Valget er over. Det gikk slik Ap og deres støttespillere i mediene ville. Er SVs tilbakegang og Sps tamme resultat et bevis på medienes makt? SV ble plukket ut som problembarn ganske tidlig, og kom seg aldri ut av rollen. Hvordan gjør man det, når mediene trenger en rampunge? Jeg mener det er mye som […]
TORONTO, Sept 12 – Ontario has reversed course on plans to let Muslims use Islamic sharia law to settle family disputes, and will now ban religious-based arbitration altogether, provincial officials said on Monday. The province said it will scrap all religious-based dispute settlements on issues such as child custody and divorce, prompting elation from critics […]
NEW YORK, Sept 12 – The promising market for Internet telephony heated up Monday as online auction giant eBay announced it was taking over the rapidly growing European firm Skype Technologies for more than 2.6 billion dollars. The deal will make Skype’s youthful founders, Niklas Zennstroem, 39, of Sweden and 29-year-old Danish citizen Janus Friis, […]
A PROPOSAL to allow Canadians to use Muslim religious law, or Sharia, to settle family disputes has provoked protests near and far. About 25 people demonstrated at the Canadian Consulate in Düsseldorf and a similar number made their feelings known at the Canadian Embassy in The Hague. Homa Arjomand, who organised a protest that attracted […]
DHAKA, Sept 10 – Bangladeshi police have stepped up security nationwide after seizing a huge cache of explosives from members of an outlawed Islamic group blamed for a wave bomb blasts last month, an official said Saturday. «We’re prepared for any kind of situation as there re2_kommentars the possibility of further blasts,» Inspector General of […]
WASHINGTON, Sept 8 – A federal judge on Thursday ordered former U.S. national security adviser Samuel «Sandy» Berger to pay a $50,000 fine for taking classified documents from the National Archives while preparing for an investigation into the Sept. 11 attacks. Magistrate Judge Deborah Robinson set the fine five times higher than the original $10,000 […]
Washington – A federal court began hearings Thursday on whether terror suspects held at the Guantanamo Bay prison can have their cases heard by ordinary U.S. courts. Lawyers for men held at the U.S. military base on Cuba – many of them for years – argued before the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington that […]
FN-korrupsjon: Russia, China and France sabotaged UN Security Council efforts to crack down on Saddam Hussein’s manipulation of the oil-for-food programme… They worked effectively to assist the Iraq dictatorship… In one 18-month period alone, Russian businessmen handed the Iraqis $52 million. Telegraph
Won’t lie down: The international community needs to make clear (…) it will put heavy pressure on Belgrade both to give up its Greater Serbia territorial aspirations and use its influence to support reform. International Crisis Group
Om skam: Tenåringsjenta Lakhmira er sikker på at hun blir drept hvis ektemannen klarer å finne henne. For bare fire måneder siden giftet den magre 15-åringen seg med en 40 år gammel mann. Nå har hun søkt tilflukt hos en lokal venstreorientert leder etter at medlemmer av mannens familie forsøkte å skjære nesen av henne. […]
