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 […]
Les mer»NRK2 kl.21.50-22.35: Filmen om Stanley Kubricks liv, del 1. Verden ville ikke vært den samme uten Stanley K.
Les mer»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 […]
Les mer»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.
Les mer»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 […]
Les mer»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 […]
Les mer»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 […]
Les mer»Chicago Tribune har en lang serie de kaller Struggle for the soul of islam. Meget lesverdig.
Les mer»Jewish groups have objected to a French government decision to allow the television arm of Lebanon’s Hizbollah guerrillas to continue broadcasting to Europe using a French satellite operator. The CRIF umbrella group of French Jewish organisations accused the government of failing to protect citizens from broadcasts by Hizbollah’s al-Manar TV, which CRIF says includes anti-Semitic […]
Les mer»Tayssir Alluni, reporter for Al Jazeera, ble igjen tatt i varetekt av spansk politi torsdag. Alluni er mistenkt for å være bindeledd til Al Qaida. Han ble første gang arrestert i september 2003. Alluni dekket krigen i Afghanistan, og hadde eksklusive reportasjer og intervjuer med bin Laden. Al Jazeera har backet ham opp og anklaget […]
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