Salon.com: According to Russia state news agency Interfax, the Russian navy has sent a missile cruiser to the Mediterranean in what military sources have called “routine” operations overseeing interests in […]
Source: ET “Just to gossip with him a bit we said, ‘Aren’t you going to live in the papal palace?’ and he told us ironically, ‘There? So they can rob me? No!’,” Poli was quoted as saying in a speech to the faithful on Saturday. The comments were reported by […]
Source: The Local German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said on Thursday that the International Criminal Court (ICC) should examine the use of chemical weapons in Syria. More:
Source: The Local The Christian sect, which has bases in countries around the world, and says it has several thousand members, regards both Old and New Testaments as God’s direct word. They do not send their children to public schools, choosing to educate them within the community. Parents are taught […]
Source: presstv.ir A recent study shows the name of Islam’s prophet, Mohammed, has become the most popular name for small business owners in the Italian city of Milan. The study, conducted by Milan’s Chamber of Commerce and published on Wednesday, shows that Mohammed is taking the first place over traditional Italian […]
Source: NY Times: Vladimir Putin is wrong. The Russian president’s welcome message to the participants of the G-20 summit that begins on Thursday in St. Petersburg asserts that the meeting “will confirm the G-20’s role as an efficient mechanism for coordinating the world’s leading economies’ approaches to global economy and […]
Time: In a remote Wales town, artist Judy Rodrigues sees a chance to complete a search for belonging traced through the ancient synagogues of London and Amsterdam. In Israel, retiree Sara […]
Global Post: ST PETERSBURG, Russia — Russia said on Wednesday that a military strike onSyria could have catastrophic effects if a missile hit a small reactor near Damascus that contains radioactive uranium. The […]
Source: TOI NOVO-OGARYOVO, Russia: Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the West against taking one-sided action in Syria but also said Russia “doesn’t exclude” supporting a UN resolution on punitive military strikes if it is proved that Damascus used poison gas on its own people. More:
Russia Today: The UK government’s decision to authorize the export to Syria last year of two chemicals capable of being used to make a nerve agent embodies London’s hypocrisy in […]
September 4, 2013 – 07:51 Switzerland has again been named the most competitive country in the world in an annual survey released on Wednesday by the Geneva-based World Economic Forum. […]
STOCKHOLM: Sweden on Tuesday became the first European Union country to announce it will give asylum to all Syrian refugees who apply. “All Syrian asylum seekers who apply for asylum in Sweden will get it,” Annie Hoernblad, the spokeswoman for Sweden’s migration agency, told AFP. “The agency made this decision […]
Source: The Economist: In the past some 50 cars were stolen here each year. Now it’s 350.” It’s not surprising that car-stealing gangs flock to Frankfurt: crossing the border takes just a few minutes. Polish gangs stealing German cars is nothing new. What’s new is the rapid increase of such […]
Source: secularism.org.uk The media regulator Ofcom has imposed fines on two Islamic satellite TV channels for hatemongering. Noor TV, which broadcasts from Birmingham and is aimed at young Muslims, was fined £85,000 […]
Source: The Economist: Recent years have been less glorious for the job of secretary of state, although it remains the top position in the Holy See’s administration, or curia, and is sometimes equated with “prime minister” of the Vatican. Its outgoing holder, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, seems to have allowed secretive […]
Source: NY Times: BERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Social Democratic challenger, Peer Steinbrück, returned to the campaign trail on Monday, with neither triumphant after their sole television debate, a mostly decorous 90-minute exchange that restored Mr. Steinbrück as a credible candidate but yielded a rhetorical draw.Perhaps reflecting the flickering interest […]
Two missiles detected in the Mediterranean by Russian radar on Tuesday were launched as part of an Israeli air defence drill, officials in Tel Aviv have said. Israeli defence ministry sources said the two rockets were launched as test targets for the country’s missile defence systems. The exercise was carried […]
Thousands of pupils are being packed “like sardines” into extra classes at primary schools which are struggling under a huge influx of children. Councils have been forced to implement a raft of emergency measures due to the crises caused by a baby boom, rising immigration and the fact that families […]
September 2, 2013 – 17:18 The Swiss refugee authorities say deportations of rejected Tamil asylum seekers to Sri Lanka have been temporarily suspended following reports of arrests and international criticism of the military’s increasing influence on the country’s leadership. The move was taken to avoid further arrests of Tamils upon […]
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