It's time for an examination of conscience regarding the use of communications media, says a Vatican official. While opening the plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications today, the dicastery's president, Archbishop John Foley, proposed a look at how well the Church is getting its message across.
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This $685,000 A8 is believed to have been ordered by Edmund Stoiber.
A far-right expert spoke to DW-WORLD.DE about Jean-Marie Le Pen and the possibility of such a leader and a movement like his National Front gaining similar prominence in Germany.
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Germany in its capacity as president of the EU and G8 is leading a drive to slash CO2 emissions. But German media commentators want to know why their country should take the leading role while the world's biggest polluters, the US and China, stand idly by.
The US is not happy about Germany going international with its hunt for the CIA agents responsible for kidnapping Khaled el-Masri. American diplomats vented their anger in meetings with German government officials.
For over 30 years, Jean-Marie Le Pen has campaigned at the top of French politics. While labeled an anti-Semite and rascist by some, he still commands enough support to add a dark dimension to the presidential election.
Chancellor Merkel faced the risk that Europe's drive to fight climate change could provoke an east-west split at a EU summit in Brussels this week.
Washington's plans to build a missile defense system have cast a shadow over US relations with Europe. Will Chancellor Merkel feel compelled to distance herself from President Bush?
US plans to build an anti-missile shield in Poland and the Czech republic have led to open divisions within the EU.
Leading German politicians have called on Chancellor Merkel to discuss the planned deployment of a controversial US anti-missile system in East Europe. Meanwhile, the head of Merkel's sister party, the Christian Social Union, echoed Polenz's sentiment by saying "one has to thoroughly review the missile defense system." CSU leader Edmund Stoiber warned the EU that "Moscow's concern cannot be dismissed at the outset." "In any case, talks are necessary," Stoiber stressed.
Hours after historic visit to Jerusalem holocaust museum, group of German bishops tour Palestinian Authority, say Israel behaving like Nazis.
Tzipi Livni, foreign minister of the Zionist regime appeared to be criticizing Saudi Arabia for receiving Iranian President Ahmadinejad.
NATO and Afghan forces have launched their largest joint offensive against the Taleban in southern Afghanistan.
Cheney went to Pakistan to threaten President Musharraf with a cutoff of US aid – and perhaps much worse – if he didn't crack down further on Pashtun tribesmen in the frontier provinces who are aiding Taliban and other Pashtun and nationalist resistance groups. Picking a fight with old, loyal ally Pakistan is both morally wrong and fraught with untold dangers.
Natural resources in the Caspian region are vital to the EU's future energy policy. Though the US has been focusing on the region since the 1990s, European decision-makers have largely neglected its strategic importance.
Foreign pressure, including the threat of international justice, will force Sudan to finally allow UN intervention in Darfur, leading opposition figure Hassan al-Turabi said.
The simmering feud between China and Taiwan burst into the open yesterday when Beijing criticised the President of Taiwan for making strident calls for independence.
The IAEA Chief said here on first day of UN nuclear watchdog Board of Governors' regular seasonal session that agency has found "no strong reason" for Iran's deviation from peaceful nuclear activities.
Prime Minister Olmert held a special cabinet session on Sunday on Israel's response to Iran's nuclear threat.
Cheney's covert plan
Dick Cheney and his henchmen had deliberately set about inciting chain reactions of sectarian violence and civil wars across the Middle East via a massive covert operation disguised as a shift of geopolitical strategy.
The former ISI Chief has said that the US is paving the way to use Pakistan's territory for its expected attack on Iran in order to shift the blame of its failure in Afghanistan to Pakistan.
The promotion of a neoconservative to a key position at the US State Department may be yet another signal of impending war with Iran, Salon reports. "As they have done many times before, neoconservatives, with Iran in their sights, have installed one of their own at State to block any war-avoiding rapprochement. It is not hyperbole to say that Cohen is as extremist a neoconservative and warmonger as it gets."
"The archaeology is so rich there is almost nowhere that you could say is devoid of interest."
A closer look at Bush administration may show that closest advisors of the US president can also be described as "extremely conservative" individuals looking at the world through an ideological lens.
I never thought that I'd have to write this about that land that I love. But now there's no escaping the fact that our government possesses tyrannical powers that are unchecked by appeal to the "independent" courts. What I have learned from people I trust tells me that the future of our liberties is in grave peril.
US gasoline pump prices have jumped about 31 cents a gallon in the past month and the reasons are unclear.
The Iraqi cabinet's adoption last week of a law creating the legal framework for turning over the country's oil wealth to American corporations has touched off a chorus of salutes from the Bush administration, congressional Democrats and the corporate-controlled American media.
The Working Group on Financial Markets, also know as the Plunge Protection Team, was created by Ronald Reagan to prevent a repeat of the Wall Street meltdown of October 1987. Recently, the team has been on high-alert given the increased volatility of the markets and, what Hank Paulson calls, "the systemic risk posed by hedge funds and derivatives."
Marine biologists made a unique inventory of lifeforms on a part of the seabed that had been sealed off for thousands of years by massive ice shelves before they suddenly broke up. Waves of colonising plants and animals quickly moved in to exploit the new habitat which had opened up after a region of ice a third of the size of Belgium had disappeared and let in daylight and oxygen.
People who have out-of-body experiences, such as flying along a tunnel towards a heavenly light, are more likely to suffer a strange effect called sleep paralysis, according to a survey that adds to mounting evidence for a biological explanation for the experience. During sleep paralysis, people experience a kind of breakdown between states of consciousness which takes place on the fringe of sleep, either when falling asleep or waking. Because the brain turns off the body's ability to move during dreaming, muscles can lose their tone, or tension, causing paralysis.
A new book 'deconstructs' a Twinkie and analyzes all 39 ingredients. Industrial-strength junk food, anyone?
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