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About MAS News & Views News Views Articles of Interest Around the World Fatwa Services MAS Freedom Islam Profiles Services Departments Give/Join E-List Feedback Image Gallery   All News/Views Public Affairs Live Dialogue Magazine		Around the World Tony Blair's Sister-in-Law Stranded in Gaza The sister-in-law of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Wednesday that Israel and Egypt are preventing her from leaving the Gaza Strip, more than a week after she entered the territory in defiance of an Israel-led blockade. President Abbas Calls for Ending Gaza Siege, Achieving National Unity Speaking in Italy, President Abbas said that the international community should work together to increase aid to the Gaza Strip and well as to end the coup Hamas carried, urging the world to work for achieving the Palestinian national unity. Christians Getting Some Aid From Hindus & Muslims Indian Muslims and Hindus are aiding Christians who are being killed and persecuted by Hindu nationalists in Orissa. Peace Ships Break Through Israel's Blockade of Gaza "We will surely try to bring the boats back again," activist Huwaida Arraf said. "The goal is to open a route between Cyprus and Gaza. People here are just ecstatic to see that someone cares." Thirteen Die in Istanbul Blasts Governor Describes as Terror Attacks 60 Peace Activists to Launch 'Break the Siege' Sail to Gaza Aug. 5 Fayyad: Israel Shouldn't Celebrate Independence Until Peace Deal Signed Egypt Reseals Gaza Border Myanmar Cyclone Victims Getting Low-Quality Supplies Ban Ki-moon: 2008 Marks 'Sixtieth Year of Palestinian Dispossession' Zimbabwe Announces Election Run-Off PA Urges Palestinians to 'Return' May 14, 2008 Death Toll From China Child Virus Hits 24 As Officials Try To Halt Its Spread AFGHANISTAN: Thousands Flee As US Military Operation Gets Under Way Egypt Brings Gaza Truce Offer To Israel HUMAN RIGHTS - EGYPT: In Her Favour Palestinian Mother and 4 Children Killed in Gaza Carnage Rights Groups Launch Campaign to Press for Darfur Arrests Hamas to Accept Gaza Truce Gaza Talks 'Progress' Amid Siege EGYPT: Crackdown On Free Expression Continues Amid Demonstrations Gaza Power Plant Closure Averted Violence Mars Zimbabwe Recount World Food Program Warns of 'Silent Tsunami' of Hunger China Defends Weapons for Zimbabwe Israel Continues with Gaza Slaughter Police In Nepal Arrest 137 More Tibetan Protesters UK Accuses Mugabe of Trying to Steal Zimbabwe Election Saudi Women Appeal for Legal Freedoms YouTube Special: Queen Rania Speaks on Violence Against Women and Honor Crimes in the Arab World Carter Says Hamas Willing to Accept Peace Agreement with Israel U.S. Policy on Somalia: A Recipe for Self-Fulfilling Prophecies Spiraling Violence Kills 21 In Gaza Over 500 Tibetan Protesters Detained In Nepal S Africa Joins Zimbabwe Vote Call Iraq Awaits Critical Fatwa Egypt's Brotherhood Boycotts Elections Egypt Elections Proceed Amid Protests Headscarf Controversy Divides Turkey's Universities 'No Deal' for Mugabe to Step Down Human Rights Activist Sentenced to Five Years by China Egyptian Editor's Imprisonment Condemned by Rights Group South Africa Urged to Act On Human Rights Dossier Egypt: 126 Palestinians Wounded in Gaza Fly to Turkey for Treatment Egyptian Editor Ibrahim Eissa To Face Sentence On Wednesday After Publishing News On President's Health Yousaf Raza Gilani Sworn As Pakistan's New Prime Minister Gaza Looks to Egypt for Electricity Christians Besieged in Iraq Tibetan Exiles Embark On Hunger Strike In India To Protest Against Arrests US: 2007 Worst Year Yet for Human Rights in Zimbabwe Kenya Parliament Forms Panel to Debate Power-Sharing Agreement Turkish Troops Pull Out of Iraq Gaza to Rely More on Egyptian Power Egypt Military Court Postpones Verdict in Trial of 40 Muslim Brotherhood Members, Lawyer Says EU MPs Renew Criticism of Egypt's Human Rights File Israeli Forces Close Muslim Schools and Charities in Hebron Cuba's New President Assumes Office Backed By Old Guards Over 1,500 People Have Died In Kenya Unrest Gazans Form Human Chain To Protest Israeli Blockade Cuban Leaders Urged to Start Human Rights Reforms and Lifting of U.S. Embargo on Cuba Egypt To Keep Supplies Flowing Into Gaza Despite Israeli Blockade Serbs Protest Kosovo Independence Rights Group Condemn Extension of Egyptian Activists' Detainment KSA: Coffee With Colleague Lands Woman in Trouble U.S. Supports Bangladesh Implementing Electoral Roadmap Thousands Flee Fighting in Chad UK: Multiple Wives Will Mean Multiple Benefits Donor Gives $130 Million to Bangladesh Women's Rights Body in Pipeline Egypt Offers Palestinian Parties Peace Talks In Cairo Closing of Rafah Border Resumes After 6-Days of Palestinian Passage Iran Offers to Help Egypt Amid Rafah Chaos Poland Marks 63rd Anniversary of the Holocaust Erdogan Moves to End Ban on Islamic-Style Headscarf in Turkey Egyptian Forces Fail To Seal Gaza Strip Border Israeli Plot to Blockade Gaza 'Foiled' Egypt Holds Scores from Brotherhood Over Gaza Protests Gunfire at Egypt's Gaza Crossing 'Dozens Die' in Pakistan Fighting Egypt Puts Off EU Talks After Critical Rights Text Forced Annulment Keeps Al-Timani Couple Apart Qatif Girl's Lawyer Gets His License Back Blast at Pakistan Shiite Mosque Kills 9 Protests Bring New Violence in Kenya Israeli Troops Kill Militants in West Bank, Gaza in Separate Attacks U.S. To Give More Aid For Sidr Rehabilitation In Bangladesh CBS Report: The War Against Women Egypt Rules Out Permanent U.S. Presence Across Egypt-Gaza Border India Turns to Prostitutes to Help Beat Trafficking Barak Authorizes Increasing Shipments of Diesel Fuel to Gaza Immigration Minister Grants Reprieve to Mexican Family Facing Deportation Israeli Medical Delegation Condemns Israel's Siege of Gaza Muslim Woman Honored for Helping Hindus Food and Water Supply Dangerously Low; Health Crisis Looms In Kenya Burma Marks Independence Day Three Women First In Singapore to Join Muslim Appeal Board 300 Dead in Kenya's 'Genocide' - Banned Rally May Cause Violence to Escalate Waiting for Peacekeeping Muscle in Darfur Support Pledged for Women in Local Elections Dissident Saudi Blogger Arrested Malaysia's Highest Court Rejects Plea to Block Divorce Case From Going to Islamic Court Foreigners Head to Syria to Learn Arabic Rail Link Reconnects Two Koreas Fatima and Mansour Still Have Hope, Says NSHR Malcolm X Daughter Joins Muslim-American Leadership to Fight Malaria in Mali Cleric: Lebanese Wives May Fight Back MIDEAST: Christians And Muslims Coexist In Gaza Afghan Civilian Deaths Alarm UN Pakistan Rejects Calls To End Emergency Cyclone Toll Reaches 1,100 In Bangladesh 'Honour' Killings Grow As Girl, 17, Stoned To Death As The World Forgets Gaza Exhibition Honors Muslims Who Saved Jews From Nazi Persecution Egyptian Mosque Brings Islam to the Deaf In Myanmar, Child Soldiers Bought and Sold-Report US to Launch De-Nuking NKorea 4 Martyred, 11 Injured in Gaza Suspected Bomb Blast On Russian Bus Kills At Least Eight Israel Accused of Blocking Emergency Medical Aid for Palestinians Turkish Planes Bomb Rebel Positions Journalists Threatened In Somalia, HRW Claims Global Voices Against Poverty Expat-Friendly New Saudi Labour Law France Races to Oust Illegal Immigrants Kosovar Students Defy Headscarf Ban Army Weighs 'Complete' Gaza Pullout Turkish PM Urges End To Scarf Ban AFGHANISTAN: Polio Campaign Could Get Boost on Peace Day Voices Rise in Egypt to Shield Girls From an Old Tradition French Assembly Approves Controversial Immigration Bill Muslim Groups Allege 'Indiscriminate Arrests, Torture' Of Youths Egypt Bans Brotherhood’s Ramadan Event British Woman Gets 20 Years For 'Honor Killing' Observing Ramadan Washington Post Report: Israel Allegedly Attacked Nuclear Installation in Syria Police Detain Reporter Covering Security Sweep Musharraf Expects Saudis to Stop Sharif Egypt Rejects Israeli Charge Of Inaction On Gaza Arms Smuggling Morocco's Former Interior Minister, Driss Basri, Dies Aged 69 Fifteen Advocacy Groups Demand Treating FGM Deaths as Premeditated Murder; Call for Swift Criminalization Saudi Activists Call for Release of Detainees Indonesians Protest Outside Saudi Embassy in Jakarta Seven Immigration Officers Arrested Over Murder Junta Breaks Up Rare Burma Rally Freed Iranian-American Cannot Leave Iran Student Protests Spread In Bangladesh El-Fiqi to Congress Delegation: Muslim Brotherhood Welcome in the Political Game US Wants Talks On Human Rights In N. Korea Gaza's Public Employees Getting Paid On One Condition: Stay Home U.S. Academic Held in Iran Freed on Bail 165 Safe After Plane Explodes in Japan Two South Korean Hostages Arrive Home Apartheid Minister Pleads Guilty Sierra Leone Anxiously Awaits Election Results Taliban Release 2 South Korean Hostages UK's Brown Won't Rule Out Military Action In Iran ASSASSINATED: Acclaimed Investigative Journalist Anna Politkovskaya Jamrat Bridge to Be Ready Before Forthcoming Hajj Tens of Thousands of Iraqis Flee Homes for North MALAYSIA: Family Court Injunction in Conversion Case Set Aside Yusuf Islam Points Out Pope Not Infallible China Muslim Activist: From Unknown to Nobel Nominee Thousands March in Gaza to Demand Salary Payments Jesse Jackson in Syria on Humanitarian Mission Malaysia PM Urges End to Debate on Divisive Issues Egypt: Up to 80 Dead in Train Collision World Implored to Help Darfur South African Veiled Muslim Woman Regains Job Malaysia Braces for Ruling on Islam Conversion Light for Liberia: Africa's First Female President Ends 15-Year Blackout Ill Castro Steps Down Temporarily, Says Cuba MALAYSIA: Ruling Against Turban a Positive Step, Says Expert G8 Must Press Sudan to Accept U.N. Force in Darfur Surveillance Net Yields Few Suspects Death, Delusion and Democracy Arab Network Suspends Big Brother Show Aristide Leaves Haiti, Supreme Court Chief Assumes Power Iranian reformist MPs protest Around 200 Killed in Iran Train Explosion Former Chechen Leader Killed Khatami's Party Declines Boycott as President Criticizes Conservatives Over 50 Killed in Truck Bomb Attack in Iraq U.S. Says Al-Qaeda Active in Iraq Israeli Supreme Court Hears Petition from Barrier Opponents Blast in Moscow Subway Kills 39, Injures 130 Conflicting Reports on Top Iraq Shiite Leader Assassination Attempt German Court Acquits Moroccan in September 11 Trial Pakistani Nuclear Scientist Admits Leaks Heckled Blair Defends Iraq Policy, Admits Setback in Weapons Search Death Toll Rises to 251 as Second Stampede Occurs in Saudi Death Toll Mounts in Bombings Against Iraqi Kurds Sharon Orders Settlement Evacuation Plan Gaza Pakistan Sacks Top Nuclear Scientist U.N. Election Team to Be in Iraq in Days Blast Killing Seven U.S. Soldiers in Afghanistan Probed Second BBC Official Resigns in Wake of Judicial Inquiry Results Hezbollah, Israel Swap Prisoners as Blast Rocks Jerusalem Blair Cleared in Inquiry Over Kelly Suicide U.N. to Send Election Team Mission to Iraq Israel to Exchange Prisoners with Hezbollah, Release Palestinians U.S. Lawmakers Make Historic Visit to Libya Iraq Shiites Split Over U.N. Role Pakistan Nuclear Probe Investigation Visited Iran, Libya Amid Bribery Scandal, Sharon Refuses to Resign With Headscarves, France Proposes Banning Beards Iranian Ministers Resign Over Election Crisis Israeli Warplanes Strike Lebanon Bombing Kills 25 in Baghdad Iran Ups Bam Quake Death Toll to 41,000 Israel Says Hamas Leader “Marked for Death” Thousands Demonstrate Backing Iraqi Cleric’s Call for Direct Elections Israeli Barrier Blocks Peace Talks, Must Stop Settlements: U.S. Diplomats Libya Ratifies Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Reformers Barred From Elections in Iran Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Head Hodeibi Passes Away Chirac Says Religious Freedom Will Be Protected By Headscarf Ban In Breakthrough, India-Pakistan Agree to Talks Egyptian Charter Plane Crash Kills 148 Israeli Soldier Arrested in British Activist Shooting Pakistan Denies Nuclear Technology Transfer to Iran, Restrictions on Nuclear Head Clark Says Milosevic Knew of Srebrenica Massacre Pakistan on High Alert After Assassination Attempt U.S. Confirms Six Children Dead in Afghan Raid 41 Dead in Russia Train Blast Near Chechnya Dutch City Wants to Ban Poverty-Stricken Immigrants U.S. Says 54 Killed In Iraq Firefight, No Bodies to Confirm British Minister's Comments Anger Muslims Love It or Leave It Says Australian Imam Over 5,000 Mosques Built in Russia During Past Decade Facing Pressure, Sharon Says Dismantling Settlements Possible U.S. Seeks Tough Measures on Iranian Nuclear Program Bombing in Istanbul Kills 26 Italy Mourns Iraq Bombing Losses London Mayor Supports Bush Protesters U.K. Muslims Condemn Harassment of Prominent Muslim Cleric London Braces for Bush Visit amid Antiwar Demonstrations and Security Threats Palestinian, Israeli Prime Ministers to Meet Car Bomb Attack Blasts Riyadh Turkey Will Not Send Troops to Iraq EU Poll Labels Israel Biggest Threat to World Peace Saudi Police Kill Two Al-Qaeda Suspects in Mecca Mahathir Retiring as Malaysian PM Criticizes U.S. and Israel Former Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic Passes Away Deadly Gaza Blast Rocks U.S. Diplomatic Convoy, Three Americans Dead Saudi Arabia Arrests 154 after Riyadh Protest Saudi Arabia to Hold First Municipal Elections Israel can Launch Nuclear Weapons from Submarines Iranian Rights Activist Ebadi Wins Nobel Peace Prize Syria Seeks U.N. Condemnation for Israeli Attack Blair Defends Iraq War to Labor Leadership Israeli Pilots Refuse Missions in Palestinian Territories Musharraf Says U.N.-mandated Muslim Force Needed for Iraq U.S. Loan Guarantees to Israel Proceed amid Security Wall Disregard and Arafat Death Threat U.N. Lifts Sanctions on Libya Israel Says Arafat to be Expelled Despite U.S. and International Condemnation New Bin Laden Videotape Appears U.S. Says Iran Breaching U.N. Nuclear Treaty Sharon Starts First Trip to India Cementing Alliance Germany, France Reject U.S. Iraq Resolution Proposal U.S. Seeks Expanded U.N. Role in Iraq Israeli Police Faulted for Arab-Israeli Deaths Indonesia Finds Cleric Guilty of Treason Prominent Iraqi Shiite Cleric Among 85 Killed in Car Bombing Blair’s Communication Director Campbell Resigns At Inquiry, Blair Testifies Denying Iraq Threat Hyped Bombings Kill 44, Injure 120 in India "Chemical Ali" Captured by U.S. Forces Jerusalem Bus Blast Leaves 18 Dead Bomb Blasts U.N.’s Iraq Headquarters, as U.S. Nets Key Saddam Cohort European Heatwave Exacts 3,000 Deaths in France BBC Reporter Testifies in British Inquiry Liberia’s Charles Taylor Steps Down Defiant Indonesian Receives Death Sentence for Bali Bombing Israel Frees Palestinian Prisoners Hundreds of Remains Found at Newly Discovered Mass Grave in Bosnia Jakarta Hotel Bombed, Leaving Dead and Injured Victims Blair to Face Inquiry on Weapons Expert’s Death Bosnian Serb Gets Life Sentence for War Crimes Six Linked to Al-Qaeda Killed in Firefight With Saudi Security Forces Saddam’s Sons Killed in U.S. Raid: Official Philippines Signs Truce with MILF Srebrenica Survivors Bury Dead on Massacre Anniversary Granada Mosque Emerges After 500 Year Muslim Absence in Spain Nigerian Unions End General Strike Hamas and Militias to Implement Truce, Halting Attacks on Israel Indonesia Tightens Curbs Foreign Media and NGOs in Aceh Around the World
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