Spanish King Tells Chavez to "Shut Up"The king of Spain told Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to "shut up" Saturday during a heated exchange at a summit of leaders from Latin America, Spain and Portugal.
Chavez, who called President Bush the "devil" on the floor of the United Nations last year, triggered the exchange by repeatedly referring to former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar as a "fascist."
Aznar, a conservative who was an ally of Bush as prime minister, "is a fascist," Chavez said in a speech at the Ibero-American summit in Santiago, Chile. "Fascists are not human. A snake is more human."
Spain's current socialist prime minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, responded during his own allotted time by urging Chavez to be more diplomatic in his words and respect other leaders despite political differences.
"Former President Aznar was democratically elected by the Spanish people and was a legitimate representative of the Spanish people," he said, eliciting applause from the gathered heads of state.
Chavez repeatedly tried to interrupt, but his microphone was off.
Spanish King Juan Carlos, seated next to Zapatero, angrily turned to Chavez and said, "Why don't you shut up?"
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Brutal sex attack forces Italy to make laws for kicking out EU migrants| News | This is LondonItaly yesterday brought in a law making it easier to expel 'undesirables' from other EU countries.
The move came amid outrage over the sex attack murder of an admiral's wife by a Romanian migrant.
Previously, EU citizens could only be sent home if they could be shown to pose a threat to the state, usually interpreted as a terrorist.
Now they can be kicked out if they are 'a threat to society', which allows more scope.
Before the new laws, Italian expulsion orders were lengthy and complicated. Now any EU citizen who has a conviction, or was under investigation, or was otherwise deemed a threat to society, could be held.
Each case would then go before a magistrate who would make a decision on expulsion within 48 hours. There is no appeal.
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Italy Police Crack Down on ForeignersDozens of immigrants were fleeing their shantytown homes on the outskirts of Rome Friday after a string of attacks blamed on foreigners prompted authorities to crack down on camps inhabited mainly by Gypsies.
Carrying their belongings in bundles and plastic bags, and sometimes atop bicycles, residents left a camp on the northern edges of the capital where police arrested a Romanian accused in the savage beating of an Italian woman near the camp who died Thursday after two days in a coma.
The victim, the 47-year-old wife an Italian navy commander, was attacked as she walked along a road after dark Tuesday toward the barracks where she lives, police said. She was beaten, dragged through mud and left bloody and half naked in a ditch, police said.
Outside the camp in the Tor di Quinto neighborhood, police and bulldozers waited for the order to raze the illegal settlement while most residents abandoned the area, fearing they would be rounded up and expelled.
The attack on the woman prompted Premier Romano Prodi's center-left Cabinet to give authorities the power to expel European Union citizens "for reasons of public safety."
Prodi in a condolence message to the husband on Friday said the killing had "had wounded the soul of all Italians."
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Nod to avideditoria.comPrague Court OKs Neo-Nazi March Through Jewish Quarter - News Briefs - Arutz ShevaA Prague court is permitting a neo-Nazi group to march through the city’s Jewish quarter on the anniversary of Kristallnacht on November 10.
According to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, this is the second time a local court has overturned a City Hall ban on the march.
The city officials had banned the march on the grounds that it would incite intolerance and hatred against citizens on the basis of their ethnicity. The local Jewish community plans to gather for a prayer vigil that day.
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