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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Afghanistan Sun.com http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/10/id/a1327f7c4068c2fd/ en-us Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:42:00 -0500 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:42:00 -0500 30 The U.S. State Department has scolded Israel for only recognizing Jewish holy sites. http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/611131/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:15:11 -0500 Afghanistan Sun.com http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/611131/cs/1/ Four people, including a senior Muslim cleric, were killed in a drive-by shooting in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi, police said Friday. http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/611179/cs/1/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:20:02 -0500 IANS http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/611179/cs/1/ DUBAI // The British author Martin Amis has come close to apologising for his strong views on the Muslim faith.It came in a staged discussion at the International Festival of Literature this week in D... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33075569/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:15:20 -0500 The National http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33075569/ March 12, 2010 Recently a group of Muslim women in Washington, D.C. sought to protest what they considered to be an injustice — being confined to a separate prayer space from their male counterp... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33075567/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:06:51 -0500 NPR http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33075567/ March 12, 2010 Recently a group of Muslim women in Washington, D.C. sought to protest what they considered to be an injustice — being confined to a separate prayer space from their male counterp... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33075566/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:06:45 -0500 NPR http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33075566/ Al-Qaida's offshoot in North Africa said Friday it released a Spanish woman it had held captive for 100 days in Mauritania because she voluntarily converted to Islam. http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33074342/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:51:22 -0500 The Seattle Times http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33074342/ NEW YORK -- The green-eyed, blond woman living in a Philadelphia suburb fit the stereotypical profile of a "Main Street" American: Neighbours would see Colleen LaRose shopping, and stopped to say "hel... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33073699/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:43:34 -0500 National Post http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33073699/ JEDDAH: Five Saudis working in a well-known grocery store in north Jeddah were detained on charges of stealing SR1.5 million, police spokesman Col. Misfir Al-Juaid announced recently. The spokesman sa... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33075576/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:03:51 -0500 Arab News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33075576/ The Second Coming of Da Vinci Quite an opening line for a work of fiction - and, as it turns out - you can expect a good read from there on out (with an ending you won't see coming). The sto... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33072381/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:16:42 -0500 PRWeb http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33072381/ CAIRO — An Al Qaeda offshoot in North Africa says it released a Spanish woman who spent 100 days as a hostage in Mauritania because she voluntarily converted to Islam. http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33070231/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:05:43 -0500 Fox News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33070231/ ATHENS: Greece's economy will shrink much more than the government is forecasting this year, the country's central bank governor said, as economists shrugged off slightly stronger data and warned of a... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33069478/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:11:42 -0500 Arab News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33069478/ NEW YORK: After more than a year of bids and counterbids, CF Industries landed Terra Industries on Friday for $4.7 billion, creating a giant fertilizer company. http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33072400/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:11:42 -0500 Arab News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33072400/ SAN JOSE, Calif.: Joe Pavelski capped a four-point third period with the tiebreaking goal after a scintillating spin move in the San Jose Sharks’ 8-5 comeback victory over the Nashville Predators on... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33072399/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:11:40 -0500 Arab News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33072399/ Supporters of far right-wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen stand in front of the courthouse in Marseille where Le Pen is accused of inciting racism in the recent anti-Muslim poster campaign by t... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33066906/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:29:49 -0500 VOA http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33066906/ "The Grand Imam and Sheikh of Al-Azhar, Dr. Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi was for many years a valued partner in the dialogue between Muslims and Catholics."” This was how the Pope Benedict... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33065493/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:11:23 -0500 Spero News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33065493/ RICHMOND, Va. -- A prayer this week before the Virginia House of Delegates sparked controversy and a protest. An imam from a controversial northern Virginia mosque gave the invocation, and there are c... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33065496/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:54:20 -0500 CBN News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33065496/ Tehran, March 12, IRNA – Tehran’s Substitute Friday Prayers Leader Ayatollah Mohammad Emami Kashani said at the present sensitive international juncture, it was the duty of all walks of Iranian na... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33062234/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:57:13 -0500 IRNA http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33062234/ BEIJING: Lenovo Group expects wireless Internet products to account for up to 80 percent of its sales within five years as it pursues expansion in faster-growing emerging markets, CEO Yang Yuanqing sa... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33059049/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:01:59 -0500 Arab News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33059049/ Senior police official Umar Virk says some 35 others were wounded. He indicated two explosions might have occurred.The blast Friday struck the RA Bazaar, which lies in a neighborhood where several sec... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33059738/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:01:57 -0500 Arab News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33059738/ TOKYO: Japan's coast guard arrested an anti-whaling activist from New Zealand on Friday for illegally boarding a whaling ship last month in the latest incident in the ongoing battle over Japanese whal... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33059325/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:01:56 -0500 Arab News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33059325/ KABUL: Insurgents attacked a police post in eastern Afghanistan with guns and then detonated a roadside bomb as reinforcements sped to the scene, killing three members of an elite strike force, police... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33059237/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:01:54 -0500 Arab News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33059237/ (CNSNews.com) – The government of Morocco has launched a public relations effort to fend off criticism about its decision to expel 20 foreign Christian aid workers it accuses of trying to conver... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33057598/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:19:19 -0500 CNS News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33057598/ 12-03-2010 London, (IRNA): Foreign Secretary David Miliband has followed the example of US Vice President Joe Biden in denouncing in the strongest diplomatic language new Israeli plans to build more ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33056748/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:20:14 -0500 Muslim News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33056748/ 12-03-2010 MOGADISHU,(Xinhua): At least 30 people were killed and almost 83 others were wounded Thursday as the fierce fighting continues between Somali government forces backed by African Union (AU)... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33056753/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:20:13 -0500 Muslim News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33056753/ 12-03-2010 DW-World:The trial of three alleged members of the left-wing Turkish terrorist group DHKP-C began in Dusseldorf on Thursday. The three face charges of financing a terrorist organization an... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33056752/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:20:12 -0500 Muslim News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33056752/ 12-03-2010 By Dawn Reporter KARACHI, (Dawn): Panic gripped the city when a senior cleric of a religious organisation, his son and two associates were gunned down on Thursday night. In another attack ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33056751/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:20:11 -0500 Muslim News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33056751/ 12-03-2010 By Saed Bannoura IMEMC & Agencies: Palestinian medical sources reported on Thursday at night that a resident was wounded when the Israeli Air Force fired missiles at a factory in Al Qarara... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33056750/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:20:10 -0500 Muslim News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33056750/ 12-03-2010 By Saed Bannoura IMEMC & Agencies: Local sources in Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, reported Thursday evening that Israeli soldiers kidnapped a 9-year-old child and his 20-y... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33056749/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:20:09 -0500 Muslim News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33056749/ F.P. Report MINGORA: Peshawar Corps Commander Lt. Gen. Masood Aslam said on Thursday that Pakistan army had completed investigations against Muslim Khan and other arrested militants and cases against... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33048699/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:15:50 -0500 The Frontier Post http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33048699/ JAZAN: Border guards in Jazan foiled an attempt to smuggle quantities of hashish and ammunition, a local daily reported. The guards arrested the two men, who were trying to sneak through the border on... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33048704/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:11:06 -0500 Arab News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33048704/ NEW DELHI: While the Opposition from the Yadav satraps to the Women’s Reservation Bill was on expected lines, the Manmohan Singh government has been caught off-guard by the ferocity of the attack... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33046590/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:09:50 -0500 Times of India http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33046590/ THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- Ice dancers Alexandra Paul and Mitchell Islam of Barrie, Ont., climbed to second place with an impressive performance in the original dance Thursday at the world junior figur... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33044333/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:05:55 -0500 TSN http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33044333/ 3/11/2010, 5:33 p.m. EST (AP) — DALLAS - A lawsuit accuses an employee of an oil and gas company owned by Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones of aiding and abetting an alleged $15 million securiti... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33045004/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:03:36 -0500 New Jersey Online http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33045004/ US President Barack Obama speaks before the Export-Import Bank's annual conference in Washington D.C. on Thursday. Obama gave away his Nobel prize money for victims of last month's earthquake in Haiti... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33044662/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:47:11 -0500 Arab News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33044662/ ANKARA: Turkey recalled its ambassador to Sweden on Thursday and canceled an upcoming summit between the countries after the Swedish parliament branded the World War One killing of Armenians by Ottoma... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33044601/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:47:10 -0500 Arab News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33044601/ Yekaterina Mayering-Mikadze, who presented a copy of her credentials to Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal, is the current Georgian ambassador to Kuwait. She also represents her country in Saudi A... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33045319/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:47:09 -0500 Arab News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33045319/ RIYADH: The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is to seek the United Nations High Commissioner’s intervention in resolving the case of a Sri Lankan maid who has been in prison since 2005 on allega... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33046598/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:47:08 -0500 Arab News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33046598/ JEDDAH: The General Court in Madinah upheld its verdict against 46-year-old accused Arab sorcerer Ali Hussein Subat (aka Shahrzad), saying he deserved death for publicly practicing black magic, thus s... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33046599/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:47:06 -0500 Arab News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33046599/ JEDDAH: The anti-forgery division of the Passport Department has been ordered by a judge to vacate its offices in Riyadh because it refused to accept an increase in rent, court sources have said. http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33043971/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:47:05 -0500 Arab News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33043971/ JEDDAH: “Know your rights as a consumer” was the theme of an event held by the Saudi Society for Consumer Protection (SSCP) on Monday evening in Jeddah. The occasion took place at the offices of t... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33046600/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:47:05 -0500 Arab News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33046600/ THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India: The Directorate of Revenue intelligence sleuths Thursday seized fake currencies worth Rs2.42 million, allegedly printed in Pakistan, from an Emirates passenger. http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33045602/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:47:02 -0500 Arab News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33045602/ MADINAH: Participants of a debate Monday evening at Taibah University have called for a fatwa establishing a minimum age for marriage. Abu Bakr ibn Ahmad Bagadir, undersecretary for international rela... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33046601/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:47:02 -0500 Arab News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33046601/ LONDON: A British boy kidnapped from his family's home in Pakistan has yet to be found, British and Pakistani officials said Thursday, following erroneous news of his release which one Pakistani diplo... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33044701/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:47:00 -0500 Arab News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33044701/ A Tuareg caravan travels north through a remote region of southern Niger in this file photo. European tourists have flocked to the desert in northern Niger for years to visit nomadic camps, ancient ru... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33044157/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:46:58 -0500 Arab News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33044157/ ABU DHABI: US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Thursday that leading Gulf states appeared ready to use their clout to lobby China to support sanctions against Iran over its disputed nuclear prog... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33044615/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:46:54 -0500 Arab News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33044615/ ABQAIQ: Two women and their driver were injured when a car with three teenagers in it ploughed into their jeep at high speed on Wednesday, a local daily reported. The teenagers were driving at high sp... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33046603/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:46:53 -0500 Arab News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33046603/ BISHA: The head of the health affairs department in the southern town of Bisha has claimed his life is under threat. He went to the police after he found two bullets on his car windscreen, Al-Watan re... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33044412/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:46:51 -0500 Arab News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33044412/ Philippine presidential candidate Manuel Villar greets students of the University of Southern Mindanao while campaigning in Kabacan, North Cotabato in southern Philippines on Thursday. Villar, one of ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33041258/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:43:22 -0500 Arab News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33041258/ TOKYO: Tokyo's third international airport opened Thursday with festivity - and heavy criticism that it's a wasteful project expected to serve just a fraction of the passengers forecast. http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33041543/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:43:20 -0500 Arab News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1327f7c4068c2fd/id/33041543/