AFP
8 Feb 06 Appeals for calm in the furor over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed went unheeded as police shot dead four more protestors during rioting in Afghanistan, bringing the worldwide death toll to 13.
Eleven demonstrators have been killed since Friday in Afghanistan, and one each in Somalia and Lebanon. The re-printing of the 12 offending caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed in a French satirical weekly on Wednesday, along with a fresh batch of similar cartoons, was likely to deepen Muslim anger against what is perceived as an act of blasphemy. |
AFP
8 Feb 06 French President Jacques Chirac accused newspapers printing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed of "provocation," after yet another French publication put the contentious caricatures on its pages.
"Anything that can hurt the convictions of another, particularly religious convictions, must be avoided. Freedom of expression must be exercised in a spirit of responsibility," Chirac told his cabinet, according to a government spokesman on Wednesday. "I condemn all manifest provocation that might dangerously fan passions," he said. |
Justin Logan, Ted Galen Carpenter
Cato Institute 27.01.2006 Although the fluttering in the West over the Russia-Ukraine gas dispute has ended for now, there is a deeper problem in relations between Russia and the West.
Over the past several months, NATO has steadily crept into Russia’s backyard, romancing the former Soviet republics of Ukraine and Georgia with the prospect of membership in the alliance, and even hinting that NATO may attempt to intervene in the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. Unfortunately, it seems that poking the Russian bear is back in vogue. |
MosNews
08.02.2006 At least 12 people were killed and 22 more injured when a blast ripped through a Russian military base in Chechnya, local prosecutors said Wednesday.
The reason for the blast, which late Tuesday wrecked a base where Russia’s Vostok battalion was stationed, was as yet unknown, deputy chief of the local emergency ministry’s main administration, Colonel Akhmet Djeirkhanov, said as quoted by the RIA-Novosti news agency. |
AFP
7 Feb 06 |
www.chinaview.cn 2006-02-07 19:29:08
BEIJING, Feb. 7 (Xinhuanet) -- China has expressed firm opposition to a U.S. defence review to play up the "China military threat."
Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan told a press conference on Tuesday that China has lodged serious representation with the U.S. side on the China-related content in the Quadrennial Defence Review (QDR). The QDR, issued by the U.S. Department of Defence on Feb. 3, irrationally criticized China's normal defence construction. The move "interfered in China's internal affairs" and could "mislead public opinion," Kong said. |
www.chinaview.cn 2006-02-08 12:41:54
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By Diana Dundua
A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 7 hit a mountainous region of western Georgia Monday morning.
The quake struck at 8:08 in the morning and its epicenter was in mountains dividing the regions of Racha and Imereti, about 150 kilometers (93 miles) from the capital. No serious injuries or deaths have been reported but tremors were felt throughout a wide swath of the country, as far east as Tbilisi and as far west as Kutaisi and Samtredia. |
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