The mid-term elections have swept the Democrats to power in both houses of Congress. But the vote is a protest against the Republicans.Mark Alexander
They're calling it a Blue Wave, a sweeping rejection for President Bush. A re-alignment of the political makeup of the United States. In handing power over from one party to the other, just what did American voters really say on Tuesday?
The War in Iraq - change course. The people who run the country in Washington - throw the bums out. The direction of the country - terrible. Protest vote turns the tide 'A point of view' by Tim Egan
Monday, November 13, 2006
The US and UK can't do it alone, so now they call on Syria nd Iran! If this isn't appeasement, what is? What hope have they got now of stopping Iran get the nuclear bomb?
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BBC: Britain's policy towards Iran and Syria has not softened, Downing Street says, despite the prime minister's call for them to help bring stability to Iraq.Mark Alexander
In a major foreign policy speech in London, Tony Blair said a "whole Middle East" policy includes co-operation with the two states.
But his spokesman insisted that did not mean offering new concessions to the governments in Tehran and Damascus. 'No softening' on Iran and Syria
Blair für Gespräche mit Syrien und Iran
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DAILY MAIL: Behind the handsome façade of Bishopthorpe Palace there is a maze of cold and shabby offices. It is here that the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, is wrestling with the spiritual decay in Britain.Mark Alexander
It is his job, he believes, to defend the 72 per cent of Britons who described themselves as Christians in the last census against the prevailing secularism of the 'chattering classes.'
It has fallen to a Ugandan, educated by Christian missionaries to take up the sword. In a speech he attacked the 'illiberal atheists, who, under the cloak of secularism, insist that Religion must be a private matter.' Archbishop blames 'chattering classes' for collapse of Britain's spiritual life by SARAH SANDS
Muslims in Britain, fearing the growth of far-right extremism, have helped their Christian counterparts to launch a broadside on politicians and town halls that play down Christmas.Photo courtesy of The Telegraph
THE TELEGRAPH: Muslim leaders joined their Christian counterparts yesterday to launch a powerful attack on politicians and town halls that play down Christmas.Mark Alexander
They warned that attempts to remove religion from the festival were fuelling Right-wing extremism. Leave Christmas alone, say Muslims by Jonathan Petre
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DAILY MAIL: She has been dubbed Iran's Paris Hilton after appearing in a sex video on the internet.Mark Alexander
But while Paris's exploits propelled her to worldwide stardom, Zahra Amir Ebrahimi faces ruin, a public lashing and even a jail term.
Ebrahimi is one of the best-known actresses in the strict Islamic country and made the 20-minute sex tape privately with her boyfriend on a camcorder at the flat they shared two years ago.
Unbeknown to her, it was posted on the internet and widely released as a DVD - angering millions in Iran. Outrage in Iran as actress does a "Paris" and her sex video ends up on the net by Richard Creasy
THE TELEGRAPH: Besides his penchant for champagne and singing outmoded French songs, far-Right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen is known to like a practical joke.Mark Alexander
So when he strode purposefully out of his private office at the National Front's presidential convention outside Paris this weekend towards the press tent, camera crews in tow, nobody seemed overly surprised when he veered off at the last minute into the lavatory.
The cameras were still rolling when he reappeared with a grin, chin jutting forth, to carry on with the presidential show.
At 78, Mr Le Pen can afford such low farce: his popularity ratings have never been better.
An IFOP poll in this weekend's Le Monde showed that 18 per cent of the French say they will "definitely" vote for the National Front chief.
That is nine points more than at the same period before the 2002 election, in which he horrified Europe by coming second to Jacques Chirac. No longer a joke – France is having to take Le Pen's threat seriously by Henry Samuel
Le Pen pledges
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"Skin heads and uniform-wearers are already a minority. The convention participants were well-kept, well-dressed people from all levels of German society." - Eldad Beck
YNET: BERLIN - Decades after World War II, Germany isn't the same Germany, but whoever came across the neo-Nazi convention Saturday in Berlin couldn't help but sense a slight chill crawl up his back.Mark Alexander
And yet, just as the hall in Munich in the 20s of the previous century was too small to contain the ambitions of a former corporal, the venue in the worker's quarter of Berlin is seen as just a starting point for the former paratrooper and current chairman of the neo-Nazi party.
"One day we will control this country, and not from some remote town, but from Berlin," declared National Democratic Party (NPD) Chairman Udo Voigt at the convention. The declaration received roaring applause from those in attendance. NeoNazis: One day we'll control Germany by Eldad Back
YNET: Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's daughter Dana told Army Radio on Sunday that the struggle of the homosexual community in Israel has just began, charging that the community's rights remain violated.Mark Alexander
"There is a continuing history of violence and hatred, there is homophobia. Coming out of the closet is not a one-time struggle," Dana, a lesbian, said. PM's daughter slams lack of support for gay parade
BBC: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has warned that hanging former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein will lead to even more bloodshed in Iraq.Mark Alexander
A Baghdad court condemned Saddam Hussein to death on Sunday for the killing of 148 Shia Muslims after a 1982 assassination attempt against him.
Mr Mubarak said hanging the former president would only exacerbate ethnic and sectarian divisions between Iraqis. Mubarak warns on Saddam execution
BBC: UN Secretary General Kofi Annan will be presented with a plan of action on Monday to ease increasing polarisation of Muslim and Western societies.Mark Alexander
The report is by a group of prominent international figures, including Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu and ex-Iranian president Mohammad Khatami.
They have been brought together under the United Nations initiative, the Alliance of Civilisations. UN tries to heal religious divide by Sarah Rainsford
Alliance of Civilizations
Sunday, November 12, 2006
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BBC: Sir Elton John has said he would like to see all organised religion banned and accused it of trying to "turn hatred towards gay people".Mark Alexander
Organised religion lacked compassion and turned people into "hateful lemmings", he told the Observer.
But the musician said he loved the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it which he had learned at Sunday school. Sir Elton: Ban organised religion
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Mark AlexanderIn deep gratitude: Remembering those who died for our liberty.
WATCH VIDEO: Remembrance Day ceremony
WATCH VIDEO: Ceremony honours war dead
Saturday, November 11, 2006
BBC: Thousands of Turks have demonstrated in support of secularism during the funeral of the veteran statesman Bulent Ecevit in the capital Ankara.Mark Alexander
"Turkey is secular and will remain secular," crowds chanted as his coffin reached the city's main mosque.
They also booed the arrival of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose party has its roots in political Islam. Chants as Turks bury ex-PM Ecevit
Turkey holds Ecevit funeral
"We will not rest from our jihad until ... we have blown up the filthiest house -- which is called the White House" - al-Muhajir (Abu Ayyub al-Masri)Mark Alexander
THE WASHINGTON TIMES: BAGHDAD -- The head of al Qaeda's Iraq operations yesterday gloated in a new audio tape over the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and praised U.S. voters for punishing President Bush and the Republicans in Tuesday's midterm elections.
Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, in the first public statement by a senior al Qaeda figure since the vote, said in an Internet-posted recording that his group now had 22,000 armed fighters and reserves in Iraq and taunted Mr. Bush not to copy Mr. Rumsfeld and "flee the battlefield."
Al-Muhajir, also known as Abu Ayyub al-Masri, urged the United States to stay in Iraq so his group would have more opportunities to kill American troops. Al Qaeda gloats over U.S. election by Christopher Bodeen
CNN: BERLIN, Germany (Reuters) -- German neo-Nazis, some shouting "Sieg Heil," rampaged in the eastern city of Frankfurt on Oder and destroyed wreaths placed to mark the anniversary of the 1938 Nazi pogrom against the Jews, police said on Friday.Mark Alexander
A police spokeswoman said the group had launched an attack on Thursday evening, shortly after a memorial service by community and Jewish leaders at a monument where a synagogue once stood.
She said the neo-Nazis trampled floral wreaths placed at a memorial stone to the synagogue in the Polish border city that was destroyed 68 years ago in the Nazis' Kristallnacht or "Night of Broken Glass." Neo-Nazis attack Jewish memorial
CNN: MUNICH, Germany (AP) -- Nearly 70 years after Adolf Hitler declared Munich's main synagogue an "eyesore" in the center of his power base and personally ordered it torn down, the city's Jews are celebrating a return to the heart of the southern German city.
On Thursday, the 68th anniversary of Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass, Torah scrolls were marched with fanfare through the winding, cobblestone streets of downtown Munich to a newly built synagogue in the heart of the city. After 68-year wait, a new synagogue for Munich
NPD darf ihren Parteitag in Berlin abhalten: Gericht macht Weg frei
Intense rivalry between father and his wayward son has given way to mutual concern about the family legacyMark Alexander
THE TIMES: THE White House was in no mood this week to discuss President Bush’s psychological state after an election defeat that he himself had described as “a thumping”. Tony Snow, Mr Bush’s press secretary, said: “The President is not a guy who — he doesn’t get on the couch — what he does is [say], ‘What it is, is what it is’ ”.
But if the President ever did lie down on a therapist’s couch, any psychoanalyst worth the name would begin by asking about his relationship with his father, George H. W. Bush. The 41st US President is a figure that his son, George W. Bush, the 43rd President, has variously ignored, clung to, sought the approval of and competed with. Some commentators have long since taken to describing an oedipal struggle between them.
Bush v Bush: an oedipal battle between men of rigid beliefs by Tom Baldwin
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DIE WELT: Prinz Alwaleed besitzt das größte Privatflugzeug der Welt, einen Palast mit 317 Räumen und 20 Milliarden Dollar. Nun will der Saudi zusammen mit Bill Gates die Hotelkette Four Seasons kaufen.Mark Alexander
Was geschieht, wenn die beiden mächtigsten Investoren der Welt aufeinander treffen? Sie tauschen Höflichkeiten aus. So fühlt sich Prinz Alwaleed, Nummer acht auf der Forbes-Liste der reichsten Menschen der Welt, geschmeichelt, wenn die "New York Times" ihn als "Saudi Arabiens Warren Buffett" bezeichnet. Umgekehrt lässt der amerikanische Großinvestor und zweitreichste Mann der Welt den saudischen Prinzen wissen, dass er in seiner Heimatstadt Omaha im US-Bundesstaat Nebraska der "Alwaleed von Amerika" genannt wird. Nach den Schmeicheleien kommt das Geschäft, oder eine Partnerschaft mit dem allerreichsten Mann der Welt: Buffett beglückte jüngst seinen Bridgepartner Bill Gates mit einer Spende von 30 Mrd. Dollar für dessen humanitäre Stiftung. Und der Prinz legte zu Wochenbeginn gemeinsam mit dem Microsoft-Gründer ein Übernahmeangebot von 3,7 Mrd. Dollar für die Hotelkette Four Seasons vor. Der reichste Mann Arabiens von Von Katja Ridderbusch
Friday, November 10, 2006
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BBC: BNP leader Nick Griffin and party activist Mark Collett have been cleared of inciting racial hatred after a retrial at Leeds Crown Court.Mark Alexander
Mr Griffin, 46, from Powys, Wales, had denied two charges of using words or behaviour intended to stir up racial hatred in a speech in Keighley.
Mr Collett, 26, of Leicestershire, was cleared of four similar charges.
Chancellor Gordon Brown has told the BBC race laws may have to be revised in light of the acquittal. BNP leader cleared of race hate
WATCH VIDEO: BNP chief celebrates victory
Brown hints at new race hate law as BNP chiefs are cleared by Paul Stokes
Bringing case was own goal as Griffin makes political capital
BBC: Few issues divide the Europeans as much as Turkey.Mark Alexander
Divisions are becoming ever more apparent as the European Union nears the moment of truth in relations with its biggest and poorest applicant country, which also happens to be Muslim. Turkish bid exposes EU rifts
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