" Militants are systematically targeting and killing teachers in Pakistan's south-western province of Balochistan, says Human Rights Watch. At least 22 teachers were killed in the province between January 2008 and October 2010, says a report released by the organisation. ...
The Scottish National Party is barely clinging to power today after it was unable to pass a £33 billion budget in the Scottish Parliament. The party was swept into power only recently as it won a narrow...
created by Dave Keating | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 203 views | 18 recommendations | 4 comments
It's an obvious point but here is another story that proves that terrorists come from all and every religion. I have a friend who defends the practice of racial and religious profiling at Israeli airports. I wonder what he makes of this."Israel Prize winner Zeev...
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" 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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That the organizaton is "unlikely to be based on anti-semitism" isn't the point-- hating Jews was only part of what made the Nazis (and other fascists) so egregious. They murdered millions and millions of non-Jews, too, as well as eschewing science and reason for...