Source: The Local The legislation sets out how to spur integration in a country traditionally slow to embrace newcomers, while laying down their rights and responsibilities in their adopted country. Europe’s largest economy last year took in more than one million asylum seekers, prompting much soul-searching as well as criticism […]
Source: abcnews.go.com Police say more than 120 officers were injured and 86 demonstrators were detained during leftist riots in the German capital which police call “the most aggressive and violent protests in the last five years.” Berlin police said in a statement Sunday that protesters threw bottles, cobblestones and fireworks, destroyed […]
If the British public’s reflexive distrust of establishment politicians came into riotous bloom in June, it was Tony Blair who sowed the seed in 2003. The similarities between these twin catastrophes are overwhelming Matthew Norman @IndyVoices Wednesday 6 July 2016 Curiously enough, considering the avalanche of criticism about the endless […]
Source: Independent If Blair and Bush were sincere about the dangers of weapons of mass destruction, they would have invaded North Korea By Robert Fisk @indyvoices So where are the Titans […]
Live Conservative leadership: Theresa May and May: I’m delighted to have won so much support from my colleaguesPlay!01:33 Danny Boyle Ben Riley-Smith, political correspondent 7 JULY 2016 • 6:34PM Michael Gove elimated from Conservative leadership bid Andrea Leadsom faces Theresa May in two-horse race to be PM May […]
The Crimea Complex: A Crisis of Identity Where East Meets West By Erich Follath Yuri Kozyrev / DER SPIEGEL It’s been two years since Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine. Since then, President Vladimir Putin has been cheered for liberating the peninsula and scorned for usurping it — depending on who […]
Elizabeth Wilmshurst By acting in defiance of the UN charter, as I warned when I was a Foreign Office lawyer in 2003, we put our reputation at risk. So it has proved ‘Lord Goldsmith, who as attorney general constitutionally had the last word, had given a provisional view that a […]
PODCAST A new take on old ghost stories By Celia Luterbacher http://www.swissinfo.ch SUBSCRIBE ON iTUNES DOWNLOAD MP3 FILE JUL 3, 2016 – 11:00 A University of Bern researcher argues that Victorian ghost stories can shed light on our understanding of culture, religion, and even modern-day science’s struggles with the mysteries […]
By AFP – Jul 01,2016 – JORDAN TIMES BRUSSELS — The EU opened a new negotiating chapter with Turkey on Thursday on its long-stalled bid for membership, a week after […]
NASTY FOREIGN PESTS Asian insects make a beeline for Switzerland By Samuel Jaberg www.swissinfo.ch SEP 11, 2012 – 11:00 The Asian longhorn beetle arrived in Switzerland in wooden pallets Mountains, seas and deserts used to provide considerable barriers to the movement of plants or animals, but Switzerland has […]
Source: The Guardian Heather Stewart Political editor Tony Blair deliberately exaggerated the threat posed by the Iraqi regime as he sought to make the case for military action to MPs […]
By Anand Chandrasekhar JUL 5, 2016 – 18:00 Many of the workers involved in the Swiss project to build the world’s longest railway tunnel came from different EU countries (Keystone) A government report underscores the importance of Switzerland’s free-movement accords with the European Union – and offers Britain a potential […]
Eid al-Fitr is one of the most important days in the Muslim calendar Jasmin Lavoie Ramadan will finish on 5 July this year for the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims, marking […]
Source. BBC The Ahmadiyya community tend to emphasize a certain openness and acceptance to their adopted countries traditions and customs as opposed to the mainstream Islamic sects. In fact, in the United States, an Ahmadiyya mosque is hosting an open July 4th barbecue close to the nation’s capital. In addition, they […]
The Huffington Post June 29, 2016 The country has become ‘more racist in terms of its public culture’. 02/07/2016 21:11 | Updated 18 hours ago 1.4 K Louise RidleyAssistant news editor at The Huffington Post UK The UK is seeing a surge of “celebratory racism” after the vote to leave […]
Young Muslim takes on state on headscarf ban and wins Source: The Local Published: 01 Jul 2016 A 25-year-old lawyer has taken on the state of Bavaria over its attempts […]
Photo: P Cutler Court fines Muslim father in latest swimming lessons row Published: 30 Jun 2016 08:59 GMT+02:00 A Muslim father was fined in Switzerland on Wednesday for refusing to allow his daughters to take swimming lessons at school, in the latest case exposing the challenges of integration in the […]
Source. Dawn GENEVA: Swiss authorities have rejected the naturalisation application of two Muslim girls who refused to take swimming lessons at their school alongside boys, reported USA Today. The girls, aged 12 and 14, refused to take the compulsory lessons claiming their faith prevents them from swimming with males. The Basel residents […]
Source. Arab News Justice minister Gove, who torpedoed fellow anti-EU campaigner Boris Johnson’s leadership hopes on Thursday, also said he would pull Britain out of the single market, end free movement of people and impose a new immigration system favoring skilled workers. Gove’s rival and the current favorite in the […]
Source. Express and Star The Ahmadiyya Muslim Association UK wants to convert a warehouse and offices in Vicarage Place, Caldmore, into a place of worship. Planning officers at Walsall Council have now recommended the proposal be given the green light. While West Midlands Police has not officially opposed the scheme the force […]