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After fatwas, security hiked for Egypt opposition
CAIRO (AP) — One hardline Muslim cleric on an Egyptian TV station justified sexual assaults on women protesters. Others issued religious edicts saying opposition leaders must be killed. Television screeds by ultraconservative sheiks are raising fears of assassinations here a day after a top anti-Islamist politician was gunned down in Tunisia. Continue reading
Bulgaria ‘Assassin’ Was Only Seeking Fame
The man caught on video pointing a gun at the head of a politician wanted “five minutes of fame”, police psychologists say. Continue reading
Mila Kunis — Targeted By Anti-Semitic Ukrainian Politician
Jewish organizations around the world are furious with the Ukrainian government … after a Ukrainian politician used an Anti-Semitic slur in a Facebook rant about Mila Kunis. The man who set off the controversy is lawmaker Igor Miroshnichenko –… Continue reading
Tory MP Nadine Dorries Voted Out Of Jungle
The controversial politician will be returning home shortly after getting the boot from the popular ITV show. Continue reading
China expels Bo from legislature, set for trial
Chinese lawmakers stripped disgraced politician Bo Xilai of his last official position Friday, formally expelling him from the country’s top legislature and setting the stage for criminal proceedings against the once-rising political star. Continue reading
George McGovern shaped by prairie upbringing
Tough and humble, the prairie politician took a global view. Continue reading
Pakistan: Imran Khan In Protest Over Drones
Cricketer turned politician Imran Khan says US drone strikes along the Afghan-Pakistan border are a crime against humanity. Continue reading
Egyptian leftist leader eyes parliament majority
CAIRO (Reuters) – Popular Egyptian leftist politician and former presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabahy said on Saturday he is confident a coalition of leftist groups he is working to unite will be strong enough to defeat Islamists and win a parliament majority. Sabahy, in an unexpected outcome, came in third place in the first round of the presidential vote last May, behind well-known army commander and politician Ahmed Shafik and current president Mohamed Mursi, who was the candidate of the state's most organized Muslim Brotherhood group. .. Continue reading
Iraq blasts kill 100 as fugitive VP gets death sentence
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A series of bombs ripped through mainly Shi'ite Baghdad districts on Sunday after Iraq's fugitive Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi was sentenced to death, ending one of the bloodiest days of the year with more than 100 killed across the country. The violence and the sentence for Hashemi, a senior Sunni politician, threatened to stoke sectarian tensions in Iraq where a Shi'ite-led government is battling political instability and a Sunni Islamist insurgency nine months after U.S. troops left Continue reading
