" 2008-09-12 15:45:02 - COLOGNE, Germany (AP) - A nationalist German group said Friday it has invited leading members of the European right to take part in a «anti-Islamification» conference against the...
After being arrested on 21 july Serbian leader Radovan Karadzic has been transfered to war tribunal court in the Hague. 63 years old former serbian leader was hiding for 13 years and had changed his...
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"At least 40 people have been injured in religious clashes on a remote delta island in India's eastern state of West Bengal, police say. Fifteen of those injured in the clashes on Sagar island, at the confluence of the Ganges and the sea, were policemen. Supporters of the...
The UK's fisheries minister, Jonathan Shaw, has formally warned theScottish executive that in his opinion the moratorium on fishing quotes is illegal and not allowed under devolution rules. The Scottish Parliament is...
As Spain's socialists are reelected, Malta's conservative government is also kept in power in another extreemly close vote." Malta's conservative Nationalist Party, in power in the tiny Mediterranean state for most...
The political turmoil surrounding Kosovo's declaration of independence continues as Serbia's PM resigns."Serbia's Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica has announced his resignation and called for new elections.
The...
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The Guardian reports that more than a dozen people have been arrested in connection with a planned assassination of Nobel Prize-winning Turkish author, Orhan Pamuk. Pamuk is an internationally respected author and...
"Quebec City was a cobblestone key to establishing a European settlement in North America, but its 400th birthday is approaching with the stealth of Gen. James Wolfe's infantry scaling the city's cliffs some 250...
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"ONE in seven core civil-service jobs in the Scottish Government is to be cut under plans to deal with the spending squeeze being imposed on Scotland by the UK Treasury.
Scotland's mandarins are planning to reduce...
"Protester killed in 'neo-Nazi' attack on eco-camp | Russia | Guardian Unlimited: "One eco-activist was killed and five others were seriously injured at the weekend when a gang of young men shouting nationalist...
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"Distorted by today’s political lenses, European historical memory selectively focuses on past violence perpetrated by Muslims and either forgets Europe’s cultural borrowings from Muslim societies, or regards them as unimportant remnants of a closed chapter in...
- Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr appeared in public for the
first time in months on Friday, delivering a fiery anti-American sermon
to thousands of followers and demanding U.S. troops leave
Iraq."It...
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May 24, 2007
Sunni Resistance Receptive to Sadr Alliance
by Gareth Porter
Nationalist Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's bid to unite Sunnis and Shi'ites on the basis of a common demand for withdrawal of U.S. occupation forces, reported last weekend by the Washington Post's...
THE bloody field of the Boyne became a haven of peace yesterday when Ian Paisley and Bertie Ahern shook hands on the site of the 17th-century battle.Northern Ireland's new First Minister spent decades refusing to talk to the leaders of the Republic.But a relaxed Paisley...
"The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's strongest opposition group, said on Wednesday it will boycott a referendum on constitutional amendments it says aim to block it from mainstream politics and stifle freedoms. The Brotherhood said it did not want to give legitimacy to next...