Mr. Lee Bollinger
Columbia University President
We, the professors and heads of universities and research institutions in Tehran , hereby announce our displeasure and protest at your impolite remarks prior to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s recent speech at Columbia University.
We would like to inform you that President Ahmadinejad was elected directly by the Iranian people through an [...]

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Word of the German government’s slight relaxing of its asylum policy has gotten round in the Middle East. Human traffickers smuggled fivefold more Iraqis into Germany during the first six months of this year than the same period in 2006.
Takwa Ali Zuker, 19, a physics student from Baghdad, still clearly recalls her first impressions of [...]

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German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier opposes French calls for European Union sanctions against Iran. He will back up his case with German Foreign Ministry data showing that leading French and American companies are conducting large amounts of business with Iran.
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier is to oppose French calls for European Union sanctions against Iran [...]

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For the first time since a demonstration in 1990, a group of Saudi women is campaigning for the right to drive in this conservative kingdom, the only country in the world that prohibits female drivers.
After spreading the idea through text messages and e-mails, the group’s leaders said they collected more than 1,100 signatures online and [...]

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“Fuck off! You fucking racist! Get yourself out of my country!” To Robb WJ Ellis, a young white recently appointed policeman in Zimbabwe just after Robert Mugabe’s accession to power, it was soon made clear what the new potentates thought of him. At the same time that Mugabe was being lauded by much of the [...]

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The group set up to develop a plan to tackle racism in Ireland says urgent action is needed in two key areas.
The steering group for the National Action Plan Against Racism says changes are needed in both the education and justice sectors.
It says education can help both young and old students integrate better and escape [...]

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Here’s a brand new slap in the face. NBC news reports that “On the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, students at one high school were not allowed to wear clothes with an American flag. Under a new school rule, students at Hobbton High School are not allowed to wear items with flags, from [...]

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