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Sreeram Chaulia February 20, 2006 While Bangladesh's drift toward fundamentalist Islam is broached on and off as a new bother in the South Asian security environment, no systematic compilation of evidence to this effect exists. Veteran Indian editor-cum-journalist Hiranmay Karlekar sets out...

OTTAWA, Ontario -- Stephen Harper's rough start as Prime Minister hasn't affected his popularity. In fact a new Ipsos-Reid Global News poll shows Conservative support is higher than it was on election day. When Stephen Harper was sworn in the honeymoon was over almost before it started. Howls...

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The state of drinking water on Canada's reserves CBC News Online | February 20, 2006 Canada is a developed nation; we generally assume the water we drink is safe and clean. But for many of the half a million Canadians living on First Nations reserves, access to clean and safe water is a...

Newfoundland and Labrador to lead economic growth this year: Conference Board OTTAWA (CP) - Newfoundland and Labrador will lead the provinces in economic growth this year after ranking at the bottom in 2005 and Alberta and British Columbia will enjoy another year of strong expansion, the...

Sweden plans to be world's first oil-free economy · 15-year limit set for switch to renewable energy · Biofuels favoured over further nuclear power John Vidal, environment editor Wednesday February 8, 2006 The Guardian Sweden is to take the biggest energy step of any advanced western...

1,400-year-old Moccasin Found in Canadian Glacier VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - Archeologists studying melting alpine ice for clues on early life in Canada's North have uncovered a 1,400-year-old moccasin, officials said on Thursday. Researchers at first thought the artifact found in...

The American century shows no sign of ending By Michael Lind Published: February 16 2006 The rise and fall of great powers makes exciting history – all the more exciting if, as in the case of the Soviet Union, we can watch the spectacle unfold before our eyes. It is hardly surprising...

Zimbabwe's shortages, inflation blamed for rise in illegal abortions HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- The corpses of at least 20 newborn babies and fetuses are found each week in the sewers of Zimbabwe's capital, some having been flushed down toilets, Harare city authorities said, according to state...

Stalin museum is 'an insult to millions sent to death in Gulag' By Andrew Osborn in Moscow Published: 18 February 2006 The imminent opening of a museum devoted to Josef Stalin has stirred outrage among relatives of the millions he persecuted and has prompted claims that Stalinism is on the...

Poll reveals 40pc of Muslims want sharia law in UK By Patrick Hennessy and Melissa Kite (Filed: 19/02/2006) Four out of 10 British Muslims want sharia law introduced into parts of the country, a survey reveals today. The ICM opinion poll also indicates that a fifth have sympathy with the...

In North Korea, it's Western chumps to the rescue. BY CLAUDIA ROSETT Sunday, February 19, 2006 12:01 a.m. EST It's bad enough that North Korea's Kim Jong Il is starving his people while building nuclear bombs. But why are we helping him? In theory, we're not. But the U.S. has been by far...

Past as Prologue Russia: Moscow presents itself as the new 'middleman' in the Middle East. But its role may actually be that of spoiler. By Owen Matthews Newsweek International Feb. 27, 2006 issue - Once, not so long ago, Europe saw itself as the Middle East's honest broker, poised between a...

California woman, 62, gives birth to 12th child Healthy six-pound, nine-ounce boy born through in-vitro fertilization REDDING, Calif. - A 62-year-old great-grandmother has become one of the oldest women in the world to successfully give birth. The healthy six-pound, nine-ounce baby boy is the...

You can watch the program online by clicking on the link: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/torture/ Is torture ever justified in a post-9/11 world? FRONTLINE gathered a group of legal thinkers to answer this question. Several of them had studied the torture question together for a joint...

Canada to boost troops in Afghanistan Additional 1,300 soldiers headed to dangerous region as Americans return TORONTO - When Glyn Berry, a Canadian diplomat, was killed by a suicide bomber last month in Afghanistan, many here saw it as a sign of more bloodshed to come. Canada, which has...

Bin Laden vows never to be captured alive Al-Qaida leader declares U.S. has resorted to Saddam’s ‘barbaric’ tactics CAIRO, Egypt - Osama bin Laden promised never to be captured alive and declared the United States had resorted to the same “barbaric” tactics used by Saddam Hussein, according to...

VIENNA, Austria - A right-wing British historian goes on trial Monday on charges of denying the Holocaust occurred — a crime punishable by up to 10 years' imprisonment in this country once run by the Nazis. The trial of David Irving opens amid fresh — and fierce — debate over freedom of...

For the past 10 years, carbon dioxide (CO2) has gotten a bad rap. Despite the fact that 95 percent of the CO2 emitted each year is produced by nature (see Figure I), environmentalists started referring to CO2 as a pollutant in 1988 after some scientists claimed that the 30 percent rise in...

George Megalogenis February 20, 2006 JOHN Howard has strongly criticised aspects of Muslim culture, warning they pose an unprecedented challenge for Australia's immigration program. While he remained confident that the overwhelming majority of Muslims would be successfully integrated, the...