'Because Allah's punishment would fall on America in the month of Ramadan'
Another Pakistani journalist is reporting receiving another threat this one from a senior Taliban leader warning all Muslims to leave the U.S. in anticipation of a major terrorist attack before the end of Ramadan.
The head of the Islamabad-based al-Quds Center reported receiving an audio message from Mullah Masoom Afghani urging U.S. Muslims to get out of the country "because Allah's punishment would fall on America in the month of Ramadan."
Tony Blair has given his support to the new head of the Army, who has made controversial comments on the Iraq war.
General Sir Richard Dannatt is quoted in the Daily Mail saying British troops "exacerbated" Iraq's security problems and should withdraw "sometime soon".
North Korea is to conduct a nuclear test "in the future", the foreign ministry has said in a statement.
The move would bolster the country's self-defence in the face of US military hostility, official agency KCNA said.
Israel has gone on heightened alert over a possible war with Syria amid reports that President Bashar Assad may be considering military strikes to regain the Golan Heights. For years Israeli military intelligence has down-played Syria's capacity to launch a meaningful attack against Israel, and the threat level has been kept "low".
But Israeli reports have revealed that the threat level had been raised after intelligence assessments that Damascus is "seriously examining" military action.
A Christian campaigner has been cleared of using threatening words and behaviour when handing out leaflets at a gay and lesbian event in Cardiff.
Stephen Green, 55, said he may take legal action after a court case against him was dropped for lack of evidence.
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Monday that his country intends to map out a timetable for the European Union's constitution by the end of its EU presidency in 2007.
In a speech Monday to members of his Social Democratic Party (SPD) before Germany takes it turn at the head of the rotating EU presidency in 2007, Steinmeier urged critics of the constitution, which was rejected last year by voters in France and the Netherlands, to start moving activities along.
The war in Lebanon is over, but Israel is still under attack from terrorists firing rockets from the Gaza Strip.
A female Israeli soldier was wounded Tuesday in a rocket attack on the southern Israeli city of Sderot. The army says about 40 rockets have landed inside Israel between August 28 and September 26.
Despite extensive Israeli military operations inside the Gaza Strip over the summer, rockets have continued to fall inside Israel almost daily, and one city official said the attack on Tuesday -- involving two rockets -- was worse than any before it. "What can we think? It gets worse every day," Sderot spokesman Yossi Cohen said in a telephone interview.
Benedict tells Muslim diplomats from 20 nations that world peace depends in large part on the ability to build bridges between faiths. Pope Benedict XVI brought together diplomats from more than 20 Islamic countries Monday and told them that Christians and Muslims must overcome historical enmities and join to reject all forms of violence and intolerance.
Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law were told to get out of Australia, as the government targeted radicals in a bid to head off potential terror attacks.
A day after a group of mainstream Muslim leaders pledged loyalty to Australia and her Queen at a special meeting with Prime Minister John. Howard, he and his Ministers made it clear that extremists would face a crackdown.
As Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addressed the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Thursday, U.S. lawmakers from both parties warned that Iran poses a bigger threat to the United States than al Qaeda. "I believe Iran is on the rise. Iran's influence is very strong. Its threat is very real," said Republican Rep. Jim Saxton from New Jersey at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C.
The Jerusalem municipality agreed to have the World Pride gay parade in the capital on Nov. 10, thus avoiding a threatened Supreme Court action by the parade's sponsors.
The agreement was reached after three hours of negotiations between the State Prosecutor's Office, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, the Jerusalem municipality, city police (which will provide security), and members of the Open House gay organization.
Knesset and City Council members, religious councils from all three major faiths in Jerusalem Jewish, Muslim and Christian and international Jewish organizations have fought for months against the event, which was originally slated for August.
What will Tony Blair be remembered for? The post-war debacle in Iraq? Billions largely wasted on unreformed public services? Half-baked constitutional reforms that have threatened the integrity of the United Kingdom?
How about the erosion of privacy and the transformation of Britain into the most snooped-on country in the world this side of Pyongyang? We have more CCTV cameras than the rest of Europe put together. We have thousands of speed cameras linked to number-plate recognition databases.
We await with trepidation the arrival of the national identity database from 2008, entry on to which will make it an offence, for the first time, not to inform the "authorities" when we move home.
The European Commission described as unacceptable the "disproportionate" reactions that "reject freedom of speech," such as those expressed after Benedict XVI's words on Islam at a German university.
"Freedom of speech is a cornerstone of the EU's values, as is respect for all religions, Christianity, Islam, Judaism or laicism," said commission spokesman Johannes Laitenberger in a press conference today.
THE Vatican tried to appease Muslim anger over the Pope's remarks on Islam yesterday, as protests continued and a terrorist group linked to al-Qaeda vowed to kill the pontiff.
The new al-Qaida field commander in Afghanistan is calling for Muslims to leave the U.S. particularly Washington and New York? in anticipation of a major terror attack to rival Sept. 11, according to an interview by a Pakistani journalist.