Tag: Middle East and North Africa
Facebook translates ‘good morning’ into ‘attack them’, leading to arrest
Palestinian man questioned by Israeli police after embarrassing mistranslation of caption under photo of him leaning against bulldozer. Facebook has apologised after an error in its machine-translation service saw Israeli police arrest a Palestinian man for posting good morning on his social media profile. The man, a construction worker in the West Bank settlement […]
Libya’s future looks dark with fate of government close to being sealed
Situation has deteriorated since David Cameron’s upbeat visit after Gaddafi fell, with latest administration on the brink. On 15 September 2011 David Cameron flew into a newly liberated Tripoli with the then president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, to be mobbed by rebels grateful for Nato airstrikes that had helped them secure victory over Muammar Gaddafi. […]
GOP mega-donor funds group calling pro-Palestine US students ‘Jew haters’
Sheldon Adelson-funded posters named students and professors at a college campus, saying they have allied themselves with Palestinian terrorists. Sheldon Adelson, the Nevada casino mogul and conservative mega-donor, is leading a campaign against pro-Palestine groups on US college campuses and has funded posters that accuse individual students of supporting terrorism and promoting Jew Hatred. The […]
Search engines’ role in radicalisation must be challenged, finds study
Nearly 500,000 online searches a month return Islamist material, says report that advocates multilateral approach to removing extremist sites More than 484,000 Google keyword searches a month from around the world, including at least 54,000 searches in the UK, return results dominated by Islamist extremist material, a report into the online presence of jihadism has […]
Dagger in King Tut’s tomb was made with iron from a meteorite
Researchers who analyzed metal composition of dagger within wrapping of mummified teenage king say it strongly suggests an extraterrestrial origin A dagger entombed with King Tutankhamun was made with iron from a meteorite, a new analysis on the metal composition shows. In 1925, archaeologist Howard Carter found two daggers, one iron and one with a […]