THE DAILY WAR!
Non-pagan/papal date: 11-07
THE HOLY ROMAN
Here is a translation of the address B16 gave Sunday before reciting the midday Angelus with people gathered in St. Peter's Square.
B16's encyclical, "Deus Caritas Est," just might spark a revolution of love, says philosopher Jesús Villagrasa.
EMPIRE OF THE GERMAN NATION
Employers and labor unions fighting over working hours in Germany's public administration stepped up their battle of words on Sunday, a day before the biggest work stoppage in the sector in 14 years was scheduled to begin.
EUROPE/RUSSIA
The philosophical, cultural and ethical schisms dividing the Western and Muslim medias are a microcosm of the societies they represent -- fractured and thinking along unparalleled lines.
Papers condemn the weekend attacks by angry mobs on European diplomatic premises in the Middle East. And there is a sense of deja vu about a political pact in Poland.
MIDEAST/AFRICA/ASIA
In a decision that lays the basis for sanctions and future military action against Iran, the governing council of the IAEA caved in to US pressure and voted on Saturday to report Tehran to the UNSC.
The campaign to stop Iran from developing a nuclear weapon has now moved to the UNSC, but countries there have vastly different ideas of what the council should do.
The German Foreign Minister urged Iran to accept a Russian proposal as a way out of the international standoff. The Russian offer to process uranium on behalf of Iran in Russia “can be the key to a negotiated solution."
To many people, the nuclear issue and the caricatures represent a challenge to their faith and identity.
The X Factor: Israel's military planners say they know how to forestall Tehran's nuclear schemes. The options—and their cost.
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Saturday night that the US must be prepared to take military action against Iran if nonviolent means don't deter the country from building nuclear weapons.
Behind the diplomatic maneuvering, many of the diplomats and nuclear experts involved in the West's effort acknowledge that a more realistic goal now is to delay the day that Iran joins the nuclear club. Stopping the program cold, they believe, is highly unlikely, and probably impossible.
Oil prices have risen sharply on news that Iran will no longer allow snap inspection of its nuclear sites.
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