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: Time BY Kevin Lui What’s happening with thrill rides? The weekend roller coaster collision in Spain that left 33 people injured — including kids — is just the latest reminder that your trip […]
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 […]
By Carlo Pisani http://tp.srgssr.ch/p/inline?urn=urn:swi:video:43323830&locale=en EMBED CODE JUL 14, 2017 Find and execute a design concept that solves a concrete problem, with minimal resources, in one month, inside a transit centre for asylum seekers. That’s the challenge facing students at the Zurich University of the Arts. (Carlo Pisani, swissinfo.ch) […]
Exclusive: Poll reveals deep unease about Britain’s close relationship with an autocracy embroiled in a devastating war Rob Merrick Deputy Political Editor @Rob_Merrick 34 comments Britain must end arms sales to Saudi Arabia while the country is accused of the large-scale slaughter of civilians in Yemen’s civil war, Theresa May […]
There should be a formula in which the amount of terrorism a country is allowed to promote depends on how many weapons they buy. For $4.2bn you can blow up a couple of public buildings, as long as you help sweep up Mark Steel @mrmarksteel It’s always encouraging when people you’d […]
The Local news@thelocal.ch 11 July 2017 Photo: Swiss Tourism/Per Kasch Switzerland has been named among the top three best countries to be an immigrant in a ranking by US News & World Report. Part of the organization’s Best Countries survey – in which Switzerland came top overall – the ‘Best […]
The Local news@thelocal.ch 10 July 2017 File photo: maximka87/Depositphotos Fewer than half the weddings that took place in Switzerland last year were between two native Swiss people. According to recent figures published by the Swiss statistics office, in only 47 percent of weddings held in 2016 were both partners Swiss. […]
By Matthew Allen JULY 14, 2017 (Keystone) The threat of cyber attacks like WannaCry and Petya are creating lucrative opportunities for specialists looking to work in the financial sector. Top candidates for a job as a cyber security expert can “easily” command salaries of CHF1 million ($1 […]
Source: KARLSRUHE News | http://timesofahmad.blogspot.in/2017/07/germany-karlsruher-ahmadiyya-muslime.html With campaign of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Under the motto “We are all German” the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat wants to spread enlightenment around Karlsruhe on the subject of Muslims. Only a small minority of the Muslims are responsible for terror. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat community wants to […]
Source: Arab News: LONDON: The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has been accused of “flip-flopping” over whether Hezbollah should be completely banned in the UK. A spokesman for the mayor’s office told Arab News that he had not called for a total ban on the organization, despite a number of […]
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL Kaymakcı has said that the period ahead provides an ample amount of opportunities to reinvigorate Turkish-EU relations. Faruk Kaymakcı, the Turkish permanent representative to the EU, who […]
Muslims hold Friday prayers in front of the Colosseum in Rome, Italy October 21, 2016, to protest against the closure of unlicensed mosques. REUTERS/Tony Gentile – RTX2PWAB JOSHUA GILL 07/12/2017 Italian law enforcement officials have developed a new strategy to prevent the radicalization of Italian muslims — sending approved […]