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KIEV - The man Russian President Vladimir Putin has cast as one of Europe's potential new Adolf Hitlers is a little late for coffee this Saturday morning. Igor Mazur, or Topoyla (Poplar) as he's known because he's 6'7" is the leader of the Ukranian Right Sector at Maidan, Kiev's Independence Square. The Right Sector are the radical nationalists of this Ukranian Revolution. There are others: the right-wing Svoboda (Freedom) Party, for one, which has an actual political following, 12 percent of the vote in the last elections. It used to identify itself as a national socialist movement, just like the...

Oklahoma's "Save Our State Amendment," which bans state courts from considering Islamic, or Shariah, law when deciding cases, hit a major roadblock today, when a federal judge granted a permanent injunction against the measure. Chief Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma blocked the state from certifying the amendment – approved by 70 percent of Oklahoma voters through a ballot initiative known as State Question 755 – until an final determination is made on a lawsuit brought against it by the Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Miles-LaGrange not only granted...

The traditional response by French workers to something they do not like is to take to the streets in protest, but the country's retired postal staff have come up with a new way to make their anger felt. Furious that the government has abolished long-standing perks - free home telephone lines and credit card subscriptions - 130,000 postal pensioners are threatening to vote "Non" in the May 29 referendum on the European Union constitution. On January 1 their former state-owned employer, La Poste, ended the benefits worth €220 (£155) per pensioner per year, but which would have cost €700 million...