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...until this peaceful majority authoritatively separates itself from the violent zealots that Islam will shed its reputation for bloodshed. Moreover, the best hope to check fundamentalist Islamic terrorism, as well as more politically-oriented Iraqi insurgents, is through vigorous reproach from other Muslims. Censure from America, the UN, and others has been ineffectual, but an internal denunciation from one’s religious compatriots surely makes a more meaningful impression...
...within the next two or three weeks. Also, the failure to cooperate with the Hague Tribunal is likely to complicate negotiations over the future status of Kosovo, which opened last week in Vienna. Serbia desperately wants to keep some sovereignty over the independence-minded province, which was placed under UN and NATO control after a brief bloody war in 1999. "Entering the talks as a country which harbors war criminals is seriously damaging our position," Serbia and Montenegro's foreign minister Vuk Draskovic admitted in a recent interview...
...long as he doesn’t try and cash in on his differences, right? Well, enter the video for the first single, “Youth,” off the upcoming album of the same name. It begins with ‘Yahu ludicrously un-wrapping his tefillin like a boxer taping up his gloves before a title fight. Don’t forget it kids: he’s the Jewish reggae rapper. He bum-rushes the stage, rocks the appropriately youthful and attractive crowd, and prances around in an Adidas track suit. All of this takes...
...faint glimmer of justice is piercing the grim shadows of U.S. practices at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba. Experts from the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Commission announced last week that the U.S. practice of detaining prisoners in perpetuity and without trial is in violation of international law, and UN Secretary General Kofi A. Annan promptly expressed his support for the panel’s demand that Guantanamo be closed. In order to uphold the standards of the Geneva Convention, the Bush administration should comply with the proposals of the UN panel and allow all 500 Guantanamo prisoners...
...international community quickly embraced the solution - the Organization of American States called it a "significant step towards building the country's future on democracy" - foreign diplomats were also quick to point out that this was a Haitian solution to a Haitian crisis. "We weren't part of the agreement," UN spokesman David Wimhurst said. "But we support it and are ready to move forward to the second round (of voting) for senators and deputies...