Archive for January 17th, 2012
Iran cracks down on moral peril of Barbie peddlers
By Mitra Amiri TEHRAN | Mon Jan 16, 2012 7:48am EST TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran’s morality police are cracking down on the sale of Barbie dolls to protect the public from what they see as pernicious western culture eroding Islamic values, shopkeepers said on Monday. As the West imposes the toughest ever sanctions on Iran [...]
Hitler’s "Mein Kampf" coming back to German shops
By Alice Baghdjian BERLIN | Mon Jan 16, 2012 11:51am EST BERLIN (Reuters) – Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf,” banned from German bookstores, will soon be available from newspaper kiosks after a British publisher said he would print excerpts from the text in Germany. But the state of Bavaria, which owns the copyrights to the Nazi [...]
