Hassen Chalghoumi supports a ban on the full facial veil, the burqa, and favors dialogue with France’s Jews, but many Muslims say he does not speak for them.
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The Defense Ministry will declassify 8,000 secret documents relating to the 1989 anti-Communist revolution.
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The director general of Britain’s MI5 security service denied Friday that his agency colluded in torture, after a court ruling showed that it knew that a detained British resident had been abused by American intelligence officers.
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France has removed transsexualism from an official list of mental illnesses.
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Russia said Friday that its forces had killed at least 20 insurgents in intense gun battles.
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Dmitri O. Rogozin has rarely been one for niceties in his two years as Russia’s envoy to NATO headquarters in Brussels, famously hanging a portrait of Stalin in his office when he arrived.
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The Swiss ministry of Justice said it will wait until Los Angeles courts determine whether Roman Polanski must face sentencing in person.
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A review into the troubles that halted Eurostar traffic for several days in December found the company and the tunnel operator were unprepared for winter weather.
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The pipeline, planned by Nord Stream, would detour natural gas from Russia around the disruptive politics of Eastern Europe.
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The British fashion designer, known for some of the most controversial collections of the last two decades, was found dead at his apartment in London.
Original post by By ERIC WILSON and CATHY HORYN