Six In The Morning

Seizing a Moment, Al Jazeera Taps Arab Anger  

The protests rocking the Arab world this week have one thread uniting them: Al Jazeera, the Qatar-based satellite channel whose aggressive coverage has helped propel insurgent emotions from one capital to the next.

Al Jazeera has been widely hailed for helping enable the revolt in Tunisia with its galvanizing early reports, even as Western-aligned political factions in Lebanon and the West Bank attacked and burned the channel’s offices and vans this week, accusing it of incitement against them.

Live Blog Of Egyptian Protests Here  

Americas Must Trusted Allie In The Middle East

Mubarak regime may not survive new protests as flames of anger spread through Middle East

Egypt’s day of reckoning

A day of prayer or a day of rage? All Egypt was waiting for the Muslim Sabbath today – not to mention Egypt’s fearful allies – as the country’s ageing President clings to power after nights of violence that have shaken America’s faith in the stability of the Mubarak regime.

Five men have so far been killed and almost 1,000 others have been imprisoned, police have beaten women and for the first time an office of the ruling National Democratic Party was set on fire. Rumours are as dangerous as tear gas here. A Cairo daily has been claiming that one of President Hosni Mubarak’s top advisers has fled to London with 97 suitcases of cash, but other reports speak of an enraged President shouting at senior police officers for not dealing more harshly with demonstrators.

Congressman Peter King America’s Number1 Hater Of Muslims Wont Be Pleased

 

Quarter of world population will be Muslim by 2030

THE WORLD’S Muslims will number 2.2 billion by 2030 compared to 1.6 billion last year, and some 60 per cent will be concentrated in the Asia-Pacific region, according to a new study.

But falling birth rates as more Muslim women are educated, living standards improve and populations become more urbanised mean the world’s Muslim population growth will slow over the next two decades, reducing it on average from 2.2 per cent a year in 1990-2010 to 1.5 per cent a year from now until 2030.

If current trends continue, Muslims will make up 26.4 per cent of the world population by then, compared with 23.4 per cent now, according to predictions by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.

Welcome To Germany Please Go Home  

 

Life Behind Bars Drives Asylum Seekers to Desperation

Seven times a day, a green-and-white bus stops on a main road near the village of Horst in the northern German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Against a backdrop of forests and fields, it discharges the newest arrivals into the country of their hopes and dreams. Women from Somalia get off the bus, along with men from Macedonia, children from Serbia and old men, some with nothing but a comb in their pockets.

They have completed long journeys, on foot, in truck beds, in inflatable boats, and on trains and airplanes. They have left behind wars, bombs and persecution. In many cases, their only reason to flee was to escape hunger. Ali Reza Samadi, from Afghanistan, got off the bus at this stop, after traveling for two years. Jamshid from Iran stood there and gazed at the camp. And for Prince from Ghana, the Germany he had arrived in wasn’t what he had expected.

The CIA In Action

First investigation into the Socialist president’s alleged suicide to be launched 37 years after he was found dead.

Chile to probe Allende’s death  

Chile is launching its first investigation into the death of President Salvador Allende, 37 years after the socialist leader was found shot through the head during an attack on the presidential palace.

Allende’s death, during the bloody US-backed coup that brought Augusto Pinochet to power on September 11, 1973, had until now been ruled a suicide.

The investigation is part of an investigation into hundreds of complaints of human rights abuses during Pinochet’s 1973-1990 rule.

Beatriz Pedrals, a prosecutor in the appellate court in Santiago, said on Thursday that she had decided to investigate 726 deaths that had never previously been explored, including Allende’s.

Look At Those Numbers I’m Famous  

Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building, officially opened in January. For building residents, the rent also buys a bit of fame.

Some Dubai residents are celebrities just because of their address

The Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building, stands beside the world’s largest fountain, and above the world’s largest mall. The glimmering glass-clad tower thins to a shining needlepoint at 828 meters (2,716 feet), effortlessly surpassing the jungle of Dubai’s skyscrapers.

The building, which officially opened in January, is already a world icon. Residency in one of the tower’s 900 apartments centers on extravagant excess. Fast-flashing lights in the trees outside give paparazzi glamour. The lobby includes a marble table, rumored to cost $2 million. Armani’s six-star hotel is also here.