Canada apologized on January 26 to software engineer Maher Arar, who was deported to Syria by U.S. agents after Canadian police mistakenly labeled him an Islamic extremist, and paid him C$10.5 million ($8.9 million) in compensation.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke with Pakistan’s president Gen. Pervez Musharraf about the situation in neighboring Afghanistan on Jan 27 in Islamabad, a Pakistani official said.
In a country of only four million people, Lebanon has six television stations all affiliated to political parties that dictate the slant of their coverage.
Some 200 senior Sunni and Shiite scholars and thinkers condemned on January 22, the raging sectarian strife in Iraq and urged a traded halt of Shiite and Sunni proselytizing.
