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Canada tells Royal ‘don’t interfere’ over freedom for Quebec

Ségolène Royal, the French Socialist presidential candidate, sparked a diplomatic row with Canada yesterday after appearing to call for Quebec’s independence in the latest in a series of blunders.

Ms Royal, 53, touched a raw nerve when she backed demands for Quebec’s “freedom”, and was rebuked by Stephen Harper, the Canadian Prime Minister.
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They say that the woman who presented herself as a breath of fresh air in a tired, male-dominated political world has been revealed as worryingly inexperienced.

“She is extremely lightweight on serious and sensitive subjects,’ Michèle Alliot-Marie, the Defence Minister, said. She is backing Mr Sarkozy.

New racism row on Channel 4 show:

A second Channel 4 reality show is at the centre of a racism row after one contestant said she supported slavery.

Gap year student Lucy Buchanan, 18, is taking part in Shipwrecked, where two teams on desert islands compete to win a £70,000 prize. She also said she hated fat people and wanted a return of the British Empire.

Moslem Tartars And Christian Slavs Brawl In Ukraine City

Hundreds of Moslem Tartars brawled with Orthodox Christian Slavs in the centre of a Ukrainian provincial city on Thursday, the Interfax news agency reported.

A long-simmering conflict in Simferopol, the regional capital of the Black Sea peninsula Crimea, turned violent after more than 100 security personnel hired by a real estate company attempted evict Tartars living in an encampment built on a choice city lot.

More than a dozen persons were injured in fighting throughout the morning, four severely enough to require medical treatment. Police made six arrests, and suffered minor injuries themselves, said Oleksander Dombrovsky, a Simferopol police spokesman.

Hangin’ With Mr. Hussein:

A Connecticut toymaker is hoping to strike a chord with its “Dope on a Rope” doll, a figure depicting former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in his last moments, with a noose around his neck.

Gays are a capitalist pollutant: Maoists

NEPAL’S hardline Maoist guerillas, on the brink of achieving effective government power in the Himalayan kingdom, have turned their attention to so-called “social pollutants” and denounced homosexuals as “a by-product of capitalism”. Emerging from a decade of fighting government forces, the insurgents have launched a clean-up drive against polygamy, polyandry, infidelity, drunkenness and homosexuality — even though many gays were previously aligned with the Maoists against the autocratic rule of the widely despised King Gyanendra.

Mosque plans trigger neighbor’s pig races

A man unhappy with an Islamic association’s plans to build a mosque next to his property has staged pig races as a protest during afternoon prayers. Craig Baker, 46, sold merchandise and grilled sausages Friday for about 100 people who showed up in heavy rain. He insisted he wasn’t trying to offend anyone with the pigs, which are forbidden from the Muslim diet. “I am just defending my rights and my property,” Baker said. “They totally disrespected me and my family.”