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 […]
Les mer»KUWAIT, Aug 31 – Iraq criticised the Arab League on Wednesday for not playing a more active role in the country, accusing it of paying lip service rather than exerting efforts to help Iraqis. «We spent more than two years demanding the League play a key, pragmatic, perceptible and enterprising role, but did not hear […]
Les mer»DUBAI, Aug 31- The Al-Qaeda group of Iraq’s most wanted man Abu Musab al-Zarqawi vowed in an Internet statement published Wednesday it would avenge deadly US air strikes in Iraq on suspected militant hideouts. «The American crusader forces, enemies of God, carried out an odious crime against the Muslims of Al-Qaim,» said a statement in […]
Les mer»WASHINGTON, Sept 1 – Scores of detainees are on hunger strike at the Guantanamo US ‘war on terror’ detention camp, lawyers for the detainees and US military authorities said Thursday. Lawyers for the inmates said at least 210 men had been on hunger strike for the last three weeks. Military officials at Guantanamo said there […]
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