Few modern Americans have enjoyed better press clippings than Colin Powell, which made him the perfect choice to sell the Iraq War. But there was a troubling side of Powell’s history that Americans should have known, as this excerpt from Neck Deep reveals. for more click here
If the key players were serious, there are strategies that might help bring about a meaningful peace deal between Israel and its Arab neighbors. But progress, after the Annapolis summit, would require different political dynamics in the Middle East — and in Washington. for more click here
A British teacher charged in Sudan with insulting religion, inciting hatred and showing contempt for religious beliefs has been brought to court.
Journalists were prevented from entering as Gillian Gibbons, 54, from Liverpool, went inside. for more click here
The day after the Annapolis conference - where the PA recognized Israel’s right to exist - PA-TV aired a map of Israel with Israel vanished. for more click here
Just a reminder of the event this evening in the Leith Methodist Church ‘Acorn Centre’ on Junction Place, between 7.30pm and 9.30pm. Where else could you possibly be!!!
4th Leith World Aids Day event. music from Louise Holden, one of Scotland’s foremost Jazz singers, and well known in Leith
interviews with Albert Chituka, from Chipembi School in Zambia Eunice Sinyemu, who is developing HIV Scotland’s African and Ethnic Minorities Project
video clips from Zambia, Steven Fry, Miriam Makeba, Chipembi School Choir
refreshments
Fair Trade tea and coffee and juice and biscuits - FREE
information
leaflets and ribbons
and a Fair Trade stall
Reflection
Opportunities for personal reflection in our quiet space
and good company
Come and share
Best Wishes,
George
Rev. George Shand
107, Easter Warriston
EDINBURGH EH7 4QZ
0131 467 7789
georgeshand@blueyonder.co.uk
organised with the support of Churches Together in Leith
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (CNN) — NATO is acknowledging YouTube as its new battleground in the six-year war on Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, as the military alliance posts formerly secret surveillance and attack video. for more click here
CAIRO — This week’s Middle East conference in Annapolis, Md., has highlighted Arab unease over the ability and will of a weak U.S. president to deliver peace. At the same time, it has stoked fears that Israel has scored a public relations coup while refusing to concede on such core issues as Palestinian refugees and the fate of Jerusalem.
Arab nations, most notably Syria and Saudi Arabia, had been reluctant to attend the U.S.-sponsored talks, which are meant to set the framework for future Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. Now, with their prestige on the line, Arab officials are returning to their capitals with two tasks: convincing their populations that the summit was a crucial step toward a Palestinian state and keeping pressure on the U.S. and Israel to deliver on that goal. for more click here
Well, after a few awful days the markets made a stylish comeback yesterday.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average positively rocketed, leaping 2.6% (its best percentage gain of the year so far) to 13,289. Meanwhile, the FTSE 100 had a similarly strong showing, jumping 2.7% to 6,306.
So what was behind all this jubilation? You guessed it – the Federal Reserve hinted that it might cut interest rates…
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Last night, Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig took to the red carpet for the premiere in London’s Leicester Square of their new film, The Golden Compass. The $150m (£75m) movie adaptation of Philip Pullman’s fantasy novel has all the ingredients of a runaway blockbuster hit in the mould of Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy. for more click here
A Protestant church in the Indonesian province of West Java has been destroyed by a group of 250 “radical Muslims” according to Open Doors.
The Muslims from the “Anti Apostasy Movement Alliance” (AAMA) entered the Pasundan Christian Church in the South Bandung area of West Java by force. for more click here