Syrian police killed two Islamists and arrested another in a clash with a cell that had planned terror acts in and around Damascus, the official news agency reported on Friday. The agency said a policeman was killed and another was injured in a shootout with the group near Damascus. It said the group is called […]
Journalister tror de er profesjonelle, men i Rahila-saken vises personlige idiosynkrasier frem for all verden. For journalister må det være nesten som å gå naken. Men de er lykkelig uvitende om det. Det samme er redaksjonene. Man ser hvordan fristelsen til å kjøre sympati for ofrene flere ganger slår gjennom, som når den arresterte farens […]
A Chinese and a Palestinian worker were killed in an attack by Palestinian militants Tuesday on the Jewish settlement Ganei Tal in the southern Gaza Strip, the Israeli army said. Hamas and Islamic Jihad both claimed responsibility for the attack which hit the greenhouses of the settlement. Five other people were also wounded in the […]
For the record: Gazprom har kjøpt seg opp til kontroll med Izvestija: Commentators immediately interpreted the deal as a further strengthening of government control of the media, which has seen many of its initial post-Soviet freedoms curtailed during President Vladimir Putin’s five years in power. Gazprom, which controls 20 percent of the world’s natural gas […]
Over hele den muslimske/arabiske verden ser det ut til å pågå en krig mellom frihetslengtende krefter og undertrykkende. Det går ikke en dag uten at noen må ofre livet. Det spenner fra innflytelsesrike enkeltpersoner, som journalisten Samir Kassir i Libanon, eller Sheikh Mohammad Maashouq al-Khaznawi i Syria, til navnløse kvinner og menn i Sudan. Der […]
«But either it (the euro) is reformed, and the central European Bank kick-starts growth by lowering interest rates and pursuing a more American-style monetary policy, or the euro will explode in mid-air.» Nicolas Dupont-Aignant, partifelle av Jacques Chirac
Srebrenica; de sier serberne er i sjokk over videoen. De har hittil kunnet fortrenge anklagene som propaganda. Over halvparten mente før videoen at Srebrenica var bare tull. Ikke kom og si at det ikke er noe som heter kollektiv skyld! Videoen åpner typisk nok med at en prest velsigner morderne før de skal ut på […]
The Iranian state television network IRIB has prohibited the presence of a reformist spokeswoman in a televised debate on the presidential elections, the news agency ISNA reported Monday. Elaheh Kulaie, the spokeswoman for reformist candidate Mostafa Moein, was not allowed to attend a debate with spokesmen for the other seven candidates. «Just because she is […]
Det vi ikke ser har vi en tendens til å ignorere. Eller: vi later som det ikke er noen sammenheng, ved å la være å stille begivenhter ved siden av hverandre. Jeg sikter til rekken av selvmordsangrep mot shia-muslimske moskeer og kristne steder, i Afghanistan, Pakistan og Indonesia. Det er tydelig at det krefter i […]
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said in an interview aired on Sunday that the era of suicide bombings may be over. «We have started to deal with the culture of violence,» he said. «We stopped the culture of violence and the Palestinian people have started looking at it as something that should be condemned and […]
