(Painting "Shari'a or Else")

A European Union proposal that would allow the laws of non-EU countries to be applicable in divorce cases ran into fierce opposition from Sweden on Thursday.

Liberal Sweden strongly resists the plan, which it says could force EU member states to dissolve marriages on the basis of foreign law, including traditional Islamic law, or Sharia.

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The outlawed procedure, generally used to end pregnancies in the second and third trimester, involves partially removing the fetus intact from a woman's uterus, then crushing or cutting its skull to complete the abortion. Opponents of the procedure call it partial-birth abortion.

By validating a ban on such abortions, "the court has taken the first major step back" toward the days when abortion was illegal, said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.

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As French voters prepare to go to the polls on April 22nd for the first round of their two-stage presidential election, the campaign has strayed from the specifics of policy to a fierce contest over values and character. Under the Fifth Republic, the occupant of the quasi-monarchical presidency is expected in some way to embody France, and to rise above partisan politics to become a unifying figurehead. In other words, voters are selecting not just a political programme but a personality.

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Arizonans are going to continue to have to present proof of citizenship to register to vote -- at least for the time being.

Without dissent, a federal appellate court ruled Friday that a 3-year-old requirement for Arizonans to produce identification to register to vote is not the same as an illegal "poll tax."

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A jet flying in formation with the U.S. Navy Blue Angels precision flying team crashed Saturday during an air show near Beaufort, South Carolina, authorities said.

Acting Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council Sheik Ahmad Bahr from Hamas, Declared during a Friday Sermon at a Sudan Mosque that America and Israel Will Be Annihilated and Called upon Allah to Kill the Jews and the Americans "to the Very Last One"

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American commanders cite al-Qaida's severe brand of Islam, which is so extreme that in Baqouba, al-Qaida has warned street vendors not to place tomatoes beside cucumbers because the vegetables are different genders

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Baghdad's Shiite militias have gone to ground, and U.S. military intelligence believes that the radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has fled to Iran.

For the first time since the January 2005 elections, strong and positive news is coming to Iraq. And this is the moment that the leader of the Democrats in the U.S. Senate chooses to throw in the towel?

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Anybody see what the evil Brady Campaign and other anti-gun cults have created? I personally have zero tolerance for evil and denial. And America had best wake up real fast that the brain-dead celebration of unarmed helplessness will get you killed every time, and I've about had enough of it.

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Notice something interesting about the aftermath of the Virginia Tech shootings? Atheists are nowhere to be found. Every time there is a public gathering there is talk of God and divine mercy and spiritual healing. Even secular people like the poet Nikki Giovanni use language that is heavily drenched with religious symbolism and meaning

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They lived for an average of 80 minutes - although in some cases foetuses survived for over six hours.

Most of the babies were born between 20 and 24 weeks of pregnancy, but some had been in the womb for as little as 17 weeks.

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One student has been suspended and more disciplinary action could follow a possible hate crime at Lewiston Middle School, Superintendent Leon Levesque said Wednesday.

On April 11, a white student placed a ham steak in a bag on a lunch table where Somali students were eating. Muslims consider pork unclean and offensive.

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In some cases, Democrats in powerful posts are raising more money from special interest groups than the Republicans they replaced.

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Russia has warned against any unilateral attempt to recognise the independence of Kosovo, in an apparent riposte to the United States.

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The funeral of slain Virginia Tech Professor Liviu Librescu, a Holocaust survivor who sacrificed himself to save his students during the brutal massacre at the US school earlier this week, took place in Ra'anana on Friday morning, attended by some 200 friends, family members, foreign diplomats and others who came to pay their respects

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The 23-year-old victim was in stable condition, suffering from liver damage and burns caused by bleach and scalding water Williams dumped on her in a possible attempt to destroy DNA evidence, police said.

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Click BELOW to read a slide-show essay about the history of racist spokescharacters.

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Theodore Robert "Ted" Bundy (November 24, 1946 – January 23, 1989) was one of the most notorious murderers in U.S. history. A serial killer, rapist, and necrophiliac, Bundy murdered scores of young women across the United States between 1974 and 1978. His total number of victims remains unknown to this day, and there is some speculation that he first began to murder in 1961 at age 15. After more than a decade of vigorous denials, Bundy eventually confessed to over 30 murders. Bundy is considered by some to be the archetypal serial killer, with the term "serial killer" having been coined to describe his crimes.

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Last month I pondered a column about affordable used cars for people who love to drive. At the top of my list was the first-generation Infiniti G35, which was discontinued late last year.

Memory of that original G35 quickly disappeared when I drove the replacement, Infiniti's reworked, re-energized 2007 G35. Though a faithful derivative of the original G35, the '07 is brassier, sleeker and faster, with more personality than any Japanese luxury car in its class.

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