Muslims feel under siege as Italian Right sets up town vigilante group... 2008-05-05 06:01 - Leandro Comacchio, a Northern League leader, is outside a suburban supermarket
in Padua collecting signatures for a referendum to stop the construction of
a mosque. The campaign, he claims, is not aimed at Muslims. It is, rather, a
protest against the “permissive” centre-left council which, he alleges, is
giving away council land for construction of the 2,300sq ft mosque.
Zimbabwe suffers in poll limbo 2008-05-05 06:01 - Zimbabwe’s opposition is resisting committing to a run-off election with President Robert Mugabe.
Two unmanned Georgian spy drones ’shot down’ over Abkhazia 2008-05-05 06:01 - SUKHUMI The Georgian breakaway region of Abkhazia said that it had shot
down two unmanned Georgian spy drones over its territory yesterday but
Georgia denied that there had been any flights in the area.
Cyclone Kills More Than 350 in Myanmar 2008-05-05 06:01 - A powerful cyclone killed more than 350 people, destroyed thousands of homes and knocked out power in the country’s largest city, state-run media said.
