Month: November 2011

Common Ground News Service by Tareq Oubrou Bordeaux, France – Why does the public expression of Islam pose a problem – not just in France, but all over Europe? Yesterday, it was the construction of minarets in Switzerland;...

More photos » DAMASCUS (AFP) At least 17 people were killed across Syria on Saturday, activists said, as an Arab League deadline for Damascus to stop its lethal crackdown on dissent was set to expire. Among the dead were four...

More photos » by Samer al-Atrush – CAIRO (AFP) A demonstrator was killed and hundreds of people injured on Saturday as Egyptian police fired rubber bullets and tear gas to break up a sit-in organised by some of the driving...

More photos » by Hamida Ben Salah – TUNIS (AFP) Hamadi Jebali of the Islamist Ennahda party was poised Saturday to become Tunisia’s new prime minister in the first elected government to emerge from the Arab Spring...

 by Imed Lamloum – ZINTAN, Libya (AFP) Moamer Kadhafi’s son Seif al-Islam has been captured after a three-month manhunt and will be given a “fair trial”, Libya’s interim prime minister Abdel Rahim...