Putin wants to further globalize the world by creating a union similar to the European Union, the Eurasian Union. Vladimir Putin has proposed the creation of a new international power nexus between Europe and the Asia-Pacific region in an article in the Izvestia daily. According to the Voice of Russia, the Eurasian Union is Putin’s priority. The Izvestia article, published on Tuesday, mainly... 

Therapy: Thomas Lobel, who now calls himself Tammy, is undergoing controversial hormone blocking treatment. Parents say it’s better for Thomas to have sex change before he is adult. The lesbian parents of an 11-year-old boy who is undergoing the process of becoming a girl last night defended the decision, claiming it was better for a child to have a sex change when young. Thomas Lobel, who now... 

The UK is facing the possibility of an additional £2.5 billion annual benefits bill for EU migrants as the European Commission accuses the country of violating EU laws by restricting foreigners’ access to the welfare system. Eurocrats have issued a “reasoned opinion,” giving the UK a two-month deadline to align its legislation with EU law or face court action. The European Commission... 

Obama slammed the Europeans at an event in Mountain View, California on Monday. US President Obama has given the Europeans a harsh lecture on the dangers of their ongoing debt crisis. Offended by the unsolicited advice, Europeans have suggested the US get its own house in order first. Obama’s remarks were “arrogant” and “absurd,” German commentators say on Wednesday. Europeans... 

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton The European Union has criticized Israel for its illegal expansion of settlement units in the occupied Palestinian territories. EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said on Tuesday that Israel’s plan to build 1,100 new illegal housing units in East al-Quds (Jerusalem) “undermines the talks with Palestinians and should be reversed,” AP reported. Ashton... 

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the West practices double standards in regrad to Israel’s nuclear arsenal. In an interview with CNN on Sunday, Erdogan noted that Israel is the only player in the Middle East that has nuclear weapons and asked, “Why is it that countries banning Iran from having nuclear weapons don’t also ban Israel... 

Two experienced Lancashire social workers say that in their estimation there are 20,000 bigamous or polygamous unions in the UK. Ghulam is a taxi driver who lives in Blackburn, a once-booming textile town in Lancashire. He has a terrace house near his local mosque (one of 53 in the area), a silver Nissan car and a very complex private life. For he has so many children that he struggles to remember... 

A Frenchwoman who wears an Islamic face veil, in defiance of the nationwide ban implemented since April, is aiming to run for president in the upcoming elections next year. Kenza Drider is part of a group of women challenging the law, asserting that it violates fundamental rights, and seeking to defend the rights of all French women. The controversial law banning Muslim face veils on the streets of... 

Controversial space: The buildings that are to become the Park51 mosque and cultural centre, just two blocks from where the twin towers stood before the 9/11 terror attacks. The first part of Park51, the controversial Lower Manhattan Islamic community centre, is opening on Wednesday with an art exhibition featuring photographs of children. Just a few blocks away from the site where the Twin Towers... 

In December 2008 a group of Muslims launched an unprovoked attack on a young Frenchman on board a bus in Paris. As they beat him, they shouted insults like “fils de pute” (son of a bi**h) and “Français de merde” (French sh*t). Interestingly, French mainstream media reports mention the first of these insults but not the second. The whole incident was captured by the bus’s... 

United Nations human rights watchdog has accused Australia of racism over its treatment of boat people and Aborigines. School students are being targeted in a major new push to force acceptance of multiculturalism by “embedding” it in the national curriculum. Young Australians will be trained in “cultural competency” during classes as part of the Gillard Government’s plan... 

Police who patrol Malmö’s Rosengård district are being offered a special Arabic language class to help them better understand and communicate with local residents in the predominantly immigrant area. So far 45 officers have signed up for voluntary twelve-week class, which will provide training on a number of common greetings and pleasantries in Arabic, the local Skånska Dagbladet newspaper... 

Accused: Powell brushed off Cheney's claims that he tried to undercut President Bush's policies in Iraq. An aide to former Secretary of State Colin Powell has hit out at Dick Cheney, saying the former Vice President fears being ‘tried as a war criminal’ Powell’s long-time aide and chief of staff, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson told ABC news Cheney, ‘Was president for all... 

Eight of the largest metropolitan regions in America have seen a decline in the percentage of white inhabitants over the last decade, signaling a majority of minorities in some of the USA’s biggest hubs, including New York and DC. New census data analyzed by the Washington Post reveal that non-Hispanic whites are now a minority in 22 of the 100 biggest urban areas in America. While metropolises... 

Tiny Goshen College in Indiana has banned the “The Star Spangled Banner: at all sporting events because the Mennonite school’s president considers the National Anthem’s words to be too violent. The 1,000-student school had already banned the words last year, but the band could still play the music for patriots in attendance. Now, the school has banned the song entirely, according...