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French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his closest aides are defiantly increasing the expelling of Roma immigrants despite protests at home and abroad.

France's Immigration and Integration Minister Eric Besson now wants to expand the list of infractions for which the Roma Gypsy minority can be forcibly expelled from France, in spite of criticism at home and abroad, Time magazine reported on Wednesday.

A new opinion poll in Italy shows on that the public support for Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's center-right party continues to slide after the premier's split with former ally Gianfranco Fini.

The survey conducted by The International Study of Peace/Conflict Resolution Organizations last week and published in the Corriere della Sera newspaper shows Berlusconi's People of Freedom party would get 29.7 percent of the vote if elections were held now, down two points from July, Reuters reported.

Former British premier Tony Blair's written assault on Islam and the Muslim community earns the fiery critique of high-profile British journalist.

In A Journey, Blair's explosive memoir which has recently hit the shelves, he as taken up arms against, what he calls, "political Islam" as well as "political" Muslims. He has characterized Arabs as people who would invariably regard "Jews" as enemies.

Iran's Judiciary chief says the mass demonstrations held on Quds Day prove that the Iranian nation can rise to any challenge, including Western sanctions.

Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani said Sunday that the Quds Day demonstrations sent a clear message to the "enemies of Islam" that they can “never realize their evil objectives in Iran or the Muslim world.”

Basque separatist group ETA, which is blamed for hundreds of deaths in its long fight for independence, has vowed "not to carry out armed actions" anymore.

In a video statement published on Sunday by the Gara website, which typically publishes information from the group, ETA "calls on the Spanish government to implement the minimum democratic solutions toward a peace process."

The Scottish Conservative Party has been cut off from decision-making by its parent party in London since the general election.

Reports say top Tories in London have not consulted or even communicated with their fellow camp members in Scotland and have kept them out of their top level strategy and policy meetings since May.

Former British Prime Ministers, Tony Blair and his successor Gordon Brown have been accused of letting down British troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In his book, entitled Leading From the Front, ex-Army chief General Sir Richard Dannatt branded Brown "malign" for failing to fund the armed forces adequately.

A new computer system has unveiled a serious taxation blunder in the UK's financial system which affected up to six million people.

The Treasury says almost six million Britons have had their income tax wrongly calculated in the past two years, the British media reported on Saturday.

The UK's Liberal Democrat party, the junior party to the coalition government is grappling with a growing revolt as councilors leave the party in protest at the decision to form the coalition with the Conservatives.

The Liberal Democrat party has already lost eight councilors in four areas and more resignations are expected as the public spending cuts influence the voters' living conditions.

A group of doctors are to formally ask the attorney general Dominic Grieve for his permission to hold an inquest into the death of the former UN weapons inspector David Kelly.

The group of five doctors will hand in the related legal papers to the attorney general by the end of next week and will refer to the high court if they cannot secure his authorization.