Pope Benedict's apostolic exhortation on the Eucharist will be released on Tuesday, March 13, the Vatican has announced.
"It is appropriate also to acknowledge the Latin Patriarch, the Custody, ... the Oriental Catholic Churches and all of the institutes and organizations operative in this territory. To each I express profound gratitude. It is a gratitude filled with confidence that the particular Churches of the world will continue to respond favorably to this vital cause of the Holy Land."
Germany's Jewish community has criticized Catholic bishops for comparing Israel's separation barrier in the West Bank to the Nazi confinement of Jews in ghettoes. But the bishops say they were expressing their shock.
A 7,000-year-old dwelling mound has been found in Germany, causing a stir among archaeologists. It is the first find of its kind in Western Europe.
How many currencies does Germany have? More than one, it turns out. In an effort to boost their local economies, 22 regions in the country have introduced their own alternative tender - but are they worth the paper they're printed on?
Just when Berlin thought Germany's budget deficit was under control, a tax law from the 1990s has come back to haunt it. The EU ruled yesterday that investors in foreign companies are owed huge sums of money.
The violent hatred of all things German, particularly the prospect of a united Germany, which characterized this extreme wing of the Antifa (they soon labeled themselves the "Anti-Deutschen"—"Anti-Germans") precisely mirrored the rhetoric and policies coming, at that same time, out of the Tory government of Margaret Thatcher in Britain, and some of the leading City of London propagandists in the British media. The continuing parallels between the rhetoric and actions of the Anti-Deutschen and the policies of the Anglo-Dutch oligarchy, up to the present day, are hardly coincidental.
The UK has agreed to a reference to the euro currency in the EU's 50th anniversary declaration, while France is keen to secure that the text will not call for uncontrolled future enlargement of the union. German diplomats said the text is likely to avoid words like "constitution" or "constitutional" reflecting a growing EU consensus that a new treaty should simply be called a "treaty" and not a constitution.
With the French presidential campaign heating up, politicians in Paris are seizing on the Airbus crisis as an election issue. Sarkozy is calling for an end to the dual leadership at parent company EADS and Royal is calling for more state investment instead of job cuts. The German government, however, insists that the EADS management structure, with dominant roles for the Germans and French, should not be allowed to be altered by any new investors.
Their politics differ, their styles clash and they don't speak the same language but when the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, and Ségolène Royal, who hopes to become her French counterpart, met yesterday there was what advisers on both sides described as a bit of "female bonding."
Tony Blair is heading for a bruising new row over Europe during his last days as Prime Minister after Germany unveiled plans yesterday to revive key elements of the EU constitution. Ahead of an EU summit in Brussels that opens tomorrow the Germans vowed to resurrect plans for a full-time EU president and dedicated EU foreign minister.
People in Asia have suffered wars of aggression, not just in the past several decades during the domination of the US, but actually for the past several centuries. As far back as the colonial days, the Western powers competed for a piece of Asia. On the one hand as the capitalist economic crisis has deepened, the imperialist powers will be competing with one another more fiercely for resources, for investment opportunities, and for markets. On the other hand, the US has further expanded its military forces in Asia targeting China as its potential threat. The possibility of another war in Asia is again real.
The head of Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission met with leading German lawmakers in Berlin on Monday.
A former Iranian spy chief was suspected last night of defecting to the West, raising the prospect of a timely intelligence bonanza amid tensions with Teheran. While the speculation was impossible to verify, it is hard to imagine a more tantalising prospect for Western intelligence agencies than the defection of General Ali Reza Azkari.
The conviction of former Cheney chief of staff I. Lewis Libby is the first case in which a top Bush administration has been found criminally culpable for lies related to the war in Iraq, but it should not be the last. A Washington jury handed down the guilty verdicts on 4 counts Tuesday, after 10 days of deliberation.
In legal terms, the jury has spoken in the Libby case. In political terms, Dick Cheney is still awaiting a judgment. "There is a cloud over the vice president," the prosecutor, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, told the jury in summing up the case last month.
Americans still regard themselves as the salt of the earth. But the rest of the world no longer sees Americans that way. When citizens of other countries turn their eyes toward America, they see evil.
There is so much to touch on regarding the dollar this month, I hardly know where to start. Regardless of where I begin, the news is not good and affects all of us.
On Feb. 27, the world's hedge funds, through their manipulation and miscalculation of the yen carry-trade, led to a violent unwinding of that carry-trade, which triggered disintegration of the world financial structure. But hedge funds had already bled the major international commercial banks and corporations into absolute bankruptcy, and had leveraged borrowed funds and derivatives into the biggest financial tumor ever. That, combined with their yen carry-trade role, amplified the effect of the secondary incidents, and is now driving the financial system further into systemic breakdown. And where are those hedge funds? Of the hedge funds operating at the end of the 3Q 2006 worldwide, 85% were registered in the Cayman Islands, a British Overseas Territory, run like a dictatorship by a Royal Governor appointed by Queen Elizabeth II.
Christian fundamentalists in the US have launched 2 online encyclopedias modelled on the Wikipedia format. Conservapedia and CreationWiki aim to explain the world from a creationist perspective. They make entertaining reading.
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