Israeli murdered today by Palestinian was an Arab serving in the IDF; his aunt was killed by a Hizbollah rocket in 2006; uncle in a car accident

Posted by on Feb 11th, 2010 and filed under World News.
Terror victim’s friends: Druze will continue to serve Israel
Arab village of Maghar mourns death of IDF soldier Ihab Khatib, murdered in West Bank Wednesday; ‘Despite discrimination, we’ll continue to contribute to country whose existence we pray for,’ says Druze mourner
Residents of the [...]

Mother in remote Haiti village tells giving twins to missionaries Haiti

By SUNIL Sonkar
Haiti, Feb. 04 — In a remote village of Haiti a mother told about how she allowed her twin sons to be taken by American missionaries, who are under investigation for child trafficking now. The mother said that they promised here to provide a life of hope and opportunity to the children. The [...]

12 year Saudi girl withdraws divorce petition to octogenarian

By SUNIL Sonkar
Riyadh, Feb. 03 — A Saudi girl, 12, gave up her petition, unexpectedly, for divorce from an octogenarian man to whom her father forced her, in exchange for a dowry, to marry reports Saudi media on Tuesday.

Even though there were supports from the human rights lawyers and also from the child welfare advocates, [...]

Haiti’s Quake Was Just A ‘Little Kick’: Experts

By SUNIL Sonkar
Port-au-Prince, Feb. 02 — There may be another major earthquake taking place in Haiti says experts and this may be triggered by the catastrophic that happened last month and killed up to 200,000 people leaving capital Port-au-Prince in ruins.

Teams of geophysicists has been tracking the movements in the fault line, which slashes across [...]

10 US Baptists detained for taking kids across border

By SUNIL Sonkar
Port-Au-Prince, Feb. 01 — While taking out 33 children out of Haiti after the earthquake without any permission of the government, 10 U.S. Baptists have bee detained. The Baptists said that they were trying to just do the right thing. They said that they were applying Christian principles to save Haitian children.
However, the [...]

Test Flight Of Sukhoi T-50 In Russia

By SUNIL Sonkar
RUSSIA, Jan. 30 — Russia on Friday showed off its first stealth fighter, Sukhoi T-50 prototype. It proclaimed immediately that it is a challenger to the American military dominance of the skies.

The stealth fighter is a “fifth generation” fighter. It completed a maiden test flight of 47-minute in the Far East of Russia. [...]

Obama Speaks Of Global Warming

By SUNIL Sonkar
MIDDLE EAST, Jan. 30 — The second audio tape of Bin Laden speaks criticizing the former United State president George W bush for not signing the carbon emissions regulatory Kyoto Protocol. Bin Laden in the audio also spoke out against the excessive corporate influence in US.

Laden even presented himself in the tape as [...]

$82M in quake aid so far from Canada, thats $2.50 per person in Canada.

OTTAWA – Canadians have donated more than $82 million so far to help Haitians struck by a devastating earthquake, the federal government announced Wednesday morning as the Canadian death toll from the disaster rose to 21.
The bodies of Katie Hadley, 30, of Prescott, Ont., and Anne Chabot, a 46-year-old civil servant [...]

Air France to charge fat people for two seats

From next month seriously overweight flyers will be asked to pay for two seats, or not be allowed on board for “safety reasons”, the airline announced yesterday.
“People who arrive at the check-in desk and are deemed too large to fit into a single seat will be asked to pay for and use a second seat,” [...]

South Korea returns fire from North: report

SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea has returned fire after North Korea shot several artillery rounds into waters near a disputed sea border with the South on Wednesday, Yonhap news agency reported an unnamed military source as saying.
North Korea on Tuesday declared a no-sail zone in the waters off its west coast, according to media reports [...]