Tens of thousands of Haitians spontaneously poured into the streets of the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, on the morning of March 12, 2007. Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez had just arrived in Haiti all but unannounced. A multitude, shrieking and singing with glee, joined him in jogging alongside the motorcade of Haiti’s then President Rene Preval on [...]
The Gambian government has decided to include the sharia rules into law “to ensure a fair trial in the country”, officials said in Banjul on Thursday, a move that could spark growing controversy among the people. Njie Saidy, vice president of Gambia, said that the decision would help to promote Gambians’ awareness on the Islamic [...]
Canadian laws should be changed to require women to “cover themselves” to prevent sexual assaults, says an Islamic street preacher in Toronto. Al-Haashim Kamena Atangana, a 33-year-old Islamic convert, called for legal change in response to recent sex attacks at York University. Atangana is connected with a group called Muslim Support Network and is one [...]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel may spend much of her time trying to solve the euro zone crisis, but drug use, protection of animals and interpretations of history are more pressing issues for some of her compatriots. More than 152,000 Germans have voted to make cannabis a legal drug in an online poll conducted as part [...]
Today at 12:56, the European Parliament decided whether ACTA would be ultimately rejected or whether it would drag on into uncertainty. In a crushing 478-to-39 vote, the Parliament decided to reject ACTA once and for all. This means that the deceptive treaty is now dead globally. This is a day of celebration. This is the [...]
The Iranian morality police are cracking down on a decades-old Barbie doll ban, claiming the classic American toy is threatening Islamic values. As tension between the U.S. and Iran continue to rise, Shopkeepers told Reuters that the religious officers are coming into their shops and demanding the leggy blonde Mattel dolls be taken off the [...]
In 1991, Milton William ‘Bill’ Cooper was one of the trendsetters of what became a whistleblower movement, with a book called “Behold a Pale Horse”. A former member of Naval Intelligence, he offered information about the government’s inner secrets – or so he claimed – including their attitude towards UFOs. Specifically, he claimed that Kennedy [...]
Conservative New Democracy MP and former deputy health minister Gerasimos Giakoumatos, suggested on Monday that the Acropolis and other archaeological sites be leased to private firms in a bid to bring much-needed revenue into the debt-ridden country. In comments made to Vima FM radio station, Giakoumatos claimed that such a move would not be humiliating [...]
Students tried stripping to their underwear and handing out free chips; giant lions and roosters snogged in the street; the country’s leading actor ordered all men to go on shaving strike; and a woman senator said politicians’ wives should deny them sex. But in the end, it took a looming financial meltdown in the eurozone [...]
Wikileaks has once again shaken the foundations of the government and military establishment with its mass leaking of documents chronicling the war in Afghanistan. The leaking of more than 92,000 secret documents to the media last week revealed how difficult it now is for any government – however powerful – to conceal information from the [...]
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