Al-Maliki backs legislative seats for religious minorities in Iraq

BAGHDAD | Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Sunday sought safeguards for small religious communities in this mainly Muslim country. Christians protested Parliament’s decision to stop setting aside seats for minorities.  >>>>>

Iranian parliament approves law on apostasy calling for death penalty

APA reports that members of the parliament citing to sharia (Islamic law) made decision on death sentence for men abjuring Islam and life sentence for women.According to other points of the new law, extrasensory individuals, fortune-tellers and homosexuals will also be sentenced to death. >>>>>

Kremlin announces that South Ossetia will join ‘one united Russian state’

“The regimes of Abkhazia and South Ossetia should think about the fact that if they become part of Russia, they will be assimilated, and in this way they will disappear.” >>>>>

I hope and pray that they won’t disappear in the way of Chechnya.

Fire breaks out in Egypt’s parliament

CAIRO, Egypt – Fire has erupted in Egypt’s parliament but there is no word on casualties or the cause.  >>>>>

President Musharraf of Pakistan Resigns

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Under pressure over impending impeachment charges, President Pervez Musharraf announced he would resign Monday, ending nearly nine years as one of the United States’ most important allies in the campaign against terrorism.  >>>>>

‘Al-Aqsa in danger of collapse’

 A Palestinian Member of Parliament says the Israeli tunnel project has reached to the foundations of al-Aqsa mosque in al-Quds. >>>>>