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25 Jul 2010 A overwhelmingly vote was received from the French lawmakers over the veil ban. French lawmakers opposed the wearing of face covering veils in public places. The veil which covers the face makes it toughs integrating the Muslim community and Europeans.
During the Bastille Day celebration [...]
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19 Jun 2010The UN has announced a $71m (£48m) flash appeal for Kyrgyzstan, where it says some 400,000 people have been displaced by inter-ethnic fighting.
The Central Asian state’s interim leader believes the number of people killed since violence erupted just over a week ago may be as high as 2,000.
Up to a million people are said to [...]
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6 Jun 2010The head of police in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been suspended following the death of a human rights activist, officials say.
Three police officers have also been arrested and the president is determined to resolve the case, the interior minister said.
Floribert Chebeya, head of the group Voix des Sans Voix, was found dead in [...]
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4 Jun 2010The US elected their Democratic President after a gap of few decades and that seems to be on the verge of collapse. The Obama administration took over at a very tough situation where the financial crisis pulled down the entire economy.
Then the government was forced to go in for unprecedented borrowing and printing of new [...]
The Queen will not attend the Commonwealth Games in India in October, Buckingham Palace has confirmed.
It will be the first time in decades she will not be at the sporting event – previously she has attended at some point during the games, either for the opening or closing ceremony.
Prince Charles will represent the Royal Family [...]
Japan’s socialist party has voted to leave the ruling coalition because of a row over a US base in Okinawa.
The Social Democratic Party (SDP) had opposed PM Yukio Hatoyama’s decision not to move the US Futenma airbase off the southern Japanese island.
On Friday Mr Hatoyama fired SDP chief Mizuho Fukushima from her ministerial post over [...]
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29 May 2010Nepal’s MPs have agreed to extend its parliament by up to a year, as reports suggest the prime minister agreed to resign to allow the deal to go through.
Maoist opponents had demanded Madhav Kumar Nepal’s resignation as part of the deal to avert political crisis.
The parliament, elected in 2008, had been due to expire on [...]
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29 May 2010Signatories of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) have agreed to work towards a nuclear-weapons-free zone in the Middle East.
The members, meeting at the UN in New York, called for a conference in 2012 attended by Middle Eastern states – including Iran – to establish the zone.
The document also said Israel should sign the NPT.
But the [...]
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26 May 2010North Korea is to cut all relations with South Korea, Pyongyang’s official news agency reports.
KCNA said the North was also expelling all South Korean workers from a jointly-run factory north of the border.
The move comes after an international report blamed North Korea for sinking a South Korean warship.
Pyongyang denies it torpedoed the Cheonan near the [...]
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22 May 2010The popularity rating of US President Obama has already touched an all time low, like the European markets last month. The financial industry overhauling legislation and the ongoing high unemployment rate are expected to pull down his popularity further in the coming months.
As if these are not enough, the crude oil spill in Gulf [...]