VOICE OF GLOBAL UMMAH
Volume 76, April 29, 2009
St. Louis, Missouri
Editors: Mohamed & Rashida Ziauddin
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent and the Most Merciful
St. Louis, Missouri
Editors: Mohamed & Rashida Ziauddin
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent and the Most Merciful
GLOBAL UMMAH IN PICTURES:
One picture is worth a thousand words
One picture is worth a thousand words
Protesters demonstrate outside the Iranian embassy in London, in April 2009, against the scheduled execution of Delara Darabi (seen on poster). Iran has ordered a stay of execution for two young convicts sentenced to death for crimes committed when they were under the age of 18, their lawyer told AFP on Wednesday.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari delivers a speech in Tokyo, April 2009. President Barack Obama will Wednesday try to cajole leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan into a crackdown on resurgent extremism, in summits aimed at lancing mistrust hampering anti-terror efforts.(AFP/File/Yoshikazu Tsuno)
Internally displaced Sri Lankan Tamil civilians queue for food rations at a camp for internally displaced people near the northern Sri Lankan town of Vavunyia on April 26, 2009. Canada's main opposition party on Tuesday pressed the government to make it easier for Tamil refugees in Sri Lanka to enter the country.(AFP/File)
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang (L) and Vice President Jusuf Kalla in Jakarta. Indonesia's presidential race was thrown wide open Thursday with Vice-President Jusuf Kalla saying he was ready to walk away from a joint ticket with incumbent Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.(AFP/File/Bay Ismoyo)
A Lebanese university student reads an Arabic novel at the campus of American University of Science and Technology in Beirut. As Beirut prepares to don the mantle of UNESCO "World Book Capital City 2009," Arabic novels are enjoying an unprecedented boom across the Middle East, breaking taboos on topics such as sex and religion.(AFP/File/Joseph Barrak)
German couple Sascha Schmidt (left) and Caterina Remhof left the three children at a restaurant in Aoste, Italy. The couple abandoned the children because they had run out of money. Remhof has been charged with abandoning the children.(AFP/Italian Police/File)
A man identified as Sascha Schmidt, 24, from Germany, is escorted by two police officers as he leaves the police station in Aosta, northern Italy, Friday, April 24, 2009. Ina Caterina Remhof, 26, and a man identified as Sascha Schmidt, 24, abandoned her three young children in a pizzeria in northwest Italy four days ago. The German couple and the children had dinner at a pizzeria late Sunday in Aosta. The two then went outside to smoke and never came back, abandoning the three siblings: a boy of 6, a girl of 4, and an 8-month-old boy. (AP Photo/Massimo Pinca)
Israeli soldiers detain a Palestinian protester during a demonstration against the construction of the controversial Israeli barrier in the West Bank village of Bilin near Ramallah April 24, 2009.REUTERS/Fadi Arouri (WEST BANK CONFLICT POLITICS IMAGE OF THE DAY TOP PICTURE)
A man holds a wounded boy while waiting for medical treatment in a hospital in Baghdad's Kadhimiya district April 24, 2009. In a second day of major bloodshed, two suicide bombers wearing explosive vests blew themselves up at the gates of a revered Shi'ite Muslim shrine in Baghdad on Friday, killing 60 people, Iraqi police said.REUTERS/Bassim Shati (IRAQ CONFLICT)
A masked Kashmiri protester shouts slogans for freedom during a protest against the Indian general elections, in Srinagar, India, Friday, April 24, 2009. With more than 700 million voters, India is holding a five-phased election, for logistic and security reasons, ending May 13.(AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Evacuees from Buner walk on the outskirts of Peshawar April 29, 2009. Pakistani troops took the main town in strategically important Buner Valley on Wednesday after dropping by helicopter behind Taliban lines, killing over 50 militants in two days of fighting, the military said.REUTERS/Adil Khan
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish followers of Neturei Karta burn an Israeli flag against Israel's Independence Day in the central Israeli town of Beit Shemesh, Wednesday, April 29, 2009. Neturei Karta, which means 'Guardians of the City', is a small group of Haredi Jews who oppose Zionism and believe that Jews are forbidden to have their own state until the coming of the Messiah. Israel is celebrating its annual Independence Day, marking 59 years since the founding of the state in 1948.(AP Photo/Ashraf Abu Turk)
Iranian pilgrims pray at the shrine of Imam Musa al-Kazim in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, April 28, 2009. Iraq's prime minister Nouri al-Maliki has sent a letter of condolence to Tehran over the killing of dozens of Iranian pilgrims in bombings in Baghdad and north of the capital that happened last week.(AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
A local woman and her children flee from a troubled area in Lower Dir. Around 30,000 people in northwest Pakistan have been displaced by a military offensive to flush out Taliban militants, a provincial minister has said.(AFP/Tariq Mahmood)
A local woman and her children flee from a troubled area in Lower Dir. Around 30,000 people in northwest Pakistan have been displaced by a military offensive to flush out Taliban militants, a provincial minister has said.(AFP/Tariq Mahmood)
Local residents flee from a troubled area in Lower Dir in northwest Pakistan. Around 30,000 people in northwest Pakistan have been displaced by a military offensive to flush out Taliban militants, a provincial minister has said.(AFP/Tariq Mahmood)
Pakistani local residents cross a bridge as they flee from a troubled area in Lower Dir. The Pakistan Taliban has suspended talks with Islamabad as helicopter gunships pounded suspected militant hideouts in the northwest of the country.(AFP/Tariq Mahmood)
A girl whose mother was killed in a U.S. military raid cries as she is consoled by a relative in front of her house in Kut, 160 kilometers (100 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, April 27, 2009. Iraq's prime minister denounced a deadly U.S. raid on Sunday, which left at least two Iraqis dead, as a 'crime' that violated the security pact with Washington and demanded American commanders hand over those responsible to face possible trial in Iraqi courts.(AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
Malaysia's health officials wear face masks as they wait to receive a flight from Los Angeles via Taipei to screen passengers for possible swine flu infection, at Kuala Lumpur International Airport April 27, 2009.REUTERS/Bazuki Muhammad
Malaysia's health officials check temperature on passengers arriving from Los Angeles through Taipei for possible infection of the swine flu at Kuala Lumpur International Airport April 27, 2009. REUTERS/Bazuki Muhammad
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