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Sunday, October 09, 2011
Mr Romney spoke to the conference on Saturday, a day after a Texas pastor and supporter of the Texas Governor, Rick Perry, at the event labelled Mormonism "a cult" and said Mr Romney was not a Christian.
Mr Perry's campaign quickly distanced itself from Robert Jeffress's remarks. "The Governor does not believe Mormonism is a cult," the campaign spokesman, Mark Miner, said.
Mr Jeffress introduced Mr Perry at the Values Voter Summit, but made his controversial statements to reporters after Mr Perry's speech, calling his own view "mainstream" among evangelicals.
"I believe that Governor Romney is a good, moral, family person," Mr Jeffress said. "But he's not a born-again follower of Christ."
Mr Romney did not address Mr Jeffress's comments directly on Saturday but made a plea for tolerance. "Poisonous language doesn't advance our cause," he said. "It's never softened a single heart nor changed a single mind." » | James Oliphant, Michael Memoli | McClatchey Newspapers | Monday, October 10, 2011
In a conference held by the Salafi-led Asala Party in Matariya neighborhood in Cairo, Salafi leaders lambasted those opposing the application of Islamic Sharia as "adulterers, thieves and immoral people."
Sheikh Shehab al-Din Ahmed said that it is time for the Egyptian people to vote for the party and the candidate that seek to apply Sharia, adding that it would be "a shame to ignore Islamic candidates."
All the Egyptian people want the return of Islamic principles to society in order to spread justice and mercy among the people, Ahmed claimed.
Although Prophet Muhammad said that although a person should not demand authority but should be given it without asking, a fatwa issued by Islamic scholars says that it is the duty of leaders to request authority for the purpose of applying Islamic rules. He added that God would punish them on the Day of Resurrection if they did not. » | Hamdi Dabash | Translated from the Arabic Edition | Friday, October 07, 2011
The latest move, under the guise of helping Muslim women, would give sharia law priority over Australian divorce law.
If enacted, this plan would prevent Muslims from obtaining a civil divorce unless they first divorce under Islamic law.
The plan, published by the Alternative Law Journal, would require Muslims to appear first before a proposed Islamic divorce council made up of imams and lawyers who are familiar with sharia and Australian law.
This tribunal would "assess the credibility" of divorce applications from an Islamic perspective. Divorce decrees from this proposed council would be recognised under sharia law and become binding under civil law after approval by a civil court.
These are the key recommendations from an article in the journal that says its goal is to help Muslim women avoid improper pressure from former husbands who refuse to grant them a religious divorce.
"By establishing the council and formalising the process, women would be able to present their case under fair and culturally sensitive conditions," solicitor and migration agent Ismail Essof says.
"A process which is recognised under Australian law would mitigate some of the abuses currently permitted."
By giving indirect legal recognition to a tribunal applying sharia law, Mr Essof's plan adopts one
of the main techniques to have helped sharia law become part of Britain's legal framework. » | Chris Merritt | The Australian | Friday, October 07, 2011
THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH: Britain should take advantage of the eurozone crisis to grab back powers and re-negotiate its relationship with the EU, John Major has said.
Any new treaty drawn up in its wake would allow Britain to renegotiate its relationship with Brussels, particularly on employment issues, the former prime minister suggested.
Sir John claimed it was likely that Europe was heading towards a ''federal state within the eurozone'' as leaders try to find a resolution for the current crisis.
He told the BBC's Andrew Marr show: ''There won't necessarily have to be a treaty in this country for fiscal union.
''It is conceivable there would be a treaty just among members of the eurozone.''
He added: ''But at some stage there will be another treaty because if there is fiscal union in Europe it changes our relationship to Europe. » | Sunday, October 09, 2011
Although still convalescing from cancer surgery in June followed by four rounds of chemotherapy, the 57-year-old Venezuelan president is quickly returning to the tough rhetoric and strong views that have made him famous worldwide.
Not surprisingly, Mr. Chavez expressed solidarity with American activists who have been staging rallies and marches against what they view as corporate greed by Wall Street. » | ENRIQUE ANDRES PRETEL | REUTERS | Saturday, October 08, 2011
SPIEGEL ONLINE: Sie wollten offenbar gegen eine Drohnen-Ausstellung protestieren - und gerieten mit dem Wachpersonal aneinander: Rund 200 Menschen haben versucht, in das Smithsonian-Museum in Washington vorzudringen. Die Sicherheitsleute setzten Reizgas ein, das Gebäude wurde geschlossen.
Washington - Die Aktion begann als friedlicher Protest und eskalierte in einem Polizeieinsatz. In Washington haben am Samstag rund 200 Demonstranten versucht, das Luft- und Raumfahrtmuseum in der US-Hauptstadt zu stürmen. Wie eine Museumssprecherin sagte, wurden sie am Eingang von Wachleuten gestoppt. » | jok/dapd | Sonntag 09. Oktober 2011
TRIBUNE DE GENÈVE: Un homme condamné à mort pour les viols de 37 femmes qu’il avait filmés en vidéo a été pendu samedi à Ispahan, dans le centre de l’Iran.
Cette pendaison porte à 219 le nombre des exécutions en Iran depuis le début de l’année.
Citant un responsable judiciaire local, Fars indique que l’homme, non identifié, «filmait ses victimes chez lui et se servait de ces films pour les forcer ensuite à subir de nouvelles agressions», sans donner davantage de détails. » | ATS/AFP | Dimanche 09 Octobre 2011
EUROPE 1: Quelque 300 salafistes ont tenté d'incendier dimanche le siège de la télévision privée Nessma à Tunis après la diffusion vendredi soir du film franco-iranien Persepolis et d'un débat sur l'intégrisme religieux, a-t-on appris auprès de la chaîne et du ministère de l'Intérieur.
Le président de Nessma, Nebil Karoui, a indiqué que sa chaîne avait reçu des menaces de mort après la diffusion vendredi soir du film d'animation de Marjane Satrapi "Persepolis", qui décrit le régime iranien de Khomeiny à travers les yeux d'une petite fille. » | Europe1.fr avec AFP | Dimanche 09 Octobre 2011
leJDD.fr: Un Saoudien reconnu coupable du meurtre d'un de ses compatriotes a été décapité dimanche, a annoncé le ministère de l'Intérieur, ce qui porte à au moins 57 le nombre d'exécutions depuis le début de l'année.
Le viol, le meurtre, l'apostasie, le vol à main armée et le trafic de drogue sont passibles de la peine capitale en Arabie saoudite qui applique strictement la charia, la loi islamique.
Dix personnes avaient été décapitées au cours de la seule journée de vendredi: huit ressortissants du Bangladesh condamnés pour vol et meurtre, et deux Saoudiens. [Source: leJDD.fr] | Dimanche 09 Octobre 2011
Zehntausende Menschen haben am Samstag in Rom und Mailand gegen die Regierung Berlusconi demonstriert. In der italienischen Hauptstadt gingen die Staatsbeamten auf die Straße, um gegen die Sparpläne des Kabinetts zu protestieren. "Ohne den öffentlichen Dienst wirst Du Deiner Rechte beraubt", lautete der Slogan der Demonstranten. Zum Protest rief der größte Gewerkschaftsverband CGIL auf. In Rom schlossen sich dem Protest auch Lehrer, Schüler und Studenten an. Sie schwenkten dabei Plakate mit ironischen Bemerkungen gegen Ministerpräsident Silvio Berlusconi. "Die internationalen Finanzmärkte lehnen Bunga-Bunga ab", hieß es unter anderem in Anspielung auf die Herabstufung der Kreditwürdigkeit Italiens durch US-Ratingagenturen. » | APA | Samstag 08. Oktober 2011
20 MINUTES: Une manifestation bruyante d'anticapitalistes s'est déroulée à Berne, samedi. Incidents en marge.
Une centaine de personnes ont manifesté contre le capitalisme samedi après-midi à Berne. Malgré leur petit nombre, ils ne sont pas passés inaperçus, faisant usage de pétards, le tout sur fond de musique tonitruante. En marge de l'événement, deux politiciens bernois ont été attaqués au spray au poivre. » | ats | Samedi 08 Octobre 2011
MAIL ONLINE: Poor African countries which persecute homosexuals will have their aid slashed by the Government in a bid by David Cameron to take his gay rights crusade to the Third World.
International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell has already cut aid to Malawi by £19 million after two gay men were sentenced to 14 years hard labour.
And he has warned the country's leaders to scrap plans to introduce draconian new anti-lesbian laws.
Mr Mitchell, one of Mr Cameron's closest allies, is also threatening to impose further aid 'fines' against Uganda and Ghana for hardline anti-gay and lesbian measures.
The policy was disclosed after Mr Cameron defended his decision to legalise gay weddings when he addressed last week's Conservative Party conference.
Now he wants to persuade those countries where homosexuality is still taboo to follow his lead – and he is ready to reduce aid to some of the world's poorest people to do so.
The cut in aid to Malawi came after two gay men were convicted last year under the country's rigidly imposed ban on homosexuality. » | Simon Walters | Saturday, October 08, 2011
POSE a threat to the stability of Saudi Arabia, as Shia protesters are said to to have done in Awamiya, according to reports this week from the country's oil-rich Eastern Province, and you're brandishing a scalpel over the very heart of long-term US policy in the Middle East.
The US consumes about 19 million barrels of oil every 24 hours, about half of them imported. At 25 per cent, Canada is the lead supplier. Second comes Saudi Arabia with 12 per cent. But supply of crude oil to the US is only half the story. Saudi Arabia controls OPEC's oil price and adjusts it carefully with US priorities in the front of their minds.
The traffic is not one-way. In the half-century after 1945, the United States sold the Saudis about $100 billion in military goods and services. A year ago the Obama administration announced the biggest weapons deal in US history – a $60 billion programme with Saudi Arabia to sell it military equipment across the next 20 to 30 years.
Under its terms, the United States will provide Saudi Arabia with 84 advanced F-15 fighter planes with electronics and weapons packages tailored to Saudi needs. An additional 70 F-15's already in Saudi hands will be upgraded to match the capabilities of the new planes.
Saudi Arabia will purchase a huge fleet of nearly 200 Apache, Blackhawk and other US military helicopters, along with a vast array of radar systems, anti-aircraft and anti-ship missiles, and guided bombs. The US trains and supplies all Saudi Arabia's security forces. US corporations have huge investments in the Kingdom. Read on and comment » | Alexander Cockburn | Friday, October 07, 2011
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Tony Blair is facing a parliamentary investigation into his close relationship with Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.
Senior MPs are demanding that Mr Blair reveal all details of his private meetings with the dictator since leaving Downing Street.
The move follows revelations in The Sunday Telegraph that Mr Blair had at least six meetings with Gaddafi since quitting as prime minister.
Five of those meetings took place in a 14 month period prior to the release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the Lockerbie bomber sent back to Tripoli to serve out the rest of his prison sentence in the comfort of his own home.
On at least two occasions Mr Blair and his sizeable entourage flew to Tripoli on a private jet paid for by the Gaddafi regime at a cost of about £150,000.
One meeting in January 2009 has been linked to a multi-billion dollar deal between the Libyans and a Russian company being put together by JP Morgan, the US bank which pays Mr Blair about £2 million a year as a senior adviser. » | Robert Mendick, Chief Reporter | Saturday, October 08, 2011
Tony Blair must be the most hated ex-prime minister ever! He screwed his own country, cheated, lied, and now profits – BIG TIME! In addition, he brought the world strife and wars. Yet he was made peace envoy for the Middle East! How are we to understand this absurd contradiction? The Palestinians have got it right about him. They find him despicable. As he is supposed to be trying to bring peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians, it is surprising indeed that his position hasn't already become untenable. Were I to be he, I should hang my head in shame and go into hiding. – © Mark
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Saturday, October 08, 2011
THE AUSTRALIAN: THE funeral for Apple co-founder Steve Jobs [1955 – 2011] is taking place today, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The funeral is characterised as a small private gathering, this person said. The person wouldn't say where or when the event was taking place, citing respect Jobs and his family's privacy.
The event comes two days after Mr Jobs died after battling an undisclosed illness. He previously underwent surgery for pancreatic cancer and had a liver transplant. » | The Wall Street Journal | Saturday, October 08, 2011
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The Yemeni president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, has said he will step down in the coming days.
Late last month Saleh, who has been in power for 33 years, called for early elections in his first speech since his return from Saudi Arabia to Yemen, which provoked a wave of violent protests. » | Staff and agencies | Saturday, October 08, 2011
Un groupe d’Amish s’est attaqué à plusieurs reprises dans l’Ohio (Nord-Est des Etats-Unis) à d’autres groupes de ces protestants vivant retirés du monde moderne, coupant les barbes des hommes et les cheveux des femmes, une atteinte à leur identité dans leurs pratiques.
De "nombreux" membres de la communauté amish située près de Bergholz (Ohio) faisaient vendredi l’objet d’une enquête policière après plusieurs incidents de ce type, rapporte un journal de l’Ohio, l’Intelligencer Wheeling News-Register, qui précise qu’aucune arrestation ni inculpation n’ont eu lieu. » | AFP | Vendredi 07 Octobre 2011
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INTELLIGENCER WHEELING NEWS-REGISTER: Group Cutting Beards Off Amish in Ohio » | Thursday, October 06, 2011
TRIBUNE DE GENÈVE: Les Etats-Unis condamnent avec fermeté la violence contre les membres de l'opposition. Ces actes mettent en évidence le fait que les promesses de réforme et de dialogue du régime sont inexistantes. » | AFP | Vendredi 07 Octobre 2011
The Wall Street protests against economic inequality and corporate greed that targeted the nerve centre of American capitalism are no longer merely a New York phenomenon. This weekend, from Seattle and Los Angeles on the west coast to Providence, Rhode Island, and Tampa, Florida, on the east, as many as 70 major cities and more than 600 communities have joined the swelling wave of civil dissent. The slogan "Occupy Wall Street" has been suitably abbreviated to a single word: "Occupy"[.]
"This could be the tipping point," said Dick Steinkamp, 63, a retired Silicon Valley executive at the Occupy Seattle protest being held in the heart of the city's shopping and restaurant district . He and his wife had driven two hours from their home in Bellingham, north of Seattle, specifically to join the rally and give it support from more conventional professionals.
"I marched against the Vietnam war before I was drafted into the army and this movement is now getting towards that critical mass," he said.
One of the favourite messages of the protesters is that almost 40% of US wealth is held in the hands of 1% of the population, who are taxed more lightly than the majority of Americans. Steinkamp was holding a sign saying "I am the 99%". And there is widespread anger that ordinary people have born the brunt of the financial crisis with dire job losses and house repossessions. » » | Joanna Walters in Seattle | Saturday, October 08, 2011
"This is America's moment," he declared. "We should embrace the challenge, not shrink from it, not crawl into an isolationist shell, not wave the white flag of surrender, nor give in to those who assert America's moment has passed. That is utter nonsense."
Mr Romney's speech – in the deliberate setting of the Citadel military college in Charleston, South Carolina, a symbol of the South's warrior traditions and in a state holding one of the first primaries next January – is his first major foreign policy foray in a campaign set to be dominated by the country's grim economic situation. » | Rupert Cornwell in Washington | Saturday, October 08, 2011
THE INDEPENDENT – LEADING ARTICLE: Now the Republicans must choose: Sarah Palin's announcement that she will not seek the presidency, following the similar decision from New Jersey Governor Chris Christie 24 hours earlier, appears to have settled the Republican field for 2012. ¶ A late entrant cannot entirely be ruled out. But to all intents and purposes, this is Mitt Romney's moment. The most important question in American politics now is: can the unloved frontrunner seize it? » | Saturday, October 08, 2011
If I said that we went to an Oktoberfest last weekend, readers may wonder why I am writing about it. If I added that the beer festival in question was in the West Bank and there we encountered a couple of self-deprecating young Germans dressed in lederhosen, some may start asking themselves what I've been drinking, or perhaps smoking.
To add to the bizarreness of the situation, this Oktoberfest, the seventh of its kind, took place not in hip Ramallah but in the remote village of Taybeh, perched picturesquely at 850m above sea level and with a population of just 1,500. Moreover, readers in western countries may wonder why thousands upon thousands of revellers had trekked all that way to attend a beer festival with only one beer on tap.
Secular Palestinians, expats and even leftist Israelis equipped with glasses of Taybeh beer wandered around food and handicraft stands, watched traditional Dabke dancers, modern music, comedy and theatrical performances.
Despite its remoteness and tiny proportions, Taybeh has earned its place on the cultural and social map as being the location of the only Palestinian beer brewery. It has battled the restrictions imposed by the Israeli occupation and the rise of Islamic fundamentalism to become a rare Palestinian business and cultural success story.
This may explain why Taybeh once adopted "Taste the revolution" as its advertising slogan. And, judging by its micro-brewery quality, the revolution tastes pretty good.
The very existence of Taybeh overturns the stereotype associated with Palestinians – and Arabs in general – as teetotal, fanatical Muslims. This caricature has been reinforced since Hamas's takeover of Gaza, where the Islamist party has imposed a de facto ban on alcohol, though bootlegging has become a popular, if risky, pastime.
There are those who will protest that Taybeh is the exception that proves the rule. After all, it is the only Palestinian brewery, and it is owned and run by Christians. But the absence of local competitors has more to do with the difficulty of setting up a viable business in the Palestinian territories, which requires a certain foolhardiness and courage – and, anyway, most of the people who drink Taybeh are Muslims. » | Khaled Diab | Saturday, October 08, 2011
The noted atheist claimed that pupils were being taught to ignore scientific evidence in favour of following the Koran.
He said that he had even met a science teacher who believed that the earth was only 6,000 years old.
Mr Dawkins, a former Oxford professor who found fame as an evolutionary biologist before becoming a vocal opponent of religion, is a longstanding critic of all faith schools.
But he has said that Islamic schools are worse than others, as their teaching is more likely to be influenced by a religious agenda.
Talking to the Times Educational Supplement, he described a trip he made to an 'utterly deplorable' Muslim school in Leicester.
According to the Daily Telegraph, he said: 'Every person I met believes if there is any disagreement between the Koran and science, then the Koran wins.
'It's just utterly deplorable. These are now British children who are having their minds stuffed with alien rubbish.' Continue reading and comment » | Hugo Gye | Saturday, October 08, 2011
It's a great pity that our politicians don't have the courage that Richard Dawkins so obviously has. Perhaps this country would be run better then. Politicians, bereft of a backbone as they mostly are, just pander to Muslims, fearing for their lives, I suppose. The result is that ignorance and superstition just grow and grow. Eventually, it will lead us back to another dark age. – © Mark
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Italian opposition politicians have been joined by a leading Catholic publication and even government MPs in expressing outrage after Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi joked he was thinking of renaming his political party Forza Gnocca, which translates as Go Pussy.
The criticism came as Berlusconi, whose political career is widely considered to be on the wane, was accused of parking an old friend in a safe job after a former pet food executive was nominated as the new head of the Venice Biennale, Italy's foremost art and architecture exhibition.
Responding to the slide in the polls of his Freedom People party caused by the financial crisis and his sex scandals, Berlusconi reportedly told MPs he had commissioned surveys to find a new name for the party, which started life in 1993 as Forza Italia, or Go Italy.
"Some of polls say the best choice would be Forza Gnocca," he joked, according to the Italian daily La Stampa.
Pier Luigi Bersani, the head of the opposition Democratic party, called the quip despairing, while party colleague Rosy Bindi said: "Now the farce is turning into tragedy."
Democratic senator Anna Finocchiaro said: "These are not jokes but a reflection of the view that Berlusconi and his coalition have of the country – backward, vulgar and squalid." » | Tom Kington in Rome | Friday, October 07, 2011
Scott Brown, a Massachusetts Republican who helped pay for university by appearing in Cosmopolitan, was alleged to have descended into "the gutter" with his comment on Elizabeth Warren.
Asked how she funded her own education, Prof Warren, a 62-year-old Democratic ally of Barack Obama who teaches at Harvard, said she had "borrowed money", adding: "I kept my clothes on." During a radio interview, Mr Brown, 52, responded: "Thank God." He later added: "I went to the school of hard knocks. And I did whatever I had to do to pay for school." Clare Kelly, the Massachusetts Democrats' executive director, said the remarks were more suited to the "frat house, not a race for US Senate". » | Jon Swaine, New York | Friday, October 07, 2011
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Smarting from criticism that Russia is soft on the Assad regime after it vetoed United Nations sanctions against Damascus, Mr Medvedev insisted Moscow wanted the bloody government clampdown on pro-democracy activists to end.
"Russia wants as much as the other countries for Syria to end the bloodshed and demands that the Syrian leadership conduct the necessary reforms," he said.
"(But) if the Syrian leadership is unable to undertake these reforms it will have to go."
His comments echoed remarks made by Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, and will be interpreted as a sign that Moscow is beginning to lose patience with its old ally.
The UN estimates that nearly 3,000 people have lost their lives since the Assad regime began cracking down on protests in mid-March with tanks and troops. Mr Assad has promised reform but the crackdown has continued unabated with little sign of genuine reform. » | Andrew Osborn, Moscow | Friday, October 07, 2011
WELT ONLINE: Die Anti-Wall-Street-Proteste verbreiten sich von New York aus in viele amerikanische Städte. Auch in Deutschland rufen Aktivisten zu Demonstrationen auf.
Die Anti-Wall-Street-Bewegung breitet sich aus. Nach Protesten in New York versammelten sich auch in Washington und in zahlreichen weiteren US-Städten Demonstranten, um die anhaltend hohe Arbeitslosigkeit und eine ungleiche Verteilung von Wohlstand anzuprangern. In Deutschland riefen Bündnisse für Samstag kommender Woche zu Protesten unter anderem in Frankfurt und Berlin auf.
In der US-Hauptstadt Washington forderten die Demonstranten "Stoppt den Krieg gegen die Arbeiter". Andere verlangten, die Bürger wieder wichtiger zu nehmen als "die Gier der Unternehmen". In Philadelphia versammelten sich bis zu 1000 Menschen. In Los Angeles zogen Demonstranten vor die Filiale der Bank of America . Es wurden elf Personen festgenommen. "Ich glaube, der amerikanische Traum ist mächtig in Gefahr", sagte ein Teilnehmer in Tennesse. "Es gibt so viele Menschen wie mich, die genug haben von den Wall Street-Verbrechern." » | Reuters/smb | Freitag 07. Oktober 2011
«Je vais lancer une grenade dégoupillée», prévenait jeudi Nicolas Sarkozy devant une partie de la délégation qui l'accompagnait à Erevan, en Arménie. Le président de la République y est revenu sur un sujet sensible en évoquant la reconnaissance du génocide arménien par la Turquie. Le Président a déclaré que la France modifierait sa législation pour que le négationnisme du génocide de 1915 soit condamné au pénal, si la Turquie ne reconnaissait pas officiellement le massacre de plus d'un million et demi d'Arméniens.
Une vive réaction était à prévoir et la réponse, cinglante, ne s'est pas fait attendre. Vendredi, Ahmet Davutoglu a conseillé à la France d'«affronter son passé colonial avant de donner des leçons aux autres pays». Le ministre turc des Affaires étrangères a également insisté sur la situation des étrangers, considérés comme des «citoyens de seconde zone» dans l'Hexagone, selon lui. » | Par Romain Renner | Vendredi 07 Octobre 2011
The suicide bomber who killed more than 100 people, including students seeking scholarships, in an attack near Somalia's education ministry was a school dropout who had declared that young people should wage jihad and forget about secular education.
Bashar Abdullahi Nur, who was to blame for the huge explosion on Tuesday that covered the capital, Mogadishu, in dust up to half a mile away, gave an interview before the attack.
"Now those who live abroad are taken to a college and never think about the hereafter. They never think about the harassed Muslims," he said in the interview broadcast on Wednesday by a militant-run radio station. "They wake up in the morning, go to college and studies and accept what the infidels tell them, while infidels are massacring Muslims." » | Associated Press in Mogadishu | Thursday, October 06, 2011
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THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Google’s ebook store opens for business in Britain today, but the web giant faces a struggle to gain a foothold in the growing market.
Major publishing houses including Hachette, Random House, Penguin have signed on to provide content for the new service, which will also offer free access to more than two million out-of-copyright titles.
Google eBooks will be available to anyone via the web, with app for iOS and Android, plus integration with the Android Marketplace.
It represents a big step for the firm towards becoming a major content provider, but compared to Amazon and Apple it [is] a complete novice.
“We’ve been working with publishers for some time to build new online revenue sources for writers and publishers, and this is the next step in that direction,” said Jason Hanley of Google. » | Christopher Williams, Technology Correspondent | Friday, October 07, 2011
HOUSTON CHRONICLE: TIRANA, Albania — Albania's last communist president Ramiz Alia — credited with opening one of the world's most isolationist political systems to democracy — has died. He was 85.
Mimoza Kociu, a spokeswoman for president Bamir Topi, said Alia died at about 7 a.m. (0500 GMT) of lung complications.
Alia assumed leadership of the communist party in 1985 following the death of his longtime friend, dictator Enver Hoxha. Following a series of massive student protests, he introduced political and economic reforms that paved the way for the country's first free elections in 1991. » | AP | Friday, October 07, 2011
NZZ ONLINE: Früherer albanischer Präsident Alia gestorben: Erster frei gewählter Präsident des Landes » | ddp | Freitag 07. Oktober 2011
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Thursday, October 06, 2011
Saudi Arabia has made clear it will not tolerate unrest in its eastern province, where 14 people, 11 of them policemen, were injured in protests this week. Any further trouble would be crushed with "an iron fist," the government warned, anxious to avoid any perception that the first green shoots of the Arab spring have started to emerge in the Gulf's conservative heartland.
It is no surprise that the regime's instinct has been to play down the dimensions and significance of the trouble – an "isolated incident" is the official line in Riyadh. Initial evidence of an over-reaction by security forces gave way to a pullout from the flashpoint, Awamiyah, near the regional capital Qatif, where the Saudi interior ministry accused protesters of carrying arms and throwing petrol bombs. YouTube pictures showed some of that — along with the sound of gunfire and cries of "Allahu Akbar."
It also alleged that the trouble was directed by an unnamed "foreign country" – no prizes for guessing that meant Iran. Unofficial Saudi experts were far less coy, comparing what happened in Awamiyah to the tactics used by Shia protesters in nearby Bahrain during the Pearl Revolution earlier this year, which was also widely, and misleadingly, blamed on meddling by the Islamic republic. Reinforcing Saudi suspicions, Iranian media have hailed the trouble as a "popular uprising" against the monarchy. » | Ian Black | Thursday, October 06, 2011
TRIBUNE DE GENÈVE: Mouammar Kadhafi a appelé les Libyens à manifester «par millions» contre le nouveau pouvoir libyen, le Conseil national de transition (CNT), dans un message sonore diffusé jeudi soir par la chaîne Arraï basée en Syrie.
"J’appelle le peuple libyen, hommes et femmes, à sortir pour manifester par millions à nouveau sur les places et dans les rues et dans toutes les villes", a déclaré le "Guide" déchu dans un message sonore, dans lequel il était à peine audible.
"Je leur dis n’ayez peur de personne, vous êtes le peuple, vous appartenez à cette terre. Faîtes entendre votre voix contre les collaborateurs de l’Otan", a-t-il poursuivi, s’adressant au peuple et faisant référence aux dirigeants du CNT. » | AFP | Jeudi 06 Octobre 2011
Le neveu de Leïla Trabelsi, l'épouse du président tunisien déchu Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, a été arrêté ce jeudi à Rome sur instruction d'Interpol, a indiqué le ministère tunisien de la Justice.
Il s'agit de la première arrestation à l'étranger d'un proche du clan Ben Ali depuis la fuite le 14 janvier de l'ex-président après 23 ans d'un pouvoir sans partage.
Moez Trabelsi est l'objet d'un mandat d'amener émis par la justice tunisienne. Interpol a fait procéder à son arrestation jeudi vers 3H (2H GMT) à Rome, a déclaré le porte-parole du ministère Kadhem Zine El Abidine.
L'organisation policière internationale a émis une notice rouge pour le jeune homme poursuivi dans plusieurs affaires de corruption et soupçonné de blanchiment d'argent, a-t-il précisé. » | AFP | Jeudi 06 Octobre 2011
Respected political scientist Gilles Kepel, a specialist in the Muslim world, led a team of researchers in a year-long project in Clichy-sous-Bois and Montfermeil, two Paris suburbs that exploded in riots in 2005.
The resulting study − “Suburbs of the Republic” − found that religious institutions and practices are increasingly displacing those of the state and the French Republic, which has a strong secular tradition.
Families from the districts, which are mainly populated by immigrants from north and west Africa and their descendants, regularly attend mosque, fast during Ramadan and boycott school meals that are not “halal.”
With between five and six million Muslim residents and citizens, France has the largest Islamic population in the European Union, and central government often struggles to address the challenges to integration that this poses.
Kepel performed a similar study 25 years earlier, and told the daily Le Monde that the influence of Islam in the daily lives and cultural references of the suburbs has “diversified and intensified” since then.
French schools, which are rigorously non-religious, have traditionally been seen as having the role of training young citizens of the republic, but local officials say Islamic pupils are heading home for a halal lunch.
“A certain number of children don’t come to the canteen any more or, if they come, they only take a starter and dessert,” Xavier Lemoine, the center-right mayor of Monfermeil, told Europe 1 radio. » | AFP | PARIS | Thursday, October 06, 2011
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