GENEVA (Switzerland)- The Swiss voted Sunday in favour of a Right-wing backed proposal to forbid building minarets in the Swiss Confederation, according to polls after voting operation mentioned by Swiss TV (TSR).
The Right-wing proposal would be approved by 59% of votes, according to the Swiss radio and television announced more than an hour after voting end at midday (11H00 GMT).
Furthermore, majority of 26 Swiss cantons would be favourable to this proposal enabling the amending of Article of the Constitution on religious liberty for banning the building of minarets.
These results are contrary to the polls that forecast rejection of 53% of the Swiss of the proposal of banning minarets in the country, even if the Right "slightly reinforced" at the end of the campaign.
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UN investigators pursue Guinea mission in strict confidentiality
DAKAR (Senegal)- The UN Inquiry Commission continued Sunday in Conakry in the privacy meetings with witnesses of 28 September bloody events in Guinea, while the junta which reaffirmed its leader remain in power has warned against "any interference in the internal problems of the country."
According to President of the Guinean Organization for Human Rights (OGDH) Thierno Maadjou Sow, "the hearings are conducted in strict confidentiality."
The President of the UN Commission, former Algerian minister of Foreign Affairs Mohamed Bedjaoui, quoted by the media in Dakar announced that investigators had launched "frank discussions," adding in the same sense that" the Guinean society is too politicized and we do not want to add other misfortunes. Our work will be done in confidentiality and impartiality because our structure is independent."
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Palestine: Arab League rejects Israel's partial settlement freeze
RIYADH (Saudi Arabia)- Arab League reiterated Sunday its total rejection of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's proposal to partially freeze settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories for a ten-month period, except the holy city of Al-Quds.
In a declaration released Sunday by Saudi daily "El-Madina," Arab League Deputy Secretary-General for Palestine and Occupied Arab Territories Mohamed Sbih strongly criticized the decision taken by Netanyahu government, dubbing it "extremist."
Sbih deemed "insufficient" Israel's proposals, which, he stressed, "are mere decisions aimed only at easing the tension sparked within the international community by (Israel's) suppression" in the occupied territories.
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Portuguese Parliament passes motion of solidarity with Aminatou Haidar
LISBON (Portugal)– Portugal's Parliament has passed a motion of solidarity with Sahrawi human rights activist Aminatou Haidar, who is currently observing a hunger strike to protest against her forced deportation by the Moroccan authorities from the occupied city of El Ayun to the Canary Island of Lanzarote (Spain), Sahrawi news agency SPS reported on Saturday. In a motion submitted by the Communist Party's parliamentary group, the Portuguese Parliament has called for respecting human rights in Western Sahara, a country occupied by Morocco since 1975, while also stressing the need to complete the implementation of United Nations decisions in the decolonization process of Africa's last colony.
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International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian people: Israel still impeding peace
ALGIERS- The International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, observed on 29 November, is marked this year with the deadlock that continues to characterize the Israeli-Palestinian peace process due to the Israeli settlement policy in the occupied Palestinian territories.
The Palestinian authority and people remain attached to their just struggle to recover their national rights to sovereignty and to the establishment of an independent State with Al Quds as its capital.
The "Road Map" peace plan, drawn up in 2003 by the international community, provides for the coexistence of the two States, Israel and Palestine, within delimited borders.
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- Traffic accidents: 15 killed, 153 injured in three days
- CAF Cup: ES Setif eyeing second African title
- Guatemalan Nobel Peace Prize winner urges Spain and Morocco to allow Aminatou Haidar to enjoy her rights
- Swine flu: 50 new cases confirmed
- Saudi Arabia floods: 77 killed, 351 missing
- Mahmoud Abbas: "Impossible" to continue negotiations with Israel without settlement freeze
GENEVA (Switzerland)- The Swiss voted Sunday in favour of a Right-wing backed proposal to forbid building minarets in the Swiss Confederation, according to polls after voting operation mentioned by Swiss TV (TSR).
The Right-wing proposal would be approved by 59% of votes, according to the Swiss radio and television announced more than an hour after voting end at midday (11H00 GMT).
Furthermore, majority of 26 Swiss cantons would be favourable to this proposal enabling the amending of Article of the Constitution on religious liberty for banning the building of minarets.
These results are contrary to the polls that forecast rejection of 53% of the Swiss of the proposal of banning minarets in the country, even if the Right "slightly reinforced" at the end of the campaign.
DAKAR (Senegal)- The UN Inquiry Commission continued Sunday in Conakry in the privacy meetings with witnesses of 28 September bloody events in Guinea, while the junta which reaffirmed its leader remain in power has warned against "any interference in the internal problems of the country."
According to President of the Guinean Organization for Human Rights (OGDH) Thierno Maadjou Sow, "the hearings are conducted in strict confidentiality."
The President of the UN Commission, former Algerian minister of Foreign Affairs Mohamed Bedjaoui, quoted by the media in Dakar announced that investigators had launched "frank discussions," adding in the same sense that" the Guinean society is too politicized and we do not want to add other misfortunes. Our work will be done in confidentiality and impartiality because our structure is independent."
RIYADH (Saudi Arabia)- Arab League reiterated Sunday its total rejection of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's proposal to partially freeze settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories for a ten-month period, except the holy city of Al-Quds.
In a declaration released Sunday by Saudi daily "El-Madina," Arab League Deputy Secretary-General for Palestine and Occupied Arab Territories Mohamed Sbih strongly criticized the decision taken by Netanyahu government, dubbing it "extremist."
Sbih deemed "insufficient" Israel's proposals, which, he stressed, "are mere decisions aimed only at easing the tension sparked within the international community by (Israel's) suppression" in the occupied territories. 
LISBON (Portugal)– Portugal's Parliament has passed a motion of solidarity with Sahrawi human rights activist Aminatou Haidar, who is currently observing a hunger strike to protest against her forced deportation by the Moroccan authorities from the occupied city of El Ayun to the Canary Island of Lanzarote (Spain), Sahrawi news agency SPS reported on Saturday. In a motion submitted by the Communist Party's parliamentary group, the Portuguese Parliament has called for respecting human rights in Western Sahara, a country occupied by Morocco since 1975, while also stressing the need to complete the implementation of United Nations decisions in the decolonization process of Africa's last colony. 
ALGIERS- The International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, observed on 29 November, is marked this year with the deadlock that continues to characterize the Israeli-Palestinian peace process due to the Israeli settlement policy in the occupied Palestinian territories.
The Palestinian authority and people remain attached to their just struggle to recover their national rights to sovereignty and to the establishment of an independent State with Al Quds as its capital.
The "Road Map" peace plan, drawn up in 2003 by the international community, provides for the coexistence of the two States, Israel and Palestine, within delimited borders. 
