Friday 12 May 1427AH

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In the name of Allah, most merciful, most gracious.

- Malaysia (SE Asia), A campaign has been launched by environment activists, to protect the Belum-Temengor forest, in North Perak state. The forest supports 274 bird speices and more than 100 mammals including the Malayan tiger and the Sumatran rhino.

- Iran (Middle East) is now enriching uranium to 4.8%, the level required for fueling nuclear reactors. That level is far below the enrichment of more than 90% that is required for making nuclear weapons.

- Ghana (West Africa), Alan Kyerematen, Ministry for trade and industry. Ghana is to develop its shipping ports over the next 5 years, to become a major transit shipping point for west Africa.

- I am painting a rally Toyota Celica gt4, ST185.

- Afghanistan (central Asia), National anti drug strategy, Appointment of new governers in poppy growing provinces, enacment of new anti drugs law, creation of anti drugs courts, alternative livelihoods programs. However drug lords have become better organised and armed, and production is expected to increase. There are 1 million Afghan refugees in Iran, and 3 million in Pakistan. Many have not returned because of the high unemployment rate.

- India (SE Asia), India space research organisation (ISRO) is to launch an unmanned mission to the moon in 2008, and will carry NASA scientifc devices to map ice deposits and mineral resources on the moon.

- Singapore (SE Asia, Island next to Malaysia) www.singaporenews.net, Singapore is to develop a new aerospace park creating 10,000 jobs. www.gov.sg, ministry for trade and industry Mr Lim Kiang, Islamic religious council of Singapore, Majlis Uyama Islam Singapore, www.muis.gov.sg. Assyafaah mosque is a new large mosque which has recently been built. Designed by Forum architects, it breaks traditions with its modernity.

- Darfur, Sudan, (NE Africa), Goverment signs peace agreemnet with main rebel group Sudan Liberation Army. Chads Foreign Minister, Ahmat Allami said, 'Chad welcomes the signing of the Abuja peace deal'

- Ethiopia (East Africa), Ethiopian roads authority announces the 120Km Delbena-Jinka road is to be upgraded to a carriage way. The contract has been won by Satcon construction and includes bridges. Ethiopia suffered a huge famine in the 1980's,and fought a border war with Eritrea in the 90's, which remains a point of issue. Interestingly Ethiopia was never colonised. Forum for Enviroment is to start a Green Award program designed to encourage individuals, and institutions, for positively influencing the environment.

- Brazil (S America), Director of Water agency, Oscar Neto, 'To ensure significant degrees of good quality water and sewerage collection, we will have to spend several million on sanitation. The level of pollution in the basins is very high these days. The intention is for the rivers to return to their former state.' Brazil transport compny America Latina Logistica, has purchased Brasil Ferrovias, in order to integrate rail shipment in the major farm commodity states. It will invest 500 million Brazil real ($240 million), in new locomotives, wagons, and rail repair.

- Burma (SE Asia), As the Burmese military goverment continues its air defenese network along the Burmese border and near the Adaman Sea, Thai officials seem keen to calm Rangoons apparent paranoia.

- Syria (Middle East), Syrian Arab News Agency, www.sana.org, PM Mohammed Ottri underlined the goverments directives to support investment in Syria. Secreatry General for Spanish Trade Ministry Alfredo Bonnet ' Cooperation between Syria and Spain will have more enhancement after signing the Syrian-European partnership agreement and establishing a free trade zone exchange between the two countries in 2010.'

- Saudia Arabian Premier League, 1st Shabab 45 pts, 2nd Hilal 45 pts, 3rd Ittihad 43 pts.

- Weather, Mexico City,Mexico (N America) 13C-26C, cloudy.

- Koran, And so we have appointed for every Prophet enemies, Shayatin (devils) among mankind and jinn, inspiring one another with adorned speech by way of deception. If Allah had so willed, they would not have done it, so leave them alone with their fabrications.

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CHAPTER 41

Friday 19 May 1427AH

bis-milla-hirra-ma-nirra-heem

In the name of Allah, most merciful, most gracious

- Pakistan (SE Asia), UNHCR and Minister for states and frontier regions, agree plan for Afghan refugees. They are to be given ID cards over the next three years.

- Somalia (East Africa), www.hornafric.com, The Islamic court union and the Alliance for the Restoration of Peace, sign a formal ceasefire. Under the ceasefire clan leaders will help the foes disengage combatants in the Sii-Sii neighbourhood of Mogadishu. 'We really hope this day will be the day that marks the start of a process for a better future, respect and peace in the city', former president Ali Mahdi. The current UN backed goverment works from Baidoa, 240km from Mogadishu, as the capital is considered unsafe.

- www.jordantimes.com, (Middle East), Jordan Upgarding and Modernisation Programme (JUMP), 9 companies have signed agreements to rationalise energy consumption. Minister for Environment Khalid Irani, Environment Police established, fielding patrols to inspect factories, industrial zones, vehicle emissions, and picnic areas. Coordination between ministries of environment, agriculture, water and irrigation.

- Iraq (Middle East), Saddam Hussain is formally charged with murder, torture and illegal arrest of 399 people. The case centres around the town of Dujail, after an attempt on Saddams life. Chief judge Raouf Rahman.

- Palestine (Middle East), President Mahmood Abbas calls for Israel to return to the negotiating table, 'I tell our neighbours, the Israelis, that we just want to make a just and lasting peace with you'

- Italy (central Europe), www.ansa.it, New PM Romano Prodi is continuing his work of putting his cabinet together, ' The goverment will be in place within ten days and will be a lasting one.'

- www.allafrica.com (green) Africa news page

- UNICEF urges sustained aid to prevent 40,000 child deaths in horn of Africa.

- Burundi (Central Africa), UNICEF, President Pierre Nkurunziza anounces free birth delivery services for pregnant women and medical care for children under 5. This is the first step in the govermnets 'Road map for reduction of neonatal and maternal mortality'. Plan aims for a 75% reduction in maternal deaths and 50% reduction in neonatal mortality by 2015.

- www.irinnews.org UN integrated regional info networks (UN news service)

- Pakistan, Survey by WHO, WFP, UNICEF, Pakistan ministry of health. Pakistan earthquake recommendations 1) targeted feeding for children, pregnant women, lactating mothers 2) improved infant feeding practices 3) better sanitation in camps.

- Portugal (West Europe), Institue for conservation of nature spieces under critical danger. Include Iberian Lynx, the mountain goat, monk seal, black vulture, and the saramunga, a freshwater fish found in the Guadiana river basin.

- France (West Europe), www.lefigaro.fr, Pres Jacques Chirac visits Eygpt at the opening of a French University, www.islamfrance.com. I notice France is supportingPres Idriss Deby in Chad. You are to assist in the building of Chad with schools, houses, electricity, water, roads etc

- Brazil (S America), One of the worlds most hunted drug traffickers, Columbian born Pablo Montano was arrested in Sao Paolo. 30 others were also arrested in aoperation involving anti drug police from 8 countries.

- Coulmbia (S America), Russiasigns a trade deal with Columbia, Russia economy minster German Gref, Columbia trade minister Jorge Botero. The deal allows Columbia easier access to Russian markets in return for Columbian products such as sugar, coffee, bananas and flowers.

- Switzerland (central Europe), Observatory of Geneva announced that they have found a new solar system containing 3 medium size planets, orbiting star HD 69830. So far upto 200 extrasolar planets have been discovered.

- 5 Sloveinian brown bears are to be released in the Pyrenees mountains (France) to help establish a larger breeding population.

- www.news.nationalgeographic.com

- Fernando Alonso, Renault Formula 1, wins the Barcelona, Spanish grand prix.

- weather, Lusaka, Zambia (central Africa) 14-27C, Sunny

- Koran, had we sent down this Koran on a mountain, you would surely have seen it humbling itself and rent assunder by the fear of Allah. Such are the parables which we put forward to mankind that thay may reflect.

- Koran, And those who have been given knowledge see that what is revealed to you from Allah is the truth, and that it guides to the path of the Exalted in might, owner of all praise.

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CHAPTER 42

Friday 26 May 1427 AH

bis-milla-hirra-ma-nirra-heem

In the name of Allah, most merciful, most gracious

- DR Congo (Central Africa) UN is taking its largest electoral operation to support the first elections in 45 years. 26 million people have been registered, 33 candidates for presidential ballot, 9650 candidates vying for 500 seats in National Assembly. 53,000 voting stations will be set up.

- Russia (Eurasia) www.moscowtimes.ru Finance minister Alexei Kudrin 'We have accumulated the necessary potential to be considered a country with a fully stable currency' (ruble). The state bank has ratified an agreement to form a Eurasian bank for development to finance large projects (energy, transport, manufacturing) in Kazakhstan and Russia. Eurasian Economic Community, Eurasec, (Belarus, Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikstan, Uzbekistan)

- Isreal (Middle East), newsaper www.haarezt.com, Sindianat Hagalil organisation, comprising of Israeli and Arab women students. Participating in a course of raising bees and making honey. New PM of Israel Ehud Olmert (Arial Sharon suffered a stroke although completed the Israeli pullout of the Gaza strip).

- Pakistan football federation, www.pff.com.pk

- India (S Asia), New Dehli, Junta Dal President Sharad Yadav saysold colleges should be upgraded and expanded to make higher education easily available to poor students.www.indianunionmuslimleague.com

- Bangladesh (SE Asia) www.bangladesh-web.com, PM Khaleda Zia (female) inaugurates a new submarine communications cable. SAARC South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka), environment ministers to meet in Dhaka, promoting 'Green South Asia 20070, including forest management and cleaning of rivers.

- Central African Republic, 3000 people took to the streets of Bangui in protest against escalating violence in the North West. 70,000 civillians have been displaced. Increased funding is required for all UN organisations and aid agencies working in the area.

- WHO, World Health organisation, Approximately 1 billion people suffer from a negelcted tropical disease. For a large group of these diseases inexpensive or donated drugs can prevent and control the disease, especially when used on a large scale.

- Ethiopia (East Africa), The 12 year trial of former President Mengistu Mariam and 40 of his associates comes to a close. Mengistu currently lives in Zimbabwe, but is on charges of genocide during his 17 years in power.

- Sudan (East Africa) Koffi Annan (Sec gen UN), 'Civillians in Darfur continue to suffer the consequences of persistent violence and insecurity. I therefore repeat my urgent appeal for the international community to continue supporting the humanitarian effort for Darfur in this critical phase.'

- Sudan, President Bill Clinton, US attack on August 20, 1998. Missile attack on $100 million El Shifa pharmaceutical factory producing medecines for Sudan. Number of casualtiesunknown. The factory produced 90% of Sudans medecines. International Action Centre sent a fact findinggroup led by former US attorney Ramsy Clark to investigate. Clark reported the bombing of the plant was purely political and there was no evidence of nerve gas production.

- International Progress Organisation, Vienna,August25, 1998. The US missile factory near Khartoum constituted a clear cut act of Agression and a violation ofarticle 2 of the UN charter which prohibits use of force in international relations. Sudan has not comitted any act of armed aggressionagainst the US.

- By order of theHussain Caliphate, Ex President of the USA, Bill Clinton, you are hereby sentenced to 20 years in prison.

- Iraq (Middle East) Intelligence services I would like to know why you have not found Abu musab al zarqawi.

- China (Asia), 100 Siberian tigers are expected to be born this year, at the Manchurian Tiger Park in the city of Habin. NE China, General Manager Wang Ligang.

- Venezuala (S America) is building two new thermoelectric plants at a cost of $450 million. (300MW and 450MW). 70% of Venezualas energy comes from Hydroelectric power from the Caroni river, but it has growing energy needs.

- Mexico (N America) www.mexonline.com, Artists of the Mexican National Song and Dance ensemble dance on the Zhongguloucultural square in Beijing, China. The activity was part of the 'Meet in Beijing' arts festival which attracted over 150 groups from all over the world.

- Qatar (Middle East) www.thepeninsulaqatar.com, Japan FM Taro Aso and S Korea FM Ban Ki Moon, meet in Qatar to hold talks over a string of disputed islets.

- The international thermonuclear experimental reactor (ITER) is to be built in Cadarche France, with Rokkasho Japan undertaking materails testing and research work. A 500 MW tokomak fusion reactor will bebuilt. Scitists hope to learn enough to produce plants thatcan produce gigawatts.

- www.earthquakepakistan.comofficial goverment website for reconstruction and rehabilitation. Relief workis now completed, with reconstruction the next phase. roads cleared 95%, water supply 75%, electricty70%, telecoms 96%, shelter 96%, 64 field hospitals,1 million tents.

- Koran, It is Allah who shows you lightning as a fear and as a hope, And it is he whobrings up the clouds, heavy with water.

- Koran, And thunder glorifies and praises him, and so do the angels because of his awe, He sends thunderbolts and therewith strikes whom he wills, yet they dispute with Allah. And he is mighty in strength and severe in punishment.

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CHAPTER 43

Friday 2 June 1427AH

bis-milla-hirra-ma-nirra-heem

In the name of Allah, most gracious, most merciful

- Sri Lanka (Indian Ocean), Norway international development minister visits Pres Mahinda Rajapakse. Norway arranged a truce between Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelan and Columbo goverment in Feb 2002.

- Sudan (East Africa), Following discussions with Pres Omar Bashir and UN envoy Lakhdar Brahini 'Joint mission of the UN and AU will start with detailed and wide ranging consultations in Khartoum'. It will then proceed to Darfur to assess the needs of AMIS, followed by requirements of the UN.

- Chad (East Africa), Human Rights Watch reports that border violence with Chad is increasing, with militia from Sudan attacking villages in Chad. Peter Takirambudder, African director HRW ' Sudanese militiamen are moving further and further into Chad and are looting and killing Chadian villagers'

- Sudan goverment, your country is home to the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. It is now destabilising Chad. It is time that you took these problems very seriously, and stop obstructing well intentioned efforts to relief this crisis. It has been going on for 2 years now, 100,00's have died and you still fail to acknowledgethe problems in your country.

- Ivory Coast (West Africa), UN condemns the continued violence against civillians. Currently 10,000 UN and French troops patrolling North (rebel held) and South (Goverment) divide. PM Charles Banny. Elections scheduled for Oct 31st. Pilot scheme for ID cards begins, national roll out next month. Currently 3 million Ivorians without ID who therefore cannot yet vote. Disarmament program also planned for demobilised fighters.

- Norway (Northern Europe), www.norwaypost.no, Aker Kvaerner has signed a contract with Jurong shipyard Singapore for manufacture of an ultra deep water drilling system. A Norwegian opera is tour S America, www.islam.no.

- Brazil (S America), www.anba.com.br Brazil Arab news agency, Music from Brazil Project. Aims to promote brazilian music around the world. Next fair will be in Berlin.Musicians include Yamandu Costa, Robertinho Silva and Armandinho.

- www.brazilmag.com, Ministers of Justices of Brazil Marcio Bastos and Spain Juan Aguilo sign an agreement establishing cooperation and legal assistance in the fight against organised crime.

- Portuguese speaking nations, (Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, Mozambique, Brazil, Sao Tome, East Timor) are discussing a cooperation platform on theenvironment including items of education, biodiversity, desertification and marine management.

- Correction, Russian currency is the Rouble.

-Burundi (Central Africa), Peace talks between the goverment of Burundi and rebel group Forces Nationales de Liberation (FNL) begin in Dar es Salam, Tanzania.'Today is the oppurtunity for us to effect a new hopeful and inclusive dispensation in Burundi', Tanzania Pres Jakaya Kikwete.

-Indonesia (SE Asia), Earthquakein Yogyarkarta and central Java, kills 6000, homeless 200,000. www.jarkatapost.com, Indonesia and China sign an agreemnet to fight money laundering, in association with Financial Action Task Force, Paris based anti money laundering organisation.

- Australia (SE Asia), www.theage.com.au, Victoria state budget unveils huge infrastructure investment program.

- Ariane 5 (European Space Agency) heavy lift rocket put 2 telecommunication satellites into orbit for Mexico and Thailand.

- India (Asia), Report Maharaj Pandit, University of Dehli, Journal, Biodiversity and conservation, Massive unreported deforestation in Himalaya mountain forest threatens loss of unique biodiversity.The hoolock gibbon, musk deer andHimalayan monal pheasant aremost at risk.

- Zimbabawe (Southern Africa), Amnesty International releases satellite images of the home clearance of Porta farm settlement that was home to 10,000 people. ' These images are a graphic indicment of the Zimbabwe goverment policies. They show a horrifying tansition of an area from a vibrant community to rubble and shrubs' Amnesty Africa director Kolawole Olaniyan. Inflation is now at 1400%, and 90% of the population are below the poverty line. By order of the Hussain Caliphate, Robert Mugabe you are hereby sentenced to 20 years in prison.

- Somalia (East Africa), Heavy fighting spreads around Mogadishu. The international community is urged to support the Somali goverment, and are reminded that there is a UN weapons embargo in Somalia.

- East Africa, Lake Victoria environment management project, www.lvemp.org

- Nasser al Attiyah (Qatar / Subaru) wins the Jordanian rally.

- Weather, Cairo, Eygpt (North Africa), 24C-36C, Sunny.

- Koran, And when we let mankind taste mercy after some adveristy has afflicted them, behold. They take to plottingagainst our ayat (proofs, verses). Say ' Allah is more swift in planning'. Certainlyour messengers record all of that which you plot.

- Koran, Allah it is he who enables you to travel through land and sea, till when you are in the ships and they sail with them a favourable wind and they are glad therein, then comes a stormy wind and the waves come to them from all sides and they think that they are encircled therein. Then they invoke Allah, making there faith pure for him alone, saying 'If you Allah, deliver us from this, we shall truly be of the grateful'

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CHAPTER 44

Friday 30 June 1427AH

bis-milla-hirra-ma-nirra-heem

In the name of Allah, most merciful, most gracious.

- Sweden (North Europe), Swedish lawmakers have approved a law that makes it possible to imprison former Liberian (West Africa) Pres Charles Taylor in Sweden. The agreement is with Sierra Leone. The case may now be moved to the International Criminal Court in the Netherlands (Western Europe). Taylor faces 11 counts of war crimes.

- Correction, KCRally 43, www.brazzilmag.com (double z)

- Correction, KCRally 42, International Progress Organisation, Vienna Aug 25 1998. The US missile attack on the pharmacutical factory near Khartoum constituted a clear cut act of aggression.

- Iraq (Middle East), Abu Musab al Zarqawi is killed in the town of Baquba by a US air strike. Information was provided with the help of Jordanian intelligence agents. New PM of Iraq, Nouri al Maliki, 'Those who disrupt the course of life, will havea tragic end'. Al Zarqawi was wanted for a series of attacks on civillians in Iraq. Seven insurgent organisations have backed PM Malikis reconciliation proposal. Sunni Cleric Ahmed Samaraie offered the support of the sunni endowment, the state agency responsible for sunni mosques.

- Somalia (East Africa), Council of Islamic Courts Union takes control of Mogadishu ending weeks of fighting. PM Ali Gedi told journalists in Baidoa that residents require food, medecine and shelter. And he called for international mediation to bring peace to Somalias capital. The Islamic court sign a peace agreement with the govermentof Somalia in Khartoum. Leader of Islamic courts Sheikh Shariff Ahmed.

- DR Congo (Central Africa), www.digitalcongo.net. Vice President Yerodia Ndombasi inaugurates a new hospital built with China in the town of Ndjili. 'Belgium Technical cooperation' is to help with thereform of the Ministry of Finances. Tracks were discovered of the rare Okapi, which resembles a cross between a giraffe and a zebra. It is only found in secluded forest of east Congo. Institute Congolaise pour la conservation de la Nature.

- Mens Tennis, French Open Final. Rafael Nadal (Spain) ends Roger Federers (Swiss), 27 match wining streak, wining the French Open Final. Nadal is the first player to beat Federer in a grand slam final.

- Malaysia (SE Asia), A motion triggered camera has captured the first photo of a Sumatran rhino in the wild on the Island of Borneo. www.wwfmalaysia.org. Other threatened wildlife in Borneo include the clouded leopard and sun bears.

- Hong Kong (Island, SE Asia), www.thestandard.com.hk CNOOC, Chinas largest offshore oil producer and its partner Husky Energy have discovered a deepwater gas field 250km off the coast of Hing Kong. www.islam.org.hk

- Nepal (Central Asia), King Gyanendra surrenders his powers and reinstates parliament after weeks of pro-democracy protests. Peace deal signed between PM Girya Koirala and Maoist rebel cheif Prachanda.

- Brazil (S America), National Strategic plan for protected areas is to formulate strategies aimed at protecting lands belonging to indigenous Indians anddescendants of runaway slaves (quilombolas). 4% of Brazils population is of African origin. Population 160 million.

- Argentina (S America), Argentinas film festival is taking place. Film directors include Danial Burman (Derecho de familia), Marcelo Pineyro (Burnt Money),Fabian Bielinsky (Nine Queens).

- Canada (N America), www.the globeand mail.com, Manitoba First Nation natives of Canada areplaning to block the Canadian National railway for 24hrs. The protest is because of land rights. Cheif Terry Nelson ' First Nations are tired. The 6000 land claims that are in limbo across the country need to be addressed '.

- Nuclear Power, Pakistan is planning 2 x 300 MW power stations with China. Turkey is building three nuclear power plants by 2015. Turkey has signed the Nuclear non proliferation treaty and agreements with the intenational atomic energy agency. USA is building upto 20 new plants, partners include Toshiba and Hitachi. Britain is planning several new stations with France. Austalia is also planning new nuclear stations.

- Wave Power, Renewable energy from the sea, eg www.oceanpd.com (ocean power delivery), www.wavegen.co.uk. A wave farm is bieng built in Portugal. 1 square km can generate upto 30 MW.

- Italy (central Europe), Italy votes on a referendum for constitutional changes. The reforms are intended to speed up approval of legislation in parliament, strenghtening the premiers powers,while transferring some authority away from Rome to the countrys regions. The changes would alter 50 of 139 articles in the constitution.

- Mauritiana (NW Africa) votes on a referendum which limits future presidents to two five year terms. It is seen as a first step to a return to civillian rule by current Pres Colonel Ely Mohammed Vall. Col Vall came to power after an Aug 3 coup, welcomed by most, ending the repressive 21 year rule of ex Pres Maaoya Taya.

-Russian cargo ship, progress supply ship, atop Soyuz booster, lifts off from Baikonor Cosmodrone space port, Kazakhstan. The cargo is expected for docking with the International space centre. Space shuttle discovery prepares for launch.

- Weather 20-25 C Rio de Janeiro, Cloudy

- Ethiopia (East Africa), President Girma Woldegiorgis says bilateral ties with Yemen (Middle East)should be enhanced. Chinese firm CGC Overseas construction signed an agreement with Ethiopian roads authority for construction of 2 new roads.Cost 839 million birr.

- www.navajo.org Tribe. Native north american indians. The navajo nation small business awards ceremony was recently held. Australias indiginous aborigine leaders visit Navajo Nation.

- www.cccturtle.org Caribbean conservation corp and sea turtle survival league. Jamaica muslim centre inc, www.jmci.org

- Somaliland (East Africa), Separate country to Somalia, population 3.5 million. Peaceful and stable democracy. Functioning goverment and judiciary. Pres Dahir Kayin. Business delegation headed by Mr Gamini Herman (chairman of peace shipping lines, UAE) visit somaliland to discuss development of Berbera Port. www.somalilandgov.com

- Spain (western europe), www.barcelonareporter.com, Air Iberia is to spend 30m euros on a maintenance hanger at Barcelona airport, www.islamhispania.org.es

- Madagascar (Large Island of coast of East Africa). Prs Marc Ravalomanana. www.wildmadagascar.org Home to unique and diverse wildlife, 12000 pkant speices, 258 bird speices, unique lemurs.

- USA (N America), Colorado state, www.denverpost.com Mayor John Hickenlooper and city auditor Dennis Gallagher are headed for a showdown over a possible overhaul of the citys financial structure. www.denverbroncos.com American football team, www.ppihc.com Pikespeak international hill climb, 'Race to the clouds', 12.4 mile motorsport track to the 14,000 ft summit of Pikespeak, 156 corners. www.denvermosque.org, Colorado muslim society.

- Israel (Middle East) invades Gaza, destroying its power station, 3 bridges, and buildings. It also invades Syrian air space. PM Ehud Olmert you have demostrated you are a man of violence. You have set back middles east peace process 10 years. By order of the Hussain Caliphate you are sentenced to 30 years imprisonment.

- Book, Historical Atlas of the Islamic World, Author David Nicolle. Publisher Mercury Books, London. ISBN 1-904668-17-8. Printed Sun Fung Offset Binding Co Ltd, China.

- I am painting Faisal Mosque of Islamabad, Pakistan, built in 1965. Its minarets reminds one of space rockets and the sweeping roofs designed to looklike a tent can accomodate 15,000 people. Designed by Turkish architect Vadat Dalokay. The complex also houses an Islamic research centre, a university, a library, and a museum.

- Koran, Indeed we have sent our messengers with clear proofs, and revealed with them the scripture and the balance that mankind may keep up justice. And we brought forth iron wherein is mighty power, as well as many benefits for mankind, that Allah may test who it is that will help him and his messengers in the unseen. Verilly Allah is all strong, all mighty.

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CHAPTER 45

Friday 7 September 1427AH

Bis-milla-hirra-ma-nirra-heem

In the name of Allah, most merciful, most gracious.

- Haiti's (Carribean) President Rene Preval rejoins the carribbean community, Caricom. Former Pres Jean Aristide fled in 2004 after a bloody revolt.

- Uganda (East Africa) begins peace talks with LRA rebels in Northern Uganda. The delegation is led by internal Affairs min Ruhakana Rugunda. The talks are expected to be held in sounthern Sudan. Spokesman for the delgation Robert Kabushenga has said there will be no talks with those indicted by the International Criminal Court which includes Joseph Kony and four of his commanders who are wanted for crimes against humanity.

- Lebanon (Middle East). UN interim force in Lebanon UNIFIL reports Israeli aircraft persistently violated the border between Israel and Lebanon. San Francisco chronicle reports Israel had been planning an invasion for several years. Amnesty reports Israel deliberately targeted civilian targets. 'The evidence strongly suggests that the extensive destruction of public works, civilian homes and industry was deliberate.' 1100 people were killed and more than 4000 injured.

- By order of the Hussain Caliphate, Ehud Olmert your prison sentence is increased to 150 years.

- Book, The worlds navies, Illustrated review of the navies of the world. Author David Miller, Publishers Crescent Books/ Saamander NewYork. Printed in Spain, ISBN-0-517-05241-5, 1992 Edition.

- Koran, And the cattle,Allah has created them for you, in them is warm clothing and numerous benefits, and of them you can eat.

- Koran, And Allah has created horses,mules and donkeys, for you to ride, and as an adornment. And creates things of which you have no knolwedge.

- Koran,Allah has promised the belivers - men and women - Gardens under which rivers flow to dwell therein forever and beautiful mansions in the garden of Eden. But the greatest bliss is the good pleasure of Allah. That is the supreme success.

- Womens magazines eg Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Asian Woman.

- Always Forward, Motorsport Logistics company.

- Uruguay (South America) Police arrest 27 people suspected of trafficing cocaine. Anti-narcotics brigade director Julio Guarteche said more raids were possible ' This has just begun '.

- Kenya Representative to the UN, Judith Bahemuka. Spain Representative to the UN, Juan Barnuevo. Saudi representaive to the UN Fawzi Shubukshi.

- Saudia (middle east). A painting competition is being organised for students of Indian schools in Saudia, Riyad Indian freindship Association.

- Pakistan (SE Asia), Goverment makes slow progress on its Women Protection Bill, in consulting with the MMA (Muttahida Majilis-i-Amali) party. Also an implentation agreement is signed with the Orient Power compnay for setting up a 225MW thermal power plant ($170million).

- Brazil (South America). WHO publishes report, 46 million people have no access to basic sanitation (2.6 billion worldwide). Although 80% of Brazils population has running water. Lack of sanitation causes outbreaks of typhoid, cholera and dysentry, and children are particularly at risk. Six musicians from the SE staet of Minas Gerais are releasing a CD mixed with Eygptian music. Groups director Marcelo Angusta.

- Mercosur trade, Brazil and Argentina agree to trade in their own currencies (reals and pesos).

- Spain (Western Europe), Dubai and Barcelona become twin cities. Hussein Lootah, Director General of Dubai municiplaity, Spanish Ambassodor to UAE Manuael Beneiro.

- Somalia (East Africa) UN chartered ship carrying World Food Programme and UNICEF supplies docks in Mogadishu. The ship is the fourth to anchor at Mogadishu since it was opened onAugust 24th.

- Sudan (East Africa), China calls for negotiations on the deterioating situation in Darfur. ' China hopes the parties concerned would resolve the Darfur issue at an early date.' China Vice Pres Zeng Qinghong.

- Afghanistan (central Asia) approves its first national budget, $800 million.

- Italia (central Europe) wins the football world cup. Italia Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema told reporters that ' A solution must be found on a political level and through negotiations, regarding Irans nuclear standoff'.

- South Africa, www.dispatch.co.za, Former deputy president Jacob Zumas trial on corruption charges begins, www.radioislam.org.za MW 1548.

- Sweden, www.thelocal.se, Swedish Energy company E.ON Nordic is taking part in a project to build a new nuclear plant ($400 million euros) in Lithuania. www.volvo.com (trucks, buses, construction, marine, aero), www.islam.se, www.islamsweden.org.

- Chad (North Africa), About 100 slaughtered elephants were discovered outside Chads Zakouma National Park. One of the last strongholds for elephants in North Africa. Mike Fays team (wildlife conservationist with Nat Geo) is working with the chadian goveremnt and the Eu and has suceeded in highlighting a major poaching problem.

- Next round ofthe World Rally Championship to be heldin Cyprus. Sebastian Loeb (citroen)wins Japan rally, Marcus Gronholm (Ford) second.

- Yorkshire, Britain (Western Europe), yorkshire post, www.ypn.co.uk, Number of people killed or seriously hurt on roads in South yorkshire have fallen to 292 in the first half of 2006. www.ybs.co.uk, yorkshire building society (mortgages, insurance, savings, credit cards), www.yorkshireccc.org.uk, county cricket club, www.leedsunited.com, www.rallyyorkshire.co.uk, www.westyorkshire.police.uk, www.leedsnewmuslims.org.uk, www.leedsgrandmosque.com.

- www.greenflag.co.uk green flag motoring assistance.

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CHAPTER 46

Friday 18 November 1427 AH

bis-milla-hirra-ma-nirra-heem

In the name of Allah, most merciful, most gracious.

- Pakistan radio station Hum FM 106.2, www.humfm.com

- B.U.M. equipment clothing, www.bumequipment.com

- Bahrain (MiddleEast), Lateefa al Geood wins a seat as the first women to become an elected memberof Bahrains parliament.

- Tennis, David Nalbadian (Argentina) beat Marat Safin (Russia) in the Madrid masters quater final.

- www.islaminafrica.org

- Cycling, Tour de Pakistan, 22 stages, 2200km. Begins in Quetta ends in Peshawar. www.letour.fr

- California (USA, North America). www.lalma.org Los Angeles Latino Muslim association, Ibn Yaymia Mosque, www.noila.org Nation of Islam Muhammed mosque no.27, Governer of California Arnold Swarzenegger, Baseball team LA dogers, www.dodgers.com.

- www.fiba.com International basketball federation. Next world championship to be held in Turkey.

- By order of the Hussain Caliphate. Halal Food. Hallal food is meat that has been slaughtered in the name of Allah. Non hallah food can be made halal by saying bis-millah before you eat it. Before you slaughter an animal or a herd of animals you should say bis-millah. Or you can employ an iman to work at a meat factory, abbatoir. Animals should be slaughtered in the most modern and hygenic way. Vets should check that this is the case.

- Rough guide to Islam, To begin your prayers say bis-millah, and then allah-hu-akbar (Allah is the greatest) 4 times.

- By order of the Hussain Caliphate. Friday and Saturday are holidays, which makes Sunday the first day of the working week.

- By order of the Hussain Caliphate. The kabba in Mecca should be covered in different colour cloths and designs every year in celebration of Islam.

- www.iaaf.org, International association of atheletics federation. Organisers of world atheletics championships.

-www.wymas.co.uk West Yorkshire metropolitan ambulance service.

- www.westyorksfire.gov.uk West Yorkshire fire and rescue service.

- Huddersfield weather, 9C light drizzle / windy.

- Natinal parks, www.nationalparks.org, www.yosemitepark.com

- Archery, International archery federation, FITA, www.archery.org, Meteksan archery world cup final held at Mayapan Pyramids, Yucutan Mexico, Oct 22 2006. Individual compound women 1/2 first match won by Sofia Goncharova (Russia)

- Fencing (Sword fighting), 2006 Sabre Womens world fencing championships won by Rebbeca Ward (USA)

- Sailing, www.teamellen.com, Ellen Macarthur (UK) who set the world record for sailing solo around the world.

- By order of the Hussain Caliphate my wife, Raana Tabassum is Queen Tabassum of Italia.

- Order of the muslim empire is awarded to Tamiya models (Japan), the city of Kuala Lumpa (Malaysia), the city of Mombasa (Kenya) and Embraer aircraft (Brazil).

- Music,Hadiqa Kiani Pakistan female pop, musician. Shafqat Amanat Ali,Musicianwho combines classical with modern music. Ultravox (Album The collection), Bob Marley (legend), Bruce Springsteen (tunnel of love)

- www.wfp.org World food program.

- Light a million candles, www.lightamillioncandles.com for victims of internet child abuse

- www.nspcc.org.uk National society of protection of cruelty to children.

- New Zealand Islam, www.islam.org.nz

- New UN Secretary General Ban ki Moon (South Korea)

- Rwanda (central Africa), population 8 million, 60% of schools now have IT access and Rwanda is on the way to becoming an IT centre of Africa. The nation is still recovering from the 1994 genocide which killed 800,000

- Madagascar (East Africa), Madagascar prepares for elections in December. 'It is really important for Madagascar to organise transparent and fair elections, and the interantional community is supporting the electoral process.' Bouri Sanhouidi UN resident coordinator.

- DR Congo (Central Africa), Joseph Kabila wins the elctions in DR Congo with 58% of the votes. Under Congolese Law the results must be certified by the Supreme court. The results were broadcast by national TV and radio Okapi.

- Fishing, www.fishingworld.net

- Sealey tools www.sealey.co.uk

- Bridgestone Tyres www.bridgestone.com

- Muslim holidays. There are two main holidays. Eid-ul-fitr is celebrated after Ramadaan (The period of fasting when the Koran was revealed). Eid-ul-azha, after the pilgrimage of Haj to Mecca, to comemerate the Prophet Ibrahim (Abraham). The greeting of Eid-mubarak is said (Eid greetings).

-Hobby, www.hobbycraft.com

- www.noterror.info which also applies to various news groups and goverments.

- Art shop, www.caldergraphics.com

- Poland, www.islam-in-poland.org, www.planetaislam.org

- Holland, Pengajian Pelajar Muslim Rotterdam, www.ppmr.org

- Koran, And their prophet Samuel said to them, 'Indeed Allah has appointed Talut (Saul) as a king over you'. They said ' How can he be a king when we are fitter than him for the kingdom, and he has not been given enough wealth'. He said, ' Verily, Allah has chosen him above you and has increased him abundantly in knowledge and stature. And Allah grants his kingdom to whom he wills. And Allah is all sufficient for his creatures needs. All knower.'

- Koran, O mnakind a similtude has been coined so listen to it carefully. Verily those on whom you call besides Allah, cannot create even a fly even though they combine together for the purpose. And if the fly snatches away a thing from them they will have no power to release it from the fly. So weak are both the seeker and the saught.

- Brazils' flag consists of a blue disc on a yellow diamond, on a green background. The blue disc represents the sky over Rio de Janeiro on the night of independence (1882). There are 27 stars, one for the capital and one for each state. The motto, Order and Progress is on the disc. The yellow stands for Brazils gold and mineral wealth, while the green represents the rainforests.

- Space, The Cassini spacecraft has filmed a huge storm, 2/3 the size of earth, developing on the planet Saturn. It swirls with 500km winds and has a remarkebly well defined eye.

- Wild life, 21 Iguaca Parrots raised in captivity, will be released in the Rio Abajo forest in central Puerto Rico. The parrots are bright green, with a red forehead and wings that flash turqoise in flight.

- www.asiatic-black-bears.com, www.wildlifeofpakistan.com

- Book, Hydraulics and Pneumatics, a Technicians and engineers guide. Author Andrew Parr. Publiher Elsevier Butterworth Heinemann, Oxford. Printed by Biddles Ltd

- www.bookaid.org

- Koran, And because of their saying 'We killed Messiah, Isa (Jesus), son of Maryam (Mary), the messenger of Allah',but they killed him not, nor crucified him, but it appeared so to them, and those who differ therein are full of doubts. They have no knowledge, they follow nothing but conjecture. For surely they killed him not.

- Fiji, Oceana, Fiji muslim league

- India Football, www.the-aiff.com, All India football federation, www.indianfootball.com

- India Tennis, www.aitennis.com, all India tennis assocaition, www.tennisindia.org

- Pakistan Tennis Federation.

- Indonesia, www.indonesiainfrastructure.com. Conference, exhibition of infrastructure development of Indonesia.

- Plant millions of trees, www.tree-planting.com

- Cant get a date. Want to get married. Join a dating agency, or a marriage bureau. More reliable, cheaper and safer than your local nightclub. Arrange a cup of coffee. www.muslimmatch.com

- Amazon internet store. An excelent placeto by books and you can buy a copy of the Koran. All book shops should carry copies of the koran, translations. If you cannot find a book on Islam, then start with a travel guide to a muslim country. Or check encyclopedias, internet and write your own book. There are many books on Islam, however they have as yet not reached a wider audience in some countries.

- Prisons. All prisons should be run correctly. federal bureau of prisons, www.bop.gov.

- Book, Language in Use, Teach youselve Spanish, Author Vijaya Venkaturaman, Roser Noguera . Sterling Publishers, New Dehli, Printers Shagun Offset, New Dehli.

- Somalia (East Africa), Islamic courts union sign an agreement with memebers of parliament to continue negotiations. Points agreed on include to continue the Khartoum peace talks under the Arab league chaired by the Sudan goverment.

- Sudan, The African Union urged conflicting parties in darfur to stop confrontations. 'I call on all parties to comit themselves to the ceasefire and refrain from doing anything that endangers the Darfur peace agrrement.' Saeed Djinnit, AU commisioner for peace and security.

- Greece Muslim federation, Filotita.

- Noam Chomski - Professor of Philosophy, Pervaiz Elahi - Cheif minister of Punjab, Tamo Mbeki - Presidentof South Africa, Nadia Khan - chat show host, Jennifer Lopez - actress /musician, Sifu Sid Sofos - wing chun (kung fu) instructor, Didier drogba - Ivory coast football player, Ronaldo Nazario de Lima - Brazil football player.

- Austria muslim news, www.al-asr.net

- wikipedia, on line encyclopedia

- Womens tennis, Justine Henine Hardenne (Belgium) beat Amelie Mauresmo (France) in the WTA championship finals.

- Washington dc (USA, North America), The islamic centre of DC , www.theislamiccenter.com

- New York (USA, North America), www.newyorkmuslims.com

- Iraq (Middle East). An international trade fair has been launched in the Kurdish city of Sulaimaniya, with 10 countries and scores of companies participating. Meanwhile thousands of victims of US attacks on Iraqi cities, towns and villages are furious because they have so far received nothing for the destruction of houses, property and killing and wounding of relatives.

- www.greenschools.net

- www.buildinggreen.com Note all types of modern energy production are green, from wave power to coal, from atomic to solar.

- www.thefridaytimes.com

- GAMCO Gulf air maintenance company

- Prophet Muhammed was born on Aug 20, 570. His parents died at an early age and he was brought up by different members of the family. When he was 25 he married and became a merchant. However Muhammed seeked solitude in the desert where he could think in peace. There was a cave on the slopes of Mount Hira outside Mecca and here Muhammed had his first vision. The angelGabriel appeared over aperiod of time and the Koran was revealed. Muhammed moved to the town of Medina where Islam was established and the start of the Islamic calender begins (622). Mecca became muslim in 630, when the kabba was reclaimed. The prophet Muhammed is considered the last prophet, the seal of prophets.

- Book, The Noble Quran, in the English language.Dr Muhammed Muhsin Khan, Dr Muhammed Al Hilahi. Publishers Darussalam books, Saudi. www.dar-us-salam.com.

- The Koran remains unchanged in its original arabic form.

- Book, Islamic contributions to Science, Author Bakhitar Rahman, Pub RICOI (research and information centre on Islam), Malaysia. There were many early pioneers of science from the muslim world and much of there work was translated and released in Europe in the middle ages.

- Early muslim scientists, Jaber ibn Haiyan (Chemist), Ali Rabban Tabari (Medecine), Abu Muhammed Biruni (Geology), Omar Khayyam (geometry, algebra), Nur al Bitriyi (astronomy), Nasir al Tusi (Physics), Abu al Haitham (optics).

- Lebanon (Middle East) www.dailystar.com.lb

- Farming, www.farm.org.uk, www.agweb.com

- Democracy, www.csidonline.org Centre for the study of Islam and democracy.

- Brazil (south America), Metropolitan company of urban transportSao Paolo have launched a hydrogen cell powered bus. Brazilian agricultural research corporation (Embrapa) is testing the cultivation of Morrocon olive trees in semi arid areas.

- Spain (western Europe), Spains GDP picks up to 3.8% in third quarter on the back of construction and domestic consumption as well as an improvement in th export sector. Economy minister Solbes.

- Saudia (middle east). Water road show touring Saudia. Water minister Abdullah al Hussayen admits Jeddah needs more water. The water pipe sytems are only 15 years old, but consumption of water is to high. The alwasia aquifier supplies Riyad with ground water of 200,000cubic metres a day. 'There is plenty of ground water if properly managed.'

- Yorkshire (UK, western Europe), Leeds based Asda supermarkets celebrated a reversal in fortunes as it acheived plans for sales and restructuring. Yorkshire based Q hotels doubles its portfolio with the 180 million pound acquisition of Marston hotels.

- Italia (central Europe). The Italian goverment pursued its goal of consolidating political and economic ties between Rome and China with a high profile visit by Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema. ' The freindship between Italy and China is a very important strategic decision.' D'Alema met PM Wen Jiabao and FM Li Znaoxing.

- Pakistan (SE Asia), Womens rights protection bill is passed through the National Assembly. Russia FM sergei Lavrov will be visiting Pakistan, and Russia will be looking at cooperation in areas such as energy, railways and IT. Russia gas company Gazprom.

- India (SE Asia), New Dehli hosts the India international trade fair. The China stand consists of 300 particpants focusing on playing a bigger role on Indias infrastructure. 'We are looking at providing technical services for setting blast furnaces and iron making facilitis in India'. Ruixiong Zhao, senior engineer, China Metallurgical group corporation.

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CHAPTER 47

Friday, 13th, July, 1428AH

Tunisia - Tunisie profiles aluminium aims to raise 20 million dinars by floating 16% of its capital on the local stock market. The proceeds will be used to finance an expansion involving new manufacturing units in Algeria and Libya.

Italy - A new bridge is being built in Venice designed by spanish architect Santiago Calatrava. The bridge will link the railway station to a car park over the canal grande.

Brazil - Brazil is planning 2 new hydro electric dams on the Madeira river and a third nuclear power station. The brazil electric energy agency estimates the country needs to increase generating capacity by 3100 MW anually to sustain economic growth.

Indonesia - Dancers from tokyos store house company perform shingo kinuwara's theatre dance 'remains' at the surabaya dance festival.

The rally russia is underway with anton allen, fiat abarth, leading, irc series.

Syria - A French-syrian archeological mission working in Manbej on the bank of theriver euphrates has discovered a sculpture of an ox head in red, black and white colours dating back to the 9th century BC.

Europeanunion and the united nations are discusing sending a peace keeping force to Chad and Central african republic to help those affected by thespillover in Darfur, Sudan. UN peace keeping chief Jean marie Guehenno.

A rare squid was sucked up a 900 metre deep pipeline at the natural energy laboratory in Hawai. The squid belongs to a speices so rare it has yet to be named. Little is known about many speices discovered in the depths of the ocean which remain largley unexplored.

The European apace agency prepares the Jules Verne, automated transfer vehicle for shipment to the space port Kourou in french guiana. The unmanned vehicle will be used to ferry cargo to the international space station.

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CHAPTER 48

Friday, 7th, Sept, 1428AH (issued every8 weeks)

- Algeria is building a hybrid sun gas plant which will generate 25MW from parabolic mirrors. It will be the size of 45 football fields. The technology used is called concentrating solar power CSP where sunlight heats a fluid to drive a turbine. Algeria NEAL (New energy Algeria) and Spain Abener are the main companies involved.

- Voyager 1 and 2 cross into interstellar space, 5 scientific instruments are still working on board the spacecraft.

- Elections in Greece in september. Greece is heavily investing in solar and wind energy to meet european target of 20% renewable energy.

- Koran, O you who believe, when the call is proclaimed for salat (paryer, preghiera) on jummah (friday, venerdi), come to the remembrance of Allah and leave of business. That is better for you if you did but know.

- Uganda, work begins on the $800 million Bujagali hydro dam, which will generate 250MW. Companies are Veidekke and skanska international civil engineering (norway), alstom (france), GE (usa) and ABB (swiss). The dam is the first in a series of 5 dams that will provide power to the whole region.

- Iran aircraft manufacturing industrial company, manufacture of Azarakhsh (lightning), and Sa'eqeh (iranian lion F/B-44). Based on F-5 tiger. Also Shafaq trainer. Aviation university complex, Malek Ashtar university of technology

- www.embitaly.org.uk italy ambassodor to uk, Gianacarlo Aragona.

- Iran khodro diesel ikd (mercedes), signs commercial vehicle deal with Gambia.

- Turkey, ministry of energy evaluating sites for wind energy. Fields that have potential of 300w/square metre to be considered. Websites of all plots will be published providng information (universal transverse mercator, topographic features, wind characteristics, power densities) to investors.

- Corpo forestale stato, italian forestry department.

- Kashmir wildlife chief A K Srivastava to start count of snow leopards in kashmir, estimated 500.

- ABB, Asea Brown Boveri, swiss, electrics, robotics, automation.

- Secretary general of Organisation of Islamic Conference, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu.

- Russia space agency, Roskosmos.

- Parliamentary elections scheduled in russia for december 2nd. Elections for the lower house, the state duma. Poles give united russia party 59%, communist party 18%, fair russia 9%, ldpr 7%.

- 2200 year old tomb discovered intact in central italy revealing remains and possesions of 30 etruscans. Archeologists found bronze coins, rings, mirrors, plates and urns. The etruscans ruled central italy in 700 BC until they were assimilated by the Roman empire in the first century.

- Turkish paliament elects Abdullah Gul as president of Turkey.

- Work starts on the widening of the locks of the Panama canal, work to be completeed in 2014. Panama canal authority.

- www.vigilfuoco.it vigili del fuoco, italy fire service.

- Potential crisis developing in Ogaden, East ethiopia, where ethiopia has imposed an economic blockade and is accused of attacking and burning villages, displacing thousands of civilians. Aid agencies have been refused entry to the area.

- www.spacedaily.com, Modern technologies now enable space satellites to only weigh a few 100 kg. The neva unified platform has been developed at the st petersburg arsenal design bureau. It would be launched by a rocket from a Tu-22M backfire plane. The neva platform could caryy a synthetic aperture radar for monitering the polar ice caps.

- A baiji dolphin has been sighted in the yangtze close to tongling city. Scientists have launched a plan to save tha last of these rare chinese river dwellers. Wang ding, scientist at chinas institute of hydrobiology, www.baiji.org

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CHAPTER 49

Friday, 16th, Nov, 1428AH

- APEC Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation

- Ethiopian goverment launches attacks in the Ogaden region. Affected areas Wardheer, Fiiq, Qabri Dahar, and Oromiya. Refugee camp in Somali port of Bosasso

- Sudan goveremnt attacks town of Haskanita in Nortn Darfur.

- Asafa Powell of Jamaica sets 100m world record of 9.74s at Italy grand prix in Rieti

- Cambodia. Nuon Chea, 82 year old cheif political Ideologist of the Khemer rouge has been arrested and will face a joint UN Cambodia tribunal. Pol pot died in 1998. Ta Muk the military cheif died in custody in 2006. Kaing Eav who lead the tortureunit has also been arrested and charged with crimes against humanity. The khemer rouge were driven from power in 1979.

- Israel launches an airstrike on northern Syria on sept 6th2007.

- Russia. Sukhoi launches civilian superjet 100, unveiled atKomsomolsk-on-Amur. Partners are 25% Italy Alenia Aeronautica, Engines Snecma/NPO Saturn, Avionics Thales. Approximate cost per aircarft $25 million.

- Chinese crested Tern is near extinction with number near 50. The biggest threat to the birds was the collection of eggs in the Jiushan islands and Matra island of the east coast of China. Zhejiang museum of Natural history.

- Shanghai electric, power equipment.

- Renesola, solar panels china.

- 100,000 anti-goverment protestors led by 20,000monks march against the military junta in Myanmar, Burma. Themarch started at the Shivedayon pagoda. The Myanmar goverment is also under pressure from China which is a major trading partner, to tolerate the protests and improve the conditions in the country. The leaders of the protest met with imprisoned democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi who won the elction in 1990.

- A wave farm measuring 3km by 1.5km is to be built of the coast of cornwall in the uk. It will cost 28million and will provide enough power for 7000 homes. Built mainly as a research plant, different developers will employ different techniques to harness power. Upto 30 devices will be experimented with.

- ASEAN is appalled to receive reports of automatic weapons being used against the protestors in myanmar, and demands that the myanmar goverment immediately desists from the use of violence against the demonstrators.

- UN population Fund. In 2005 536,000 women died during preganancy and labour. In 1990 it was 576,000. 99% of the deaths are in the developing world. Thoraya Obaid, executive director UNFPA, said what was needed was well known. Skilled birth attendants, emergency obstretic care and family planning. In vast tracts of the world these basic services were not available. The world health organisation set up the Safe motherhood initiative 20 years ago. Unfortunately it has made little progress.

- www.safemotherhood.org

- Platinum $1404 troy ounce, Copper $8085 per tonne, Lead $3860 per tonne.

- The leader of the Congolese MIlitia, Geramin Katunga was taken into custody at the International criminal court. His group the patriotic resistance front is accused of an attack on the village of Bogoro in eastern congo in Feb 2003. Two hundred civilanswere masacared, women and girls raped and child soldiers were used in the attack. He is also accused in the connection of 9 UN peacekeepers in Feb 2005. Another warlord Thomas Lubanga is alreday in custody. The DR congo had a devstating civil war between 1998 and 2002.

- A new population of Lynx has been discovered in the Castilla- La mancha region of central spain. The iberian lynxnumbers apprxo 100 in Andujar in sorthern spain.

- Several chineseshipbuilding companies are being listed on the chinese stock market. China ship building industry corporation, Jiangsu Rongsheng Heavy industries, Minde Nantong, JES International.

- Nigeria united bank for Africa signs deal with China devlopment bank. Nigeria recently consolidated its banking sector cutting the number of banks from 84 to 25. The Nigeria central bank now has foreign reserves of $48billion.

- A mural 4000 years old showing a deer caught in a net has been discovered in a temple near the peruvian coast, in the Lambayeque valley. The discovery was made by peruvian archeologist Walter Alua. The site was once home to the ancient Moche people.

- Jordan prime minister Marouf Bakhit laid the foundation stone for a $700 million expansion of Queen Alia international airport.

- New zealand farming systems is expecting to float on the new zealand stock exhange raising $50 million. The money will be invested in buying land in uruguay for dairy farms.

- Argentinas new president Christina Fernandez appoints Martin Lousteau, former head of the state bank banco de la provencia de buenos aries, as minster of the economy.

- Belarus tenders for the construction of a new nuclear power station. Atomstroiexport, the building contractor of russias state atomic energy agency, stated that it was interested.

- Yoshinori Ueda, strategic planning manger at Mitsubishi heavy industries said Mitsubishi will be increasing its investment in offshore wind turbines.

- Enrique Ojeda of spain was the IRC championship in a Peugeot.

- Italian PM Romano Prodi narrowly wins a a senate vote, when the upper chamber approves the goverment 2008 budget.

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CHAPTER 50

Venerdi (Friday), 25th, Jan, 1429AH

- Archeologists have unearthed a roman cemetry in NE syria in the Hasaka province. Another cemetry was then discovered in the ruins of Palmyra. A limestone panel was found depicting a camel led by a young boy.

- Chairman of UN intergoverment panel on climate change, Rajendra Pacauiri.

- China metallurgical group, MCC,will invest2 billion euros in developing a large copper deposit in Afghanistan. There are an estimated 13 billion tons of copper. MCC will have to build a power station to run the mine. They will pay the Afghan goverment $400 million a year. Ibrahim Adel Afghanistan minesminister.

- Rolls royce is tobuild an assembly plant in Singapore for the Trent engine. The trent 1000 is fitted to the boeing 787, and the trent xwb for the airbusA350.

- President Felipe Calderon of Mexico has unveiled a plan to curb logging and protect the Monarch butterfly biosphere in mexico. The reserve covers a 124,000 acre site of forests and mountains, that serves as the winter nesting ground of the black and orange butterflies. The president has also announced another plan to plant 250 million trees.

- The MFK corporation will open an assembly plant fromchinese manufacturer Geeley in Uganda. The factory will be located in Lukuya near lake victoria.

- www.bamburicement.com Kenya

- www.ft.com financial times

- Dubai ports

- Tata steel of India has signed an agreement with Australias riversdale mining to develop a hard choking and thermal coal project in mozambique. The coal will be delivered to tata steel plants in europe and asia.

- Indonesia has embarked on a scheme to palnt 79 million trees. However much of Indonesias forest are illegaly logged and cleared to make way for palm oil planatations.

- A 5000 year old limestone statue of a lioness sold for $57 million. The carved giennel lioness measures just 8 cm tall.

- Sinotruck china truck manufacturer., China railway group, Sinotrans shipping dry bulk carrier.

- CIA admits Iran ceased its nuclear weapon program in 2003.

- The Bombay stock exchange Sensex 30 reached an all time high of 20,336 points.

- Toshiba has developed a new lithium-ion battery that can charge to 90% in less than five minutes and has a life span of 10 years. It is initially expected to go into production on bicycles, motorbikes, forklift trucks and construction machinery.

- Spanish construction company BTP Sacyr Vallehermoso has signed an agreemnet with the Libyan goverment for the construction of infrastructure projects. Libya has also recently signed agreemnets with Frech companies including the construction of a nuclear power desalination plant.

- www.amcr.org.uk Afghan mother and child rescue.

- Radio Italia

- Royal National Institue for the Blind RNIB

- JCB construction machinery

- Eurasia natural resource corporation lists on the london stock exchange. The Khazakstan based company will use the proceeds for investment in a new aluminium smelter in Pavlodar. It is expected to reach full production of 250,000 tons per year by the end of 2010.

- Arcelor Mittal anounces its intention to build a 300,000 tonne per annum steel pipe mill in Nigeria. The company also has a prescence in Senegal and Liberia boosting its presence in the ECOWAS region. The mill will be located in the cross river state.

- Total, Suez and Areva intend to submit a proposal for two 1600MW pressurised nuclear reactors and fuel cycle services in the UAE. Production would start in 2016.

- Tata India introduces a car for 100,000 rupees (1,700 euros) in India called the Nano.

- A peace agreement was signed in the DR congos eastern city of Goma between goverment officials and local militia. The eastern congo has been subject to continued unrest with upto 800,000 displaced. Fighting has been mainly between a former general laurent nkunda's militia and the goverment.

-Scientists at this years SeaSar workshop held in Frascati Italy, have demonstrated a new technique for measuring ocean surface currents. The method uses data from the advanced synthetic aperture radar aboard ESA's envisat.

- The Brazilian paint industry surpassed sales of 1 billion litres in 2007 an 8% increase in the previous year. Brazillian Paint Manufacturers association (Abrafati). President Dilson Ferreira.

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CHAPTER 51

Venerdi (Friday), 04th, April, 1429AH

- The UN force for Chad is ready for deployment and the first troops have begun moving. Their role will be mainly to protect the refugees caused from the crisis in Darfur. The force consists of 3700 soldiers from Europe.

- The Shell oil company is investing in producing biofuel from algae. An acre of maize can produce 1000 litres of ethanol, whilst algae can produce 19,000 litres per acre. A pilot facility is being started in Hawai measuring 2.5 hectares. A full scale commercial facility would be 20,000 hectares. Algae has a remarkable growth rate and absorbs large amounts of CO2.

- Another future fuel is the counter rotating ring receiver reactor recuperator, CRS. This uses solar power to break down CO2 into CO and O2. It has an 8m wide dish of mirrors that focus sunlight on a solar furnace.

- The industrial and commercial bank of china has bought a 20% stake in the standard bank of south africa. Meanwhile the south african economic boom is affected by an energy crisis.

- Pipavar shipyard India has orders for 26 of its new 74,500 ton panamax bulk carriers. The global ship market is expexted to reach 450m tons this year. Other indian ship makers include Larsen and Toubro, and ABG shipyard.

- An australian company zeobond, has started converting power station and blast furnace waste into geopolymer concrete. The process inproducing this concrete produces just 10% of the greenhouse gases assoiciated with producing normal concrete. Also it does not require high temperatures.

- Morocco is building a new port complex 40km east of Tangiers, known as tangier med project. The ports location is just 14km from Spain. Renault has already announced a plan tobuild a factory in Tangier. The overall capacity of the port will be 8.5million containers per year reaching full capacity in 2015.

- Tate and Lyle sugar is to convert its entire sugar range to fairtrade.Under fairtrade farmers receive a gauranteed price for their commodity above the world market rate as well as asocial premium to beused in their commodities.

- China railway construction company floats on the Shanghai and Hong Kong stock markets.

- Turkish scholars at Ankara university are carrying out a revision of Hadith, a collection of thousands of reputed sayings from the prophet Muhammed. Turkey has also given theological training to 450 women and appointed them as senior imanms caleeds vaizes

- King Abdullah of jordan has launcheda project to build 100,000 low income houses, and a possible another 100,000 over the next 5 years. An estimated 31% of jordans population live below the poverty line. Minister of public works and housing Sahel Majali.

- Frensh company Alstom has signed an agreemnt to build a 4740 MW coal fired power station in Wtbank south africa. And the french development agency will also finance the construction of wind turbines with south africa Eksom. A third contract signed by nuclear company Arreva will provide nuclear training.

- Prime minister zapatero wins a second term in office. The ruling socialist party won 169 seats and the conservative popular party 154 seats. The result has effectively transformed spain into a two party state with marginalisation of the samller parties.

- The pentagon has released a report that ther was no direct operational link between Saadam Hussain and al qaida before the 2003 invasion. The report titled ' Saddam and terrorism, emerging insigth from captured iraqi documents', looks at 600,000 captured iraqi documents.

- Lao Hua Si Mosque, Linxia China

- UNHAS, UN humanitrian air service

- UNHRD UN Humanitarian response depot based in Brindasi Italy

- UN High commisiion for refugees states that there are 2 million Iraqi refugees living in Jordan and syria, and 2.4 million internally displaced refugees within Iraq.

- London zoo unveils a newly refurbished tropical bird house including socorro doves, toucans and kookaburras.

- A Lynx has been spotted in the northern italian alps. It is beleived that it had wandered into the area from neighbouring switzerland.

- Karachi ports has broken a 15 year old record by accepting 215 ships in March. It is only the second time that more than 200 ships have docked.

- Chile is palnning 5 new hydro electric dams in the Patagonia. Two on the Baker river and three on the Pascua.

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- Mesa Power in Texas plans on building the worlds largest windfarm with 2700 wind turbines that will generate 4000MW of electricity

- The Merowe dam in Sudan, which began construction in 2003, nears completion. It will generate 1250MW of electricity. The main contractors are China international water and electric corp, Lahmeyer International (German management, civil engineering), cegelec (France generators) and Harbin power enginerring (china transmission)

- Mitsubishi aircraft corp is building japans first commercial passenger jet. It is expected to go into service in 2013.

- Argentina is building a high speed rail link between the two major cities of Rosario and Cordoba. The contract is headed by french company alstom. Other partners are isolux (spain), lecsa (argentina) and Emepa (argentina). Other rail lines are planned linking the capital with Mar del Plata and Mendoza.

- The saudi arabian mining corp (Maaden) is building a freight rail network in the RAs Azzour area. The area contains the minerals of gold, phosphates and bauxite. The railroad network linking Ras Azzour to the port is led by the louis berger group.

- Norway company statoil hydro is developing the worlds first deepwater floating wind turbine. It will use similar technology to that of offshore oil platforms and will have a capacity of 2.3MW.

- Malaysia is building a new rail line, the Kota Damansara Cheras rail transit line which will serve the klang valley. It is 40km and expected to be completed by 2012. Much of it is elevated and there will be 30 stations.

- Italian industry ministry Claudio Scajola has said the new goverment will be introducing a package of measures introducing more competition among local utilities and cutting red tape.

- Lions are decling in Africa at an alarming rate conservationist have announced. One group estimates that fewer than a hundred lions remain in the amboseli national park in kenya.

- The ESA Ariane 5 ECA launcher succesfully placed two satellites in geo stationary transfer orbits, the skynet 5c and the turksat 3a.

- Abu dhabi is expanding its sewerage system to increase capacity from 400,000 cubic metres per day to 1.2 million cubic metres.

- French nuclear group areva is investing $750 million in the trekkopje uranium mine in Namibia.

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Siemens Group announces a partnership with russain compnay Power Machines to produce advanced gas turbines in russia for power generation. Russia faces a major challenge in replacing aging power stations.

China Aviation Industry corp has unveiled the MA600 regional turbo prop jet.

Italian constuction company Tec Inovative Technologies has formed a joint venture with UAE SS Lootal to provide specialised construction services to the region.

South Korea is undergoing a truth and reconciliation commission investigating wartime cases of US bombings on villages and refugess in 1950-1951. Cases include the island of east Wolmi and No Gun Ri village. The commission also looks at the aftermath of the war, during the authoritarian period when thousands of suspected leftists were executed.

The conservation centre of North Carolina has donated two Bengal Tigers to Baghdad zoo. The zoo was devastated after the US invasion, when many of the animals were killed or left to starve in their cages. Director of the zoo Adel Salman Mousa, slowly picked up the pieces and now the zoo grounds house 800 animals of 62 speices, with 25,000 visitors a week.

Brazil mining compnay Vale is constructing one of the worlds biggest aluminium refinery in the Brazilian town of Barcarena. It will have an annual output of 6.26 million tons.

Intel demonstrates wireless electicity transmission, lighting up a 60W bulb from an energy source 3 ft away. The technology is 75% efficient although some way of production

Reports were made by the Afghan government that a US airstirke killed 76 civilians in the Azizabad area of Shindand

The oxford engineering department is developing a new tidal water turbine called the Transvers Horizontal Axis Water Turbine (Thawt). At full size it would be 10m in diameter and 60m long. Connecting two of them could produce 12MW. Thawt deveices cost 1.7m per MW, compared with 2m for wind power. By scaling upto a tidal site of 20KM you could produce 1 Gigawatt.

Kujaki Dam in Afghanistan receives 200 tonnes of new equipment. The equipment will allow installation of a third turbine to increase output to 51MW. The dam was built in 1975 on the upper helmand river but by 2002 it had deterioated so much it was just providing 3MW.

German biologists from Karlsruhe Natural History Museum have found a new speices of ant, which possibly dates back 120 million years. The ant is 3mm long and resembles a minature wasp, and was discovered in the Amazon forest by a team investigating fungus.

Chines astronaut Zhai Zhigang performed Chinas first space walk, from the Shenzhou 7 capsule. He spent 13 minutes outside. The spacewalk paves the way for the assembly of a space station.

Airbus has opened a $600m assmebly plant for the A320 in China. The plant will assmeble 4 A320s a month from 2011, compared with 40 a month in the European plant of Hamburg.

Cambodia is planning the construction of the Chay Areng dam in the Cardamom mountains. The 120ft dam is being promoted by a chines power company. Another dam at OSom is going ahead.

Japan Space Elevator Association holds a conference about the future of space elevators. The technology dpeneds on the future of materials technology such as carbon nanotube material.

Afghan victim memeorial project calculates upto 3200 civilians have been killed by US/NATO forces in Afghanistan. The figure is considered an underestimate as the US often reports all casualties as militants. Families of victimes are awarded $2500 as condolence payments which compares to $1.85million awarded to victims of the bombing of the Lockerbie flight over scotland.

The international rescue committee estimates 5.4million people have died in the DR Congo from preventable health reasons over the last decade. Kinchasa, the capital of the DR Congo, is the third most populous city in Africa, behind Lagos and Cairo.

Human Rights Watch says that Somalia is the most ignored tragedy in the world with systematic destruction of Mogadishu between the government and islamist nationalist forces rival clans. There are few international aid workers left as they are threatened with kidnap or murder.

Former president of Finland Martti Ahtisaari has won the Nobel Peace Prize. Martti has worked in ending conflicts from Namibia and Aceh to Kosovo.

The foreign ministry of Pakistan has condemned US strikes in its border region. We want the USA to realise that these attacks are destabilsing the situation. FM spokesman Mohammed Sadiq.

A large population of nearly 6000 irrawaddy dolphins has been found along the coast of Bangladesh. The dolphins can live in fresh water in the estuaries as well as making them popular in large aquariums. The dolphins are under threat from fishing nets and encroachment on their habitat. The Bangladesh Cetaccan Diversity project and the wildlife conservation society carried out the study and has urged the government to set up protected zones. Many of the dolphins were found in the Sunderbans, the worlds largest mangrove forest.

Italy will build three childrens hospitals in Yemen in the areas of Sanaa, Aden and Hodendah. The announcment was made by the Italian ambassador to Yemen Mario Boffo.

A company in the USA, Hyperion claims mini nuclear power stations as big as a garden shed will be on sale in 5 years. The minature reactors are factory sealed with no moving parts and could power upto 20,000 homes. Toshiba is working on similar plans.

Scomi Engineering of Malaysia and Larsen Tonbro of India plan a 19.5km monorail linking the west and northeast of Mumbai.

Former Lord Chief Justice Lord Bingham has stated that the invasion of Iraq was a serious violation of international law. He states, Hans Blix and his team of weapons inspectors had found no weapons of mass destruction, were making progress and expected to complete their work in a matter of months.

Despite the chaos in Somalia, 20 doctors graduate from the Mogadishu Benadir University. The ceremony for 12 men and 8 women was held at the Sharmo Hotel. President of Benadir university Mohamed Molin Muse.

Richard Falk, UN Human Rights rapporteur has stated Israels policies towards the Palestinains tantamount to a crime against humanity, and has suggested use of the Intenational Criminal Court. The court could determine whether the Israeli civillian leaders and military commanders responsible for the Gaza seige should be inditedand prosecuted for violations of international criminal law.

Colonel Theoneste Bagosora was sentenced to life imprisonment by the International Criminal Tribunal of Rwanda. He was the director of the Ministry of defence of Rwanda when 500,000 minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus were massacared in 1994. He was convicted of Genocide.

The national Tiger Action Plan of Malaysia has announced plans to double the the tiger population from 500 to 1000 over the next 12 years.

NASAs Mars rovers Spirit and Oppurtunity celebrate 5 years of life since landing in 2004. They cost $20 million a year each to operate. They have driven more than21km, taken 250,000 photos, beamed 36 gigabytes of data back to earth, and discovereed underground frozen glaciers. They were originally planned to last 90 days. Rover project manager at Jet Propulsion Laboratories, John Callas.

Friday prayers, venerdi preghiera

Ghana holds successful, and peaceful elections with a transition of power to the main opposition party, the National Democratic Congress. The new president John Atta Mills is sworn in.

www.eurasianet.org central asia news, afghanistan, armenia, azerbaijan, georgia, kazakstan, kyrgyzstan, mongolia, tajikstan, turkey, turkmenistan, uzbekistan

www.thestar.com.my malaysia star, www.politics.co.uk, www.marketwatch.com, www.italynews.net, www.kenyastar.com

www.whiteribbonalliance.org white ribbon alliance for safe motherhood is an international coalition to ensure safe pregnancy and childbirth for all women.

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www.cannabisculture.com legalisation of marijuana

budweiser beer, Marlboro cigarettes

BASF, Syngenta chemical companies

Novartis Pharmaceuticals

The world bank has given its initial support for the grand Inga Dam in the DR Congo. The project would cost $80bn and at 40,000 MW would be twice the capacity of the three gorges dam in China.

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