Europe and Australia

A Swiss call to action on refugees

ONLINE ACTIVISM A Swiss call to action on refugees MAR 26, 2016 – 17:15 (Keystone) Some Swiss politicians and personalities pressured the government on Saturday to accommodate 50,000 refugees to help ease a crisis in Europe inflamed by the five-year-old war in Syria. In an online petition posted at change.org, […]

Justice delayed, not denied, in Bosnia

Mar 26,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – DAVID SCHEFFER On March 24, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) sentenced Radovan Karadzic — the political leader of the Bosnian Serbs during the 1990s war in the Balkans — to 40 years in prison for genocide, crimes against humanity and […]

Muslim shopkeeper murdered in suspected ‘religiously prejudiced’ attack after posting on Facebook of love for Christians

Detectives arrest 32-year-old man after Pakistani-born Asad Shah, 40, repeatedly stabbed in savage attack Asad Shah (inset) was stabbed to death in Glasgow Photo: SWNS By Tom Morgan 7:23PM GMT 25 Mar 2016 A popular shopkeeper was stabbed to death in a “religiously prejudiced” attack hours after posting an Easter message […]

Time for Arabs to get off the fence

EYAD ABU SHAKRA Published — Friday 25 March 2016 A few hours separated two events last week: The Arab League picked Ahmed Aboul-Gheit as new secretary-general and its foreign ministers labelled Hezbollah of Lebanon a terrorist organization. There is nothing untoward about Aboul-Gheit’s appointment as he is a veteran diplomat […]

Swiss firms look to profit from halal market

HALAL PRODUCTS Swiss firms look to profit from halal market By Abdelhafidh Abdeleli MAR 25, 2016 – 08:00 A Bern-based company operating for more than two decades has provided halal certificates to over 200 companies around the world (Keystone) Swiss and European food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic firms must tread carefully […]