the pianist for “insulting people’s faith

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On Thursday, Egemen Bagis, the minister in charge of

relations with the EU, suggested the case against Say should

be dismissed saying the court should regard Say’s tweets as

being within “his right to babble.” However, he criticized

the pianist for “insulting people’s faith and values.”

The charges against Say also cite other tweets he sent,

including one — based on a verse by famous medieval poet and

wine-lover Omar Khayyam — which questioned whether heaven

was a tavern or a brothel, because of the promises that wine

will flow and each believer will be greeted by virgins.

Say has since closed his Twitter account and has said he

plans to leave Turkey for Japan. His lawyer said Say has

received some death threats.

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A U.S. advocacy group says new research shows that more than

80 percent of people in a conflict zone in southern Sudan are

eating only one meal a day, compared to 10 percent one year

ago.

The Enough Project on Thursday released a report showing that

girls in the Sudanese state of South Kordofan are

experiencing a “critical” level of malnutrition, the most

serious classification on the World Health Organization’s

scale. Boys are just below that, at “serious.”

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Crisis)

The research was conducted by an aid group the Enough Project

said didn’t want to be identified. Sudan forbids aid groups

from operating in South Kordofan, where anti-government

rebels are fighting government troops.

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At issue on Wednesday was the candidates' approach to gender
pay equity laws and Romney's comment during the debate that
he was sent "binders full of women" when he was governor of
Massachusetts.
Romney made the remark while recalling that he looked to
women's organizations after being dissatisfied with the
mostly male applicants for senior level positions in his
administration. But it set off a storm of media parodies, and
Obama jumped on the comment to try to portray Romney as out
of step with the concerns of women.
"We don't have to collect a bunch of binders to find
qualified, talented, driven young women," Obama said at a
rally in Mount Vernon, Iowa.
There was little mystery in the candidates' focus on women.
An AP-GfK survey taken in mid-September, when Obama was
leading in the opinion polls, found that 8 percent of all
likely votes were women who were either undecided or said
they might change their minds.
Polls since the first debate two weeks ago, when Obama fared
poorly, show gains for Romney among women voters. That's a
shift the Democratic president can ill afford given the
traditional Republican advantage among men. But Obama's
Tuesday night debate performance was much stronger than the
first time around, and he was staying on the attack on the
campaign trail Wednesday.

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By contrast, Turkey's announcement that it would pursue a civilian nuclear program "is clearly a hedge against Iran," says proliferation expert Joseph Cirincione, referring to Tehran's suspected A-bomb efforts. Nevertheless, in explaining the decision last fall, Energy Minister Hilmi Guler stressed to journalists that nuclear energy is "environment friendly, with its carbon-free emissions." Indeed, Iran itself has cited global warming as justification for its uranium enrichment program, parroting the Bush administration's promotion of nuclear energy. "By trumpeting the potential benefits of nuclear power, the United States is essentially crafting an excuse for other countries," explains Edwin Lyman of the Union of Concerned Scientists.
The problem here, as any casual Iran watcher can tell you, is that the same technology that is used to produce uranium fuel for nuclear reactors can be exploited to make the explosive core of a nuclear weapon. The danger then lies not in the reactors themselves, but in the facilities that enrich uranium--as well as in the facilities that reprocess spent uranium fuel into plutonium, which can also be used in both reactors and weapons. Of course, as the number of nuclear reactors around the world increases, so will the demand for fuel and the opportunities for nuclear mischief. According to Charles Ferguson of the Council on Foreign Relations, under certain scenarios the fuel supply might need to double, triple, or even sextuple by 2050 to meet demand.