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...sensibilities. In July 2001, according to a report last year by Human Rights Watch, four HIV/AIDS outreach workers were arrested under Section 377 for distributing medical literature; a judge denied them bail, accusing them of "polluting the entire society." In 2003, the Indian Home Ministry - then under the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party - argued that it "responded to the values and mores of the time in the Indian society." Maulana Khalid Rashid Firangi Mahli, a member of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board, said today's ruling was "against all religions. It is against the culture of Indian society...
Buchanan, Pat • Republican conference proposing support of English-only initiatives as a way to attract blue-collar Democrats is co-hosted by, along with white nationalist Peter Brimelow, under a banner with the word conference spelled conferenece
...anti-immigrant True Finns won 10% of the vote. And Britain's UKIP, who won 13 of the 72 British seats despite having no members in the 646-member House of Commons, will be joined by two European Parliament newcomers: the far-right British National Party and Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru. (Read a TIME piece on the gains made...
...small Scottish and Welsh nationalist parties have teamed up to introduce a motion that will be debated next week demanding immediate elections. They won't prevail. Labour dissidents want to oust Brown well before elections are called. Support has been steadily coalescing around Health Secretary Alan Johnson as his replacement, but there are other contenders too. If Labour performs even worse than expected in Thursday's polls or Brown attempts to dislodge a Cabinet minister who's not prepared to go quietly, a fresh insurrection could be triggered. "I'll be amazed if [Brown] survives this," says a Labour insider...
...This does not mean a nationalist China is committed to what its own government has dubbed a “peaceful rise.” China’s dual-pronged espionage campaign remains menacing. First, Chinese hackers conduct extensive cyber-warfare. Second, China gathers human intelligence in a manner markedly different from the former Soviet Union. Whereas the KGB extracted sensitive information from a few carefully chosen assets, China’s Ministry of State Security uses a web of informers in businesses, educational institutions, and governments, many of whom probably don’t even consider their actions...