Source : Solomon Moore & Mirwais Khan | AP
KABUL | 29 May 2011

A NATO airstrike targeting insurgents inadvertently hit two civilian homes in the volatile southwestern Helmand province, killing 14 women and children, an Afghan government official said Sunday.

Source : Islam Today
Milan : 28 May 2011
 
Italy's largest Muslim group has sent a message to Italy's highest ranking bishop to thank him for his organisation's support for a project to construct a mosque in Milan, the country's conservative business hub.

Source : Maggie Michael | AP
CAIRO | 27 May 2011

Thousands of protesters returned to downtown Cairo’s Tahrir Square Friday for what they called a “second revolution,” calling for Egypt’s military rulers to speed up the pace of democratic reforms in a country that is still charting its political future.

Protesters carried banners reading the “Egyptian revolution is not over” and chanted the slogan.

Source | AP
SANAA | 27 May 2011

Fighting that rocked Sanaa for the past five days spread beyond the capital Friday as Yemeni tribesmen opposed to the rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh seized a Republican Guard military base in battles that left dozens dead and prompted airstrikes by government warplanes, according to a tribal leader.

Source : Cihan News Agency
Konya : 27 May 2011

Citizens of neighboring Georgia and Turkey will be able to travel to each other's country with only their state identity cards, beginning on May 31.

A ceremony will be held at the Sarp land border gate on the very same day with the participation of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili and Georgian Prime Minister Nika Gilauri.

Source : Sami Aboudi | Reuters
CAIRO | 26 May 2011

Mohammed Fathi worked his brush gently over an icon, removing soot from its surface inside a church gutted in an attack by hard-liners this month.

“It takes a lot of careful work to do that,” Fathi said. “We have to do a lot of tests with chemicals to try to restore the icon to its original condition.”

Source : Reuters
Srebrenica | 27 May 2011

Many victims recall vividly how Mladic presented himself to them as their protector, then slaughtered thousands.

Muslim mothers and relatives of men and boys slaughtered at Srebrenica in 1995 by troops under the command of Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic shed tears for their loved ones again on Thursday after his arrest.

Source : Reuters
Moscow | 26 May 2011

Russia has contacts in Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's entourage with whom it can negotiate his departure, Moscow's special representative on Africa Mikhail Margelov said on Friday.

"We shouldn't talk to Gaddafi himself but with members of his cabinet, possibly with his sons. And we are making such contacts, so there is a hope for a political resolution," Margelov told reporters at the G8 summit in northern France.

Source : Arab News
RIYADH | 27 May 2011

Kuwaiti lawyer Mufrih Ghareeb Al-Mitairi has filed a lawsuit at the office of the prosecutor general in Kuwait against two of his compatriots, a businessman and a lawyer, for defaming the late Sheikh Abdul Aziz Bin Baz (the Saudi grand mufti for most of the 1990s) and Sheikh Muhammad bin Abdul Wahab (the 18th century Islamic scholar) linking their Islamic ideologies to terrorism, the local Arabic daily Al-Eqtisadiah reported Thursday.

Mark Lavie | AP
CAIRO | 25 May 2011

Egypt's decision Wednesday to end its blockade of Gaza by opening the only crossing to the Hamas-ruled Palestinian territory this weekend could ease the isolation of 1.4 million Palestinians there. It also puts the new Egyptian regime at odds with Israel, which insists on careful monitoring of people and goods entering Gaza for security reasons.