Islam Q&A: Is it required to specify the length of the rental period, and what is the ruling on paying per click for advertisements?

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Q: A place on a webpage is specified for advertising for other websites. Is it a must or not to specify the period of time for renting this place, by [...]

Islamic Humor

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Mulla Nasruddin and the pumpkin vine
One hot day, Mulla Nasruddin was taking it easy in the shade of a walnut tree. After a time, he started eyeing speculatively, the huge pumpkins growing on vines and the small walnuts growing on a majestic tree. Sometimes I just can’t understand [...]

USA: Blackwater guards given immunity in Iraq shootings

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The State Department promised Blackwater USA bodyguards limited immunity from prosecution for their testimony in last month’s deadly shooting of 17 Iraqi civilians, the Associated Press has learned. The immunity deal has delayed a criminal inquiry into the Sept. 16 killings and could undermine [...]

Philippines: MILF says it got more territory in talks

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The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) yesterday said it was expecting to sign a memorandum of agreement on territory with the government in December. The issue was the biggest stumbling block to the signing of a peace agreement between the government and the Moro rebels, [...]

Iran to make world’s biggest clock

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Iran is slated to make the world’s biggest analog clock, which will be placed in one of eastern Tehran’s most important expressways.The X-shaped clock will be made of iron and aluminum with an annual malfunction of only one second. The 16m wide and 3m high [...]

Malaysia: Saladin 3D cartoon launched

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Malaysia’s Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) unveiled its Saladin 3D cartoon project, the latest development in MSC Malaysia’s Creative Multimedia Content Initiative (CMCI). Saladin 3D, an animated television series, is meant to cater to the Middle East region, which is looking for content that fits its culture [...]

Iraq: Largest Iraq dam in danger of collapse

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Iraq’s largest dam is in danger of collapse and hundreds of thousands of people are at risk from a massive inundation in Mosul and Baghdad, according to US documents released on Tuesday. US experts have warned Baghdad that the Mosul Dam in northern Iraq could [...]

Palestine: Israeli aircrafts pound Palestinian police station; kill five

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At least five Palestinians were killed and a number of others wounded when Israeli warplanes pounded a Palestinian police center in southern Gaza Strip. Palestinian medics reported that at least five dead bodies had transferred to the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis city in [...]

Palestine: IOF troops detain two Palestinian mothers to pressure their sons

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IOF troops detained two Palestinian mothers at dawn Tuesday in the West Bank city of Qalqilia to pressure their sons and rounded up two other young men in the city.The Nafha society defending human and prisoners’ rights condemned the IOF [...]

Spain: Suspects get 40,000 years for Madrid train bombings.

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Three out of eight top suspects in the 2004 Madrid train bombings were on Wednesday given maximum jail terms of thousands of years in prison for their role in the coordinated attacks on the Madrid commuter trains that killed 191 people and injured nearly [...]

RAKIA Plans Roadshows For Debut Benchmark Sukuk

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Ras Al Khaimah Investment Authority, or RAKIA, is planning European and Middle East roadshows for its upcoming inaugural dollar-denominated benchmark sukuk offering, one of the banks managing the deal said Wednesday. The new issue which is expected to have a five-year maturity, will be launched, [...]

Kuwait Energy Company buys Ukrainian gas fields

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Kuwait Energy Company Wednesday announced a deal signed with British Cardinal Resources to buy all the latter’s gas fields in the Ukraine. Kuwait Energy Chairman and Managing Director Manssour Aboukhamseen told a press conference the concerned fields produce gas and gas condensates. He added the [...]

Egypt and China in investment deal

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Egypt said on Tuesday it had reached agreement with China on setting up an industrial zone that it hopes will attract $2.5bn in Chinese investment. Rachid Mohamed Rachid, Egypt’s trade minister, said the 5 sq km park in the Suez area would be built in phases [...]

UAE: Small number of foreign workers to be deported

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Up to 25 of the 4,000 foreign workers detained by police in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), will be deported to their home countries, according to an Indian diplomat quoted in the Dubai-based Khaleej Times newspaper. The 4,000 workers, many of them Indian [...]

Kuwait: Football team banned due to government meddling

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Kuwait’s national football team has been suspended until further notice by the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) due to alleged government interference in the country’s football federation elections, reported Iran’s state news agency IRNA. FIFA claims the gulf nation ignored requirements to set [...]

KSA: Al-Huraisi Murder Trial Begins at Riyadh High Court

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he trial of two members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, who have been charged with the murder of Salman Al-Huraisi during a commission raid looking for alcohol, began at the Higher Court in Riyadh yesterday….Al-Huraisi told [...]

King Abdullah urges British Muslims to be worthy citizens

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Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz urged Muslims in Britain to be honest and upright Muslims and worthy British citizens. “I should like to take this opportunity to call upon our Muslim brethren living in Britain to be [...]

Chad: 6 charged with kidnapping of Darfur ‘orphans’

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Chadian judicial authorities charged nine French nationals on Tuesday with kidnapping of children from Sudan’s Darfur region, an official said. The six tried but failed to fly out the 103 children from Chad. An aid group said the children were orphans from Darfur.
Communications Minister [...]