(CNN) -- Swiss voters on Sunday adopted a referendum banning the construction of minarets, seen by some on the far right as a sign of encroaching Islamism.
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"Does the indictment of Radovan Karadzic spell the end of a separate Serbian
identity within Bosnia?"
"Spain says a feasibility study for an undersea tunnel to connect Spain and
Morocco is in the final stages. Spain says a feasibility study for an undersea
tunnel to connect Spain and Morocco is in the final stages."
"Irish ministers have reacted robustly to the French president's remark
that the Republic of Ireland should hold a new referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.
Irish ministers have reacted robustly to the French president's remark that the
Republic of Ireland should hold a new referendum on the Lisbon Treaty."
"(Newser) – A family of Czech cannibals is on trial for hacking off pieces
of a 7-year-old boy who survived the ghoulish abuse, the Sun reports. The horror
unraveled last year when a neighbor’s baby monitor picked up images of the
chained-up boy meant to be seen by the boy's mother."
"The European Union’s Orwellian “reform treaty” has been rejected by the voters
of Ireland, and that means it’s probably dead—but only probably, because the EU
will now try to find a way to bypass the will of the voters."
"Romania will not recognize the independence of Kosovo province, Romanian Prime
Minister Calin Popescu-Tariceanu said Friday.
Tariceanu made the statement before heading to Brussels to attend a one-day summit of the European Council, the state Rompresnews agency reported."
"Underlying all of this is a not-so-hidden agenda: an anticipated so-called
diplomatic dividend for pleasing the Muslim world. A prominent US legislator
declared over the summer that granting Kosovo its independence would please the
Muslim world and would show that America is not anti-Islamic. The Kosovo affair
has this assumed extra importance in this precarious post 9/11 era, as a token.
But it risks kindling a chain reaction of explosive crises around the world."
"'We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is war,' Mr Kouchner said
in an interview on French TV and radio. Mr Kouchner said negotiations with Iran
should continue 'right to the end', but an Iranian nuclear weapon would pose 'a
real danger for the whole world'. 'We have to prepare for the worst, and the
worst is war,' Mr Kouchner said in an interview on French TV and radio. Mr
Kouchner said negotiations with Iran should continue 'right to the end', but an
Iranian nuclear weapon would pose 'a real danger for the whole world'. "
"The jihadists are swinging and missing, but the threat these plots represent
remains real and growing. The most astonishing thing about American politics six
years after 9/11 is its deep indifference in many places to the realities of
this network and the necessity of fighting it with tools such as the recently
amended FISA."
"Stockholm’s local administration is actually lobbying for banks to
institute “Islamic banking,” i.e. Shari’a-compliant loans (Muslims should pay
less for loans than native Stockholmers — Jizyah, as it is called in the
Koran)."
