ZAGREB, Aug 21 – The daughter of the pro-Nazi Croatian leader whose regime committed massacres of Serbs and Jews during World War II said her father «never liked Nazism», a local newspaper reported Sunday. «My father never liked fascism and certainly not Nazism, but at that time, the two countries (Germany and Italy) were the […]
Les mer»JERUSALEM, Aug 21 – Israel’s foreign ministry has boycotted Arabic satellite network al-Arabiya for taking a senior Israeli official off the air by request of a Lebanese commentator, a ministry spokesman said on Sunday. The Dubai-based channel halted an Aug. 17 interview with Lior Ben Dor, deputy manager of the ministry’s Arab media department, after […]
Les mer»PRAGUE, Aug 21 – Former Polish communist strongman, Wojciech Jaruzelski, on Sunday apologized to the Czech Republic and Slovakia for Poland’s role in the Soviet-led invasion in August 1968 that crushed a pro-democracy movement. «I have felt bad, I have been tormented by that,» said Jaruzelski during a broadcast on Czech public television, 37 years […]
Les mer»PARIS, Aug 21 – The head of the French television channel France 3 said Sunday he was increasingly concerned about the fate of one of the network’s journalists, who was kidnapped in Gaza August 14 and has not been heard from since….. Mohammed Ouathi, 46, a soundman, was kidnapped by three armed men close to […]
Les mer»DUBAI, Aug 16 – Algeria’s most feared Islamist rebel group has urged Muslims in France to attack Algerian officials whom it accuses of embezzling the country’s wealth and of stamping out Islamic values in the North African country. The call was made by the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), the 2_kommentar group still […]
Les mer»JERUSALEM, Aug 16 – Israel expects Iran to be capable of producing a nuclear weapon within three years, military intelligence chief General Aharon Zeevi told MPs at a closed-door briefing Tuesday, parliamentary sources said. «Barring an unexpected delay, Iran is going to become nuclear capable in 2008 and not in 10 years as was recently […]
Les mer»JERUSALEM, Aug 17 – Israel and the United States have signed an accord defusing a long-running dispute over Israeli arms exports to China that had soured relations with the Jewish state’s chief ally, the Israeli Defence Ministry said. Washington, which provides Israel with $2 billion in annual defence aid and is expected to help finance […]
Les mer»Bråket om FrPs valgbrosjyre bekrefter at mediene er politisk korrekte. Å hisse seg opp over at FrP mener innvandrere er overrepresentert på krimstatistikken og behandles for pent, er som å bli overrasket over at sebraen har striper, sa valgforsker Frank Årebrot idag. Å høre Venstres Thommessen si det minner om jødehets i 30-årene er å […]
Les mer»Tam: Det sier noe om hvor liten avstand det er mellom partiene når selv FrPs Per Sandberg synes Tony Blair anti-terror-tiltak går for langt! Journalistene prøver å piske frem et inntrykk av ytterliggående FrP så godt de kan, i dette tilfelle sammen med Amnestys Jon Peder Egenæs. Men faktum er snarere det motsatte: at FrP […]
Les mer»MOSCOW, Aug 15 – Russia is home to up to 50,000 skinheads, well over half the total worldwide, a Russian human rights group said in a report published Monday and quoted by the Interfax news agency. Throughout Russia 35 five major skinhead groups operate, mostly in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, and at least seven parties […]
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