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Iraq News.Net - Sunday 19th May, 2013
A leading senior religious clerics in Saudi Arabia has said that Saudi citizens using Twitter will risk damnation. Abdul Latif Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh's declaration comes as a move to attack the US-based microblogging service, the Huffington Post reports. According to the report, Saudi leaders fear that Twitter and other social media services are platforms for making the dissidents voice out ...
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Iraq News.Net - Sunday 19th May, 2013
A Saudi woman has become the first female from the country and the youngest Arab to reach the summit of Mount Everest - the world's highest mountain. Raha Moharrak, 25, was part of a four-person expedition, which also included the first Qatari man and the first Palestinian man attempting to reach the top of Mount Everest, trying to raise 1 million dollars for education projects in Nepal, the ...
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Iraq News.Net - Saturday 18th May, 2013
The announcement of the UAE's Ministry of Education about the School Leadership Project to raise standards in the country's education sector is an important initiative which needs to be highly commended, a UAE daily has said. "Over the next five years, 700 education professionals in public schools in the UAE will undergo rigorous training in international best practices in teaching to set the ...
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MSNBC - Sunday 19th May, 2013
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to the Middle East this week to meet with leaders in the area. It is expected that Syria will be a major point of discussion. Shibley Telhami of the Brookings Institute and journalist Rula Jebreal join MSNBC with ...