Ay Pee summarized: Also banned will be the niqab or any other face-covering veil. The bill will be forwarded to the parliament for a vote after the summer recess. If passed, Italy will join France, Belgium and a city in Spain in banning Muslim face coverings.
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Paul, you aren't the first Brit I've met who seems to me to be very passive on such issues. I know the UK is a constitutional monarchy, not a republic, but you do have elected MPs. What are you and others like you doing to influence them?
If you *don't* try to do so, for sure the power of the party leaders will continue to control policy.
Ay Pee summarized: Also banned will be the niqab or any other face-covering veil. The bill will be forwarded to the parliament for a vote after the summer recess. If passed, Italy will join France, Belgium and a city in Spain in banning Muslim face coverings.
Ay Pee summarized: Also banned will be the niqab or any other face-covering veil. The bill will be forwarded to the parliament for a vote after the summer recess. If passed, Italy will join France, Belgium and a city in Spain in banning Muslim face coverings.
A trade embargo imposed by authorities in Pristina has led to severe shortages of food and medicine among ethnic Serbs living in northern Kosovo, media reports said on Sunday.
Suppliers from Serbia have been unable to deliver bread and milk to the towns of Lesak, Leposavic and northern Mitrovica, the Belgrade-based Beta news agency reported. Shops in the towns were also on the verge of selling out of meat and sugar products and customers have been stockpiling flour and yeast, it added. Supplies of bottled water were also running low, while doctors at the main health center in the major town of Mitrovica expressed concern over shortages of medicine, the Beta said. Long queues could also be seen at petrol stations throughout northern Kosovo. But this is not Gaza, so who cares/ Continued on Page 47
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Albanians mix well with Muslims and Christians. Inter marriage of faiths are common. Why Pristina would block basic human needs from Serbia is my question. They say Serbs look the other way. What does that mean. Kosovo is a landlocked country. The UN is a buffer at the border with Serbia. What are they trying to accomplish cutting off basic needs of these people.
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Perhaps trying to prove that Northern Kosovo is more directly connected and dependent on Serbia than on the rest of Kosovo? Come on Kosovo, step and take care of your Northern Provinces....
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What are they trying to accomplish cutting off basic needs of these people.
From the article:
"[T]he mainly ethnic Albanian government in Pristina decided earlier this month to implement a new ban on imports from Serbia, as they suspected ethnic Serb officers of turning a blind eye. NATO peacekeepers subsequently took control of the border crossings, which have been effectively closed since Thursday."
From other reports, "imports' is an euphenism for smuggling.
[An Nahar] The man behind the deadly twin attacks in Norway on July 22 wants a Japanese psychiatrist to carry out his psychological evaluation, his lawyer was quoted as saying Tuesday.
"My client has expressed a wish for a Japanese expert. This wish has to do with the concept of honor. He believes that a Japanese person will understand him better than someone from Europe," defense lawyer Geir Lippestad told financial daily Dagens Naeringsliv.
Two Norwegian psychiatrists have been tasked with evaluating the mental state of 32-year-old rightwing krazed killer and confessed killer Anders Behring Breivik.
They are set to make their recommendation by November 1 of whether he is sane enough to be tried for the attacks that killed 77 people and injured dozens of others.
"He has not said anything to me about refusing to talk to them," Lippestad stressed in the Dagens Naeringsliv interview.
Thomas Hegghammer, a Norwegian expert on terrorism and Islamic extremism, told Agence La Belle France Presse in a recent interview that Behring Breivik's 1,500-page manifesto detailing his "crusade" against a "Mohammedan invasion" of Europe, showed he was fascinated by the Japanese and Korean cultures.
Based on the initial information available about Behring Breivik's reasoning and personality, several psychiatrists told AFP he was probably sane enough to be held accountable for his actions, meaning he could be tried and sentenced to prison instead of being locked up in a mental institution.
According to existing laws, he could be sentenced to up to 21 years behind bars if found guilty of "terrorism," although the sentence could be stretched to 30 years if he is also found guilty of "crimes against humanity."
On the afternoon of July 22, Behring Breivik first bombed government offices in Oslo, killing eight people, before going on an 80-minute shooting rampage on the nearby island of Utoeya, where the ruling Labor Party was holding a youth summer camp, killing another 69 people, most of them teenagers.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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The man behind the deadly twin attacks in Norway on July 22 wants a Japanese psychiatrist to carry out his psychological evaluation, his lawyer was quoted as saying Tuesday.
