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October 29, 2009

Bibles seized as Malaysia minorities fear fundamentalism

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(CNN) — Authorities in Malaysia have seized more than 20,000 Bibles in recent months because they refer to God as “Allah,” Christian leaders said Thursday.

The seizures have fed fears among minority groups, which see signs of encroaching Islamic fundamentalism in the predominantly Muslim but multi-racial country.

“There is a growing sense of Islamic assertion, yes,” said the Rev. Hermen Shastri, general-secretary of the Council of Churches of Malaysia. “There is some concern.”

The Bibles were written in the country’s official language, Malay — in which the word for God is “Allah,” as it is in Arabic.

However, Malaysia’s government says the word is exclusive to Islam.

Its use in Christian publications is likely to confuse Muslims and draw them to Christianity, the government says. So it has banned use of the word in Christian literature.

“Malay has borrowed from Arabic, just as it has from Sanskrit and Portuguese,” Shastri said. “We have maintained the community has the right to use the word.

“But I think this has ignited a cause in the Muslim communities, who are interpreting it as a siege on Islamic beliefs.”

A Home Ministry official directed requests for comment to the ministry’s Publications and Quran Text Control Department, which enforces the ban. An employee there redirected calls to a spokeswoman, who in turn asked CNN to call the Home Ministry back. Calls to other departments were similarly redirected.

A Roman Catholic weekly newspaper, The Herald, is challenging the ban in court after the government threatened to revoke its license for using the word in its Malay edition. Hearings on the case have gone on for two years.

“We quote it as it is. We cannot change the text of the Scripture,” Herald editor Father Lawrence Andrew told CNN last year. “I cannot be the editor of the Bible.”

Among the Bibles confiscated were Malay-language ones that the Bible Society of Malaysia said it had imported from Indonesia. About 10,000 others also were confiscated from Gideons International, which places free copies in hotel rooms and other places.

The Malaysian constitution provides for freedom of religion. The country has a dual-track justice system, in which Islamic courts operate alongside civil ones.

Rulings by the Islamic, or sharia, courts are directed toward the country’s Muslim, who make up 60 percent of the population. But they worry non-Muslims who see them as Islamism seeping into the moderate nation’s fabric.

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October 28, 2009

Versace to cut 25 percent of workforce

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CNN) — Fashion house Gianni Versace will cut 25 percent of its global workforce by the middle of next year as part of cost-saving measures, a spokeswoman told CNN on Wednesday.

Approximately 350 positions will be cut, said the company, which is headquartered in Milan, Italy.

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October 26, 2009

Feds to question attendants of wayward jet

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CNN) — Federal investigators on Monday may interview flight attendants from a Northwest Airlines jet that overshot the runway at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport last week by 150 miles, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.

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October 23, 2009

U.N. slams North Korea over human rights

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UNITED NATIONS (CNN) — Nearly 40 percent of North Koreans are starving, and a shortfall in international aid means that a fraction of those people will receive food donations, a U.N. rights expert said.

Human rights activists participate in a human rights rally on December 10, 2005, in Seoul, South Korea.

The World Food Programme will be able to reach fewer than 2 million of the communist country’s 9 million hungry people, said Vitit Muntarbhorn, the U.N. special human rights investigator for North Korea.

Aid has been limited by global reaction to North Korea’s recent nuclear and missile tests and the government’s priorities are misguided, he said.

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October 21, 2009

1 in 6 Americans Live Below the Poverty Line

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The Census Bureau said today that it estimates 47.4 million Americans are living in poverty, which is 7 million more than the estimate it released earlier this year and translates to one in six Americans.

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October 20, 2009

U.S. Should Not Wait on Afghan Election to Make Troop Decision, Lawmakers Say

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If the Obama administration waits until Afghanistan settles its presidential election before deciding whether to send in more troops, it will be making a big mistake, members of Congress from both sides of the aisle said Monday.

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Gates: U.S. Cannot Wait for Afghan Election to Make Troop Decision

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Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday that the Obama administration cannot wait for the Afghan election to be resolved before making a decision on troop levels, appearing to be at odds with White House officials who have tied a decision on U.S. strategy to the resolution of the election and political stability.

Gates suggested the election would not have an immediate impact on the overall situation in the country.

He told reporters aboard his plane to Tokyo that the administration cannot “sit on our hands.”

The comments come after Afghanistan’s election commission ordered a runoff Nov. 7, following an inquiry that found thousands of ballots were fraudulent. President Hamid Karzai accepted the decision.

But White House officials, as well as Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., have suggested that U.S. strategy toward Afghanistan is contingent on political stability.

“Quite frankly, I think any credible person in this country would make a case that all the troops in the world will not solve a problem without a partner that is there ultimately to help,” White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Monday. “None of this is going to work without credible partners.”

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said over the weekend that it would be “reckless” to make a decision on troop levels without doing a “thorough analysis” of whether the U.S. has a “true partner in governing.”

And Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, bluntly said it would be “irresponsible” to commit more troops before the election is resolved.

These comments drew widespread criticism from Democrats and Republicans in Congress Monday. They said a runoff is important, but that U.S. military strategy is not dependent on who’s leading the country.

Obama on Tuesday said he called Karzai to congratulate him on the decision to accept the runoff.

“President Karzai as well as the other candidates, I think, have shown that they have the interests of the Afghan people at heart,” Obama said, following a meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. “This is a reflection of commitment to the rule of law.”

Yemen ‘rebels’ given death penalty

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(CNN) — Ten alleged rebels were sentenced to death in Yemen Tuesday, the Gulf nation’s official news agency reported.

Suspected Yemeni rebels at the state security court in Sanaa on October 17.

Five other people were sentenced to 15 years in prison each, Saba news agency said.

The latest sentences come a day after the alleged leader of the Houthi rebel movement, Al-Mohatwari, was sentenced to death, and 10 of his followers sentenced to prison for eight to 10 years each.

Two others were sentenced to death on Saturday, and 10 others were sentenced to prison terms ranging from eight to 12 years each, Saba reported.

Yemen’s government accuses “subversive groups” of supporting an insurgency based in the north of the country.

Battles between Yemeni forces and Shiite Houthi rebels there have raged intermittently for five years. A government offensive launched this summer has recently caused more bloodshed.

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The conflict is considered to be both separatist — over who will control the area — and sectarian — whether Shiite Islam will dominate in majority Sunni Yemen. The rebels are supporters of dead Shiite cleric Hussein al-Houthi.

Yemen’s government accused the rebels earlier this month of using civilians as human shields, Saba reported.

In the past, the group Human Rights Watch has said both Yemeni government forces and rebels have endangered civilians during the fighting.

October 18, 2009

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October 14, 2009

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