SOCIAL AID Do strict citizenship laws help or hurt integration? By Veronica DeVore DEC 8, 2016 – The old town of Bern. In 2013, the authorities here passed the strictest citizenship law in Switzerland which stipulates that applicants may not be receiving social aid and must pay back any they […]
The Local news.france@thelocal.com 9 December 2016 Photo: AFP The European Union’s Brexit negotiators will offer British people a chance to individually remain part of the EU, according to media reports in Britain. There was potentially some good news on Friday for all those Brits who were unhappy about the EU […]
By : Zubair Khan. Pictures: Basil Ahmad: Ivan Duzdagic: On 09.12.2016 at 13.00 hours a great humanitarian event started in Hotel Porin Zagreb. It was computer training facility for refugees handing taking over between Humanity First and Red Cross under the auspices of Interior Ministry Croatia. Mr Sead Mulabegovic […]
Source: BBC Few would disagree with the foreign secretary when he says that Saudi Arabia and Iran are engaging in proxy wars in the Middle East.Not everyone would use his language, accusing both countries of “puppeteering”, but it is well known that both Riyadh and Tehran support opposing sides in […]
Source: The Local The German Defence Minister was in Saudi Arabia on Thursday aiming to conclude a training deal for Saudi military officers, eliciting sharp criticism from German left-leaning parties.Defence […]
Source: The Local Germany has pledged to spend €150 million helping failed asylum seekers and immigrants return home, the minister of development said in an interview published on Friday.The aid fund will benefit both failed asylum seekers and immigrants who choose to return to their home countries.”For the next three […]
I visited Torrington, the village apparently ‘furious’ that 70 Syrian migrants moved there, and found out the truth Mark Steel @mrmarksteel Last week I was in Torrington, North Devon, the village that’s been in the news because local people organised a massive collection of clothes and toys, for Syrian […]
Source: The Guardian By Patrick Wintour and Rowena Mason Foreign secretary, who has been accused of a series of diplomatic gaffes, breaks with convention by publicly criticising UK ally Boris […]
The Telegraph UK reports that Boris Johnson has accused Saudi Arabia, one of Britain’s closest political allies, of “playing proxy wars” in the Middle East.Footage has emerged of the Foreign Secretary claiming that politicians in the region are “twisting and abusing religion” for their own political advantage. The video, published by The Guardian, comes from an event […]
The Guardian The long read Bringing up the bodies in Bosnia In Bosnia, an international organisation is digging up mass graves and using cutting edge scientific research to give victims’ families some sense of closure and justice by Ed Vulliamy Tuesday 6 December 2016 They are the unquiet dead. Laid […]
By Cnaan Liphshiz December 7, 2016 PARIS (JTA) — Although his country is entering one of the most dramatic election campaigns in recent memory, Isy Morgensztern had no intention of exercising his right to vote. A left-wing Ashkenazi Jewish filmmaker from Paris, Morgensztern was too disappointed with the ruling Socialists under […]
Reuters International DEC 7, 2016 – BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s highest court ruled on Wednesday that ultra-conservative Muslim girls must take part in mixed swimming classes at school, finding against […]
Next 1 of 10 Top 10 Book Cafes in Istanbul 1- Nail Bookstore & Cafe Occupying a historic building in the Kuzguncuk neighborhood of Üsküdar on the Asian side, Nail Bookstore and Cafe has a rich selection of books on various subjects from politics to history. The double-story bookshop has […]
You can’t understand the British prime minister’s politics, or her Brexit strategy, without understanding her Anglicanism. BY ANDREW BROWN DECEMBER 6, 2016 One of the least understood, yet most important, things about British Prime Minister Theresa May is that she is the daughter of a Church of England vicar. The […]
Source: CNN By Sheena McKenzie, CNN (CNN) German chancellor Angela Merkel has called for a ban on full-face veils in the country, during a speech at her party’s conference on […]
Source: Dawn Merkel, playing to the wing of her conservative party that has been deeply unsettled by last year’s record influx of asylum seekers ─ most of them Muslims fleeing war zones ─ underlined her support for a proposal in August by her interior minister, Thomas de Maiziere, to outlaw […]
Caliph says most UK Muslims well integrated into British society after Casey report cited ‘worrying levels’ of segregation A Muslim woman and her son walk down a cobbled street in Bradford. Photograph: David Levenson/Alamy Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent @harrietsherwood Tuesday 6 December 2016 True Islam means loyalty to the […]
By Zubair Khan “Muslims Forced to leave German Christmas Bazaar after setting Islam Information Booth”. This is the title given to news carried by Travellers Today and Index .hr as well in other media news outlet. However when Ahmadiyya authorities in Germany were contacted then emerged entirely different scenario. Permission […]
Source: TOI The judge called the case that began in the family division of the court unprecedented. “It is no surprise that this application is the only one of its kind to have come before the courts in this country, and probably anywhere else,” Jacksonsaid, calling the case “an example […]
Source: The Local The anti-migrant Alternative for Germany party (AfD) blamed the crime on the “uncontrolled” influx of foreigners, while the head of a police union warned of the “dangers that always go along with massive immigration”. But Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel said the murder of the 19-year-old medical student should […]