CANBERRA, Australia – Muslim women would have to remove veils and show their faces to police on request or risk a prison sentence under a proposed new law in Australia’s most populous state. A vigorous debate that the proposal has triggered reflects the cultural clashes being ignited by the growing influx of Muslim immigrants, as […]
2011
Posted inNation & World
Panetta: Iraq must decide if U.S. troops will remain
In Iraq, the new Pentagon chief says he plans to press the nation’s leaders to make up their minds.
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Posted inNation & World
U.S. holds up military payments to Pakistan
The delay is because of U.S. displeasure with Pakistan’s lagging security operation, officials say.
Posted inNation & World
Anti-obesity effort stirs backlash
Food and media lobbyists target an initiative to draft voluntary guidelines for products marketed to kids.
Posted inNation & World
Dozens missing after tour boat sinks
Survivors say the double-decker vessel tilted and went down quickly in a Volga River reservoir.
Posted inNews
Smelt-shack fee debate spurs legality questions
RANDOLPH — Town and environmental officials are divided over a recently dusted-off municipal ordinance that would assess a fee on every ice fishing shack put up along the town’s Kennebec River frontage.
Posted inBusiness, News
New size laws squeezeMaine lobster dealers
Maine lobster dealers are starting to feel the pinch of new laws in New York, Connecticut and New Jersey that bar the possession of some lobsters that are of legal size in Maine.
The new laws say that lobsters’ bodies must be at least 3 3/8 inches long. In Maine, the minimum size for a lobster is 3¼ inches long.
Posted inNews
State House Notebook: End domestic violence, LePage says
AUGUSTA – Gov. Paul LePage tackled the difficult subject of domestic violence in a recent weekly radio address, asking men to step up to make “this behavior socially unacceptable.” In a departure from his talks about the state budget or legislation, LePage used his air time to discuss two domestic homicides last month, one in […]
Posted inOpinion
Maine Voices: Strong prevention efforts could lower high cost of substance abuse
Each Maine resident pays an estimated $682 a year in substance-abuse costs.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: School leaders who altered scores lack any ethics
The outrageous scandal apparently affected the Atlanta, Ga., system from top to bottom.