You certainly won’t see this make any headlines in the state-run media. According to the FBI there are more hate crimes against Caucasians than against Muslims in the United States. McClatchy reported: Hate crimes directed against Muslims remain relatively rare, notwithstanding the notoriety gained by incidents such as recent vandalism at the Madera Islamic Center. Jews, lesbians, gay men and Caucasians,... 

Prince of Wales called for population control in developing world The Prince of Wales has called for greater population control in the developing world and hailed the success of “family planning services” in some countries. He said more needs to be done because of the “monumental” problems that face the environment as population numbers “rocket” and traditional societies become more consumerist.... 

Former President of Madagascar Marc Ravalomanana who lives in exile, Saturday (28/08/2010), was sentenced to hard labor for life for their part in the incident known as the murder of February 7, 2009. “Ravalomanana has sentence without his presence to forced labor for life for murder and additional murders,” said Hanitra Razafimanantsoa, lawyer president who imposed it, who is in exile... 

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer demanded Friday that a reference to the state’s controversial immigration law be removed from a State Department report to the United Nations’ human rights commissioner. The U.S. included its legal challenge to the law on a list of ways the federal government is protecting human rights. In a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Brewer says it is “downright... 

Federal officials announced Friday they had arrested 370 immigrants who were in the U.S. illegally or convicted of other crimes as part of a three-day roundup in the Midwest. Arrests were made in Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Kansas, Missouri, Michigan, Minnesota and Nebraska, officials said. Those arrested were legal immigrants with convictions that made them eligible for deportation,... 

Current federal budget trends are capable of destroying this country. There is an instinctive conclusion among the American public that President Obama’s stimulus package has failed to create a sustained recovery. Unemployment has increased, not declined; consumers have retrenched; housing starts have crashed along with mortgage applications; and there is a fear that a double-dip recession may... 

The warning comes after recent bomb attacks and clashes between nationalist youths and the police AUSTRALIANS are being warned against travelling to Northern Ireland following bomb attacks earlier this month. The Department for Foreign Affairs and Trade updated the advice on its website for travellers to the UK to take account of recent bomb attacks and clashes between nationalist youths and the police. “Incidents... 

Imam behind proposed NYC Muslim center, mosque near ground zero struggles to bridge divisions. New York City Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf has long worked to bridge divisions, whether they are marital fissures or political chasms. Now the 61-year-old clergyman is in the midst of a divisive national debate over plans for an Islamic center that features a mosque about two blocks north of the site of the Sept.... 

“We’re under siege,” said rancher Ed Ashurst as he pointed to where he had tracked the killer of his friend and neighbor to the U.S.-Mexico border. “Five years ago, we didn’t even bother to lock our doors. Now my wife and I carry firearms everywhere we go.” John Ladd is a fifth-generation cattle rancher in southern Cochise County, Ariz. The southern boundary of... 

Mohammad Sidique Khan was one of the four suicide bombers who attacked London in 2005 The widow of a 7/7 suicide bomber has lost her High Court bid to overturn a decision refusing her legal aid. Hasina Patel had wanted legal aid for representation at the forthcoming inquest into the deaths of 52 people in the attacks in London. She was married to suicide bomber Mohammad Sidique Khan, from Leeds. But... 

Vietnam’s president has ordered more than 17,000 prisoners freed as part of the country’s annual National Day amnesty, officials said Saturday. Twenty of those to be released have been charged with national security crimes, but no high-profile pro-democracy dissidents were included. Several were ethnic minorities from the restive Central Highlands bordering Cambodia. Vietnam has been criticized... 

Two Israeli groups have set up 'Zionist editing' courses with aims to alter perceptions about Israel. Two Israeli groups set up training courses in Wikipedia editing with aims to ‘show the other side’ over borders and culture. Since the earliest days of the worldwide web, the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians has seen its rhetorical counterpart fought out on the talkboards... 

An influential Israeli rabbi has said God should strike the Palestinians and their leader with a plague, calling for their death in a fiery sermon before Middle East peace talks set to begin next week. “Abu Mazen and all these evil people should perish from this earth,” Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, spiritual head of the religious Shas party in Israel’s government, said in a sermon late Saturday,... 

Ahmadinejad dismisses US as “unable to beat a small army in Iraq”. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rejected fears of an attack on Iran, taunting Israel as “too weak to face up to Iran militarily,” and the US as unable to beat even a small army in Iraq, speaking in an interview with Al-Jazeera Sunday. “Israel doesn’t have the courage to do it,” Ahmadinejad... 

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