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 […]
Les mer»Inshallah: No such inhibitions constrain today’s Islamic extremists. The Associated Press reported that they «rejoiced in America’s misfortune, giving the storm a military rank and declaring in internet chatter that ‘Private’ Katrina had joined the global jihad. With God’s help, they declared, oil prices would hit $100-a-barrel this year.» Niall Ferguson
Les mer»THE HAGUE, Sept 2 – A Dutch businessman accused of genocide for supplying chemicals to the former Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein was aware his shipments would be used in deadly attacks on civilians, according to testimony presented before a war crimes tribunal here on Friday. Frans Van Anraat, 62, the first Dutch national to […]
Les mer»DEAUVILLE, France, Sept 3 – A documentary tackling an anti-Jewish lie that spread around the world after September 11, 2001 screened at a French film festival celebrating American film Saturday. The filmmaker, Marc Levin, told AFP he hoped his movie «The Protocols of Zion» would help dispel the myth — widely believed in Arab countries […]
Les mer»Meget sterke reportasjer på BBC ikveld fra New Orleans og omegn. Ikke på langt nær samme katastrofestemning på NRK. Derfra blir det lett klisjeer fordi de ikke har noe med ressurser til å reise rundt på stedet. Hvorfor kunne de ikke bare sendt BBC-storyene, tekstet? Bildene av vandrende folkemasser på vei ut av byen minnet […]
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