Much is made by Sathya Sai Baba and his followers of those of his supporters who are 'scientists' and 'educationalists', and not a few of them - especially the Indians who predominate among them. However, what can one say of
Joseph. Early Sathya Sai Baba Whistleblower When devotees of Sathya Sai Baba finally bite the bullet and understand that the sex abuse allegtions are true, they begin to recall incidents which shocked them at the time but which their powerful
Beirut - The Lebanese army shot and killed a suicide bomber who tried to blow himself up at an army checkpoint next to the Ein el Helweh Palestinian refugee camp, near Sidon south Lebanon, according to NBN TV
Beirut - Al Hayat Sources have reported that acting Defense Minister Elias Murr will be include in the share of President Michel Suleiman for a cabinet post in the new national unity government
Baabda - Prime minister Designate Fouad Siniora said after meeting with President Michel Suleiman at the Baabda Palace "There is much work to be done in the coming period to reach a solution to the cabinet formation and I will
Beirut- Siniora's first day of consultations at the parliament went very smoothly, considering the negative reaction by the opposition to his appointment just 2 days. Each bloc handed Siniora its wish list. But the lists are so entangled, it may
By Tariq AlhomayedBeirut - In his last Monday's speech , Hassan Nasrallah promised us a calm summer. However, his pledge was not without conditional terms; "except if the Americans want it to be a hot one," he said.
Beirut- Opposition tempers seem to have cooled overnight, with scathing remarks over Siniora's reappointment as Prime Minister fading into more conciliatory positions Friday morning, ahead of the start of consultations on the new cabinet.
Thousands of supporters of hard-line Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr demonstrated after Friday prayers in Baghdad and elsewhere in Iraq to denounce a government deal with Washington on US troop levels. Followers of the cleric brandished placards outside mosques in the
The US military said on Friday it was probing complaints that marines handed out coins inscribed with a verse from the Bible to a group of Sunni Muslims in Iraq, sparking outrage among local residents. It said a service member
Urging decisive action against Sudanese war-crimes suspects, the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor said Friday he would announce details of a new case next week against senior players in the Darfur conflict. "I will inform the ... [UN] Security Council
A British resident held at the US "war on terror" detention center at Guantanamo Bay has written a letter to Prime Minister Gordon Brown calling for his release, The Independent newspaper reported Friday. In the letter, excerpts of which the
Turkey's environment minister said Friday he has recommended that the government sign the Kyoto Protocol on fighting global warming, the Anatolia news agency reported. "I sent the Foreign Ministry a letter saying that joining the Kyoto Protocol will be appropriate,"
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani called on Hizbullah's secretary general Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Friday not to interfere in Iraq's internal affairs. "Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah does not have the right to interfere in Iraq's internal affairs, as we have not interfered
The election of President Michel Suleiman and the initiation of consultations to determine the composition of a national unity government are signs that the Doha process is well under way. However, the electoral law be used during 2009 parliamentary elections
Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Butros Sfeir voiced hope on Friday that the new government would respond to the Lebanese people's demands, and that no one would hamper its work. "First, we thank God that we now have a president," Sfeir said.
Cluster bombs should be outlawed in most of the world thanks to an agreement formally endorsed by over 100 governments in Dublin on Friday. The accord, which prohibits the use of cluster bombs and requires the destruction of stockpiles retained
