Caricatures de Mahomet: douze ans de prison à l'issue d'un procès
ROMANDIE: Quatre hommes jugés au Danemark pour un projet d'attentat contre le journal "Jyllands-Posten", dans lequel furent publiées en 2005 des caricatures du prophète Mahomet, ont été condamnés lundi. Ils écopent de douze ans de prison chacun pour "terrorisme".

Les accusés, trois Suédois d'origine arabe et un Tunisien, ont été jugés coupables d'avoir projeté d'attaquer le journal avec l'objectif de tuer le plus grand nombre de personnes, a déclaré la présidente du tribunal de Glostrup, dans la banlieue de Copenhague.

La magistrate a ordonné en outre que les quatre hommes soient expulsés du Danemark à l'issue de leur peine et qu'ils remboursent les frais de justice.

Les quatre hommes avaient plaidé non coupable de l'accusation de terrorisme lors de leur procès qui s'était ouvert le 13 avril. Leurs avocats ont estimé que les images de vidéosurveillance sur lesquelles s'appuyaient notamment les procureurs ne constituaient pas une preuve suffisante. » | ats | lundi 04. Juin 2012

Francois [sic] Hollande's Socialists Poised to Seize Parliamentary Majority
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: French President Francois [sic] Hollande's Socialists and allies came out on top in first-round parliamentary elections on Sunday, and were poised to secure the majority needed to push through tax-and-spend reforms.

The election also saw a surge in support for Marine Le Pen's far-right National Front, which wants to ditch the euro and battle against what she calls the "Islamisation" of France.

The Socialists, Greens and allies won around 46 per cent of the vote, ahead of the 34 per cent for ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy's right-wing UMP party and its allies, the final results released by the interior ministry showed.

Pollsters TNS Sofres, IPOs and OpinonWay agreed that the Socialists and close allies might win between 283-329 seats in the 577-seat National Assembly or potentially as many as 329 and could hold power in the parliament without relying of the votes of the Greens or the anti-capitalist Left Front.

Hollande defeated Sarkozy in last month's presidential election and wants voters to give him a strong mandate to enact reforms as France battles Europe's crippling debt crisis, rising joblessness and a stagnant economy.

If next week's second round confirms Sunday's results, it will boost his status in Europe as champion of the movement away from German-led fixation on austerity towards growth, which he favours as the solution to the economic crisis. » | Monday, June 11, 2012

Procès: Radovan Karadzic demande son acquittement
TRIBUNE DE GENÈVE: Radovan Karadzic a estimé lors de son procès à La Haye qu'il n'y avait pas eu de génocide en Bosnie en 1992. L'ancien chef des Serbes de Bosnie doit répondre de la mort de 100'000 personnes.

La défense de Radovan Karadzic a demandé lundi l’acquittement de l’ancien chef politique des Serbes de Bosnie devant le Tribunal pénal international pour l’ex-Yougoslavie (TPIY). Elle a assuré qu’il n’y avait pas eu de génocide en Bosnie en 1992. » | ats/Newsnet | lundi 11 juin 2012

Anti-Zionist Slogans Daubed at Israel Holocaust Museum
REUTERS.COM: Vandals spray-painted anti-Zionist slogans at Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial and police said on Monday they suspect radical ultra-Orthodox Jews opposed to Israel's existence were responsible.

"Hitler, thank you for the Holocaust," one slogan read.

Some of the graffiti, all written in Hebrew and daubed overnight on outside walls, accused Israel's founders of secretly encouraging the slaughter of six million Jews by the Nazis during World War Two to hasten the creation, in 1948, of the Jewish state.

"The Zionists wanted the Holocaust," said another slogan.

Many ultra-Orthodox Jews regard modern-day Israel as an abomination, believing the establishment of the Jewish state must await the coming of the Messiah. » | Writing by Allyn Fisher-Ilan, Editing by Jeffrey Heller | JERUSALEM | Monday, June 11, 2012

Inside Story: What Happened to Hope and Change?
With the presidential campaigns in full swing, we ask if they are based on fear and negativity. Inside Story US 2012

Zintan Holds Tight to 'Prize' Saif al-Islam
Fighters in the western mountain town of Zintan have refused to give up Saif al-Islam, the most prominent son of slain ruler Muammar Gaddafi, saying his secrets are too important to risk. On Sunday, Zintanis detained an International Criminal Court lawyer who was visiting Saif al-Islam for allegedly trying to deliver letters to him. They say the letters, which she hid in her clothing, posed a danger to Libya's national security. Zintan's leaders say their people sacrificed many lives for the revolution that ended Gaddafi's rule, and that Saif al-Islam has information that could implicate Libya's interim leaders and foreign countries in wrong doing. Al Jazeera's Omar al-Saleh reports from Zintan.

State of Emergency in Myanmar Following Riots
Curfew imposed in Rakhine following clashes between Buddhists and Muslims that left seven dead and many houses razed.

Nigeria: Attaques meurtrières contre deux églises
TRIBUNE DE GENÈVE: Deux églises ont été prises pour cible dimanche par des hommes armés, faisant au moins quatre morts et des dizaines de blessés.

Une bombe a explosé près d'une église de Jos (centre), a déclaré le porte-parole du gouvernement, Pam Ayuba. Selon lui, "le kamikaze et deux autres personnes ont été tuées". En outre, 41 personnes ont été blessées et "sont traitées à l'hôpital évangélique de Jos".

Le groupe islamiste Boko Haram a revendiqué ces attaques à l'explosif contre deux églises. "Nous sommes responsables de l'attaque suicide contre une église à Jos (centre) et d'une autre attaque contre une église à Biu (nord-est)", a déclaré Abul Qaqa, se présentant comme un porte-parole du groupe, lors d'une conférence de presse par téléphone depuis Maiduguri, le fief de Boko Haram dans le nord-est. » | ats/Newsnet | dimanche 10 juin 2012

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David Cameron’s Tories Slump to a New Low
SUNDAY EXPRESS: DAVID CAMERON’S embattled premiership suffered a hammer blow last night as support for the Conservative Party crashed to its lowest level for a decade.

An exclusive poll for the Sunday Express puts the Tories on just 29 per cent while Labour has soared to 43 per cent.

The fuel shortage fiasco, George Osborne’s disastrous Budget, a series of embarrassing U-turns on tax and a flatline economy have seen a resurgent Labour eclipse the Conservatives.

Ed Miliband’s party now stands 14 points clear of the Tories, putting it on course for an outright majority in a general election.

The gap between Labour and the Conservatives is now wider than at any time since December 2002 when former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith faced the on-going popularity of a pre-Gulf war Tony Blair. » | Kirsty Buchanan | Sunday, June 10, 2012

France's Mr Normal Set to Secure Socialist Majority in Vote
THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD: PARIS: He calls himself Mr Normal. But that's only if ''normal'' means having the chance to become one of France's strongest presidents in recent memory.

Francois [sic] Hollande, the unassuming politician who won last month's presidential election, is on the verge of cementing that victory by securing a legislative majority. If his Socialists can achieve that feat by securing a majority in the National Assembly, or at least forming a coalition with allies from like-minded parties, Mr Hollande would occupy a commanding position that France's left has not enjoyed in a generation. » | Henry Chu | Monday, June 11, 2012

Saudi Got Talent Has No Women or Music
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: A Saudi city known for its ultraconservatism has created its own version of the "Arabs Got Talent" television reality show, but with no music and women banned from taking part.

Instead, competitors will be permitted to perform religious chants, recite poems and engage in sports events.

The contest is being held north of the capital in the city of Buraydah, known as a centre for Wahhabism – a strict interpretation of Islam that is followed in the desert kingdom. » | Sunday, June 10, 2012

Terrorisme: Al Qaïda offre dix chameaux pour la tête d’Obama
24 HEURES: Un groupe islamiste somalien a décidé de payer en poulets et chameaux toute information lui permettant de «localiser» Barack Obama et Hillary Clinton.

Le groupe terroriste réagit ainsi aux fortes récompenses en dollars offertes par les Etats-Unis pour la capture de dirigeants de ce groupe.

"Quiconque révélera la cachette de l'idiot Obama sera récompensé par dix chameaux, et quiconque révélera la cachette de la vieille femme Hillary Clinton sera récompensé par dix poulets et dix coqs", a déclaré vendredi Fouad Mohammed Khalaf, du mouvement somalien des shebab. Ses propos ont été rapportés ce week-end par le SITE Intelligence Group, qui suit les organisations d'activistes. » | ats/Newsnet | dimanche 10 juin 2012

La neige de retour dans les Grisons
24 HEURES: La haute Engadine [E] s'est réveillée sous un léger manteau blanc ce matin, la neige étant tombée jusqu'à 1500 mètres d'altitude. Le temps restera instable ces prochains jours.

Dans la nuit de samedi à dimanche, de grandes quantité d’eau sont avant tout tombées au Tessin et aux Grisons [E]. La neige a même fait un retour dimanche matin en haute Engadine. Elle est tombée jusqu’à 1500 mètres d’altitude. » | ats/Newsnet | dimanche 10 juin 2012

A Slap to the Golden Dawn's Popularity
A politician from Greece's neo-Nazi party is now a fugitive after assaulting a colleague on a television talk show. Prosecutors have issued an arrest warrant for Ilias Kasidiaris, the spokesman for the far-right Golden Dawn party. The attack shocked Greeks who are just days away from elections which will determine their future in the Eurozone. From Athens, John Psaropoulos reports.

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Revealed: Saudi Royals' Secret $1bn US Empire
THE INDEPENDENT: BP and BAE Systems among the tenants of portfolio of properties associated with king's son Prince Abdul Aziz bin Fahd

A secret $1bn US property empire amassed by members of the Saudi royal family is the subject of a bitter legal dispute that threatens to reveal the extent of the family's American business interests.

The oil giant BP and the British defence contractor BAE Systems are among the tenants of companies associated with Prince Abdul Aziz bin Fahd, the playboy son of the late King Fahd, according to court documents.

Lawyers for the companies are asking a judge to keep their ultimate ownership secret, but correspondence between the two sides currently remains on the record in a New York courthouse.

The documents reveal that over the past 15 years, Prince Abdul Aziz and a relative, Sheikh Khalid N Al Assaf, amassed a property portfolio that spans the US, from BAE offices in Reston, Virginia, near the capital Washington, to the headquarters of the television company Starz in California. They also purchased two of the four buildings in the office complex that BP uses as its US headquarters in Houston, Texas. » | Stephen Foley | New York | Wednesday, June 06, 2012

Pierre Vogel: Islamisten-Prediger kreuzbrav
SPIEGEL ONLINE: Monatelang hielt sich Pierre Vogel in Ägypten auf, jetzt meldet sich der umstrittene Prediger zurück in seiner Heimat. Ausgerechnet im Rheinland, wo kürzlich noch Salafisten auf Polizisten losgingen, predigt der Ex-Boxer über Frieden, Freundschaft und Verständigung.

Es ist noch gar nicht so lange her, da dozierte der ehemalige Berufsboxer Pierre ausführlich auch über sehr ernste Themen, etwa darüber, warum man Dieben zur Strafe die Hand abhacken sollte. Schließlich sei es auch für den Dieb besser, so argumentierte Vogel damals allen Ernstes, dass die Sünden bereits auf Erden abgegolten würden, als dass der Mensch seine Schuld mit ins Jenseits nähme.

Pierre Vogel war als Boxer einmal Deutscher Junioren-Meister im Halbschwergewicht, seine mäßige Karriere als Profi aber gab er recht zügig auf und konvertierte stattdessen mit 22 Jahren zum Islam. Besser als im Ring gelang es dem bulligen Rheinländer dort, mit wuchtigen Posen und derben Auftritten zum Star einer schnell wachsenden Szene fundamentalistischer Muslime zu avancieren.

Inzwischen gilt der 33-Jährige als einer der wichtigsten Prediger der sogenannten Salafisten - einer besonders strengen und rückwärtsgewandten Strömung des Islam. Laut Verfassungsschutz streben Salafisten in letzter Konsequenz einen Gottesstaat an, in dem wesentliche Grundrechte und Verfassungspositionen nicht mehr gelten. Einige Radikale nehmen dafür auch den Einsatz von Gewalt in Kauf.

Vogel spricht sich öffentlich zwar gegen Gewalt aus, doch die Behörden stufen ihn als gefährlich ein. Die vergangenen Monate verbrachte er angeblich im Norden Kairos, wo er eine Sprachschule besucht haben soll. Staats- und Verfassungsschützer fragten sich daher, ob er die Zeit vielleicht nicht auch nutzte, um neue Kontakte zu knüpfen. Hat er sich - wie schon andere vor ihm - im selbstgewählten Exil weiter radikalisiert? Vogels ersten öffentlichen Auftritt in Deutschland, wo es in den vergangenen Wochen zu brutalen Übergriffen von Salafisten auf Polizisten gekommen war, erwarteten die Beamten mit großer Spannung. » | Von Jörg Diehl, Köln | Samstag, 09. Juni 2012

Vogue Editor Helps Obama Campaign as Rumours Grow of Plum Diplomatic Post
THE OBSERVER: Anna Wintour has raised $500,000 for President Obama's re-election campaign. Will an ambassador's job be her reward?

Anna Wintour, the formidable British editor of American Vogue, has been named as a leading fundraiser in the re-election campaign of Barack Obama – an effort that has led to renewed speculation that she might be in line for a political appointment, potentially the US ambassadorship in London should the post becomes vacant later this year as expected.

Wintour, 62, is expected to step further out from the political shadows this week when she joins David Bowie's wife Iman to campaign for Obama on his home turf of Chicago.

The pair will travel to the city in the company of White House deputy chief of staff Jim Messina, known in Washington as "the fixer", or "the most powerful person in Washington that you haven't heard of". The Washington Post reported last week that the price of access to the event is $1,000, considerably less than access to a $40,000-a-plate fundraising dinner Wintour is co-hosting two nights later at the New York home of Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker.

Both events point to elevated political engagement by the British-born editor satirised in The Devil Wears Prada. » | Edward Helmore in New York | Sunday, June 10, 2012

Lightweight American president about to appoint lightweight British American ambassador to London. – © Mark

Euro 2012: Antisemitic Echoes That Threaten Celebration of Football
THE GUARDIAN: Michael Goldfarb discovers an ugly xenophobia rooted in the catastrophic destruction visited on Poland and Ukraine by totalitarian regimes

Euro 2012 was supposed to be an unalloyed celebration of not just football, but also the renaissance of Poland and Ukraine, the two nations that suffered most in the conflict between the twin poles of 20th-century totalitarianism: Nazism and Soviet communism.

But a darkness still pervades both countries. On a recent visit to Poland and Ukraine, I couldn't help but be struck by it. In Warsaw, which I had visited briefly 17 years ago, I was amazed at how much the past drapes itself around the city's prosperous facade [sic].

There are massive, agonised monuments everywhere: to the dead of the Warsaw Uprising, to the fallen and murdered in the east, the martyrs of Katyn. Every step a tourist takes seems to be guiding him on a tour of Polish suffering

In Lviv in western Ukraine, a place I had never visited before, I found the darkness in people's souls. The city survived the worst of the war. Its perfectly preserved medieval heart is wrapped in a ribbon of Austro-Hungarian imperial boulevards and architecture.

But conversation after conversation with people from all walks of life reveal them looking backwards into the bleak times. Perhaps that's to be expected given the catastrophic destruction visited on the two countries, but it has led many to a world-view that is a perversion of the golden rule: do unto others as others have done unto you. » | Michael Goldfarb | Saturday, June 02, 2012

Baroness Warsi and the 'Extremist'
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Baroness Warsi, the Conservative Party chairman, faces fresh questions over her business partner.

The peer is under investigation over her undeclared links to Abid Hussain, a relative by marriage with whom she is involved in a catering business.

However, there were calls last week for the inquiry, ordered by David Cameron, the Prime Minister, to be widened after Mr Hussain admitted that he had been involved in Hizb ut-Tahrir, a radical Islamist party that the Conservatives had pledged to ban.

In his first public statement, Mr Hussain said that he had attended its meetings, although he said he had never been a “member”, and had not told Lady Warsi about his involvement.

She has previously said she was unaware of his activities.

There were also questions over one of the trips to Pakistan by Lady Warsi on which she was accompanied by Mr Hussain. » | Jason Lewis, Investigations Editor | Saturday, June 09, 2012

Luxembourg PM: 'UK Will Become Euro Zone Member'
ITV NEWS: Luxembourg Prime Minister, Jean-Claude Juncker has predicted that the UK will eventually join the euro currency.

He told The Times [£] that the eurozone would emerge “stronger than ever” and the UK could soon become a member of the euro area. » | Saturday, June 09, 2012

Scotland Yard Launches Investigation into Tory 'Cash-for-Access' Affair
THE INDEPENDENT: Police act on fundraiser's offer that donations would buy No 10 meetings

Scotland Yard has begun an investigation into the Conservative Party cash-for-access scandal that saw its chief fundraiser claim a £250,000 donation would buy private meetings with David Cameron in Downing Street.

Peter Cruddas resigned as the Tories' co-treasurer in March after he told undercover reporters that paying the party £250,000 would buy "premier league" access to the Prime Minister, including intimate dinners with Mr Cameron and his wife Samantha in their flat above No 10.

The Metropolitan Police probe is particularly bad timing for Mr Cameron. He and the Chancellor, George Osborne, have been called before the Leveson Inquiry at the Royal Courts of Justice next week. They will be grilled over their links with Rupert and James Murdoch and the appointment of Andy Coulson to No 10 as the Prime Minister's media director, without customary security checks. Both may have to hand over text messages and emails for publication. The Electoral Commission, which has been conducting its own review of potential offences committed under party political laws, confirmed last night that the allegations against Mr Cruddas "are being dealt with seriously by the police". The commission has offered the Met team its expertise should it be required. » | James Cusick | Saturday, June 09, 2012

Auschwitz: The Nazi and the Final Solution
At the Auschwitz camp, a large amount of wealth was stolen from the Jews. The Goldjuden or Jews of gold were in charge of handling the money, gold, stocks, and jewelry. They subjected the prisoners to an intimate search just before the gas chambers. Jewish women had relationships with SS guards to save their life.

So called camp doctors, especially the notorious Josef Mengele, would torture and inflict incredible suffering on Jewish children, Gypsy children and many others. Patients were put into pressure chambers, tested with drugs, castrated, frozen to death and exposed to various other traumas.

Josef Mengele, did a number of twin studies, and these twins were usually murdered after the experiment was over and their bodies dissected. In the case of the twins, he drew sketches of each twin, for comparison. Mengele was almost fanatical about drawing blood from twins, mostly identical twins. Only a few survived....






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Auschwitz Survivor: 'What I Told the England Squad'
BBC: England players have been visiting the Nazi death camp Auschwitz in Poland ahead of Euro 2012.

They met Zigi Shipper, who was interned in a ghetto from the age of 10, then taken to Auschwitz when the Russians drew near.

When he arrived in Auschwitz he saw guards trying to rip babies out of mothers' arms, shooting them if they resisted.

Disabled people, women, children and babies were sent to the gas chambers.

His friends saw their parents, brothers and sisters being taken away to be killed. (+ video) » | Friday, June 08, 2012

Duke of Edinburgh Leaves Hospital after Five Nights
BBC: Prince Philip has left hospital after a five-night stay receiving treatment for a bladder infection.

Smiling, he waved to well-wishers and shook hands with staff, a day before his 91st birthday on Sunday.

He was admitted to London's King Edward VII hospital on Monday, a day after attending the rain-drenched Jubilee river pageant with the Queen.

A spokesman for Buckingham Palace said: "The Duke of Edinburgh continues to make a good recovery."

He added: "He will continue his convalescence at home. He will spend the weekend privately."

Asked outside the hospital if he was feeling better, the duke said dryly: "Well, I wouldn't be coming out if I wasn't." (+ video) » | Saturday, June 09, 2012

Islamic Militants Threaten War on Pakistan over Kashmir
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Islamic militants fighting Indian forces in Kashmir will declare war on Pakistan if it weakens its traditional support for their jihad, their senior leader has warned.

Syed Salahuddin, leader of the United Jihad Council, an umbrella group of Kashmiri militant groups which includes the Lashkar e Taiba, said they had been fighting "Pakistan's war in Kashmir" but Islamabad now cares more about trade than jihad.

"We (militants) are fighting Pakistan's war in Kashmir and if it withdraws its support, the war would be fought inside Pakistan," he said in an interview with the Arab News.

His threat emerged as India and Pakistan's leaders prepare for talks in Islamabad on Monday on proposals to withdraw their troops from the disputed Siachen Glacier, the world's highest battlefield close to the Line of Control which divides Kashmir.

Salahuddin and other Kashmiri militant leaders fear Pakistan's leaders will withdraw its long-standing support for the military strikes against Indian forces in Kashmir as part of its diplomatic campaign to reduce trade barriers and ease movement between the old enemies. » | Dean Nelson, New Delhi | Friday, June 08, 2012

Greeks Protest against Violent Neo-Nazi MP On the Run
THE GUARDIAN: Golden Dawn spokesman who assaulted leftwing politicians evades arrest as protesters denounce fascism

Protesters across Greece poured on to the streets of cities Friday night, denouncing the "dark force" of fascism as the spokesman of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party continued to elude arrest more than 24 hours after his extraordinary on-screen assault of two female leftwing politicians.

Nine days before fresh general elections, the fault lines in Greek society are deepening.

And late on Friday, as a police manhunt for Ilias Kasidiaris [F] showed little sign of yielding a positive result, the divisions were on full display.

While anti-fascist demonstrators descended on public squares, supporters of Golden Dawn crammed into a hotel in Athens to hear the party's leader, Nikos Michaloliakos, rail against immigrant "scum" and the corrupt and crooked system that had brought the crisis-hit country to such a "dark place".

"There is growing polarisation. People are becoming increasingly radicalised thanks to all the rhetoric in the EU and here against the anti-austerity leftist majority and that is opening the door for Golden Dawn," said veteran activist Petros Constantinou. "We are demonstrating not only against the rise of the far right but against those who have enabled fascism to take root." » | Helena Smith in Athens | Friday, June 08, 2012

Pétrole: L'Iran en colère contre ses voisins
TRIBUNE DE GENÈVE: L’Iran a accusé samedi l’Arabie saoudite, le Koweït et les Emirats arabes unis de faire volontairement baisser les prix du pétrole, avant l’entrée en vigueur le 1er juillet de l’embargo européen contre l'or noir iranien.

L’Arabie saoudite, le Koweït et les Emirats arabes unis sont accusés par l'Iran de "saturer le marché" pétrolier en dépassant leurs quotas de l’Opep pour faire baisser les prix avant l’entrée en vigueur de l’embargo européen contre le pétrole iranien le 1er juillet.

Le représentant iranien au sein de l’Organisation des pays exportateurs de pétrole (Opep), Mohammad Ali Khatibi, a indiqué à l’agence officielle Irna que Téhéran avait formellement protesté auprès du cartel pétrolier avant sa réunion semestrielle à Vienne le 14 juin.

"Il n’est pas correct que deux ou trois pays compensent (la part de marché) d’un pays qui est sanctionné. Les membres de l’Opep ne devraient pas agir les uns contre les autres", a-t-il déclaré. » | afp/Newsnet | samedi 09 juin 2012

Four French Soldiers Killed by Burka-wearing Bomber
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: A suicide bomber dressed in a burka blew himself up near a French patrol in Afghanistan on Saturday, killing four soldiers and wounding five in one of the deadliest attacks on the French contingent in months.

The attack occurred in the mountainous Kapisa province in the east of the country, an area mainly patrolled by a French force under Nato command.

"It was an unfortunate incident. There was a patrol of coalition soldiers in a small bazaar and they were attacked by a suicide bomber wearing a burka," said Sediq Sediqqi, Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman.

French President Francois [sic] Hollande's office in Paris confirmed that the soldiers involved in the attack were French.

A statement from his office said among the five wounded, three were in a serious condition, and Mr Hollande would dispatch defence minister Jean-Yves Le Drian to Afghanistan on Sunday. » | Saturday, June 09, 2012

Tuerie d’Oslo: Un éminent psychiatre propose de réexaminer Breivik
TRIBUNE DE GENÈVE: Un médecin norvégien a suggéré vendredi un nouveau diagnostic pour Anders Behring Breivik, ajoutant à la confusion sur la santé mentale de l'extrémiste de droite après deux expertises officielles aux résultats contradictoires.

Au 33e jour du procès de Breivik jugé pour la mort de 77 personnes l'an dernier, Ulrik Fredrik Malt, professeur de psychiatrie à l'université d'Oslo, a estimé plausible que l'accusé fut atteint du syndrome d'Asperger, du syndrome de la Tourette et de narcissisme.

Le syndrome d'Asperger est une forme d'autisme qui se caractérise notamment par un manque d'empathie, tandis que celui de la Tourette est un trouble neurologique marqué par des tics, ce qui pourrait notamment expliquer, selon lui, les sourires esquissés par Breivik à des moments souvent déplacés.

Ces troubles de la personnalité ne relèvent pas de la psychose, synonyme d'irresponsabilité pénale et donc d'internement psychiatrique, si les juges devaient in fine retenir un tel diagnostic. » | afp/Newsnet | vendredi 08 juin 2012

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It's Time to Stop Using the Word 'Asians'
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: In the wake of the Rochdale grooming convictions, it's time to stop lumping Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus together as 'Asians', argues Hardeep Singh.

Is it time to stop using the word "Asian"? In recent weeks Britain's Sikh and Hindu communities have complained angrily about the use of the misleading term in reporting of the Rochdale grooming convictions of men of Muslim Pakistani descent. Headlines like “Asian grooming – why we need to talk about sex crime”, “Child sex grooming: the Asian question”, and “Grooming offences committed mostly by Asian men, says ex-Barnardo's chief” show the problem.

Obviously Sikhs and Hindus and other "Asian" non-Muslims, including Jains, Zoroastrians, Christians and Buddhists, don’t want to be associated with sexual grooming of vulnerable white girls. The vast majority of Muslims don’t want to either. The girls targeted in Rochdale, Derby and now in Luton are all non-Muslim. This is nothing new for British Hindus and Sikhs, who have complained about targeting of their girls for decades; Indians refer to the practice as "love-jihad". » | Hardeep Singh | Friday, June 08, 2012

Man Linked to Saudi Prince Draws 10-Year Term for Rape
THE NEW YORK TIMES: A member of the traveling entourage of a Saudi prince was sentenced on Thursday to 10 years in prison for the rape of a 26-year-old woman who fell asleep in his room at the Plaza Hotel after a night of barhopping.

During a two-week trial that ended in February, the woman and a friend testified that the man, Mustapha Ouanes, now 61, had introduced himself to them at a bar in Greenwich Village in January 2010. Wearing a finely tailored suit and hat, he seemed harmless, they testified, so they accepted his invitation for an early morning breakfast at the hotel.

After eating, drinking more and smoking hashish, the women fell asleep on the bed in Mr. Ouanes’s hotel room and awoke to find him raping one of them, they said. » | Russ Buettner | Thursday, June 07, 2012

Bahrain Police Battle Biggest Protests in Weeks
THE GUARDIAN: Tens of thousands take to streets after opposition calls for major rallies in support of prominent rights activist Nabeel Rajab

Riot police in Bahrain fired teargas and stun grenades on Friday as tens of thousands of protesters staged the biggest anti-government demonstrations in weeks in the divided Gulf nation.

Opposition groups called for major rallies after a prominent rights activist, Nabeel Rajab, was placed back in detention earlier this week on fresh charges linked to his posts on social media such as Twitter.

Bahrain has experienced near daily protests for 16 months caused by an uprising by the kingdom's Shia majority seeking greater political rights from the western-backed Sunni monarchy. At least 50 people have died in the unrest since February 2011.

There were no immediate reports of injuries from Friday's street battles, which left piles of burning rubbish and clouds of stinging tear gas in the western outskirts of the capital, Manama. » | Associated Press | Friday, June 08, 2012

La langue russe s'impose peu à peu en Ukraine
LE FIGARO: Même si elle peine à phagocyter la sphère économique, la Russie s'est imposée sans difficulté dans le champ culturel et linguistique.

Tout en affichant l'intégration européenne comme priorité de sa diplomatie, le président Viktor Ianoukovitch n'a jamais caché son tropisme russe. Sa promesse électorale de faire du russe la deuxième langue d'État s'est réalisée cette semaine puisque les députés ukrainiens ont voté une loi élargissant le droit d'utiliser le russe comme langue officielle. Un vote mouvementé précédé d'un pugilat au parlement et suivi de manifestations tout aussi musclées dans les rues de Kiev. De quoi illustrer la crise identitaire de ce grand pays qui peine à parler la même langue et à partager la même histoire.

À l'approche des législatives d'octobre, le Parti des Régions, la formation du président implantée dans l'est russophone et russophile du pays, espère ainsi accroître ses chances de l'emporter. Force est de constater que cette décision très controversée consacre aussi le travail de pénétration entamé dès le début des années 2000 par la Russie, qui, de Lénine à Poutine, s'est toujours refusée à «perdre» l'Ukraine. » | Par Arielle Thedrel | vendredi 08 juin 2012

Bilder des Papst-Vertrauten Georg Gänswein

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Eine harte Nuss zu knacken: Salafismus in Deutschland
Salafisten möchten nichts von Demokratie wissen. Stattdessen wollen sie einen islamischen Staat, einen Gottesstaat, eine Theokratie. Deutschlands Innenminister Hans-Peter Friedrich will nun mit aller Härte gegen diese fundamentalistische Strömung vorgehen. Er sprach mit Florian Flade, Martin Lutz und Ulf Poschardt im Interview. ”Radikaler Salafismus ist wie eine harte Droge” » | Freitag, 08. Juni 2012

Iran and Saudi Arabia Allegedly Funding Proxy War in Yemen
AL MONITOR: The intense clashes between Salafists and Houthis in the northern Yemen province of Saada, near the Saudi border, indicate a possible sectarian war. It seems that this scenario reached a point of no return when Yemen’s northern tribes, which are loyal to Riyadh, joined the Salafist militants as part of a "Coalition for Sunni Victory." Today, this coalition is spearheading the ongoing sectarian conflict in northern Yemen, where the majority of the population embraces the Zaidi sect, a branch of Shia Islam.

he seeds of a Sunni-Shiite conflict are being sown in the region in the absence of the Yemeni government. In fact, the government is instead concerned with the war against Al-Qaeda and the obstacles faced by the struggling Gulf Cooperation Council settlement agreement that led to the ouster of Ali Abdallah Saleh. The government also accuses Riyadh of managing the conflict through the use of loyal tribes — who are now in a coalition with the Salafists — against Houthi militants. The Houthis and their military wing Ansar Allah have themselves been accused of receiving support from Tehran and of implementing Tehran’s plans in the region. » | Abu Bakr Abdullah | Thursday, June 07, 2012

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Norway Spends Hundreds of Thousands on Psychiatric Unit for Breivik
RT: If mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik is proved insane, he now has a special place to go. Part of Norway’s high security Ila prison has been converted into a psychiatric unit for the killer.

Estimates of the cost of the conversion vary between 130,000 and 260,000 euro. Norwegian daily Verdens Gang reported on its website that none of the country's existing mental facilities are considered secure enough for Breivik, whose sanity is the key issue in his ongoing trial.

"We are building a high security hospital in Ila," deputy health minister Robin Koss told the newspaper, adding the facility near Oslo still needs state certification. » | Fridau, June 08, 2012

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Arzt: Breivik leidet "wahrscheinlich" an Asperger-Syndrom
DIE PRESSE: Der ehemalige Kinderpsychiater des norwegischen Attentäters vermutet, dass Breivik eine Persönlichkeitsstörung hat. Das allein erkläre aber nicht seine Taten.

Der einstige Kinderpsychiater des norwegischen Attentäters Anders Behring Breivik vermutet, dass sein ehemaliger Patient unter dem Asperger-Syndrom [E] leidet. Per Olav Naess sagte in einem am Freitag veröffentlichten Interview mit dem Norwegischen Rundfunk NRK, es sei "sehr wahrscheinlich", dassBreivik seit seiner Kindheit unter der Persönlichkeitsstörung leidet. Das Asperger-Syndrom ist eine mildere Form des Autismus. » | Ag. | Freitag, 08. Juni 2012

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Flight of Syrians into Jordan Intensifying
Hundreds of Syrians approach the agency daily to register for its services and protection, pushing the total number of registered Syrian refugees in Jordan to over 22,000, the UNHCR in Amman has said. Andrew Harper, the UN refugee agency's country representative, told Al Jazeera on Wednesday that 7,800 Syrian refugees had been registered in May 2012, marking the highest number of registrations in a single month since the uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government began 14 months ago. Nisreen el-Shamayleh reports from Zarqa, Jordan.

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Homosexuality akin to Rape and Prostitution, Polish Nursing Teaching Books Claim
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Homosexuality is on a par with rape and prostitution, according to official teaching materials for Poles studying to be nurses and midwives.

Teaching books refer to homosexuality as a "pathology" and the subject often comes under the section of "sexual problems" where students are instructed on "how to identify and provide assistance in situations of sexual assault and sexual disorders".

A multiple choice question from a 2011 exam paper on gynaecology read: "Homosexuals are particularly dangerous socially and seduce individuals by ..." Students are then given a number of options including "abnormal sexual drive" and "prostitution".

The curriculum content has been condemned by equal rights campaigners in Poland, a country where conservative attitudes towards homosexuality still hold sway over large parts of the population.

"This is a particularly dangerous incident of homophobia," said Agata Chaber, president of the Campaign Against Homophobia. "Official information in course curriculum is regarded as reliable and verified, and therefore very few people will question it." Their anger has been intensified by the fact that the material went unchallenged for some 10 years despite reviews by leading Polish medical scientists. » | Matthew Day, Warsaw | Friday, June 08, 2012

Assad Regime Has Lost Humanity – UN
THE GUARDIAN: Secretary general says Syrian people 'are bleeding' and that crimes against humanity may have been committed


The Syrian regime has "lost its fundamental humanity" and no longer has any legitimacy, Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary general, said on Thursday as he described a massacre of around 90 villagers as "shocking and sickening" and demanded that the killers be brought to account.

Using some of the strongest language yet to condemn the government of Bashar al-Assad, Ban said UN monitors were shot at trying to get to the scene of the massacre on Wednesday.

He said the situation in Syria was close to breaking point and the danger of civil war was imminent and real.

The recent mass killings were "indicative of a pattern that may amount to crimes against humanity," he added. "The Syrian people are bleeding. They are angry. They want peace and dignity. Above all, they all want action."

The latest massacre, in the hamlet of al-Qubair, near Syria's fourth city of Hama, comes less than three weeks after more than 100 people were killed in Houla – an event that has sharply increased sectarian tensions and appears to be sending the country sliding towards civil war. » | Martin Chulov in Beirut | Friday, June 08, 2012

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