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...court sentenced Wiens to life in prison on Nov. 11. The case, which sparked protests across the Muslim world, has taken on a broader resonance. Outraged Muslims have dubbed el-Sherbini, who wore a hijab, the "headscarf martyr," making her a symbol of the hostility Muslims face in the West. Germany's Foreign Secretary, intent on heading off wider conflict, declared that the judgment "makes it very clear that violence, racial intolerance and hatred have no place in Germany...
Four bombs in four days rocked Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province, including a Nov. 10 explosion in a crowded marketplace near Peshawar that killed 34 people. Extremists have targeted the region in retribution for the Pakistani army's offensive against Taliban fighters in South Waziristan, a militant enclave along the Afghan border. Bombings have killed an estimated 350 Pakistani civilians since early October...
...Well-Being Index was launched. It was designed to work like a Dow Jones average of attitude. At least 1,000 people are surveyed daily, 350 days a year. (You can see how happy people are broken down by congressional district; Utah turns out to be the merriest state, West Virginia the glummest.) When the markets tanked last fall, happiness did too, and anyone who has lost his or her job, house or health care is probably still in a world of pain. But here's the funny thing: by this past summer, overall well-being was higher than...
...Vienna, and Iran's government was asked to endorse it within a couple of days. But the plan faced a firestorm of criticism from across the political spectrum in Tehran, prompting the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to backtrack. The aspect of the plan that most appeals to the West - removing from Iran most of a uranium stockpile that could hypothetically be turned into a weapon, and returning it in the form of harmless fuel rods - is the one that has caused Tehran to balk. Many Iranian leaders suspect the deal is part of a plan to deprive...
Shmatko cited "technical reasons" for the Bushehr delay, but no one in Iran missed the signal. "The Russians are insincere and very unreliable and de facto using the Bushehr case as a political tool for realizing their interests with the West," Mahmoud Ahmadi-Biqash, spokesman of Iran's parliamentary foreign policy and security commission told an Iranian news service...