Word: monday
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Allston residents demanded further revisions to the planned relocation of the Charlesview Apartments, while others who live in the complex urged that the plan go forward at a crowded and contentious Monday meeting -- the first public discussion since Harvard agreed to add 1.74 acres of land to the proposed new home for the apartments...
...Kartika, 32, had steeled herself to her punishment after having pleaded guilty to consuming alcohol while at a resort in 2007. On Monday morning, she donned an Islamic headscarf, planted a kiss on the cheek of her 5-year-old daughter and got into a van to make the 270-km journey to a women's prison outside the capital of Kuala Lumpur. Instead, the van pulled over after just 200 m while officials from the Prisons Department, the Attorney General's chambers and the Islamic courts argued over the case. In the end, a decision was made to defer...
...Muslims are processed through civil courts. While alcohol consumption is illegal for Muslims according to Shari'a law, many people of the Islamic faith in Malaysia do drink, and prosecution for such a crime is rare. Perhaps fearing a backlash from Islamic officials, Kartika lodged a police report on Monday saying she is not a party to the decision to postpone the caning. "We don't want to be blamed later," she said, "[by people who might say] that we had avoided punishment and embarrassed Islam." (See pictures of Cairo's culturally conservative revolution...
...winds eased early Monday, exhausted Greek firefighters gained the upper hand against the worst of the fires with the help of newly arrived reinforcements from Italy, France and Cyprus. Opposition politicians immediately began calling for more planes and helicopters, pointing out that Greece today has the same number of firefighting planes - 21 - as it did in 2007. (See pictures of wildfires in Australia...
...Greece's government has defended its response to both the 2007 blaze and this past weekend's, saying that fires are inevitable and that it responds to them as quickly as possible. Government spokesman Evangelos Antonaros told a press conference on Monday that efforts had been "well coordinated...