Source: Arab News I am often asked if Britain’s role in the Middle East and elsewhere will be diminished by its leaving the EU. I fear the answer is an unequivocal yes. The pointers are already there: Based on the strength of the pound, the UK economy is shrinking; foreign […]
By Julie Hunt JULY 16, 2017 You have to be very patient if you want to become Swiss, or so says Valentin Cazacu, from Moldova. You must be resident in Switzerland for 12 years before you can apply, and it took him four years to complete the naturalisation process. […]
Theresa May’s attitude towards Saudi Arabia is to ignore the issues and claim – no matter how vague and illogical – that it’s to protect ‘national security’ Robert Fisk @indyvoices a day ago The PM refuses to comment on Saudi Arabia’s human rights violations Reuters Theresa May has oddly declined to […]
Source: The Local German business groups warned Thursday that economic ties with Turkey would go from bad to worse as a sharply escalating diplomatic row heightens uncertainty.The biggest EU economy, home to three million people of Turkish origin, has repeatedly clashed with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan over civil rights and […]
Source: http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink-news/celebrate-food-music-sport-inaugural-13331470 Celebrate food, music and sport at inaugural Rushmoor Community Food Festival Residents will be come together in September for the Rushmoor Community Food Festival across two venues The bash will take place on September 16 between 11am-4pm at two venues in Aldershot – the Municipal Gardens and the West […]
“I invite people who have questions about Islam to look me up and find me. And I will meet them at a coffee shop of their choice. Coffee is on me. Source: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-20/im-a-muslim-ask-me-anything/8727442 | By Claire Moodie Australia’s youngest Imam doesn’t see the need for Muslim schools, and he’d rather shake a woman’s […]
Source: BBC Mr Barnier said: “We require this clarification on the financial settlement, on citizens’ rights, on Ireland – with the two key points of the common travel area and the Good Friday Agreement – and the other separation issues where this week’s experience has quite simply shown we make […]
Source: The Local Authorities in the town of Schorndorf in Baden-Württemberg have expressed shock after police and bystanders were attacked by members of a group of around 1,000 youths. Police report that a group of around 1,000 teenagers and young men gathered on Saturday evening in the grounds of Schorndorf […]
Source: The Local The massive number of court cases challenging asylum decisions have stretched authorities “to the limits”, a leading judge told German media on Thursday. The chair of the Association of German Administrative Law Judges told publishing group Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland (RND) that the number of people bringing legal challenges […]
Source: CNN This industrial region of Germany was once home to hundreds of mines, with thousands of local men heading underground every day. But the pits have now all but disappeared. Jens Hapke, spokesperson for the Ruhr regional association, is delighted by the idea. “The miner is a symbol of […]
Reuters International JULY 19, 2017 ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish police on Wednesday arrested the producer of a film about last July’s failed coup attempt on charges of forming and leading a terrorist group, the Hurriyet daily said. Ali Avci was detained last week after the release on social […]
Source: Arab News BRISBANE: School officials have described it as “hate crime” after a bag adorned with a swastika and containing a pig’s head was dumped at the front gate of one of Queensland’s largest Islamic schools. Staff at the Islamic College of Brisbane discovered the bag and rotting meat […]
Source: CNN A Swiss couple who disappeared from their farm in the Alps during World War II have finally been found, 75 years later, mummified in a glacier. Marceline and Francine Dumoulin went missing on August 15, 1942, after leaving to milk their cows in a meadow near their home. […]
Source: The Local Germany has for years longed for a stronger French partner, but may have got more than it bargained for as the self-confident Emmanuel Macron takes Europe’s spotlight. Striking images from Paris this week offered signs of how Europe’s de-facto leadership has started to mutate in the two […]
Source: The Local There are currently more than 13,000 girls in Germany whose families plan to have them circumcised – an increase of 4,000 over last year – women’s rights group Terre des Femmes claims. “Due to the arrival of migrants from countries such as Eritrea, Somalia and Iraq, we […]
Source: The Local A court in eastern Germany has told a Syrian woman that she is not allowed to appear in court for divorce proceedings against her husband unless she takes off her headscarf, Tagesspiegel reports. The woman’s lawyer received a letter from the presiding judge at the district court […]
Source: BBC Some 49 members of the Catholic Church are accused of carrying out the abuse between 1945 and the early 1990s, according to the report’s findings. Victims said the experience was like “a prison, hell and a concentration camp”. A 2016 report into the allegations said that 231 children […]
Source: The Daily Times By Farhan Janjua Nobel Peace Prize winner education activist Malala Yousafzai has joined the microblogging site Twitter on Friday, she announced by saying “Hi, Twitter.” Malala’s […]
A group of professed Muslim radicals “had no basic knowledge about Islam,” according to a new study. By Antonia Blumberg WACHIWITResearchers analyzed 5,757 WhatsApp messages found on a phone seized by police following a terrorist attack in the spring of 2016. Extremists and Islamophobes alike have attempted to paint violent […]
Source: CNN German Chancellor Angela Merkel has ruled out setting an upper limit on refugees coming to Germany, defying her long-term coalition partner on an issue that threatens to open […]