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Press Trust of India LONDON, 29 NOV: A national referendum backing a ban on the construction of minarets in Switzerland today sparked a row, amid fears of a backlash across the Muslim world.

The Swiss have been voting on whether to ban the building of minarets in their country.

For more from Juan Cole, visit his blog, Informed Comment . AP At the central station in Geneva, Switzerland, a man passes by a poster of the right-wing Swiss People's Party, Nov.

Swiss voters approved a move to ban the construction of minarets in a Sunday vote on a right-wing initiative that labeled the mosque towers as symbols of militant Islam.

The Partido Popular Mayor of MA laga, Francisco de la Torre, is refusing to sack the councilor for the BailA©n a 'Miraflores area of the city, Manuel Marmolejo, despite the councillora TMs admission that he awarded 15 contracts to his brother in law over the past three years.

By BARNABY EALES in Catalonia A POLITICAL row has erupted in Spain after 12 leading Catalan newspapers published an unprecented joint editorial in defence of enhanced devolution.

By Thomas Hochwarter Pensions are to rise next year after pension union leaders and the SPO-OVP government agreed on a deal that will see a 1.5 per cent hike in pay-outs to pensioners next year, it was announced today .

As expected, the Civil Guard have this Tuesday carried out a court-ordered search of the Town Hall building in Polop de la Marina following the arrest of the Partido Popular Mayor, Juan Cano, earlier in connection with the murder of his predecessor in the post, Alejandro Ponsoda.

Monday, November 23, 2009 Our correspondent ABBOTTABAD: NWFP Senior Minister Rahimdad Khan Sunday said the defaulters were hatching a conspiracy against the democratic government and president and that there would be no midterm elections as the Pakistan People's Party came into power after a lot of sacrifices.

Spain, like any democratic country, needs an effective opposition party, and Mariano Rajoy's Partido Popular is far from that.

Zhou Yongkang, a senior official of the Communist Party of China , has met leaders of the Seychelles on bilateral relations.

One man above all others helped Labour win Glasgow North East - the SNPa s John Mason.

Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt yesterday nominatedA Cecilia MalmstrA m, the country's hyperactive EU affairs minister, as the next Swedish commissioner in European Commission President JosA© ManuelA Barroso's second team.

THE GOVERNMENT of Austria has cleared the way for state recognition of same-sex civil unions from the start of next year.

A reflection of the changing political face of the Basque parliament, which is now controlled by the socialists in coalition with the right wing Partido Popular rather than the Basque nationalists.

El PaA s leads with the headlines that the United States and China have agreed to - liquidate' the climate change congress in Copenhagen.

The trial starts in the provincial court in Huesca this Monday of Santiago Mainar, a forest guard who is accused of murdering the Partido Popular Mayor of Fago, a tiny village in the Aragon Pyrenees.

By David Rogers Children's rights are to made part of the constitution after an agreement between government parties.

An 81 year old ex Minister, Alberto Oliart, has been chosen to be President of the Spanish state TV and radio broadcaster, RTVE.

Date : Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:22:09 +0400 ARP REPRESENTATIVE: "ANC'S SILENCE IS CORRECT" Aysor Nov 9 2009 Armenia Armenia is disgraced by the delay of the ratification of the protocols, said Tigran Karapetyan the head of the People's Party insisting that Yerevan shouldn't wait for the steps undertaken by Ankara, and should appear with its own ...