France’s Council of State, the country’s highest administrative court, on Monday ordered the satellite company Eutelsat to stop broadcasts of Al-Manar television, the mouthpiece of the Lebanese Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah. France’s broadcast regulator, the Higher Audiovisual Council (CSA), put the case before the court after Al-Manar broadcast a statement November 23 by a speaker […]
In widely-quoted comments in the US media Tuesday, US Senator John McCain said he had «no confidence» in Rumsfeld, and expressed disappointment that the Pentagon had not sent a greater number of US troops to help stabilize Iraq. The remarks reprised a recent television interview in which the Arizona senator said that while he could […]
Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero on Monday proposed an international pact against Islamist terrorism. Zapatero made the proposal while addressing a parliamentary commission investigating the Madrid train bombings, which killed 191 people and injured more than 1,500 on March 11. Zapatero proposed to Spain’s political and social forces to extend the current pact […]
The European Union and Iran were beginning talks Monday on giving Tehran trade, technology and security rewards for suspending crucial nuclear activities that could be used to make weapons. The process is fraught with difficulties since Iran says its suspension of uranium enrichment, a key step in making nuclear fuel, is a temporary measure designed […]
NRK1 kl.2200-23.00 Jens Bjørneboe – diktere og masochister 1/2. Av Jan Horne. Bjørneboe er ikke til å komme utenom. Men hva ville han sagt idag?
As ministers from the 25-nation bloc debated a start date and conditions for negotiations with Ankara, an opinion poll in the French daily Le Figaro showed 67 percent of French voters and 55 percent of Germans oppose Turkey joining the EU. Paradoxically, the poll found 54 percent of French people favour opening «discussions with a […]
A leading German conservative vowed on Sunday to block Turkey’s entry into the European Union, raising the heat on a domestic debate days before a landmark EU vote on the issue. Christian Social Union (CSU) party leader Edmund Stoiber made the comments a day after Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan accused the German opposition of […]
The United States, backed by 30 other nations, asked the U.N. General Assembly on Friday to convene a special session next month to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps. All 25 nations of the European Union, Russia, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Israel joined Washington in calling for a […]
NRK2 kl.21.50-22.35: Filmen om Stanley Kubricks liv, del 1. Verden ville ikke vært den samme uten Stanley K.
In Germany, police arrested three Iraqis in a series of raids on Friday and the federal prosecutor, Kay Nehm, said he believed they were planning an attack on visiting Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi. Nehm told a news conference the arrests were made after police in southwest Germany intercepted a series of increasingly «hectic» telephone […]
