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Hillary Clinton says Koran burning “disrespectful and disgraceful”

International
Wednesday, 08 September 2010 18:33
A Florida church's threat to burn copies of the Koran to mark 9/11 has been condemned by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as "disrespectful" and "disgraceful." Clinton is the highest-ranking US official to criticize plans by the evangelical Dove World Outreach Center to burn the Muslim holy book on its grounds Saturday. Clinton added: "Our commitment to religious tolerance goes back to the very beginning of our nation." Earlier, Gen David Petraeus, the top US commander in Afghanistan, said: "Images of the burning of a Koran would undoubtedly be used by extremists in Afghanistan – and around the world – to inflame public opinion and incite violence." In 2005, 15 people died in riots in Afghanistan sparked by a story in Newsweek magazine alleging US interrogators at Guantánamo had flushed a copy of the Koran down the toilet to get inmates to talk.
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Sarkozy faces down French unions on pension age rise

International
Wednesday, 08 September 2010 18:22
French President Nicolas Sarkozy faced down unions Wednesday, refusing to back down on plans to raise the retirement age despite Tuesday's nationwide protests against increasing the minimum retirement age to 62 from 60. The government has said repeatedly it will stand firm on what it considers the essential points. Without the proposed changes, the pay-as-you-go pension system would run up annual deficits of $128 billion by 2050. Unions say Tuesday's protests in well over 100 cities drew a turnout of 2.5 million people, while the official count was 1.1 million. Even so, the protests and strikes halved national rail services and led to cancellation of a quarter of flights at Paris airports. Opinion polls show two-thirds of voters think Sarkozy's plan is unfair, but two-thirds also think strikes will make no difference.
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Push for Taliban Defectors Stalls

International
Tuesday, 07 September 2010 19:34
The New York Times reports a $250 million program to lure low-level Taliban fighters away from the insurgency has stalled, with Afghans bickering over who should run it, and international donors slow to put up the money they had promised. Six months after Afghanistan’s foreign backers agreed to generous funding, only $200,000 has been spent so far by the US and little or nothing by other donors. During the same period, the flow of Taliban fighters seeking to reintegrate has slowed to a trickle. It’s not clear whether that is because there’s no program to would provide them with jobs, security guarantees and other incentives, or because most Taliban no longer see the insurgency as a losing proposition. In the past five years, the Peace and Reconciliation Commission recorded 9,000 Taliban seeking to join the government side — compared with just 100 since April.
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