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Eid al-Adha

May 19th, 2025 - 08:41 GMT

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Egyptian researchers reveal the first day of Eid al-Adha

ALBAWABA - As millions of muslims across the globe await the arrival of Eid al-Adha, an Egyptian astronomical research institute revealed that the crescent moon of the month of Dhu al-Hijjah 1446 AH will be sighted on the dawn of Tuesday, May 27. The research institute adds that the moon will be visible in Cairo's skies for a total of 47 minutes after sunset. On the contrary, the moon will ...

President Obama... no longer invincible.

November 30th, 2010 - 12:20 GMT

Has America fallen out of love with Obama?

ISRAEL, RAMON AIRFORCE BASE : An Israeli airforce F-16I fighter plane takes off at the Ramon Air Force Base, in the southern Israeli Negev desert, on November 19, 2008

November 30th, 2010 - 08:22 GMT

Israel could strike Iran without US help: leaked cable

Gaddafi did not bring his famed all-women guard unit with him to New York

November 29th, 2010 - 12:44 GMT

Gaddafi never without 'voluptuous' nurse: Wikileaks

View of the WikiLeaks homepage taken in Washington on November 28, 2010. Whistleblower website WikiLeaks unleashed a flood of US cables detailing shocking diplomatic episodes, from a nuclear standoff with Pakistan to Arab leaders urging a strike on Iran.

November 29th, 2010 - 09:37 GMT

Wikileaks: US Diplomats off the record, secrets revealed.

EGYPT, Cairo : An Egyptian man checks for the name of his wife at the entrance of a polling station in Cairo on November 28, 2010, as polls opened across Egypt for a parliamentary election expected to strengthen the ruling party's grip in the most populous Arab nation but marred by a crackdown on the Islamist opposition.

November 29th, 2010 - 07:00 GMT

Voting irregularities at Helwan, Hadayek El-Kobba polls in Eqypt

Israel's security cabinet approved plans on Wednesday to withdraw troops from part of an occupied Lebanese village of Ghajar

November 28th, 2010 - 01:00 GMT

Is Israel "Shrinking"?

EGYPTE, MANSURA : An Egyptian woman casts her ballot at a polling station in the Nile delta city of Mansura, 120 kms north of Cairo, 26 March 2007. Over 35 million Egyptians are expected to participate in a referendum on controversial constitutional changes which the regime says promotes democracy but the opposition charges curb basic freedoms.

November 28th, 2010 - 11:43 GMT

Egypt goes to the polls

The study found that isolated Muslim communities in places like Colchester, Bishop's Stortford and Boston have become especially vulnerable.

November 28th, 2010 - 06:15 GMT

Muslims Isolated in small town UK

EGYPTE, Cairo : Vice-President Hosni Mubarak casts his vote, 13 October 1981, during a national referendum to decide whether he will succeed the slain President Anwar Sadat as leader of Egypt. Mubarak came to office as Egypt’s fourth president after late President Anwar Sadat was slained by a group of military Islamist fundamentalists with allegiance to the Al-Jihad during a military parade 06 October 1981 and has remained in power ever since, being re-elected five times.

November 27th, 2010 - 06:09 GMT

Bullies block way to ballot box in Egypt

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, Abu Dhabi : A general view shows the new Sheikh Zayed mosque: the biggest mosque in the United Arab Emirates and the third largest in the world.

November 25th, 2010 - 03:14 GMT

Queen Elizabeth visits Sheikh Zayed Mausoleum and Mosque

LEBANON, Beirut : Newspapers with headlines of the inauguration of Barack Obama as the US President are seen at a newsstand in Beirut on January 21, 2009

November 24th, 2010 - 06:00 GMT

Obama raises Lebanon stakes

KHALIS : Iraqi boys looks at a bus that was hit by a roadside bomb 29 May 2006 in the town of Khalis, northeast of Baghdad. Eleven people were killed 11 others were wounded in the attack.

November 24th, 2010 - 05:58 GMT

Abuse at Camp Ashraf in Iraq receives Congressional Hearing