Police will be trained on the importance of the Koran and Sharia law to Muslims under Government plans to tackle extremism.
Lessons in the Islamic faith and culture will become part of the formal training for recruits.
Chief…
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The Vatican has opened to the public Inquisition documents from the Roman Catholic Church’s efforts—beginning in medieval times—to root out heresy.
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Archaeologists have unearthed an ancient burial ground at the site of a major new road.
Evidence of two Bronze Age tombs dating back some 4,000 years were found during work on the Earl Shilton bypass.
They were spotted after…
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THEY came, they saw, they pillaged … and their women wore bras.
Swedish researchers claim Viking women were the first in western civilisation to look for a little support at home while their menfolk were off in their longboats.…
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LONDON (AP) — Clad in mud-smeared combat fatigues, the young Muslims trained on picturesque British farmland, hurling imaginary grenades, wielding sticks as mock rifles and chopping watermelons in simulated beheadings.
A four-year inquiry, which came to a close Tuesday…
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From the desk of Thomas Landen on Mon, 2008-02-18 23:25
Today, one day after Kosovo’s unilateral declaration of independence, the United States and the major European countries rushed to recognize Kosovo’s independence. George Bush hailed Kosovo’s “bold…
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By Julia Gorin
FrontPageMagazine.com | 2/22/2008
As Americans look quizzically at their TV sets while non-Muslim protestors in Europe torch a U.S. embassy, they should know that yesterday’s 200,000-person protest in Belgrade (whose members are separate from the…
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Last week, an intriguing proposition was mooted by Government minister Dawn Primarolo.
Teenage girls, she said, could be steered towards what is described as “long-term contraception”.
This is now possible thanks to the development of contraceptive jabs and implants…
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THE Irish Government has been described as ‘on par with the Taliban’ by an environmental group who plan to disrupt Taoiseach Bertie Ahern’s address to Washington DC.
Campaigners opposed to the development at the site of Tara have threatened a…
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A Private Members Motion has been made in the Northern Ireland Assembly, calling for a rerouting of the M3 motorway away from the Hill of Tara, by Carmel Hanna, MLA, who is a member of the Social Democratic and Labour…
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