The Armenians were not participating in Israel's official ceremonies to remember the six million Jewish dead, murdered by the Germans between 1939 and 1945, perhaps because Israel officially refuses to acknowledge that Armenia's million and a half dead of 1915-1923 were victims of a Turkish Holocaust. Israeli-Turkish diplomatic and military relations are more important than genocide. Or were. More...
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The Penampang Native Court found them guilty, following the wife's complaint against them last year.
Now, the court fined the man RM1,000 and ordered him to pay compensation of a buffalo or RM1,500 to his wife. More...
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“You cannot make history disappear just by drawing a veil over it,” the council said in its statement. “We, the local authority, also believe we have a duty to preserve memory.” More...
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On Friday, for the one-mile journey from home to his Delhi office, Dr Pachauri could have walked, or cycled, or used the eco-friendly electric car provided for him, known in the UK as G-Wiz. More...
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Pas d'interdiction mais une limitation. Le gouvernement annonce dans un communiqué que la burqa et le niqab n'ont pas leur place dans la société danoise, il faut donc en limiter l'usage au maximum. Suite...
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«Il n'est donc pas permis de s'approprier cette tragédie pour faire de la propagande», a ajouté le prélat de 75 ans, qui fut ami du pape polonais Jean Paul II, en affirmant qu'il «n'est pas historiquement vrai que dans les camps de concentration ce sont seulement des Juifs qui sont morts». «Il y a eu beaucoup de Polonais, mais cette vérité aujourd'hui est souvent ignorée», a-t-il poursuivi. Suite...
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Après le meurtre d’un étudiant Indien en Australie le 02 janvier dernier, un autre Indien a été grièvement brûlé hier après une attaque à Melbourne. D’après la police, cette dernière victime se trouve actuellement dans un état stable.
En Australie, les Indiens, surtout les étudiants, reste la cible d’agressions dans ce pays. De beau matin ce samedi, un autre jeune indien de 29 ans a été agressé dans la banlieue de Melbourne alors qu'il garait son véhicule après une soirée avec des amis. Il souffre de brûlures sur 15% de son corps. Suite...
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La commissaire européenne Viviane Reding, qui s'apprête à troquer le portefeuille des nouvelles technologies contre celui de la justice, a annoncé cette semaine une révision prochaine de l'actuelle directive (loi) européenne sur la protection des données. Celle-ci date de 1995, avant l'essor d'internet. Et depuis "le monde a changé", a souligné la commissaire, évoquant notamment les réseaux sociaux tel Facebook ou le profilage des internautes à des fins publicitaires. Suite...
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Les dix personnes appréhendées, cinq hommes et cinq femmes, ont été appréhendées, en compagnie de 31 enfants, âgés de 2 mois à 12 ans, à proximité de la frontière dominicaine par un commissaire de police haïtien, a précisé le ministre. "C'est un vol, ce n'est pas une adoption", a affirmé le ministre, précisant que "pour quitter Haïti un enfant a besoin d'une autorisation de l'Institut du bien-être social qui s'occupe des cas d'adoption". Suite...
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"She asked me to have her husband while she continues her relationship with my husband," the mother of two, who only wanted to be identified as Kiew, told police. More...
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"This is an abduction, not an adoption," said Christallin. More...
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To determine a nation's quota of wrath, the researchers examined levels of violent crime by comparing incidents of assault, rape and murder per 1000 people. More...
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"Palestine" is no more. Call it a "peace process" or a "road map"; blame it on Barack Obama's weakness, his pathetic, childish admission – like an optimistic doctor returning a sick child to its parents without hope of recovery – that a Middle East peace was "more difficult" to reach than he imagined.
But the dream of a "two-state" Israeli-Palestinian solution, a security-drenched but noble settlement to decades of warfare between Israelis and Palestinians is as good as dead.
Both the United States and Europe now stand idly by while the Israeli government effectively destroys any hope of a Palestinian state; even as you read these words, Israel's bulldozers and demolition orders are destroying the last chance of peace; not only in the symbolic centre of Jerusalem itself but – strategically, far more important – in 60 per cent of the vast, biblical lands of the occupied West Bank, in that largest sector in which Jews now outnumber Muslims two to one. More...
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France is already considering outlawing burqas and Miss Carfagna believes other European countries will follow suit. More...
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The pupils will mark their fingerprints every time they go to church over three years and if they attend 200 masses they will be freed from the obligation of having to pass an exam prior to their confirmation, the paper said.
The pupils in the southern town of Gryfow Slaski told the daily they liked the idea and also the priest, Grzegorz Sowa, who invented it. More...
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The al Qaida leader blamed the US and other industrialised nations for climate change and said the only way to prevent disaster was to break the American economy, calling on the world to boycott US goods and stop using the dollar.
"The effects of global warming have touched every continent. Drought and deserts are spreading, while from the other floods and hurricanes unseen before the previous decades have now become frequent," bin Laden said in the tape, aired on the Arab TV network Al-Jazeera. More...
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Earlier this week, India's External Affairs Minister SM Krishna met his Australian counterpart in London and asked him to contain the "unprovoked attacks" against Indians. Last year, more than a 100 Indians were attacked in Australia. More...
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The airport in the capital, Port-au-Prince, is now an American military base and relief flights have been re-routed to the Dominican Republic. All flights stopped for three hours for the arrival of Hillary Clinton. Critically injured Haitians waited unaided as 800 American residents in Haiti were fed, watered and evacuated. Six days passed before the US Air Force dropped bottled water to people suffering thirst and dehydration. More...
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According to Cristina she spent “a fantastic, fantastic weekend”. But “oops, should not have said that, Kirchner is going to kill me when I get back to Olivos (presidential residence)”. More...
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“I feel it is personal,” said Ummi with a smile. More...
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Well, not to his spokesman. “It has been an old practice of Mr Zardari to offer Sadqa (animal sacrifice). He has been doing this for a long time,” spokesman Farhatullah Babar told Dawn on Tuesday.
But his detractors, who want to see him out of the Presidency, would see in his new-found religiosity a sign of nervousness in the wake of the scrapping of the NRO. More...
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Socially ostracized, discriminated against and facing cool disregard from the authorities, this community of an estimated 60 – 70,000 Coptic Christians migrated from remote regions of Egypt in the 1950’s, settling on low-value land on Cairo’s eastern edge. Now known as the Zabaleen, an Arabic phrase which means quite literally “garbage people”, the community has evolved into a hardworking and self-sustaining people offering an informal yet highly-organised service to homes and businesses throughout the city. For generations, garbage has represented an asset to them as they have pursued the invaluable harvesting and hand-sorting of the 15,000 tonnes of rotting domestic refuse produced every day by the city’s 17.8 million residents. More...
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J.D. Salinger, the legendary author, youth hero and fugitive from fame whose "The Catcher in the Rye" shocked and inspired a world he increasingly shunned, has died. He was 91.
Salinger died of natural causes at his home on Wednesday, the author's son said in a statement from Salinger's literary representative. He had lived for decades in self-imposed isolation in the small, remote house in Cornish, N.H.
"The Catcher in the Rye," with its immortal teenage protagonist, the twisted, rebellious Holden Caulfield, came out in 1951, a time of anxious, Cold War conformity and the dawn of modern adolescence. The Book-of-the-Month Club, which made "Catcher" a featured selection, advised that for "anyone who has ever brought up a son" the novel will be "a source of wonder and delight — and concern." More...
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A drunken unemployed plasterer who was found urinating on the French loaves section of a large supermarket in protest at the infamous handball incident in the France vs Ireland World Cup qualifier, was this week given a suspended sentence, fined and bound over to keep the peace.
Frances "Smokie" Larkin, The Meadows, Killareagh, Co Roscommon pleaded guilty to the incident at Maher's ValueStore supermarket, Killareagh, one week after the match which Ireland controversially drew after the French goal was deemed to have scored despite a blatant handball by French striker Thierry Henry.
Staff found the 46-year-old urinating on the Cuisine de France section of the bread shelves in Maher's, shouting "this will teach ye, ye cheating French bastards," before he was taken away by local gardai. More...
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She says yoga helped her deal with the shock of witnessing and surviving genocide. More...
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According to Agence France-Press (AFP), "The US military is ramping up its mission in quake-hit Haiti, with 20,000 US troops expected to operate on ground and offshore by Sunday [January 24], the US commander overseeing the region said." More...
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The octogenarian Holocaust survivor, who embarked on a 10-day tour of the UK and Ireland, called Israel "the world champion in pretending to be civilized and cultured." More...
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Waukesha County Reserve Judge Neal Nettesheim brought Kiyo Clemons forward on a case of issuing a worthless check.
"When I called the case, she came forward with her lawyer and with a young baby," said Judge Nettesheim. More...Don't miss:
The Indonesian government has announced plans to sell tigers as pets for £67,000 a pair in what it claims is a move to protect the critically endangered species.
However, environmental groups have criticised the scheme as a money-making scam that will do nothing to save tigers, which face an increased risk from poachers on the eve of the Chinese Year of the Tiger.
Three people have already applied to follow in the footsteps of Michael Jackson and Mike Tyson and keep a tiger as a pet. More...
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Churchgoers have launched a campaign against advertisements for an extramarital dating service, after the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) refused to intervene.
A Facebook group, Stop marital affair.co.uk advertising publicly in the UK, has gained more than 1,000 members in its first two days.
Jon Kuhrt, who works for a Christian charity in London, created the protest group after the ASA declined to act on his complaint about a billboard in Merton which read: "HELLO GIRLS. Get instant excitement at MARITALAFFAIR.co.uk."
The advertisement, which also featured a picture of a man with no shirt on and a bra slung over his shoulder, are for a website which claims to deliver "uncomplicated adult fun" for "bored housewives looking for a bit on the side". More...
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In 2008-09, 9,088 Indians became Australian citizens. So have the spate of attacks on Indians and the ensuing media publicity impacted their life? More...
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In handing down his decision, judge Mohd Radzi Abd Latif ordered that the case be tried and fixed March 23 and March 24 for the hearing which would be held in a closed-court, Bernama reported. More...
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It based the claims on an unpublished report that had not been subjected to routine scientific scrutiny — and ignored warnings from scientific advisers that the evidence supporting the link too weak. The report's own authors later withdrew the claim because they felt the evidence was not strong enough.
The claim by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), that global warming is already affecting the severity and frequency of global disasters, has since become embedded in political and public debate. It was central to discussions at last month's Copenhagen climate summit, including a demand by developing countries for compensation of $100 billion (£62 billion) from the rich nations blamed for creating the most emissions. More...
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Anand said Khusboo had only asked questions about pre-marital sex and AIDS. Terming these as part of her right to freedom of speech and expression, she read out a part of the interview -- "none of the educated people will insist that their bride be a virgin". More...
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Le Vénézuéla est l’un des plus grands producteurs mondiaux de pétrole. Suite...
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Le juge a précisé que le professeur avait refusé de pardonner l'adolescente, qui ne fera pas appel. Suite...
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"Au milieu de la tragédie haïtienne, sans que personne ne sache comment ni pourquoi, des milliers de soldats des unités des Marines des Etats-Unis, des troupes aéroportées de la 82e Division et d'autres forces militaires ont occupé le territoire d'Haïti", écrit l'ancien président cubain dans un communiqué sur le site internet officiel Cubadebate.cu. Suite...
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La consommation de viande de chat ou de chien, répandue dans le pays car elle est censée favoriser une bonne température corporelle, pourrait valoir aux Chinois une amende de 5 000 yuans (500 euros) et jusqu'à 15 jours de prison, a rapporté le Chongqing Evening News. Suite...
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How the French deal with an overturned truck!!!
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La gestion de l'épidémie de grippe A (H1N1) en Europe n'a pas fini de faire des vagues. Si la France est en tête des pays ayant engagé le plus de moyens, tous ou presque sur le Vieux Continent ont commandé trop de vaccin et essayent aujourd'hui de les revendre. L'analyse critique des processus de décision dans cette affaire est désormais indispensable pour en tirer des enseignements. Face à des systèmes de santé en déficit chronique, l'analyse du rapport coût/bénéfice des choix de santé va s'imposer de plus en plus, y compris dans les pays riches. Suite...
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«Pour beaucoup de ceux qui ont participé au scrutin, il ne s’agissait pas d’un vote contre les musulmans», a expliqué le politologue Hans Hirter de l’Université de Berne, lundi lors de la présentation des résultats de l’analyse Vox. En effet, bien que 57% des votants aient approuvé l’interdiction, le sondage montre en même temps qu’environ deux tiers des citoyens estiment que les modes de vie des musulmans et des Suisses sont compatibles. Suite...
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A bomoh and his male accomplice suspected to be involved in a RM750,000 scam were arrested on Friday in swift action by the police from the Commercial Crime Investigation Department.
The mode of operation of the duo was to ask their victim to ‘deposit’ some money into a small coffin, to supposedly enable any sickness or disease to be cured.
The suspects, aged 35 and 47, were picked up at their homes at 11th Mile and 3rd Mile here respectively after an investigation led by Kuching Commercial Crime head ASP Dzulkarnain Hazmi. More...
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A 16-year-old girl who was raped in Bangladesh has been given 101 lashes for conceiving during the assault.
The girl's father was also fined and warned the family would be branded outcasts from their village if he did not pay.
According to human rights activists, the girl, who was quickly married after the attack, was divorced weeks later after medical tests revealed she was pregnant. More...
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On November 29, 57.5% of votes cast were in favour of the people's initiative, much to general surprise. Switzerland is the first European country to forbid the construction of minarets. More...
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That’s because Costa Ricans, asked to rate their own happiness on a 10-point scale, average 8.5. Denmark is next at 8.3, the United States ranks 20th at 7.4 and Togo and Tanzania bring up the caboose at 2.6. More...
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