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Reuters
Nov 6, 2006 DUBAI - A two-year-old boy was briefly banned from boarding a Turkey-bound flight in the United Arab Emirates after his name appeared on a list of wanted suspects, a newspaper reported Saturday.
Emirates Today said the boy's passport details, including the date of birth, matched those in an arrest warrant. The reason for the mix-up was not known. "While going through the passport checking procedures to get on board, one of the officers on duty said they wanted to take Suhail," Emirates Today quoted the boy's father, Abdullah Mohamed Saleh, as saying. "I thought he was kidding me and said 'Take him if you want'," he said. "He showed me a print-out of a document that said Suhail was wanted and there was an arrest warrant for him." Officials said they would investigate the incident, the paper reported. |
By Patrick Donahue
Bloomberg News Wednesday, November 8, 2006; Page A25 Congressional scandals have damaged America's standing on a global list that ranks freedom from corruption. The United States ranked 20th least corrupt among 163 countries, down from 17th last year, and scored 7.3 out of 10, a drop of 0.3 compared with 2005, according to the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index 2006.
Finland, Iceland and New Zealand tied for least corrupt, each with an almost-perfect 9.6 ranking. In more bad news for the United States, Iraq was next-to-last on the list. |
The Independent
November 7, 2006 An experienced Muslim firearms officer has begun race and religious discrimination proceedings against the Metropolitan Police after he was removed from a close-protection unit guarding senior dignitaries, including Tony Blair. Amjad Farooq, 39, a father of five, was told he was a threat to national security because his children had attended a mosque associated with a Muslim cleric linked to a suspected terrorist group.
The officer was also told that his presence might upset the American secret service which worked closely with the Met's close-protection group. |
Last Updated: Tuesday, November 7, 2006 | 1:56 PM ET
CBC News Ottawa is reviewing the rules governing dual citizenship and whether Canadians living abroad should qualify for social programs when they return, Citizenship and Immigration Minister Monte Solberg confirmed Tuesday.
The review comes in the aftermath of the mass evacuation of 15,000 Canadians from Lebanon last summer during the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict, at an approximate cost of $63 million. Many of those Canadians hold dual citizenship and some have returned to Lebanon. |
08.11.2006
MosNews Russia has proposed a resolution aimed at countering racism and xenophobia to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday and accused the West of trying to soften the document and to play down its urgency.
Russia's representative to the UN General Assembly, Andrei Nikiforov, presented the draft "On inadmissibility of actions that lead to escalation of the modern forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance." The official said that the resolution was submitted in order to counter attempts of modern racists and neo-Nazis to revise the results of the Second World War and justify the Nazism. He also added that the Western countries and their allies were attempting to soften the text of the draft, to "neuter" its content and to play down its urgency. In his speech in the UN Nikiforov mentioned the rising nationalism in Estonia, where authorities approved the meetings of Waffen SS veterans while destroying the monuments to Soviet soldiers who perished in the Second World War. Russian official expressed the surprise with the fact that Estonia's actions are not denounced by the Western countries. At the same time, the Russian representative said that the resolution was not about some particular countries. The document says that the Convention signatory states should, in particular "denounce all kind of propaganda and all organizations based on ideas of racial superiority or that try to justify and encourage racial hatred and discrimination in any form; announce criminally punishable by law any dissemination of ideas based on racial superiority or hatred." Comment: Now why would Western nations, and undoubtedly Israel, want to soften legislation against racism and Nazism? The answer is quite clear: because western nations, and in particular Israel, NEED racism and nazism to exist in order to use it as justification for introducing ever more stringent and draconian controls on Western society. If you are wondering if that means that Israel and other Western nations need to promote extremism in order to better establish extremist forms of government under the guise of "anti-extremism", then the answer is a definite YES!
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Times Online
November 7, 2006 As every parent knows, unless you are clutching a giant bowl of sweets or the world's cutest puppy, you become invisible when your child is watching television.
But just how much damage a few programmes every morning and evening do to children was revealed yesterday by a report showing that most six-year-olds would rather look at a blank screen than a human face. In a study that raises disturbing questions about the ability of a generation of children to interact with others, psychologists discovered that children aged 6 to 8 respond to the image of a television as alcoholics do to pictures of drink. In a series of experiments conducted in primary schools, most looked at a picture of a blank television screen as soon as it flashed up on a computer next to a smiling face. |
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