BRUSSELS, Oct 12 – Europe must not be blinded by potential economic rewards in Russia and ignore the absence of democracy there, a leading Russian opposition politician said on Wednesday. Grigory Yavlinsky, leader of the liberal Yabloko party, said the European Union’s talks with Russia to build closer ties glossed over Moscow’s failure to respect […]
San Jose, California – Apple CEO Steve Jobs on Wednesday took the wraps off the company’s eagerly-awaited video iPod, the latest model of the portable digital player that now becomes a mobile multimedia platform capable of processing video content, still images and audio files. The new gadgets will go on sale next week priced at […]
GAZA, Oct 12 – Palestinian gunmen briefly kidnapped an American reporter and a British photographer in Gaza on Wednesday in the latest sign of growing lawlessness in the coastal strip following Israel’s pullout last month. The two men working for Knight Ridder newspapers were seized by assailants who stopped their car near the town of […]
Tyrkia: Siden jeg refset EU for å innlede forhandlinger med et land som har et ikke-erkjent folkemord på samvittigheten, er det riktig å opplyste at Europa-parlamentet har stilt som betingelse for medlemskap at Tyrkia erkjenner folkemordet på armenerne.
Undertegnede har vært to dager i Mostar, hvor det ikke har vært mulig å komme inn på gprs-nettet. Det er derfor blitt tynt med skriving. Regner med å være i full sving fra i kveld.
Auto-rasisme: We hear endlessly about «systemic racism» in British institutions, but the really rampant contagion seems to be systemic auto-racism, a psychologically unhealthy predisposition to believe the worst only about one’s own culture. Mark Steyn
Uten slør: TUNISIA HAR har hatt slørforbud i offentlige stillinger i snart 40 år, og kan vise til et forbløffende positivt resultat på de aller fleste områder innen utdanning, likestilling og arbeidssituasjon for begge kjønn. (…) På mange måter kan en si at Tunisia har kommet betydelig lengre i sin likestillings- og integreringsprosess enn Norge […]
Iran’s new hardline president has placed his country’s nuclear programme under the control of militant commanders of the Revolutionary Guards, the military’s most committed wing. telegraph
NRK: – Det forbauser meg at NRK ikke har en klar avtale med hovedkilden i en så ømfintlig sak som denne. Det kan ikke karakteriseres som noe annet enn amatørmessig, sier Odd Raaum, tidligere lærer ved Journalistutdanningen i Oslo og forfatter av flere bøker om presseetikk. Morgenbladet
JERUSALEM, Oct. 7 – A senior official in the Palestinian intelligence service was kidnapped and shot Thursday night in the Gaza Strip, then dumped in a street in Beit Lahiya with serious wounds, the newspaper Haaretz reported Friday. Later Thursday, three Hamas officials were abducted in the West Bank in apparent response. (nytimes)
