Global Voices Online

Lily Pad believes US President George Bush insulted Filipinos when he issued this remark to visiting Philippine President Gloria Arroyo at the White House: “First, I want to tell you how proud I am to be the President of a nation that — in which there's a lot of Philippine-Americans. And I reminded the President that I am reminded of the great talent of the — of our Philippine-Americans when I eat dinner at the White House. And the chef is a great person and a really good cook, by the way, Madam President.”

According to several news sites Iran's parliament is set to debate a draft bill which could see the death penalty used for those deemed to promote corruption, prostitution and apostasy on the Internet. According to this draft bill bloggers can face the death penalty too.

A Fistful of Euros writes about the 43 states that recognize Kosovo's independence and categorizes the rest by their reasons not to. Also, there's an earlier post on Kosovo and the UN Security Council.

Polandian writes about Stanisław Lem.

Dan McMinn of Orange Ukraine posts a list of philanthropic causes in Ukraine and asks for help in updating it.

Sleeping with Pengovsky writes about the referendum in Slovenia - here and here, and compares Slovene PM Janez Janša's speech delivered on Statehood Day two years ago to the one given by Tony Blair in 1997.

LJ user tapirr posts Masha Novikova's documentary about Anna Politkovskaya: “Anna, Seven Years on the Frontline” (RUS, with English subtitles).

A grand hoax saw a majority of the Indian newspaper media being fooled by the claim that a Nazi war criminal was caught in Goa. More at nanopolitan.

To Each Its Own on the gay pride parades in various Indian cities, and the strange absence of participants in Mumbai.