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...Tuesday Hamas police held a Gaza City press conference demanding the arrest of those responsible for putting the Goldstone report on hold at the U.N. And Syria, which backs Hamas, postponed a planned visit to Damascus by Abbas. Hamas has also warned that the U.N. move presents a serious obstacle to the unity deal that it had been expected to sign with Fatah later this month. Indeed, Palestinian public opinion has turned so sharply against Abbas over this issue that Hamas may be tempted to hold off on reconciling with its rivals while its political position is strengthened...
...website of Hink's group details incident after incident of zero-tolerance absurdities and overreactions, some highlighted in press reports, others submitted by distraught parents who often complain they are not notified by school authorities until the child has been removed from campus. One mother of a young boy who helped a schoolmate set off a fire alarm learned of her son's plight from a text message he sent her: "Mom, I'm in trouble - please come to school." A second text followed: "I'm probably going to jail." She found her son in leg shackles at the juvenile...
...advertising and marketing industries would clearly be the most affected by Boyer's proposed law. But her draft also calls for warnings on art photography, press releases and even political posters that have been similarly digitally enhanced. The French media have had fun with the possibility of warnings being placed on political ads, recalling the 2007 vacation photograph of a shirtless President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris Match magazine in which his bulging love handles were erased to give him a hunkier form. Boyer - a member of Sarkozy's party - meets such sniggering with a swipe...
...their allies there. But they warn that it will be "very bloody," possibly leading to further revenge attacks in Pakistan. There are an estimated 10,000 well-trained fighters still in South Waziristan, and their new leader, Hakimullah Mehsud, has warned of fresh violence. He appeared at a press conference in the remote South Waziristan village of Sara Rogha on Sunday and vowed to seek revenge for the slaying of Baitullah Mehsud, a distant relative. (Read "How Washington Will Measure Pakistan's Success...
...sexual images, including large-scale photographs of Jeff Koons having sex with his ex-wife Cicciolina, a porn star turned Italian politician. But it was the decision to display the Shields photograph, which the museum had set up in its own room, that drew the most attention from British press before the show opened. It certainly offended Michele Elliott, founder of Kidscape, which campaigns against child abuse in the U.K. "What I see is an indecent photograph of a child being used to bring people into an exhibition," says Elliott, who filed a complaint with London police after reading previews...