A section Bengali population of Tripura, who were drove out of their hearth and homes by the tribal militant outfits resume indefinite sit in demonstration in Agartala city (Tripura - India) on Monday. The evacuees have been agitating for rehabilitation and relief.
COPENHAGEN, Feb. 1 — Broadening a debate that has set Europe against the Islamic world, several European newspapers on Wednesday reprinted cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad in an unflattering light, supporting a Danish newspaper that had inspired a huge outcry in the Islamic world by publishing them in the first place.
Left says Council of Europe motion 'neo McCarthyism'
Guardian
For some it was a vile capitalist plot aimed at rewriting the recent history of half of Europe, transforming wartime resistance heroes into villains, and denying the laudable ideals and legitimacy of a great political movement.
For others it was a long-overdue denunciation of a couple of dozen thoroughly evil regimes who wrecked their nations' economies, tortured their citizens, and between them were responsible for up to 100 million deaths.
Jan. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Iran said the United Nations was being ``manipulated for political purposes'' in its first official observance today of the memory of the Holocaust.
The UN's 191 member governments agreed on Nov. 1 to make Jan. 27 the annual ``International Day of Commemoration in Memory of Victims of the Holocaust.'' The decision was taken by consensus in the General Assembly, which means Iran didn't formally object or call for a vote on the resolution.
