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Taliban target girls schools in Pakistan
Three primary schools have been blown up in Pakistan's Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa province. Nobody was in the buildings at the time of the
explosions early on Thursday morning. When the Taliban ruled Pakistan's
northern Swat valley they targeted schools. But many have been rebuit
after the military pushed the Taliban out. Al Jazeera's Imtiaz Tyab
reports.
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Ukraine separatist says to start talks with mediators over detainees
SLAVIANSK, Ukraine (Reuters) - The de facto mayor of the Ukrainian
city of Slaviansk said on Sunday mediators from the Organisation for
Security and Cooperation in Europe who are seeking the release of a
group of detained observers had arrived in the city.
The self-proclaimed mayor, Vyacheslav Ponomaryov, told reporters he was heading into talks with the mediators.More Details
US president’s complex and worrying baggage abroad
BARACK Obama is bringing far more to his Far East tour than he could imagine: besides his suits, Air Force One, aides, handlers and minders (the famed Secret Service protection detail), cutting-edge security gadgets and intelligence shield, his nation’s intrusive worldview with its complex and disquieting global effect.
First and foremost: the moment Obama steps out of Air Force One and
onto the KLIA tarmac, his already indiscriminately blanket security
concerns is immediately a Malaysian anxiety.
We are as responsible as to whatever may happen to him as are his
doughty security apparatus that brooks no nonsense, not with their kind
of threat assessments churned out regularly against the leader of the
Free World.
Remember, America is where presidents and influential leaders have been
assassinated or their lives threatened by too many deadly crackpots,
thus the overbearing security paranoia.
Obama in KL: Myanmar warned for its oppression of Muslim minority population
KUALA LUMPUR: U.S. President Barack Obama saidtoday that the rights of Myanmar's minority Muslim population were not being fully protected and warned that the Southeast Asian country would not succeed if Muslims there were oppressed.
On a visit to Malaysia, Obama praised political reforms under way in
once-isolated Myanmar but said the danger of democratization was that it
could unleash religious and ethnic conflicts and that such developments
could move Myanmar in a bad direction.
"You have a Muslim minority (in Myanmar) that the broader population
has historically looked down upon and whose rights are not being fully
protected," Obama told a townhall-style meeting of young leaders from
across Southeast Asia.
"Myanmar won't succeed if the Muslim population is oppressed."
Members of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim minority have been the victims of
attacks and widespread abuse in recent years blamed by human rights
groups and other observers on security forces and anti-Muslim mobs in
the country's Rakhine state. -- Reuters
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KUALA LUMPUR: National Mosque imam Tan Sri Syaikh Ismail Muhammad has pleaded to the United States (US) President Barack Obama to end oppression against Muslims worldwide.
He took the opportunity to express his wishes to Obama while taking the
US President on a 25-minute guided tour of the mosque and the Heroes'
Mausoleum, at Jalan Perdana this morning.
In response Obama said "pray for me," Ismail told reporters after Obama's visit to the Malaysian iconic monuments here today.
"Obama also said that every day when he wakes up he always does his
best to put an end to oppression and conflicts affecting communities,"
he said.
Ismail, 70, also expressed his excitement on the historic meeting with
Obama, which was his second meeting with a sitting US President.
His first meeting was with President Lyndon B.Johnson's in 1966, about
48 years ago when he was 22 years old and a tahfiz student (studying the
Quran).
" I never expect I would meet another US President in my lifetime,
after almost 50 years," he added. Ismail was also impressed with
Obama's ability to understand the Malay language, in which he sometimes
communicated with the US President.
Despite Obama's limited vocabulary, the US President frequently replied
with "Insya Allah" (God willing) and "terima kasih" (thank you), he
said.
"It was nice of him, although he could not speak much of the Malay
language but understood what I had said to him," smiled Ismail.
Obama's visit to the National Mosque was the first event of his second
day state visit to Malaysia, and the visit to the mosque indicates his
acceptance of the moderate Islamic practice in the country, where the
majority of its 30 million people are Muslims.
Obama, who arrived yesterday for a three-day state visit to Malaysia,
was accompanied by Youth and Sports Minister Khairy Jamaluddin as
minister-in- attendance, and United States Special Envoy to the
Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, Rashad Hussain.
After Obama's visit, Ismail held a brief meeting with Rashad which
touched on Islamic banking, Muslim entreprenuers development programmes
and halal hub
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Thai rainmaking technology has good track record
PETALING JAYA: The royal rainmaking technology that will be
brought in from Thailand to help relieve Selangor’s water woes has a
successful track record in its home country for more than 40 years.
The technology, pioneered and patented by Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej, was first applied in 1969 over the largely drought-hit northeast Thailand, a major agricultural area.
A study by the Mahanakorn University of Technology surveyed rainfall during rainmaking activities at targeted locations in northeast Thailand between August 2006 and April 2009, and compared with data from random areas within 240km of the target area.Details news
The technology, pioneered and patented by Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej, was first applied in 1969 over the largely drought-hit northeast Thailand, a major agricultural area.
A study by the Mahanakorn University of Technology surveyed rainfall during rainmaking activities at targeted locations in northeast Thailand between August 2006 and April 2009, and compared with data from random areas within 240km of the target area.Details news
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