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 […]
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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 […]
Kristne kirker har ingen juridisk sikret stilling i Tyrkia, og det er uholdbart, sier lederen av det katolske bisperådet i Tyskland, Karl Lehmann til Bild am Sonntag. Lehmann sier moskeer og andre gudshus er beskyttet av loven i Tyskland. Han mener det er et godt stykke igjen før Tyrkia kan bli medelem av EU.
A network of Syrian mosques is sending men, money and weapons to Iraq, fuelling the insurgency. An investigation by the Telegraph has shown that Arab volunteers are streaming across the border despite Damascus government claims that it is curbing cross-border terrorism. Insurgents can earn £1,600 a month fighting in Iraq Much of the traffic is […]
The two French journalists taken hostage more than 100 days ago in Iraq are alive and in good spirits, according to a Sunday newspaper. The Sunday Times said it had a CD-rom recording in which Christian Chesnot says he and his fellow reporter Georges Malbrunot are being well treated by their captors. The newspaper said […]
Pakistani authorities have banned the latest issue of Newsweek magazine for publishing material they said was offensive to Islam, it was reported yesterday. A government official in Islamabad had ordered the «forfeiture of all copies of the weekly Newsweek of November 22», the state-run agency Associated Press of Pakistan reported. It did not name the […]
Chicago Tribune har en lang serie de kaller Struggle for the soul of islam. Meget lesverdig.
