AFP): A Kenyan court on Monday sentenced two Iranians to life in prison on terror-related charges, including the possession of explosives allegedly to be used in bomb attacks. “I shudder to imagine the amount of damage that could ... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/195955/reftab/69/t/Kenya-jails-Iranian-pair-for-life/Default.aspx John Fernandes Tue, 07 May 2013 06:12:13 GMT MUMBAI, India, May 6, (AP): Global clothing brands involved in Bangladesh’s troubled garment industry responded in starkly different ways to the building collapse that killed more than 600 people. Some quickly acknowledged their links to the tragedy... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/195954/reftab/69/t/Clothing-brands-risk-image-in-varying-Dhaka-response/Default.aspx John Fernandes Tue, 07 May 2013 06:10:22 GMT LAHORE, Pakistan, May 5, (RTRS): Nawaz Sharif, seen as the front-runner in Pakistan’s election race, said the country should reconsider its support for the US war on Islamist militancy and suggested that he was in favour of negotiations with the Tal... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/195914/reftab/69/t/Pak-should-reconsider-support-for-US-war-on-terror-says-Sharif/Default.aspx John Fernandes Mon, 06 May 2013 06:25:13 GMT QUETTA, Pakistan, May 5, (AFP): Pakistani security forces killed 11 people Sunday in a gunbattle with a criminal gang in the restive southwest in which two soldiers also died, officials said. Police and paramilitaries raided a house in Kachhi dist... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/195913/reftab/69/t/Gunbattle-leaves-11-gang-members-dead-in-Pak/Default.aspx John Fernandes Mon, 06 May 2013 06:24:22 GMT MOGADISHU, May 5, (AFP): Around 11 people were killed in Somalia’s capital Sunday when a suicide attacker rammed a car laden with explosives into a government convoy carrying officials from Qatar, police said. “Several people have been killed, the... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/195912/reftab/69/t/Several-killed-in-attack-on-Qatari-officials-in-Somalia/Default.aspx John Fernandes Mon, 06 May 2013 06:23:13 GMT WASHINGTON, May 5, (RTRS): US immigration authorities would give preference to better-educated and trained visa-seekers who can contribute to the American economy under a less-noticed provision of the immigration bill in the US Congress. The bi... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/195905/reftab/69/Default.aspx John Fernandes Mon, 06 May 2013 06:10:03 GMT NEW DELHI, May 4, (AFP): Pakistani embassy officials visited a hospital in north India on Saturday where a Pakistani prisoner was in critical condition in the intensive care unit after being attacked by an Indian inmate. Convicted murderer Sanaull... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/195883/reftab/69/t/Pak-officials-visit-attacked-inmate-in-India/Default.aspx John Fernandes Sun, 05 May 2013 07:01:17 GMT Hundreds of Islamists rallied in Pakistan’s southwestern city of Quetta Thursday to pay tribute to al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden on the second anniversary of his death. Organised by a pro-Taleban faction of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI), headed by M... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/195882/reftab/69/t/Tribute-paid-to-Laden/Default.aspx John Fernandes Sun, 05 May 2013 07:00:34 GMT  Women attending the Asian Development Bank’s annual meeting in New Delhi have been advised to avoid wearing short skirts since they could lead to sexual harassment, according to a website notice Thursday. The Manila-based ADB, whose board of g... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/195881/reftab/69/Default.aspx John Fernandes Sun, 05 May 2013 06:59:31 GMT RIYADH, May 4, (AFP): Five Saudis who died after contracting a new SARS-like virus last week had not travelled abroad, a health ministry doctor said on Saturday. “After questioning relatives, it turned out that none of these people had been abr... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/195868/reftab/69/Default.aspx John Fernandes Sun, 05 May 2013 06:19:12 GMT ISLAMABAD, May 3, (Agencies): Gunmen killed a Pakistani prosecutor Friday who was leading investigations into the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and a brutal attack on civilians in the Indian city of Mumbai. The assassination ... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/195827/reftab/69/Default.aspx John Fernandes Fri, 03 May 2013 23:38:24 GMT JAKARTA, May 3, (AFP): Two Indonesians have been detained over a plot to bomb the Myanmar embassy in Jakarta, officials said Friday, as radicals rallying in the city called for “jihad in Myanmar” to avenge Muslim deaths. The incidents highlight the ... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/195826/reftab/69/Default.aspx John Fernandes Fri, 03 May 2013 23:36:16 GMT BAGHDAD, May 3, (Agencies): A bomb attack outside a Sunni mosque on Friday killed seven worshippers as Sunnis continued to hold demonstrations in Iraq to protest what they say is secondclass treatment by the Shiite-led government. Sunni mosques have... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/195825/reftab/69/t/Bomb-attack-outside-Iraq-mosque-kills-7-worshippers/Default.aspx John Fernandes Fri, 03 May 2013 23:35:13 GMT WASHINGTON, May 3, (AP): The Homeland Security Department ordered its border agents “effective immediately” to verify that every international student who arrives in the US has a valid student visa, according to an internal memorandum obtained Frida... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/195818/reftab/69/Default.aspx John Fernandes Fri, 03 May 2013 23:23:52 GMT LAHORE, Pakistan, May 2, (AFP): An Indian man on death row in Pakistan for spying died on Thursday nearly a week after he was attacked by fellow prisoners, who were swiftly charged with murder as New Delhi demanded justice. Sarabjit Singh, who was s... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/195797/reftab/69/Default.aspx John Fernandes Fri, 03 May 2013 06:10:06 GMT LONDON, May 2, (AFP): The UAE president came under pressure from Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday over allegations that three British men jailed in Dubai were tortured. Cameron raised the issue with Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan, the U... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/195796/reftab/69/t/UAE-leader-pressed-over-torture-claims/Default.aspx John Fernandes Fri, 03 May 2013 06:08:41 GMT JERUSALEM, May 2, (AFP): A unique 2,000-year-old stone tablet takes centre stage at an exhibition that opened in Jerusalem on Wednesday and traces depictions of the Archangel Gabriel in Jewish, Christian and Islamic scriptures. In the three so-calle... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/195795/reftab/69/t/Angel-Gabriel-scroll-in-stone/Default.aspx John Fernandes Fri, 03 May 2013 06:07:24 GMT LONDON, May 2, (RTRS): Tax havens such as Bermuda and the Cayman Islands will work more closely with Britain and other European countries to fight tax evasion, British finance minister George Osborne said on Thursday. With governments in most advanc... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/195794/reftab/69/t/UK-territories-in-tax-evasion-deal/Default.aspx John Fernandes Fri, 03 May 2013 06:05:03 GMT PARIS, May 1, (AFP): The deadly collapse of a Bangladesh garment factory has piled pressure on Western fashion stores that churn out the season’s hottest looks at cheap prices, many of which are sourced from sweatshops in poor countries. The count... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/195779/reftab/69/t/Dhaka-mishap-puts-pressure-on-fashion-shops/Default.aspx John Fernandes Thu, 02 May 2013 07:03:58 GMT DHAKA, May 1, (Agencies): Tens of thousands of Bangladeshis joined May Day protests Wednesday to demand the execution of textile bosses over the collapse of a factory complex, as rescuers warned the final toll could be more than 500. Despite ca... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/195778/reftab/69/t/Bangladesh-workers-vent-fury-building-disaster-may-top-500/Default.aspx John Fernandes Thu, 02 May 2013 07:03:25 GMT LONDON, May 1, (AFP): Britain’s international reputation will be damaged if Scotland becomes independent in a referendum next year, a powerful committee of lawmakers warned in a report published on Wednesday. A split with Scotland would reduce ... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/195777/reftab/69/Default.aspx John Fernandes Thu, 02 May 2013 06:41:14 GMT NEW DELHI, April 30, (AP): A 5-year-old girl has died after being raped in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, an official said Tuesday, in the latest in a series of brutal attacks that have sparked outrage in the country. The girl suff... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/195741/reftab/69/t/Raped-5-yr-old-Indian-girl-dies/Default.aspx John Fernandes Wed, 01 May 2013 06:47:25 GMT NEW YORK, April 30, (RTRS): Large majorities in the Muslim world want the Islamic legal and moral code of sharia as the official law in their countries, but they disagree on what it includes and who should be subject to it, an extensive new survey s... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/195740/reftab/69/Default.aspx John Fernandes Wed, 01 May 2013 06:46:00 GMT DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, April 30, (AP): A Dubai court has fined a grieving British widower who allegedly arrived drunk to sign police paperwork to release the body of his wife. She had died in a balcony fall on their honeymoon. Police clai... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/195739/reftab/69/t/Dubai-fines-British-widower/Default.aspx John Fernandes Wed, 01 May 2013 06:44:07 GMT AMSTERDAM, April 30, (RTRS): Willem-Alexander became the first king of the Netherlands since 1890 on Tuesday, ascending a throne largely stripped of political power but still invested with enormous symbolic significance for the Dutch people. At hi... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/195725/reftab/69/t/King-Willem-Alexander-takes-Dutch-throne/Default.aspx John Fernandes Wed, 01 May 2013 06:01:51 GMT RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, April 29, (AFP): The sight of children, the disabled and disadvantaged begging at all hours of the day and night in Pakistan is a grim, constant reminder of the millions who live in abject poverty. Yet malnourished members... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/195702/reftab/69/t/Begging-becomes-business-in-Pakistan/Default.aspx John Fernandes Tue, 30 Apr 2013 06:52:47 GMT LONDON, April 29, (AP): A woman desperate for another child forced her 14-year-old daughter to get pregnant using syringes of donor sperm, a British judge said. In a ruling reported for the first time Monday, High Court judge Peter Jackson said... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/195701/reftab/69/t/14-year-old-Daughter-forced-to-get-pregnant/Default.aspx John Fernandes Tue, 30 Apr 2013 06:51:20 GMT DUBAI, April 29, (RTRS): A Dubai court sentenced three Britons to four years in jail on drug charges on Monday, a decision that may overshadow a visit to Britain by the United Arab Emirates president because of allegations that the defendants were t... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/195700/reftab/69/t/Dubai-jails-3-drug-Britons---UAE-pardons-100-Egyptians/Default.aspx John Fernandes Tue, 30 Apr 2013 06:49:11 GMT DUBAI/WASHINGTON, April 29, (RTRS): Washington is signalling its military commitment to its Gulf Arab allies at a time of unfamiliar strain in their decades old partnership. Syria’s civil war and Iran’s nuclear programme have led to tensions, w... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/195699/reftab/69/t/US-signals-military-commitment-to-Gulf/Default.aspx John Fernandes Tue, 30 Apr 2013 06:47:55 GMT LONDON, April 28, (Agencies): Prime Minister David Cameron is concerned about allegations that three Britons charged with drug offences in Dubai have been tortured, his office said on Sunday, two days before the president of the United Arab Emirates... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/195662/reftab/69/Default.aspx John Fernandes Mon, 29 Apr 2013 06:46:57 GMT DHAKA, April 28, (Agencies): The owner of a factory building that collapsed in Bangladesh killing hundreds of garment workers was arrested on Sunday trying to flee to India, as hopes of finding more survivors from the country’s worst industrial acci... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/195661/reftab/69/t/Owner-of-collapsed-bldg-held--4-people-rescued-after-100-hrs/Default.aspx John Fernandes Mon, 29 Apr 2013 06:45:58 GMT LONDON, April 28, (AFP): The nurse found hanged after falling victim to a prank radio call by two Australian DJs targeting Prince William’s pregnant wife Catherine left a suicide note blaming them for her death, it was reported on Sunday. The h... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/195660/reftab/69/Default.aspx John Fernandes Mon, 29 Apr 2013 06:44:02 GMT BAGHDAD, April 28, (AFP): Iraq has suspended the licences of 10 satellite TV channels for promoting “sectarianism”, the country’s media regulator said on Sunday, after five days of violence killed more than 215 people. The bloody unrest, which beg... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/195659/reftab/69/Default.aspx John Fernandes Mon, 29 Apr 2013 06:42:00 GMT KOLKATA, April 27, (AFP): Police in eastern India have arrested a local businessman for allegedly raping a US charity worker, an official said on Friday, as anger grows over the high incidence of sexual crime in the country. “Dinesh Burman, 40, wa... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/195631/reftab/69/Default.aspx John Fernandes Sun, 28 Apr 2013 07:00:37 GMT LAHORE, Pakistan, April 27, (AFP): An Indian national on death row in Pakistan who was attacked by fellow inmates armed with bricks has been put on a ventilator as he fights for his life, officials said on Saturday. Sarabjit Singh, who was sentenc... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/195630/reftab/69/t/Indian-spy-assaulted-in-Pak-prison-critical/Default.aspx John Fernandes Sun, 28 Apr 2013 07:00:18 GMT THE HAGUE, April 27, (AFP): A Dutchman has been arrested in Spain in connection with last month’s unprecedented cyberattack that reportedly slowed down the Internet, the Dutch prosecution service said. The 35-year-old identified only as S.K. was a... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/195621/reftab/69/t/Dutchman-arrested-for-cyberattack/Default.aspx John Fernandes Sun, 28 Apr 2013 06:16:29 GMT TORONTO, April 27, (AP): Canada is reviewing the country’s deportation policies following revelations that a court decided nine years ago against deporting a man who was arrested last week on terror charges in an alleged plot to derail a train, the ... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/195620/reftab/69/t/Plot-raises-deportation-questions---Canadian-minister-calls-for-review/Default.aspx John Fernandes Sun, 28 Apr 2013 06:15:30 GMT SAVAR, Bangladesh, April 26, (Agencies): Rescuers found 50 people alive late Friday in the rubble of a Bangladesh garment factory complex making Western brand clothes that caved in two days earlier, leaving over 300 workers dead. A total of 304... http://arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/195596/reftab/69/t/Garment-workers-protest-as-Bangladesh-toll-touches-304/Default.aspx John Fernandes Sat, 27 Apr 2013 06:03:31 GMT