Iran’s top nuclear negotiator, who is one of the favourites in the presidential race, has vowed to stand up to the West if he is elected next month. Saeed Jalili told a rally in Tehran that he wanted to spread the global influence of Islam. One of several conservatives among…
Friend of suspect in UK soldier death arrested
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Police have arrested a friend of one of the suspects in the killing of British soldier Lee Rigby in Woolwich after a TV interview in the UK.
Abu Nusaybah appeared on the BBC’s newsnight programme alleging that his friend Michael Adebolajo was asked to work for the MI5 just six months ago.
He also said that Adebolajo attended meetings of the now-banned al-Muhajiroun. Members of the group confirmed the suspect is the man seen in footage shot at meetings standing behind the leader Anjem Choudary.
Nusaybah claimed that his friend became radicalised six months ago, which he attributes to alleged experiences of sexual assault at the hands of the authorities in Kenya.
Arrested under the Terrorism Act 2000, Nusaybah is being held in a south London police station.
Following the soldier’s death the numbers of Islamophobic hate crimes have reported at ten times the usual rate. Muslim leaders have accused far-right extremists of attempting to capitalise on the murder.
British National Party leader and MEP Nick Griffin left a floral tribute for the soldier, and took the opportunity to say the attacks were the result of ‘mass immigration’, before causing a stir on twitter with a series of provocative tweets.
The far right English Defence League are staging a march in Newcastle on Saturday and another is scheduled for London on Monday.
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Putting his legal battles to one side, former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi was all smiles as he cheered his party’s candidate for the mayoral elections in Rome.
Incumbent mayor Gianni Alemanno is lagging behind in the polls, and it is unclear whether Berlusconi’s support is helping as he faces court cases for alleged fraud and for paying for sex with a minor.
The frontrunner is Democratic party candidate Ignazio Marino who promised to bring back ‘honesty, transparency and culture’ to the eternal city.
Marcello De Vito is running for the 5-star movement, the party of former comedian Beppe Grillo who took a quarter of the votes in national elections in February.
Sixteen other candidates are standing including a monarchist who wants Italy to have a king again.
Local elections will take place in over 500 districts with the results expected Monday night.
If no one wins more than 50 percent of the vote, the two top candidates face a runoff in June 9-10.
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Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories takes the Itunes charts by storm
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Their return was long awaited and Daft Punk did not disappoint, delivering a new album complete with star-studded collaborations with Pharell Williams, Nile Rodgers, Giorgio Moroder, Paul Williams and Todd Edwards.
If the retro and funky influences in Random Access Memories might have turned away a handful of fans expecting an electro-heavy album along the lines of the Tron soundtrack or Human After All, the album is nonetheless off to a massive start.
So successful in fact that Random Access Memories has topped the Itunes charts, where the album could be pre-ordered, in 21 Western countries: the US, the UK, France, Germany, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.
The only country not to have the Daft Punk’s fourth studio album in first place is the Netherlands, where Anouk (the Dutch Eurovision entry this year) occupies the first spot. Random Access Memories comes in second.
Here is what the Itunes charts page looks like, as of the May 22:
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Shell presses ahead with world’s deepest offshore oil well
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It’s been a big week for the Dutch Royal Family. Queen Beatrix abdicated and passed the throne on to her son, Willem-Alexander. Italy’s Rai Uno reported on the wave of orange fever gripping the Netherlands.
The Dutch constitution says a new monarch must be enthroned as soon as possible after an abdication. In this case, the ceremony took place within four hours of his mother’s stepping down. France 2 had this report.
For the first time in more than a century, the Netherlands’ new monarch is a man. 18 royal families from around the world came to congratulate him. But the new king doesn’t wear the crown. Russia’s RTR went to find our why.
Outlining his new role, the king honoured his mother as guardian of Dutch democracy. Portugal’s RTP reported on a throne progressively emptied of political power.
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