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...debate over the book is slowly growing in Germany, in part because Mein Kampf's copyright, held by the state of Bavaria, will expire in 2015. Then the book will enter the public domain, and anyone will be able to reprint the text. Academics and officials who fear that a flood of new editions may be abused by far-right extremists are now demanding that a carefully researched and critical edition of the 800-page tome be prepared as a way to demystify...
...open question is whether Qalibaf's modern style and conservative credentials could combine to enable him to improve relations with the West. He expresses delight with the U.S.'s overthrow of Saddam and support for the U.S.-backed Iraqi government, with which he recently held talks in Baghdad. "We sit down at one table to talk about specific issues, such as Iraq," Qalibaf says. "This shows that we can sit down at other tables too and talk with the U.S. [on other issues]." But it is vital, he adds, that the U.S. finally accepts the legitimacy of Iran's revolution...
...country, most notably former U.S. Olympic speed skater Joey Cheek, who has worked internationally to stop the bloodshed in Sudan's Darfur region. Among the many interest groups that have criticized Beijing's policies, overseas Tibetan rights activists have been the busiest protest group during the Games. They've held at least five demonstrations in high-profile spots around the city, and each time they have been detained and deported. "What's happening in Beijing is not an indication of a new, kinder, gentler Chinese government ... a kinder, gentler authoritarian regime," says Lhadon Tethong, executive director of Students...
...were "shameless." The security guards bundled off the demonstrators to a small office. A British television reporter, John Ray of Independent Television News, was also taken away in a police van. Ray says the police have accused him of trying to unfurl a Tibetan flag, which he denies. Ray held his press pass out the window as the van drove away...
...degrees in his statement. "Russia's ongoing action raised serious questions about its intentions in Georgia and the region," Bush said in a Rose Garden announcement Wednesday. In a veiled threat of isolating Russia from the World Trade Organization, the G-8 and the NATO consultative relationship it has held for more than a decade, Bush said Russia was "putting its aspirations [of international integration] at risk...