AN Australian flag was ripped, stomped and spat on in an attack which is believed to have sparked an alcohol-fuelled mob rampage that destroyed Australia Day celebrations at the seaside Adelaide suburb of Semaphore.
About 60 police officers descended on the Semaphore foreshore after a mass brawl broke out among 150 drunken revellers about 10.30pm on [...]

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Freshman Rep. Stephen I. Cohen, D-Tenn., is not joining the Congressional Black Caucus after several current and former members made it clear that a white lawmaker was not welcome.
“I think they’re real happy I’m not going to join,” said Cohen, who succeeded Rep. Harold Ford, D-Tenn., in a majority-black Memphis district. “It’s their caucus and [...]

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AMSTERDAM — Asylum seekers are far more likely to be suspected of committing crimes than Dutch citizens, a police investigation has indicated.
The investigation also indicated that boredom is one of the main reasons for criminal activity among asylum seekers, Radio Netherlands reported.
But lingering problems from traumas that asylum seekers have not yet come to terms [...]

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Man thrown off jet for Bush T-shirt
A man was removed from a Qantas flight to London because he would not take off a T-shirt with a picture of President Bush and the slogan “World’s 1 terrorist.”
Allen Jasson said Monday he was turned away last Friday at a Qantas departure gate in Melbourne.
Jasson said he wore [...]

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Gollnisch Fined for Words
Against the law to ask questions
January 18th, 2007
LYON, France (Reuters) – A French court handed a leading far-right French politician a three-month suspended jail sentence and fined him 5,000 euros ($6,500) on Thursday for questioning the Holocaust.
The Lyon court found Bruno Gollnisch, No. 2 in the far-right National Front [...]

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TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian military troops have shot down a spy plane of the US army during the last few days, an Iranian MP said here on Tuesday.
Representative of Dasht-e Azadegan at the Islamic Consultative Assembly, Seyed Nezam Mola Hoveizeh also told FNA that the aircraft has been a spy drone of the US [...]

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Washington has warned that it will not tolerate Iran supporting armed groups fighting in Iraq, but in the far northeast of the country Al Jazeera discovered armed Iranian exiles training to overthrow the government in Tehran.
From their base the fighters cross the porous border into Iran to carry out attacks. Al Jazeera witnessed a group [...]

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KUWAIT CITY: Washington will launch a military strike on Iran before April 2007, say sources. The attack will be launched from the sea and Patriot missiles will guard all oil-producing countries in the region, they add. Recent statements emanating from the United States indicate the Bush administration’s new strategy for Iraq doesn’t include any proposal [...]

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