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...millions of women widowed by the civil war - and would thrash men who did not pray five times a day or keep their beard at the proper length. Afghan officials have said the new department - which was approved by the cabinet last month and is pending approval by parliament - would be a kinder, softer version of its Taliban predecessor and would not enforce such harsh penalties for moral transgressions. Instead, the organization would mirror those in other Islamic countries that aim to "promote morality in society," Presidential spokesman Mohammad Karim Rahimi said...
...time might be different. One answer may be that the 1998 truce was agreed in secret political negotiation between ETA and more moderate Basque nationalists, without consulting the Spanish Government. This time, Prime Minister Zapatero himself is leading the process, with the support of a majority in the Spanish parliament - although without the backing of the opposition Popular Party (PP). "I think this time the process is more transparent and more open to everybody, to all the political sensibilities in the country," says Mikel Serrano, a Socialist councilman in the small town of Zumarraga who has who has faced social...
...says he has received little response. The police situation in Kandahar province is emblematic of the country as a whole. That there is widespread police corruption is no surprise given the lack of training, funds and firepower, notes Abdul Salaam Rocketi, a former mujahedin commander and a Member of Parliament. "If you have a dog and you don't feed it, it will knock on other doors...
...Bilateral ties have been further strained in recent years by North Korea's refusal to provide information about perhaps dozens of Japanese citizens it kidnapped throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Responding to public outrage over the kidnapping issue, Japan's parliament has passed several laws that would facilitate sanctions against North Korea, including restricting monetary transfers and personal travel between the two countries...
Where Ayaan Hirsi Ali goes, controversy seems to follow--and linger. The Somali-born activist, named to 2005's TIME 100 for her campaign against Islamic extremism, quit the Dutch Parliament in May after being told she would be stripped of citizenship for lying on her 1992 application for asylum. Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk flip-flopped last week, saying Hirsi Ali's citizenship was safe. But the Dutch coalition government was not, and collapsed amid discord over Verdonk's original move. Hirsi Ali, 36, regrets that the citizenship issue was politicized and not debated more seriously. "This is absurd...