RUSSIA TODAY: Moscow wants Ukraine to punish nationalists: Ukrainian authorities must bring to account nationalists who staged provocations on Victory Day in Lvov and other cities in Western Ukraine, stated the head of the State Duma Committee for CIS Affairs, Liberal Democrats MP Aleksey Ostrovsky. » | Aleksandr Mazurkevich | RIA Novosti | Tuesday, May 10, 2011
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RUSSIA TODAY: Moscow wants Ukraine to punish nationalists: Ukrainian authorities must bring to account nationalists who staged provocations on Victory Day in Lvov and other cities in Western Ukraine, stated the head of the State Duma Committee for CIS Affairs, Liberal Democrats MP Aleksey Ostrovsky. » | Aleksandr Mazurkevich | RIA Novosti | Tuesday, May 10, 2011
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THE GUARDIAN: Six girls aged between 12 and 18 receive 10 lashes each for attacking head of orphanage
Six orphan girls aged between 12 and 18 have been flogged in Saudi Arabia after being convicted of attacking the head of their orphanage, an official said.
The girls received 10 lashes each at a women's prison in Medina, Islam's second holiest city.
"The order against the six orphans is a legitimate court order," Mohammed al-Awadh, the public relations manager at the ministry of social affairs, told Reuters. "The ministry does not have the right to interfere in a court order."
He gave no details of the ruling but the Arabic-language newspaper Okaz said the girls had been convicted of "acts of mischief" and attacking the director of the orphanage.
The girls defended their actions, saying they were harassed by the director, Okaz reported. » | Reuters in Riyadh | Tuesday, May 10, 2011
The worst floods to hit the central United States in more than 80 years have swallowed up homes, roadways and farms, as the Mississippi River swelled to six times its normal width.
Thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes as record spring flooding wreaked havoc in Tennessee and threatens to sweep to Louisiana at the southern most end of the river.
John Terret reports from Memphis, Tennessee's capital.
THE GUARDIAN: Republicans in state senate pass 'self-defence' measure despite resistance from higher education officialsThe holders of concealed handgun licences are set to be allowed to carry weapons into public college buildings and classrooms in Texas, after Republicans in the state senate approved the measure as part of a universities spending bill.
Republican senator Jeff Wentworth had been unable to gain the votes he needed to pass the issue as its own bill after it met stiff resistance from higher education officials, particularly from within the University of Texas UT-System.
The senate's 12 Democrats had mostly worked together to block the measure but were powerless to stop it on Monday when a majority in the 31-member chamber got it added to the spending bill as an amendment. » | Associated Press | Tuesday, May 10, 2011
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have gone on their honeymoon, 10 days after their Westminster Abbey wedding.Their romantic break was confirmed by St James’s Palace.
On Monday, the couple were seen leaving their Anglesey home with large amounts of luggage[.]
One report claimed that they were heading for the Seychelles islands in the Indian Ocean.
Prince William and his new bride were expected to go on honeymoon on April 30, the day after their wedding attracted more than a million people to the streets of London. » | Caroline Gammell | Tuesday, May 10, 2011
MAIL ONLINE: The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have left for a two-week honeymoon in a secret hideaway in the Indian Ocean.
The newlyweds will stay in an exclusive villa that costs £4,000-a-night and is located on one of the most beautiful and romantic islands in the world.
The Duke and Duchess are believed to have flown out by private jet yesterday before being taken by helicopter from the mainland to the tropical retreat.
William's car was apparently seen leaving Anglesey, north Wales, yesterday accompanied by a police Range Rover piled high with luggage.
A spokesman for St James's Palace said he would not confirm their honeymoon destination, although according to reports, the couple may have headed for the Seychelles. Wish you were heir! Prince William whisks Kate away on a £4,000-a-night tropical honeymoon 'in the Seychelles' » | Rebecca English | Tuesday, May 10, 2011
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THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver, his wife of 25 years, have separated four months after he ended his time as Governor of California.Miss Shriver moved out of the couple’s mansion near the Pacific Ocean in Brentwood, Los Angeles a few weeks ago.
In a joint statement they said: “This has been a time of great personal and professional transition for each of us. After a great deal of thought, reflection, discussion, and prayer, we came to this decision together.
“At this time, we are living apart while we work on the future of our relationship. We are continuing to parent our four children together. They are the light and the centre of both of our lives.” Miss Shriver, 55, is a member of the Kennedy political dynasty. She is the daughter of the late Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who was a sister of President John F Kennedy.
She previously worked as a television reporter but left that job when Schwarzenegger became Governor of the “Golden State” in 2003.
As California’s first lady she was highly visible and ran an influential annual women’s conference. She also promoted causes including the empowerment of women and research into Alzheimer’s. » | Nick Allen, in Los Angeles | Tuesday, May 10, 2011
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Syria has been accused of torturing activists to force them to reveal their passwords to Facebook websites that have sustained the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad.
Protest organisers have set up the Syrian Revolution 2011 Facebook page and have promised that "demonstrations will continue every day".
However, amateur video footage showing the violent suppression of protests has dwindled to a trickle amid signs that the regime could be gaining the upper hand after more than seven weeks of anti-government protests.
"The lines of communication have almost been completely severed," one activist said.
"Some of our people who have been taken have been broken under the most severe torture, and they have revealed passwords and names."
Activists admitted that many of the once-secure networks they used on sites such as Facebook and Twitter had been compromised following a campaign of mass detentions in which more than 8,000 protesters have been arrested. » | Adrian Blomfield, Middle East Correspondent | Monday, May 09, 2011
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Iran's hopes of using the Arab Spring to secure regional domination were boosted on Monday as it took a vital step towards strengthening relations with Egypt.
Ali Akbar Salehi, the Iranian foreign minister, announced that one of his deputies would visit Cairo "in the near future" and said that he would hold talks with his Egyptian counterpart, Nabil al-Arabi, in the Indonesian resort of Bali at the end of the month.
It comes as the two states prepare for the full-scale resumption of diplomatic relations in more than 30 years, a development that some observers believe could tilt [the] balance of power in the Middle East in Iran's favour.
Mr Salehi boasted of a flurry of communications between the two capitals as they work towards an exchange of ambassadors, a breakthrough that has alarmed Israel, dismayed Saudi Arabia, Iran's long-standing rival for influence in the Arab world, and caused unease in Washington.
"Currently, many oral and written messages and phone calls are being exchanged between officials of the two sides," Mr Salehi said.
Under Hosni Mubarak, the former Egyptian president ousted in a popular revolution three months ago, relations with Iran were deeply antagonistic. » | Adrian Blomfield, Middle East Correspondent | Monday, May 09, 2011
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: A priest whose church was at the centre of sectarian riots at the weekend has said Egyptian Christians were "under organised attack" as religious authorities warned the country was at risk of civil war.Armed troops and riot police guarded the streets around St Mena's church and nearby burned-out shops and apartment blocks in the impoverished, crumbling Cairo suburb of Imbaba.
Inside, Father Cherubim Awad said a conspiracy was the only possible explanation for the violence that had engulfed relations between Christians and Muslims in recent weeks.
"Five churches were attacked on the same night," he said. "From the beginning of this year we have had all these attacks in a short space of time.
"There is some hidden hand behind this, whether from inside the country or outside it."
The street battles, which began on Saturday evening outside his church, demonstrated the breakdown in law and order in parts of Egypt that began during the uprising that overthrew President Hosni Mubarak in February.
The police failed to intervene, while Fr Cherubim said that, after several hours, the army moved in to protect the church but not the surrounding buildings, and refused to try to break up the warring sides.
Sectarian violence has increased in Egypt. It began with a church bombing in Alexandria before the uprising began, but has worsened since.
A large gang of Salafi Muslims – followers of a purist sect to which most Islamist terrorist groups are aligned – led the attack on St Mena's, claiming a Christian woman who had converted to Islam to marry a Muslim was being held inside against her will.
"They performed evening prayer 200 metres from the church and after they finished they started shouting 'We want you to leave', meaning the Copts," Fr Cherubim said.
"They were shouting 'Islamiya, Islamiya, Islamiya, with our souls and blood we sacrifice ourselves for the crescent'. » | Richard Spencer, Cairo | Tuesday, May 10, 2011
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: David Cameron’s Coalition has failed to support marriage, unfairly penalised middle-class parents and done “almost nothing” to address the breakdown of families, according to a think tank founded by Iain Duncan Smith.In opposition, Mr Cameron promised to make Britain “the most family-friendly country in Europe” and tackle the social problems arising from break-ups.
But in an audit of the Coalition’s first year in office, the Centre for Social Justice, which was set up by the Work and Pensions Secretary, said little had been done to support marriage and strongly criticised plans to cut child benefit for middle-class parents.
Marking the Coalition’s performance on family policy at just two out of 10, the centre concluded that the deal with the Liberal Democrats had seen family-friendly plans being watered down.
“Compromise to avoid difficult family policy decisions means it’s just business as usual,” the report said. The Coalition’s family policy was “a disappointing continuation of the last government’s failed approach”.
Gavin Poole, the centre’s chief executive, accused the Coalition of “compromise-driven inaction in tackling our devastating culture of family breakdown”. » | James Kirkup, Political Correspondent | Monday, May 09, 2011
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MAIL ONLINE: Asma al-Assad refuses to return to Syria / She was born in London and schooled in West Acton / Hundreds more detained as death toll hits 630The glamorous wife of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad is believed to have been living in London with their three children after fleeing the turmoil in her country.
According to Arab diplomatic sources in the UK, Asma al-Assad, 35, arrived in the capital between two and three weeks ago and has refused to return to Syria.
The country run by her husband has been in the grip of an uprising which has seen hundreds killed, opposition leaders rounded up and, in one rebel city, all men over 15 were arrested.
Today, security forces were carrying out house-to-house raids as part of a widening crackdown across the country.
Rami Abdul-Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said the arrests were targeting the demonstrations' organisers and participants. Continue reading and comment » | Daily Mail Reporter | Monday, May 09, 2011
SPIEGEL ONLINE: Die kubanische Regierung prüft, ihren Bürgern Reisen ins Ausland zu gewähren - erstmals seit einem halben Jahrhundert wäre ein Urlaub außerhalb der Landesgrenzen damit erlaubt.
Havanna - Die Castro-Regierung im sozialistischen Inselstaat Kuba hatte in den vergangenen Wochen wiederholt Reformen angekündigt - jetzt sollen offenbar Taten folgen: Die kubanische Regierung will ihren Bürgern erstmals seit einem halben Jahrhundert Urlaubsreisen ins Ausland erlauben. Das sieht ein Reformplan vor, den die Behörden des kommunistischen Landes am Montag veröffentlichten. Einzelheiten zu den Plänen wurden zunächst nicht bekannt. » | amz/AFP | Montag, 09. Mai 2011
GALA.fr: Un peu plus d’une semaine après le mariage du prince William et de Kate Middleton, le public n’a d’yeux que pour Pippa, la sœur de la mariée. Une popularité qui aurait tendance, murmure-t-on outre-Manche, à agacer Elisabeth II...Pippa vole la vedette à Kate, Pippa affole la toile, Pippa ceci, Pippa cela, Pippa, Pippa, Pippa… depuis une semaine, tout le monde ne parle que d’elle. Il n’est pas un jour sans qu’une nouvelle info sur la sœur de Kate Middleton ne vienne embraser le web ou qu’une nouvelle photo ne vienne alimenter les conversations. Comme si la star du mariage, c’était elle! » | Jean-Christian Hay | Lundi 09 Mai 2011
LE POINT: Le président du Conseil italien a violemment attaqué la magistrature en marge du procès Mills, où il est accusé de corruption de témoin.Le chef du gouvernement italien Silvio Berlusconi a une nouvelle fois attaqué lundi la magistrature en marge d'un de ses procès, en la qualifiant de "cancer de la démocratie" en pleine journée d'hommage aux victimes du terrorisme, parmi lesquelles de nombreux juges. Les juges "sont le cancer de notre démocratie, il y a de leur part des tentatives réitérées de subversion", a déclaré Silvio Berlusconi, lors d'une pause durant une audience du procès Mills, où il est accusé de corruption de témoin. La prochaine audience dans ce procès a été fixée au 16 mai. » | Le Point.fr | Lundi 09 Mai 2011
LE POINT: Le chef de l'État a fait cette proposition lundi lors d'une réunion élargie des pays du G8 sur le trafic de drogue.
Nicolas Sarkozy a proposé, lundi, la création d'un fonds international de lutte contre le trafic de drogue sous contrôle de l'ONU qui serait alimenté par les avoirs saisis des narcotrafiquants, en ouverture d'une réunion élargie des pays du G8 sur le trafic de drogue. … » | Source AFP | Lundi 09 Mai 2011
SPIEGEL ONLINE INTERNATIONAL: Osama bin Laden may be dead, but al-Qaida is alive and well in Germany. Each month, an average of five Islamists leave the country for terrorist training camps in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border area. Recent arrests in Düsseldorf show just how dangerous homegrown terror has become.
It isn't easy being a militant Islamist, as Abdeladim el-K. and Jamil S. learned on a Tuesday two weeks ago. The two men were sitting in a two-room apartment on Witzelstrasse in the German city of Düsseldorf, complaining to each other about how complicated it is to build a functioning bomb. "Bomb is not so difficult as detonator," said Abdeladim el-K., "because detonator more dangerous than bomb." » | Marcel Rosenbach and Holger Stark | Monday, May 09, 2011
Pakistan's Prime Minister has denied he or the government knew they were harbouring the world's most-wanted man on its soil.
Yousuf Raza Gilani says Pakistan will not accept sole blame for any intelligence failure in the hunt for Osama Bin Laden, the former al-Qaeda leader who was shot dead last week in a US raid on the Pakistani town of Abbottabad.
Gilani has also warned off any other countries wanting to conduct operations in secret inside Pakistan.
Al Jazeera's Cath Turner reports.
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Harsh interrogation methods such as waterboarding played a role in tracking down Osama bin Laden and should be reinstated, former US vice president Dick Cheney said.
Another top member of the Bush administration, former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld, credited the use of so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques" with yielding "a major fraction" of US intelligence on al-Qaeda and called ending them a "mistake."
In one of the first acts after entering the White House in 2009, President Barack Obama suspended such methods, equating them with torture and saying they represented all that was wrong with the Bush-era "war on terror."
But the killing of bin Laden, or more exactly the way the intelligence was gathered that led the CIA to track him down, has reopened a raging controversy in the United States over their use.
Cheney, speaking on the "Fox News Sunday" program, said top intelligence officials had stated that "some of the early leads" that helped agents find bin Laden had come thanks to the harsh interrogation techniques used on terror suspects.
"All have said one way or the other that the enhanced interrogation program played a role," he said. "My guess is that's probably the case that it contributed, just as did a number of other factors."
Asked whether the methods should be reinstated if the United States were to capture a new high-value target, Cheney replied: "I certainly would advocate it. I'd be a strong supporter of it." » | Telegraph’s Foreign Staff | Monday, May 09, 2011
Christians marching against the military in the Egyptian capital and calling for more rights have come under attack.
While some blamed hardline Muslims, others said the attack is symptomatic of rampant lawlessness in the country following the revolution that overthrew long-time leader, Hosni Mubarak.
Al Jazeera's Rawya Rageh reports from Cairo.
MAIL ONLINE: Two Muslim religious leaders were asked to leave a commercial airliner in Memphis - and were told it was because the pilot refused to fly with them aboard.Masudur Rahman and another imam had already been allowed to board their Delta Connection flight from Memphis, Tennessee, to Charlotte, North Carolina before they were asked to get off the plane.
Ironically, the two men were headed to a North American Imams conference discussing Islamophobia or fears of Islam and discrimination against American Muslims.
'It's racism and bias because of our religion and appearance and because of misinformation about our religion.' Mr Rahman said. 'If they understood Islam, they wouldn't do this.'
Mr Rahman said he and Mohamed Zaghloul, of the Islamic Association of Greater Memphis, were cleared by security agents and boarded the plane for an 8.40am departure.
The aircraft pulled away from the gate, but the pilot then announced the plane must return, Mr Rahman said.
When it did, the imams were asked to go back to the boarding gate where they were told the pilot was refusing to accept them because some other passengers could be uncomfortable. Robed Muslim clerics kicked off U.S. flight after pilot refuses to take off with them (and they were en route to conference on Islamophobia) » | Daily Mail Reporter | Saturday, May 07, 2011
FARS NEWS AGENCY: TEHRAN - Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi in a meeting with UAE Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai Muhammad Bin Rashid al-Maktum warned that foreign military intervention in Bahrain would further deteriorate the conditions in the Arab Persian Gulf country."Intervention of foreign forces in Bahrain further complicates the situation and continuing this policy and continued militarism will merely intensify the crisis (in Bahrain)," Salehi said at the meeting in Abu Dhabi on Sunday.
He further pointed out that the present crisis in Bahrain could only be soothed through collective efforts, adoption of wise policies, withdrawal of foreign forces, proper response to the legitimate demands of the Bahraini people, and respect for Bahrain's sovereignty and independence. » | FNA | Monday, May 09, 2011
FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE: Kann ein Mitgliedsland aus der Währungsunion austreten? In der Europäischen Zentralbank ist man zu dem Schluss gekommen, dass dies ohne einen Austritt aus der EU nicht vorstellbar sei. Welche Antwort gibt das Völkerrecht?
Die Reaktionen sind heftig. Der Vorsitzende der Euro-Gruppe, Luxemburgs Regierungschef Juncker, nennt einen Austritt Griechenlands aus der Währungsunion eine „dumme Idee“. Und der griechische Ministerpräsident Papandreou klagt über diese „Provokation“, die zeige, welchen Gefahren sein Land ausgesetzt sei. Doch niemand sagt: „Das geht gar nicht.“
Dabei sind manche Bündnisse durchaus für die Ewigkeit angelegt. Sie sind zumindest auf unbestimmte Zeit geschlossen - das gilt für die Ehe wie für die Europäische Union. Bis zum Inkrafttreten des Vertrages von Lissabon kannte die Gemeinschaft auch kein Austrittsrecht, kein vertraglich geregeltes, wohlgemerkt. Nunmehr heißt es: „Jeder Mitgliedstaat kann im Einklang mit seinen verfassungsrechtlichen Vorschriften beschließen, aus der Union auszutreten.“ » | Von Reinhard Müller | Montag, 09. Mai 2011
FAZ: Das Drachmendrama: Das griechische Statistikamt arbeitet mittlerweile zuverlässig. Manch einer wünscht sich jedoch, die aktuellen Zahlen wären erfunden. Sie zeigen: Die Bevölkerung ist zutiefst verunsichert - Spekulationen über einen Euro-Ausstieg verstärken dieses Gefühl. » | Von Michael Martens | Sonntag, 08. Mai 2011
FAZ: Das Scheitern: Die großen Länder des Euro-Raums haben die Griechen ins Gebet genommen. Das Land müsse endlich seine Hausaufgaben machen. Die Geheimniskrämerei um das Treffen verdeutlicht die Brisanz. » | Kommentar | Von Holger Steltzner | Sonntag, 08. Mai 2011
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Barack Obama's National Security Adviser has declared Ayman al-Zawahiri to be the world's "number one terrorist" but said al-Qaeda's long standing deputy lacked Osama bin Laden's charismatic appeal.One week after bin Laden's death and with no successor yet named, the assessment will heighten speculation that al-Qaeda is heading for a leadership battle.
Tom Donilon said: "Our assessment is that he is not anywhere near the leader that Osama bin Laden was." He also said there was no evidence yet to suggest that Pakistani authorities were aware that bin Laden had set up home only 30 miles from the capital Islamabad.
Al-Zawahiri, the Egyptian-born surgeon, is the man in line to take over, according to al-Qaeda's own rules of succession, but intelligence officials and analysts believe his abrasive style has made him unpopular with non-Egyptian ranks within the movement.
Other possible contenders in a succession battle include Abu Yahya al-Libi and Atiyah abd al-Rahman, two Libyans seen as rising stars.
Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born radical cleric famous for his YouTube appeals to English-speaking converts from his base in Yemen, has also been mooted. » | Rob Crilly, Islamabad | Sunday, May 08, 2011
REUTERS: Opposition parties took aim at Pakistan's leaders on Monday over the killing of Osama bin Laden, compounding pressure from Washington over the al Qaeda leader's hideout, as the prime minister prepared to "take the nation into confidence" on the crisis in a parliament address.Pakistan's main opposition party is stepping up calls for the prime minister and president to resign over the breach of sovereignty by U.S. forces who slipped in from Afghanistan to storm the compound where bin Laden was holed up.
"We want resignations, not half-baked explanations," an official of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League told the News daily.
Pakistan welcomed the death of bin Laden, who plotted the September 11, 2001, airliner attacks on the United States, as a step in the fight against militancy but also said the U.S. raid to kill him was a violation of its sovereignty. » | John Chalmers | ISLAMABAD | Monday, May 09, 2011
REUTERS: President Bashar al-Assad has sent tanks deep into Syria's third city Homs, escalating a military campaign to crush a seven-week-old uprising against his autocratic rule.
Syrians demanding political freedom and an end to corruption have held weeks of what they say are peaceful demonstrations in the face of government repression, despite a civilian death toll that has reached 800, according to the Syrian human rights organization Sawasiah.
On Sunday, Homs residents told Reuters they heard machinegun fire and shelling as troops made their first incursion into residential areas of the city of one million people, 165 km (100 miles) north of Damascus.
At least one person, a 12-year-old child, was killed when tanks and troops charged into the Bab Sebaa, Bab Amro and Tal al-Sour districts of Homs overnight, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. » | Khaled Yacoub Oweis | AMMAN | Sunday, May 08, 2011
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: President Barack Obama has suggested for the first time that “people inside of government” in Pakistan could have helped to harbour Osama bin Laden.The comments, the strongest about Pakistan made by Mr Obama so far, came as his administration ramped up pressure on Islamabad for a full investigation into who gave him sanctuary so close to Islamabad[.] He said: “We think that there had to be some sort of support network for bin Laden inside of Pakistan. But we don’t know who or what that support network was.”
“We don’t know whether there might have been some people inside of government, people outside of government, and that’s something that we have to investigate and, more importantly, the Pakistani government has to investigate.”
In an interview with CBS News, Mr Obama confirmed that the US would not be releasing the photographs of bin Laden’s body.
He said: “Keep in mind that we are absolutely certain this was him. We’ve done DNA sampling and testing. And so there is no doubt that we killed Osama bin Laden. It is important for us to make sure that very graphic photos of somebody who was shot in the head are not floating around as an incitement to additional violence. As a propaganda tool. You know, that’s not who we are. You know, we don’t trot out this stuff as trophies. Continue reading and comment » | Toby Harnden, Washington, Jon Swaine in New York | Sunday, May 08, 2011
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THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Egypt's caretaker government has held crisis talks after attacks by Muslim mobs on Coptic Christian churches in Cairo left at least 12 people dead and drove the country's growing religious tensions to the brink.The riots, in Imbaba, a poor, densely populated district in the city, have heightened fears that a power vacuum following Hosni Mubarak's overthrow will lead to a power grab by Islamic fundamentalists, more sectarian strife and a collapse in law and order.
The prime minister, Essam Sharaf, called an emergency cabinet meeting after postponing a tour of Gulf oil states intended to win Egypt desperately needed financial support, three months after the uprising.
Following the meeting Abdel Aziz al-Gindi, the justice minister, said: "We will strike with an iron hand all those who seek to tamper with the nation's security." He promised to protect places of worship from attack.
The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which has ruled the country since Mr Mubarak's enforced resignation on February 11, announced the arrest of 190 people yesterday and said they would be tried before military tribunals.
Muslim protesters had tried to storm the St Mena's church in Imbaba on Saturday evening, claiming Christians were holding against her will a woman who had converted to Islam and married a Muslim. » | Samer al-Atrush in Cairo | Sunday, May 08, 2011
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SPIEGEL ONLINE: Ein Boot mit Hunderten Flüchtlingen an Bord ist vor der süditalienischen Insel Lampedusa auf Grund gelaufen. Das Schiff kam vom Kurs ab und fuhr auf einen Felsen. An Bord brach Panik aus, viele Passagiere sprangen ins Wasser - die Küstenwache rettet Dutzende aus dem Meer.Rom - Die Fahrt über das Mittelmeer für Flüchtlinge aus Nordafrika bleibt lebensgefährlich: Etwa 300 Menschen an Bord eines Flüchtlingsschiffs sind nur knapp einer Katastrophe entgangen. In der Nacht zum Sonntag ist ein vollbesetztes Boot vor der italienischen Insel Lampedusa auf Grund gelaufen, berichteten italienische Medien unter Berufung auf Behördenvertreter. Den Angaben zufolge war es in der Nacht vom Kurs abgekommen und hatte einen Felsen gerammt.
Den Beschreibungen zufolge spielten sich anschließend dramatische Szenen ab: An Bord brach Panik aus, zahlreiche Menschen, darunter Frauen und Kinder, sprangen ins Wasser. Dutzende Menschen wurden von der Küstenwache aus dem Meer gezogen. » | amz/dpa/dapd/Reuters | Sonntag 08. Mai 2011
THE SCOTSMAN: Michael Moore. the Secretary of State for Scotland, said today that the UK Government will not obstruct or pre-empt a referendum on Scottish independence.The Lib Dem MP also said his party "would have to be tone deaf" to miss the point that the Westminster coalition had a bearing on their heavy defeat in Scotland.
Lib Dem disaffection was a strong factor in the SNP`s landslide victory which has cleared the way for an independence referendum in the latter part of the new Scottish Parliament.
Mr Moore said: "As a UK Government we will not be putting obstacles in the way of any referendum.
"When we get to the point of a referendum actually taking place, as a Liberal Democrat I will obviously campaign against it." » | David Gunn | Sunday, May 08, 2011
THE NEW YORK TIMES: JERUSALEM — The king of Bahrain said Sunday that the state of emergency he imposed in mid-March to quell antigovernment protests on that strategic and contested island would be ended on June 1st.
The announcement was a sign that Bahrain was seeking to assure banks and foreign governments that the chaos of recent months was over and the kingdom, which depends heavily on financial business, was trying to return to normal. It was also a sign that the numerous arrests and rushed trials of opposition figures in military courts were running their course. Some leading opposition figures went on trial as the announcement was being made.
Bahrain is majority Muslim Shiite state run by a Sunni royal family and elite. The government came down hard on the protests, which the organizers said were inspired by Egypt and Tunisia but the government accused of being aided by Iran. » | Ethan Bronner | Sunday, May 08, 2011
Iran is rife with speculation that president Mahmoud Ahmadenijad may be about to resign over a feud with the country's supreme leader.
Last month Ahmadinejad sacked Iran's intelligence chief, Heydar Moslehi, in a move that the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei quickly overruled.
Al Jazeera's Dorsa Jabbari explains the situation from the Iranian capital, Tehran.
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