Year: 2013
254 Syrian, Egyptian migrants land in Italy
NOVANEWS A boatload of 254 Syrian and Egyptian migrants including 94 minors landed in Italy; they were rescued some 150 nautical miles southeast of Sicily A boatload of 254 Syrian and Egyptian migrants including 94 […]
Saudi Women Reunite To Remember Driving Protest
NOVANEWS by CARYLE MURPHY Every year, nearly four dozen Saudi women get together for a reunion. Eighteen years ago, on Nov. 6, 1990, they staged a public protest against their country’s ban on women driving. For […]
WAHHABI ZIO-REGIM: حملة شعبية بمشاركة سيدات ورجال الوطن
www.oct26driving.com حملة شعبية بمشاركة سيدات ورجال الوطن. نظرا لكثرة الجدال في السنوات الأخيرة حول موضوع قيادة المرأة للسيارة فقد قررنا أن نعبر عن موقفنا ازاء هذا الأمر، حيث نطالب فيها بما يلي١ في خضم هذه […]
Saudi clerics decry bid by female drivers
NOVANEWS Protesters accuse US of fomenting societal reforms By Abdullah al-Shihri and Aya Batrawy ASSOCIATED PRESS/FILE 2011 Saudi women boarded a taxi in Riyadh. A campaign calling on women to drive this Saturday has gathered […]
Saudi women break driving ban, defying warnings: campaigners
NOVANEWS A woman drives a car in Saudi Arabia October 22, 2013. (Reuters) – A few women filmed themselves driving in Saudi cities on Saturday, defying government warnings of arrest and prosecution to take part […]
Saudi Arabia women defy authorities over female driving ban
NOVANEWS By Mohammed Jamjoom and Laura Smith-Spark, CNN Women drive for change in Saudi Arabia (CNN) — In an extraordinary display of civil disobedience, women in Saudi Arabia on Saturday defied their nation’s de facto ban on women driving by […]
Italian Parliament introduces holocaust denial legislation
NOVANEWS ROME, Oct. 16 (UPI) — Italian members of Parliament introduced an amendment to the country’s criminal code that, if passed, would make holocaust denial a crime, officials said.The legislation was signed Tuesday by politicians across […]
UK police accused of sex abuse cover-up
NOVANEWS Elm Guest House in Barnes, where young boys were allegedly taken to be abused by high-profile MPs in 1990. A former child protection officer says British police had threatened him to stop his investigations […]
N.J. Jewish yeshiva teacher gets 13 years for sexual abuse
NOVANEWS Haaretz A former New Jersey yeshiva teacher who claimed he was pressured by his Orthodox Jewish community into admitting to sexually assaulting a boy was sentenced Thursday night to nearly 13 years in prison […]