In fewer than 50 years, Britain has changed from being a society with an acknowledged Christian basis to one which is increasingly described by politicians and the media as “multifaith”.
Bishop warns of no-go zones for non-Muslims
One reason for this is the arrival of large numbers of people of other faiths to these shores. Their arrival [...]

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China is having success in its diplomatic and economic campaign to weaken international support for Taiwan, the self-governing island’s de facto ambassador to Washington said.
Joseph Wu, whose official title is representative of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office (TECRO), argues that Beijing has used diplomatic and economic thuggery and threats to weaken U.S. resolve [...]

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President Bush’s senior national security advisers are debating whether to expand the authority of the Central Intelligence Agency and the military to conduct far more aggressive covert operations in the tribal areas of Pakistan.
The debate is a response to intelligence reports that Al Qaeda and the Taliban are intensifying efforts there to destabilize the Pakistani [...]

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AS BEFITS an industrialised country, Britain’s public-health problems are those of wealth rather than poverty. But beneath headlines about fat, cigarettes and a national epidemic of drunkenness, two diseases that were believed vanquished decades ago are re-emerging. Both are linked to immigration.
On December 28th the Department of Health (DoH) confirmed what doctors have long suspected: [...]

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Nothing else has worked: it is time for Pakistan to try democracy.
THE war against Islamist extremism and the terrorism it spawns is being fought on many fronts. But it may well be in Pakistan that it is won or lost. It is not only that the country’s lawless frontier lands provide a refuge for al-Qaeda [...]

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On the beaches of the Barents Sea, near the Russian city of Murmansk, ex-Soviet nuclear submarines lie rotting, like ticking ecological time bombs.The Russians have called on German experts to help prevent disaster.
Murmansk — the biggest city to the north of the Arctic Circle — is not exactly a pretty sight. The city, which during [...]

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China’s big problem with invading Taiwan is not just whether or not they could defeat the defending forces. The big problem is American control of the world’s oceans. It’s been that way for over sixty years, and many people just take it for granted. Chinese military planners see that control, which they can’t break, as [...]

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Millions of children are being raised on prejudice and disinformation. Educated in schools that teach a skewed ideology, they are exposed to a dogma that runs counter to core beliefs shared by many other Western countries. They study from textbooks filled with a doctrine of dissent, which they learn to recite as they prepare to [...]

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The surging price of oil, from just over $10 a barrel a decade ago to $100 Wednesday, is altering the wealth and influence of nations and industries around the world.
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The long oil-price boom is posing wrenching challenges for the world’s poorest nations, while enriching and emboldening producers in the Middle East, Russia and Venezuela. Their [...]

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China plans to open a new commercial aviation route through the Taiwan Strait in a move that officials in Taipei said was a threat to regional peace and a danger to air safety.
The new route between Hong Kong and Shanghai would track just inside the Chinese side of the unofficial dividing line through the middle [...]

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NKorea steps up anti-US propaganda amid stalled talks
AFP - 3 hours ago
… its key nuclear facilities and given a full declaration of its nuclear programmes in return for aid from China, Japan, South Korea, Russia and the US. …
North Korea nuclear deal hits a snag Taipei Times
N. Korea blames US for slowed denuclearization Jerusalem Post
Tensions rise [...]

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A senior Israeli cabinet minister has told The Sunday Telegraph that his government is convinced Iran is intent on becoming the first Muslim superpower, with weapons capable of striking not only at Israel but also Egypt, Libya, Saudi Arabia as well as Greece and other parts of south-eastern Europe.
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In a troubling disclosure, the Russian Federal Customs Service has revealed that authorities thwarted more than 850 attempts to smuggle highly radioactive materials in and out of Russia in 2007. Eighty-five percent of these smuggling attempts were going into the country, and 15 percent were going out.
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A Church of England bishop has said Islamic extremism has turned some communities into no-go areas for people of a different faith or race.
The Bishop of Rochester, the Right Reverend Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, said non-Muslims may find it difficult to live or work in some places.
He said there was “hostility” in those areas and described [...]

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