The Stealth Crusade By Barry Yeoman | Wed May 1, 2002 12:00 AM PST At 8 o'clock on a warm Monday morning in January, 20 students file into Rick Love's classroom at Columbia International University in South Carolina. Eyes glassy from writing papers all weekend, they clutch Styrofoam cups of Folgers a...
'Good without God' ad campaign raises questions in Vancouver Similar ads rejected in Victoria and Halifax Last Updated: Tuesday, February 3, 2009 | 2:04 PM PT Comments84...
If ever there was an instance where a small but hurtful act had worldwide implications, it was when a Danish newspaper hit the streets on Sept. 30, 2005. The paper featured caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, one of them depicting him wearing a turban in the form of a time bomb. The 12 cartoons were commissioned by the conservative paper Jyllands-Posten. Since then, the caricatures have caused an uproar in the Muslim world and sparked a new battle over freedom of speech, religiou...
Spain issues warrant for U.S. soldiers Last Updated Wed, 19 Oct 2005 15:53:45 EDT CBC News A judge in Spain has issued an international arrest warrant for three U.S. soldiers in the shelling of a hotel in Baghdad that killed a Spanish journalist. High court Judge Santiago Pedraz issued the warrant on Wednesday for Sgt. Shawn Gibson, Capt. Philip Wolford and Lt.-Col. Philip de Camp, then of the U.S. 3rd Infantry. Jose Couso, of the Spanis...
Straw admits UK part of Iraq problem by Monday 01 August 2005 11:19 PM GMT Belka: Using post-war Germany as a model for Iraq a mistake The British foreign secretary has admitted that the presence of British and US troops in Iraq is fuelling the uprising there, and the Polish prime minister has said post-war nation-building efforts have "failed totally". In an interview on Tuesday with Britain's Financial Times newspaper, British Foreign ...
Israeli military court convicts soldier in fatal shooting of British activist 10:10 AM EDT Jun 27 CASTINA MILITARY BASE, Israel (AP) - A military court convicted an Israeli soldier of manslaughter Monday in the killing of a pro-Palestinian British activist in 2003. The defendant, Wahid Taysir, who no longer is in the army, was accused of shooting Tom Hurndall in the head during an army operation in the Gaza Strip in April 2003. Witnesses said H...
US 'admits' torturing prisoners by Friday 24 June 2005 2:04 PM GMT A committee is preparing for hearings in May 2006 Washington has for the first time acknowledged to the United Nations that prisoners have been tortured at US detention centres in Guantanamo Bay, Afghanistan and Iraq, a UN source says. The admission was made in a report submitted to the UN Committee against Torture, said a member of the 10-person panel, speaking on condit...
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