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Because several top Sunni leaders - including Saleh al-Mutlaq, head of a secular coalition that includes former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi - are among those now banned from running in the election, the move is being widely perceived by the country's Sunnis as an attempt by the Shi'ite-dominated government to limit the expected gains by Sunni parties in the coming contest. And it also appears that the targets of the commission are more than just Sunni politicians but also rivals of President Nouri al-Maliki and his supporters on the Accountability and Justice Commission (including its co-chair...
...world. "It's creepy," says Rayside of the University of Toronto, "but sexual minorities are seen as a safer and more respectable minority because they know what 'Britishness' or 'Dutchness' is." A 2008 poll, for example, found that while only 27% of Dutch voters would approve of a Muslim Prime Minister, 78% would approve of a homosexual in the same role. (See pictures of Muslims in America...
...himself gay, believes that shows there is still work to be done. "It's a strange claim because she isn't in the closet," he says. "It shows that the media doesn't really know how to handle gay politicians." Perhaps. But only in Iceland could overlooking the Prime Minister's sexual orientation be taken as a slight. In many other parts of the world, that would count as a victory. - With reporting by Stephanie Kirchner / Berlin and Gaëlle Faure and Tara Kelly / London
...However, I question the failure to grant a spot on the list to turmoil in Israel. Though the peace negotiations remain stalled, there have been numerous developments throughout the year that have contributed to the quagmire, including the war in Gaza, the election of a right-wing Prime Minister and the subsequent expansion of Israeli settlements. This conflict has been one of the most important in the region this year, and it deserved a mention...
...friends and business partners and, in March, his own biographer was named vice chancellor of Calcutta University. Basu never hid his bourgeois tastes - which included a fondness for Scotch and annual trips abroad for health checkups - but critics derided his increasingly lavish, state-sponsored birthday celebrations and Prime Minister-level security detail. The Marxist poet Samar Sen described Basu as "the most well-protected Marxist leader east of the Suez Canal...