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 […]
Les mer»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 […]
Les mer»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 […]
Les mer»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 […]
Les mer»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
Les mer»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
Les mer»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. […]
Les mer»TEHRAN, Sept 3 – Energy-hungry India said on Saturday it would push on with plans to build a $7 billion gas pipeline from Iran, undaunted by the increasing threat of United Nations sanctions against Tehran. The International Atomic Energy Agency on Friday said questions re2_kommentared about Tehran’s atomic activities and confirmed Iran had resumed its […]
Les mer»LONDON, Sept 3 – Mosques in Britain will attract twice as many faithful as churches by 2040, according to a study on the future of religious belief carried out by the British-based association Christian Research. The study estimated that the proportion of British nationals describing themselves as Christian in recent official surveys would go down […]
Les mer»ISLAMABAD, Sept 3 – Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf defended on Saturday his government’s talks with Israel, saying this was in accordance with the tenets of Islam. Pakistani Foreign Minister Khursheed Mehmood Kasuri on Thursday met with his Israeli counterpart Silvan Shalom in Istanbul in the first publicly acknowledged high-level contact between the predominantly Muslim nation […]
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