Source: The Local Up until recently it seemed a very safe bet that Angela Merkel would win another term as Chancellor in September’s election. But more and more polling suggests otherwise. The most recent poll by YouGov published on Monday showed that 64 percent of Germans are in favour of […]
Source: The Local The major parties making up Germany’s coalition government have agreed to a proposed law that would invalidate marriages involving children under 16. Leaders of the Social Democrats (SPD) and Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative Union parties said they had agreed on a proposed law to ban marriage for […]
The trolling of President Donald Trump continues with a global viral video trend. After the Dutch show ‘Zondag met Lubach’ created an “America First” spoof“Netherlands Second” in January, the joke took off as countries from Iran to Slovenia jumped on the bandwagon with Trump-style pitches of their own. In a […]
Reuters International FEB 12, 2017 – FILE PHOTO:France’s National Front leader Marine Le Pen and Netherlands’ Party for Freedom (PVV) leader Geert Wilders take a Selfie during a European far-right leaders meeting to discuss about the European Union, in Koblenz, Germany, January 21, 2017. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay/File Photo (reuters_tickers) By […]
VOTE FEBRUARY 12 By Urs Geiser FEB 12, 2017 – It took four nationwide votes since the 1980s to ease the strict citizenship procedure for third generation immigrants (Keystone) Voters have endorsed a proposal to simplify the citizenship procedure for immigrants whose grandparents came to Switzerland. Final results show just […]
Source: http://catholicleader.com.au/news/muslim-community-donates-3000-to-vinnies-jimboomba Muslim community donates $3000 to Vinnies Jimboomba February 9, 2017 | Posted by: Emilie Ng in Around the Archdiocese, News MUSLIM leaders based in Jimboomba have donated $3000 to a Catholic charity to support the poor and needy. St Vincent de Paul Society Jimboomba conference president Peter Flynn received a […]
Exclusive: ‘Alarming’ research shows almost two thirds of migrants ‘violently’ forced to move Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden Refugees sleeping on the streets in freezing conditions inParis are having their blankets and sleeping bags stolen by police while being “violently” forced to move on, a report has found. Research exclusively published by The Independent […]
Source: BBC Dr Andreas Dombret, executive board member for the German central bank, the Bundesbank, said that even if banking rules were “equivalent” between the UK and the rest of the European Union, that was “miles away from access to the single market”. Mr Dombret’s comments were made at a […]
Source: The Local Thousands of girls in Germany face genital mutilation on top of the tens of thousands of women who have already suffered it, a new government report claims. The study, published on Monday by the Family Affairs Ministry, found that 48,000 woman and girls living in Germany have […]
Source: The Local Germany’s central bank said on Thursday it sped up the process of bringing its gold home from foreign vaults in 2016, moving more than 200 tonnes from New York and Paris. The Bundesbank relocated some 216 tonnes of the precious metal to its headquarters in Frankfurt last […]
Source: BBC Archaeologists have found a cave that once housed Dead Sea scrolls in a cliff in the Judean desert – the first such discovery in over 60 years. Israel’s Hebrew University said the ancient parchments were missing from the cave, and were probably looted by Bedouin in the 1950s. Storage jars, […]
Jonathan Power | Published — Wednesday 8 February 2017 What does US President Donald Trump think about NATO? Twice during his election campaign he rubbished it publically, saying it was “obsolete.” Yet this month, when he met UK Prime Minister Therese May, he told her he supported NATO 100 percent. […]
Source: The Guardian By Christopher Knaus The average age of alleged victims was 10.5 for girls and just over 11.5 for boys In one order 40% of religious brothers are believed […]
Guy Verhofstadt says that now is ‘an existential moment for the European Union’ Josie Cox Business Editor The European Parliament’s lead Brexit negotiator has said that the European Union needs to reform or it risks disappearing completely. Speaking to the BBC World Service on Wednesday, Guy Verhofstadt said that there […]
Source: The Local Manaf Halbouni’s “Monument” in Dresden. Photo: DPA A Syrian-born artist was on Tuesday to open an eye-catching installation in Germany – three passenger buses placed vertically like sniper barricades – but the artwork has drawn fierce criticism from far-right groups.Dubbed “Monument”, the mega-sculpture in the eastern city […]
A man has been arrested after a passenger jet flying from Pakistan to Heathrow had to be diverted when police received an anonymous threat regarding the aircraft. RAF Typhoon jets were scrambled to escort the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight to Stansted Airport in Essex following reports of disruption on […]
Source: BBC Muslim dress and “homosexual propaganda” have been banned in a remote village in southern Hungary. The BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire programme reports. More:
Source: BBC A French judge has ordered ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy to stand trial in an illegal campaign finance case. Mr Sarkozy faces accusations that his party falsified accounts in order to hide 18m euros (£15m; $20m) of campaign spending in 2012. Mr Sarkozy has repeatedly denied that he was aware of the […]
Reuters International FEB 6, 2017 – Refugees and migrants, most of them Afghans, block the entrance of the refugee camp at the disused Hellenikon airport as police officers try to disperse them, in Athens, Greece, February 6, 2017. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis (reuters_tickers) By Karolina Tagaris ATHENS (Reuters) – A group […]
ASSOCIATED PRESS SYDNEY, Australia Reuters File Photo. Seven percent of priests in Australia’s Catholic Church were accused of sexually abusing children over the past several decades, a lawyer said Monday as officials investigating institutional abuse across Australia revealed for the first time the extent of the crisis. The statistics were […]