In the Arabic media, editorials condemned "Iranian irredentism" and drew comparisons with Saddam's ambitions and their catastrophic end.

Now, many here say that imagery, with its subverted content, addresses issues central to Korean identity

Later, while serving in the North Korean Army, Sun Mu was assigned to create propaganda paintings

in the killing of investigative journalist and Kremlin critic Anna Politkovskaya.

Politkovskaya's probing reports on atrocities in Chechnya and abuses by Russian authorities angered the Kremlin but won her international acclaim

"We're glad," said defense lawyer Murad Musayev. "This is something that happens rarely in Russia. This is what I call justice."

The slain journalist was trying to get the details of the ongoing negotiations in Matta where the cleric Mohammad is trying to convince his son-in-law to join the peace deal he has signed with the regional government in NWFP to end the conflict in Swat.

A journalist in Swat who spoke on condition of anonymity said that Khankhel had repeatedly refused to “report what the army wanted him to report.”

Catholics and Jews must stand together against the threat of Islamism

Islamist dictator.

Before the Islamic revolution in 1979, there were some quarter-million Catholics living in Iran. Now there are fewer than 15,000

divorce

male supremacy is still enscribed in the legal code

Internet and satellite television have opened windows into the lives of women in the West