The Pakistanis gathered every morning, from 07.30 a.m. to approximately 12.30 p.m., in front of their consulate in Athens are a human sea covering a triangle in the very center of the Greek capital, namely an important part of the streets Loukianou-Ypsilantou-Karneadou. The –Greek- people who dwell in that (ex-residential) area have sent several letters of protest to the mayor of Athens and the... 

Russian Oil Pipeline Over the next few days, Russia will change the world. It has completed a new oil pipeline and port complex that sets Russia up to become a more powerful oil exporter than Saudi Arabia. The ramifications for Europe and Asia are profound: The shape of the global economy—and the global balance of power—will be altered forever. December 28 was a big day of ceremony in Russia. Prime... 

Seven Muslim protesters accused of screaming insults at soldiers during an Iraq homecoming parade refused to stand for a judge yesterday. The men are alleged to have shouted ‘murderers’, ‘rapists’, ‘terrorists’ and ‘baby killers’ while waving placards at the 2nd Battalion Royal Anglian Regiment marching through Luton. At the town’s magistrates’... 

Man dressed in black randomly shot at ‘panicked’ people at mall. A gunman clad in black went on a shooting rampage Thursday, killing his ex-girlfriend by slitting her throat from ear to ear on New Years Eve then slaying four workers at a suburban shopping mall near Helsinki before apparently turning his gun on himself, police said. Takkirauta, a Finnish blogger, reports that according to the police... 

“Islam Will Dominate the World” because you don’t do anything to stop it and when someone tries to do something you call him “racist, islamophobic, intolerant, hateful”. Islam4UK plans a mass march-past in the English town of Wootton Bassett. The purported purpose of the muslim march-past is to honour the “real casualties” of the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.... 

At least 67 people have been killed and 144 injured during Russia’s New Year’s festivities when Russians celebrate with firecrackers and ‘cold’ fireworks. “In the past 24 hours, a total of 589 fires have occurred in Russia, including 479 fires in residential buildings. A total of 67 people were killed and 144 injured as a result, 77 people were rescued,” Russia’s... 

British Muslims A police officer in Newport, Gwent, attempted to halt the filming of an Islamic martyr march led by the Tory Welsh Assembly member Mohammad Asghar. Mr Asghar led the annual event — as he did last year as a Plaid Assembly member – proving that there is no difference at all between the Tory and Plaid parties (and the Labour Party, of which Mr Asghar was also previously a member).... 

Firemen were attacked by rioters when they tried to put out the flames The Interior Ministry says police detained nearly 400 people in France overnight — many of them linked to car-burnings that often accompany New Year’s revelry. The ministry says 398 people were taken into police custody — nearly twice the figure of a year ago — but the final count on the number of torched... 

A Topol-M missile in Red Square. Vladimir Putin called for more Russian offensive weapons to punch through America's new missile defence shield Russia needs more weapons to punch through America’s new missile defence shield, Vladimir Putin said yesterday in blunt remarks that will complicate efforts to cut the nuclear arsenals of the former Cold War rivals. The Russian Prime Minister, reasserting... 

Kieron Williamson Like many great artists, small boys are not often renowned for their loquaciousness. While Kieron Williamson is a very normal seven-year-old who uses his words sparingly, what slowly emerges on the small rectangle of paper in his kitchen is extraordinarily eloquent. This month, Kieron’s second exhibition in a gallery in his home town of Holt, Norfolk, sold out in 14 minutes.... 

“The most notorious American POW camps were the so-called Rheinwiesenlager.” Here, the Americans allowed “anything up to 40,000 German soldiers to die from hunger and neglect in the muddy flats of the Rhine.” … “any attempt to feed the prisoners by the German civilian population was punishable by death.” This article was published in the Spring 2009 issue of... 

Computer Animated Asteroid Russia’s space agency chief said Wednesday a spacecraft may be dispatched to knock a large asteroid off course and reduce the chances of earth impact, even though U.S. scientists say such a scenario is unlikely. Anatoly Perminov told Golos Rossii radio the space agency would hold a meeting soon to assess a mission to Apophis. He said his agency might eventually invite... 

Ramzan Kadyrov, the president of Chechnya, at his private offices near the town of Gudermes outside the Chechen capital, Grozny Russia needs a military strategy to resist the United States and other Western powers, which are stoking disorder in the north Caucasus to destroy Russia, according to the president of Chechnya. Ramzan Kadyrov, a 33-year-old former rebel turned Kremlin loyalist, said that... 

Moldovan Metropolitan Vladimir Regarding the group of Orthodox Christians who removed the Menorah on December 13, from the Stephen The Great public square in Chisinau, the Moldovan Orthodox Church manifested its opposition regarding the way the Christians gathered there and protested. In the same time, we consider unwelcome the installing of a Jewish symbol in a public space that is highly tied with... 

Aso Mohammed Ibrahim ran down and killed Amy Houston, but has been told he can remain in the UK An asylum seeker who ran over a girl of 12 and left her to die has won his appeal to stay in the UK after arguing for his right to a family life. Aso Mohammed Ibrahim, 32, was banned from driving and awaiting deportation when he ran away with Amy Houston trapped under the wheels of his car. But the Iraqi...