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Positive.
But it would have been healthier 15 years or so ago.
Unfortunately, the stranglehold on power has led to the radicalisation of many opposition groups.
What's your reaction to that, chops?
+1.Positive.
Gali was using her laptop in the hotel’s staff bar when her drink was spiked. She awoke to a nightmare beyond belief: she had been savagely raped by three of her colleagues. Alone and frightened, she took herself to hospital.
What Alicia didn’t know is that under the UAE’s strict sharia laws, if the perpetrator does not confess, a rape cannot be convicted without four adult Muslim male witnesses. She was charged with having illicit sex outside marriage, and thrown in a filthy jail cell for eight months.
What aren't the Australian media all over stories like this ?
This and other stories like it should serve as a strong warning for counties such as ours.
A mother's tale of heartache
Baria el-Skaf, 52, begins this Mother's Day in the same way she has for the past 12 years.
After dawn prayers, Baria and her husband Mustapha prepare to drive their four-wheel-drive down the Hume
Highway for the 2 ½-hour journey from Bankstown to Goulburn Correctional Centre to visit their eldest son Bilal, 31, as they have done every second Sunday since he was arrested in 2001.
In the back seat, their two youngest children, Nora, 16, and Hadi, 13, play games on their phones. Nora was two years old when her oldest brother was first incarcerated. Hadi was eight months old.
On Saturdays, the Skaf family drive to Parklea to visit their second son, Mohammed, aged 30.
At the time of the crimes for which they are serving time, Bilal was 17, Mohammed 16.
With all appeal avenues exhausted, the family will continue to visit their sons for many many years. Bilal is not eligible for parole until 2031. Based on Corrective Services' current policy not to release these young men before their sentences are up, he may not be released until the expiration of his total sentence in 2036, when Baria will be 75 years old and Bilal will be 54 years old.
Mohammed's earliest possible release date is in 2018, but he is liable to be incarcerated until 2023 if he is not ruled eligible for parole.
Australians were rightly outraged by the series of gang rapes for which Bilal and Mohammed were convicted. That outrage was reflected in their sentences.
Youths burn 100 cars in north Stockholm riots
Youths rioted in northern Stockholm on Sunday night, setting fire to cars and throwing rocks at police, in what is believed to be a protest against the fatal police shooting of a machete-wielding man in the suburb last week. "At 10pm we sent out staff to an address in Husby", explained Lars Byström of the Stockholm police to the Dagens Nyheter newspaper.
"My colleagues were met by young people who threw stones at them. It continued with a couple of violent riots and extensive damage."
The riot kicked off when young people set fire to cars in Husby, a suburb in the far north of Stockholm. Witnesses claim at least 100 vehicles in the area were in flames. Another fire was lit in a nearby garage, resulting in the evacuation of the apartment block. Around 50 residents were taken care of and sheltered in buses that were on hand.
Problems with 'youths' in Sweden now....
Lets take a look at this sentence...
a protest against the fatal police shooting of a machete-wielding man in the suburb last week.
What are the police meant to do? Let this maniac lob their heads off?
Also, for those not in the know, 'youths' describes young Muslim mean in Europe.
Some 200 youths hurled rocks at police and set cars ablaze in a largely immigrant suburb of Stockholm on Tuesday, the second day of rioting triggered by the fatal police shooting of a man wielding a knife.
Dozens of windows were smashed, 10 cars and several containers were set on fire, and seven police officers were injured. Cars and containers were also set ablaze in another of the Swedish capital's suburbs, Fittja, although police said it was not clear whether the two events were linked.
The unrest began Sunday night in response to the May 13 shooting, in which police killed a 69-year-old man who had locked himself in an apartment in Husby, west of Stockholm. Police refused to give the nationality of the victim.
Six youths were arrested early Tuesday, but two were released after questioning, police spokesman Jorgen Karlsson said.
Many local residents see the shooting as an example of police brutality, and the violence has stirred debate in Sweden.
Known for its strong welfare state and egalitarian society, the country has nonetheless had the biggest surge in inequality of any OECD country over the past 25 years, according to a recent publication by the global economic watchdog.
Ford Australia poised for 'important announcement' amid shutdown speculation
Ford Australia says it is poised to make an "important business announcement", amid speculation that the car-maker will confirm an end to all Australian manufacturing.
Ford executives have called a press conference at the company's Melbourne headquarters for 10:45am.
There are reports the car-maker will announce that it is shutting its Broadmeadows and Geelong plants from 2016, with the loss of thousands of jobs.
Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan is promising help for workers affected by the Ford decision, and says the Government will respond in detail after the company's announcement.
"The Government will do everything within our power to support workers and local communities that may be affected by a decision taken by Ford," he said this morning.
Ford first began making cars in Australia in 1925, when Model T cars began rolling off the production line in Geelong.
More to come.
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