Macedonia ready to give up claims on Alexander the Great
Associated Press SKOPJE: Macedonia’s left-wing prime minister says he is ready to renounce his country’s claim to the legacy of Alexander the Great to help solve a 26-year-old dispute […]
Help refugees wherever they come from, Austria’s Kurz says
Reuters International This content was published on December 24, 2017 Austria’s Chancellor Sebastian Kurz holds a news conference after meeting European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker (not pictured) in Brussels, Belgium, […]
Court ruling allows Syrian youth to bring family to Germany
Reuters International This content was published on December 22, 2017 BERLIN (Reuters) – A Berlin court ruling that permits the parents and siblings of a 16-year-old Syrian migrant to join him in Germany will now take effect after the foreign ministry abruptly dropped an appeal of the decision, German […]
German would-be partners have very different immigration ideas
Reuters International This content was published on December 24, 2017 12:26 AMDec 24, 2017 – 00:26 FILE PHOTO – Syrian refugees disembark from a bus on arrival at the […]
Separatist parties in Spain’s Catalonia win majority in election
Source: CNN “The Catalan Republic has won,” he announced in Brussels in the early hours of Friday morning. “The Spanish government was defeated.” The Spanish government had called an early election in the hope of quelling the separatist movement, whose push for independence triggered the country’s worst political crisis in […]
EU gives itself June deadline for deal on refugees
Reuters International This content was published on December 15, 2017 European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni, Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico, the Czech Republic’s Prime Minister Andrej Babis, Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki attend the Visegrad Group meeting in Brussels, […]
Migration series (Part 5): Switzerland, land of European immigration
By Duc-Quang Nguyen This content was published on December 18, 2017 Switzerland has one of the highest percentages of foreigners in its population, most of whom are Europeans. Has […]
Counter-proposal: Government rejects Swiss ‘burka ban’ initiative
This content was published on December 20, 2017 Women should not be coerced into wearing headgear, says the Swiss government (Keystone) The Swiss Federal Council has proposed an indirect […]
Debate: Western Democracy Is Threatening Suicide?
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Children force you to be in the moment – we need a bunch of four-year-olds in every old people’s home
Source: Independent By Sappi Khorsandi; @ShappiKhorsandi Children brighten up the place. Especially very little ones with those turns of phrase which you don’t correct because they are too cute. ‘My top […]
Daesh: What happened to all the foreign fighters?
By AFP – Dec 16,2017 – JORDAN TIMES This file photo taken on February 8 shows members of the Syrian Democratic Forces , made up of US-backed Kurdish and Arab […]
EU says 15,000 migrants to exit Libya in two months
By AFP – Dec 14,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Migrants stand in a detention centre run by the interior ministry of Libya’s eastern-based government in Benghazi, Libya, on Wednesday (Reuters photo) […]
Pope says Satan is More Intelligent than Humans & the Muslim Times’ Response
Pope says Satan is more intelligent than humans – We believe he is not a person but only a personification of our id or negative tendencies Source: The Express Tribune […]
Turkey switches to full defiance of US, continues Putin courtship
Source: Asia Times Arguably, Turkey no longer qualifies to be a NATO member. McMaster spoke at a rare public policy platform with his British counterpart Mark Sedwill, at an event hosted by the Policy Exchange think tank in Washington. How any of this transmutes into Anglo-American policy will bear watching. […]
Jewish groups in Germany urge crackdown on anti-Semitic acts
. Reuters International This content was published on December 13, 2017 By Andrea Shalal BERLIN (Reuters) – Jewish groups in Germany are pressing the authorities to crack down on anti-Semitic […]
Emboldened by change, some Uzbek imams turn on loudspeakers for call to prayer
Reuters International This content was published on December 11, 2017 By Mukhammadsharif Mamatkulov TASHKENT (Reuters) – Some mosques in Uzbekistan are starting to broadcast the Muslim […]
Inside Geneva – Syria: what will it take to make peace?
By Imogen Foulkes This content was published on December 11, 2017 Patient diplomacy: UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura speaks at a meeting with the Syrian Negotiation Commission (SNC) in […]
International humanitarian law: ICRC president warns over ‘explosive mix’ of urban conflicts
By Kathrin Ammann This content was published on December 11, 2017 The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Peter Maurer inspects the scene of the […]
Trump’s Jerusalem Folly Time for Europe to Take the Lead on Peace
U.S. President Donald Trump prides himself on being a deal-maker. But his decision to relocate the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem will produce only losers. It is time […]
Germans could learn a lot from their new immigrant neighbours
Firstly, they need to abandon the idea ouperiority, however fast their Audis and BWMs are Wissam Hojaiban After having travelled half the globe and headed numerous German cultural institutions around […]