European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 26, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday March 26 2007 stars and stripes j Pace in the world leadership in Quebec bans voting while veiled by Phil Couvrette the associated press Montreal anyone who wants to vote in mondays Quebec election must do so without their faces covered a government offi Cial said Friday reversing an ear Lier decision to allow Muslim women to Wear veils Marcel Blanchet the French speaking provinces elec Tion chief had been criticized by Quebec three main political Lead ers for allowing voters to Wear the Ninab which covers the entire face except for the eyes if they signed a sworn statement and showed identification when they vote but Blanchet reversed course Friday saying relevant articles to electoral Laws were modified to add the following any person showing up at a polling station must be uncovered to exercise the right to vote Blanchet had to get two body guards after the Quebec elections office received threatening phone Calls and emails following his Ini tial decision to allow in tabs he said Friday he wants the vote to go smoothly after some citizens threatened to protest by showing up to vote wearing masks the reversal was condemned by Muslim groups who said it could turn some of their members away from the polls i am so saddened i doubt Many of these women will show up at the polls on monday after All this mockery said Sarah Elgazzar of the Canadian Council on american islamic relations its insulting France passed a Law in 2004 ban Ning islamic head scarves in schools and the Netherlands has announced plans for one Banning full length veils in Public places Germany also has a Law Banning teachers in Public schools from wearing head scarves the Issue has recently embroiled predominantly roman Catholic Quebec earlier this month a Young Muslim woman was forced to quit her Job at a prison in Quebec after she refused to remove her head Scarf Richard British forces patrol the Shatt Alarab waterway in january 2005 near the area where iranian forces seized 15 British troops Friday Iran says detained brits admit entering its water by Ali Akbar Sareini the associated press Tehran Iran the Confron tation Over Iran seizure of 15 British sailors escalated on Satur Day with Britain pressing for their release and Tehran announcing the captured seamen admitted to straying into iranian territorial Waters Iran military interrogated the 15 detained British soldiers after moving them to the capital on sat urday and said they had con fessed to illegally entering the country Waters in what Tehran described As a blatant aggression Iran Tough comments came As the in Security Council was meeting saturday to consider new sanctions on Tehran for its refusal to meet in demands and halt uranium enrichment the West fears Tehran nuclear program is used for arms Mak ing a claim Iran denies Europe an Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana said the seizure of the seamen must not derail the push for further in sanctions on Iran it would be a tremendous mis take if these two things were mixed Solana said the eur is doing its utmost in cooperation with the British authorities to free the britons he said the sailors had just searched a merchant ship Friday morning when they and their two inflatable boats were intercepted by iranian vessels near the disputed Shatt Alarab waterway us and British officials said the Irani ans surrounded them and escorted them away at gunpoint Britain immediately demanded the return of the eight Royal Navy sailors and seven Royal marines at least one of whom was a woman and denied they had strayed into iranian Waters while searching for smugglers off Iraq coast on saturday Iran top Mili tary official Gen Ali Reza Afshar said the seized soldiers who were taken to Tehran for questioning confessed to illegal entry and an aggression into the islamic Republic of Iran Waters Afshar did not say what would happen to the sailors in London foreign office undersecretary lord tribesman spent More than an hour with the iranian ambassador to London Rasoul Movahedian demanding the Safe return of the 15 and seek ing assurances of their welfare and consular Access foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett and the ministry of de sense said the troops were in iraqi Waters at the time they were picked up last week a senior British military official said Iran was paying local militia in South Ern Iraq to launch attacks on Brit ish forces serving in the Region fridays incident was not the first time Iran seized British troops in the same waterway in june 2004 six British marines and two sailors were captured then paraded blindfolded on Irani an television they admitted they had entered iranian Waters Ille Gally but were released unharmed after three Days with tensions running High the United states has bolstered its naval forces in the persian Gulf in a show of strength directed at Iran there is concern that with so much military hardware in the Gulf a Small incident like Fri Days could escalate dangerously group 3600 sick with measles in n Korea Seoul a measles outbreak in North Korea has sickened an other 600 people in less than a month bringing to 3600 the total affected by the illness since an outbreak began in november the red Cross said in a report re leased saturday the death Tou from the disease however remains at four two children and two adults said the International federation of red Cross and red Crescent societies in a report dated wednesday n Ireland party rebuffs Power sharing deadline Belfast Northern Northern Ireland main protes Tant party on saturday rejected a British deadline to share Power with catholics officials said launching a showdown that could end in the collapse of the Territo Rys legislature More than 100 officials from Ian Paisley democratic unionist party voted  to reject Britain longheld de Mand for a 12member administration to be formed and receive Powers by monday according to officials in both the party and the British government speaking anonymously because negotiations Between the two sides were continuing sex Gizmo Detainee loses election bid Sydney Australia a former terror suspect held at Guantanamo Bay Cuba for four years didst win his bid saturday for a seat in the parliament of new South Wales Australia most populous state Mamdouh Habib 51 won about 4 percent of the vote in the Sydney suburban seat he contested labors Barbara Perry was re turned with More than 60 percent of votes in the District All 11 Crew die after Somalia plane crash Mogadishu Somalia All 11 Crew members on a cargo plane that was shot Down by a missile during Takeoff were killed officials said on saturday the plane crashed Friday in Kul Weyne 19 Miles North of Mogadishu after it had delivered equipment for ugandan peace keepers said Hussein Gud Baye the District commissioner of Balad from the associated press proudly serving the military for Over 10 years Adt i bad cat if you can dream it we can build it 800hightechcom in approves Resolution to impose new sanctions on Iran i j r sets of 28 Neonile and Organiza Jones Parry the associated press United nations the in Security Council unanimously voted saturday to impose new sanctions against Iran for its refusal to Stop enriching uranium a move intended to show Tehran that Defiance will leave it increasingly isolated the moderately tougher sanctions include Banning iranian arms exports and freezing the As sets of 28 people and organizations involved in Iran nuclear and missile programs about a third of those Are linked to the revolutionary guard an elite military corps this Resolution sends an unambiguous signal to the govern ment and people of Iran that the path of nuclear proliferation by Iran is not one that the International Community can accept said British ambassador Emyr Jones Parry in december the 15member Security Council ordered All coun tries to Stop supplying Iran with materials and technology that could contribute to its nuclear and missile programs it also or dered a freeze on assets of 10 key iranian companies and 12 individuals related to those programs Iran has vowed the sanctions will Only motivate it further to pursue nuclear Power