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Thousands of angry ethnic Han Chinese wielding clubs and machetes roamed this capital city of Xinjiang territory and engaged in sporadic revenge attacks against Uighurs after deadly riots Sunday. The fresh unrest prompted Chinese President Hu Jintao to fly home early Wednesday from Italy, where he had been scheduled to attend the meeting of the Group of Eight leading nations. His sudden departure from such a high-profile international event underlined the severity of the challenge the Xinjiang violence presents to China's leadership. In Urumqi, authorities imposed a curfew and security forces tried to keep the two ethnic groups apart in...

Video 1.Muslisms protest http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWjRPRf-qbM crack-down by Chinese government, you can hear gun shots in the background. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk3X3iXqJnI

MUSLIM BRANDS BRITAIN ‘NAZI’WAR widows and MPs reacted angrily last night after a Muslim leader warned Britain was becoming like Nazi Germany. Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari said perceptions of Muslims were so negative there was a danger that people’s minds would be “poisoned as they were in the Thirties”. His comments, made on the eve of Remembrance Sunday, came as a Sunday Express poll showed the Conservatives surging into an eight-point lead over Labour on the back of public concern about immigration. Dr Bari, head of the Muslim Council of Britain, also called for Britain to adopt Islamic customs like...

RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Reem Abdullah was raised in a conservative family in a village near the city of Ramallah. She is a university student and needs some Internet time to do research for her studies. But Reem had a dilemma; family restrictions made it almost impossible for her to frequent cyber cafés open to both genders. Reem's case is not uncommon in the West Bank, where many female students need Internet access in order to support their university studies. According to a 2004 statistical study by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), almost 15 percent of females in...

(AGI) Vatican city, Dec. 3 - Vatican Foreign Minister, Monsignor Giovanni Lajolo, said that a new form of racism, the hate for Christians, has appeared in the world today. It is an attitude towards Christians whose presence and actions are interpreted as proselytism or interference in local cultures. (...) This new form of racism can be compared to anti-Semitism or hate for the Islam. It was due to the war on terrorism. This war, although necessary, had this collateral effect in many countries worldwide where western civilisation or some political strategies of western countries are considered a consequence of Christianity....

This is what I wrote in 1994 following the Mashhad tragedy. When a friend's relative dies of old age and you attend the services, you say condolences, but what can you say to people who have lost a loved one in the Mashhad tragedy of bombing Imam Reza Shrine in 1994 killing the pilgrims? I once was in this kind of situation. The sister of a friend of mine with her three kids died in a very similar tragedy. I was speechless. I did not know what to say. After thinking it over, the following were my thoughts. I think...

Mahathir Mohammed, 73, who turned Malaysia into an economic tiger, voluntarily left office in October last year. But he is still a man of novel ideas and theories. Having relinquished all governmental and party posts, Mahathir is now residing in Putrajaya, the new Malaysian capital, spending time giving consultations, and contemplating upon the future. He rarely talks to the media and when he does, it is usually brief, but the former Malaysian prime minister generously sat for talks with the Mehr News Agency for about 100 minutes. His interesting views on diverse subjects ranging from management and development to challenges...

I don't do vanity post, but i am doing on exception now. I have just gone through one of my worst days ever. Working as a business consultans I lost my jobs in the aftermath of 911. After Having gone over a year without a job, I finally succeded in getting employed as a salesman for a publisher of industry guides in Scandinavia. However, my boss took to me to his office after work today and started asking me all sorts of questions....What do you think of America? What do you think of the jews? Bla bla bla... Then, he...

March 26, 2003 Officials Say Iraqis May Have Killed Some PrisonersBy ERIC SCHMITT and DAVID E. SANGER ASHINGTON, March 25 ? Some of the Army mechanics captured on Sunday after they took a wrong turn in the Iraqi town of Nasiriya were apparently executed by their captors, probably in front of townspeople in the area, American officials charged tonight. The officials cautioned tonight that this information was based on a single source, apparently a communications intercept, and that they were seeking corroborating evidence. It is unclear how many of the seven slain soldiers were executed, rather than slain in...