Thank you to all who have been sending in your best wishes to me for the holidays, it is greatly appreciated. شكرا لجميع الذين تعرضوا للارسال في افضل ما لديكم من يود لي لعطلة الاعياد ، ومن تقدير كبير.
Unfortunately I’m unable to answer each of you personally so I hope this short message goes some way to express my thanks to all of you.
Hope you all have a great holiday and thank you for […]

Animal rights activists have freed 15 hens from an Auckland farm in an effort to persuade more people to boycott battery eggs. نشطاء حقوق الحيوان قد افرج 15 اوكلاند الدجاج من المزارع في محاولة لاقناع المزيد من الناس الى المقاطعه بطاريه البيض.
New Zealand Open Rescue spokeswoman Deirdre Sims says the group took the hens because of the conditions they were living in. She says farmers in New Zealand cage 2.8 million hens, all of which […]

TELEVISION Quality seems to be the very last thing on BBC execs mind, writes Declan Lynch التلفزيون نوعية ويبدو ان آخر شيء جدا على بي بي سي execs الاعتبار ، يكتب declan ينش
THERE was a general air of stupefaction when the BBC bleeped the word “faggot” from Fairytale Of New York. But those of you who were reading this column last week were not surprised at all. ولكن اولئك الذين كانوا لكم من قراءة هذا العمود الاسبوع الماضي لم نفاجأ على الاطلاق. No, you’ll have smiled knowingly, […]

CIA rebuts suggestion it did not cooperate with 9/11 Commission investigation

David Remes, an attorney for a dozen Yemeni prisoners being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, speaks to reporters following a hearing in federal court as costumed protestors stage a demonstration
The CIA on Saturday rebutted suggestions the spy agency was uncooperative and hid from the Sept. […] وكالة المخابرات المركزية يوم السبت نقضه الاقتراحات الجاسوس وكانت الوكالة غير متعاونين وحجبا من ايلول / سبتمبر […]

Tony Blair’s conversion to Catholicism has been criticised by commentators who argue his views as PM were at odds with church teachings. توني بلير التحويل الى الكاثوليكيه قد تعرضت للنقد من جانب المعلقين الذين يجادل آرائه الساعة كما كانت تتعارض مع تعاليم الكنيسة.

Tony Blair has met Pope Benedict توني بلير قد التقى البابا بينديكت
Mr Blair was welcomed into the Roman Catholic church by the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor - leader of the Roman Catholics in England and Wales.
Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor welcomed […] الكاردينال ميرفى اوكونور - رحب […]

PM hits the streets and gets looked at more than ever before, then heads to the shop for first-look details on a futuristic car so efficient it’ll make your jaw drop. الساعة يضرب في الشوارع ويحصل نظرت اكثر من اي وقت مضى ، ثم رؤساء لأول متجر ل- نظرة مستقبلية على تفاصيل السياره حتى كفاءه انها سوف اجعل الفك قطرة. The good news? الخبر السار؟ It’s coming next year.

Three hundred miles per gallon and a Jetsons-style look are enough to get anyone excited. ثلاثماءه ميلا للغالون الواحد ، وjetsons - أسلوب النظر ما يكفي للحصول على اي شخص بالاثاره. But ever since […]

By Diane Smith
According to the US panel investigating the 2001 terrorist attacks, the CIA had deliberately withheld tapes of supposed torture of terrorism suspects to obstruct the panel’s work, the New York Times wrote in its Saturday edition. ووفقا لفريق أمريكى بالتحقيق في الهجمات الارهابيه التي وقعت عام 2001 ، وكالة الاستخبارات المركزية قد تعمدت حجب الاشرطه من المفترض تعذيب المشتبه فيهم بالارهاب الى عرقلة عمل الفريق ، وكتبت صحيفة نيويورك تايمز في طبعة السبت.
Lee Hamilton and Thomas Kean, the leading chairmen of the panel, were the ones to comment on the […] لي هاملتون وتوماس كين ، القيادي رؤساء الفريق ، وكانت منها التعليق على […]

By Carolynne Wheeler in Jerusalem من جانب carolynne هويلر في القدس
Six-year-old Maria Amin races ahead of her father on the way to school. عمره ست سنوات ماريا امين سباقات المقبلة من والدها على الطريق الى المدرسة. “Hurry up, papa. "العجله يصل ، بابا. The bus will leave without us,” she calls, steering her electric wheelchair with a mouth-stick towards the specially-equipped van.

Symbol of hope: Maria Amin’s case has captured the hearts of the Israeli public

It’sa journey that, […]

The US dollar declined against the euro and the pound on Friday as traders continued to hotly debate whether the US Federal Reserve would continue cutting interest rates amid economic uncertainty. انخفض الدولار الامريكى مقابل اليورو والجنيه يوم الجمعة التجار كما واصلت مناقشة حامية ما اذا كان الاحتياطى الفيدرالى فى الولايات المتحدة ستواصل خفض اسعار الفاءده في ظل عدم الاستقرار الاقتصادي.
The euro was swapping hands at US$1.4378 in late afternoon trading in New York, up from US$1.4320 late on Thursday. اليورو هو تبديل في ايدي 1،4378 دولار من دولارات الولايات المتحدة فى وقت متأخر من بعد ظهر التجارة في نيويورك ، حتى من 1،4320 دولار من دولارات الولايات المتحدة فى وقت متأخر من يوم الخميس.
The British pound was quoted at […]

By Deirdre Shesgreen من جانب deirdre shesgreen
The first session of the 110th Congress started off with a snap and had plenty of crackle. But the end was more fizzle than pop.
“We had 50 weeks of basically polarization and brinksmanship and two weeks of problem-solving,” said Rep. Todd Akin, R-Town and Country. "كانت لدينا 50 اسابيع من الاستقطاب واساسا شفير الهاوية ، وبعد اسبوعين من حل المشاكل ،" قال Rep تود اكين ، ص - المدينة والبلد.
Democrats were catapulted into power after the 2006 elections […] الديموقراطيون تم قذف بها الى السلطة بعد انتخابات 2006 […]

As Bush and Sarkozy lose patience with Assad, Syrian MP threatens Dimona
A Syrian member of parliament thought to be familiar with the thinking of President Bashar al-Assad is quoted in the London-based pan-Arab daily newspaper Al-Quds al-Arabi on Saturday as saying that Syria could strike Israel’s nuclear reactor in Dimona as retaliation for any future […] A Syrian member of parliament thought to be familiar with the thinking of President Bashar al-Assad is quoted in the London-based pan-Arab daily newspaper Al-Quds al-Arabi on Saturday as saying that Syria could strike Israel’s nuclear reactor in ديمونة انتقاما لمستقبل اي […]

By Matthew Hay Brown من جانب ماثيو القش براون
While Washington debates whether it should talk to Iran, one Maryland congressman has already struck up a conversation.
For the past year, Rep. Wayne T. Gilchrest has been meeting with Iranian officials and business leaders to talk about ways to improve relations between the United States and the Islamic republic that President […]

Britain’s former top policeman Lord Stevens was paid £1,000 a day for taking charge of the inquiry into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. بريطانيا السابق اللورد ستيفنز اعلى شرطي تم دفع 1000 جنيه استرليني في اليوم لأخذ المسؤول عن التحقيق فى وفاة ديانا ، اميرة ويلز.
Documents released exclusively to The Mail on Sunday under the Freedom of Information Act reveal he was being paid double what he would have earned in his former role as Met […]

A leaked memorandum from the former 9/11 commission says it made repeated requests to the CIA for information on the interrogation of al-Qaeda suspects. أ تسربت مذكرة من السابق 9 / 11 لجنة تقول انها قدمت طلبات متكررة الى وكالة المخابرات المركزية للحصول على معلومات عن استجواب القاعده المشتبه فيهم. But ex-commission executive director Philip Zelikow says the CIA did not hand over tapes that have since come to light, the New York Times reported.
The CIA later erased the footage, which […] وكالة المخابرات المركزية في وقت لاحق ممحو الشريط ، الذي […]

FBI aims to amass huge database of people’s physical characteristics مكتب التحقيقات الاتحادي ويهدف الى تجميع قاعدة بيانات ضخمة من الناس الخصائص الفيزياءيه
By Ellen Nakashima
The FBI is embarking on a $1 billion effort to build the world’s largest computer database of people’s physical characteristics, a project that would give the government unprecedented abilities to identify individuals in the United States and abroad. مكتب التحقيقات الفيديرالي وتعكف على 1 بليون دولار فى الجهود المبذولة لبناء الأكبر في العالم في قاعدة بيانات حاسوبيه للالشعب الخصائص الفيزياءيه ، وهو مشروع من شأنه ان يمنح حكومة لم يسبق لها مثيل لتحديد قدرات الافراد في الولايات المتحدة والخارج.
Digital images of faces, fingerprints and palm […]