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://www.stuff.co.nz/national/89194716/Muslim-offers-himself-up-for-dates-to-those-who-have-never-meet-a-follower-of-Islam ‘Love for all, hate for none’: New Plymouth man offers himself up for dates to those who have never met a follower of Islam Tashriq Hanif from Fitzroy, New Plymouth, is breaking down misconceptions about Muslims living in New Zealand. This Muslim man in New Plymouth is offering himself […]
Source: Aljazeera Authorities in Greece’s second-biggest city, Thessaloniki, have begun evacuating some 70,000 residents ahead of an operation to defuse a 250kg unexploded World War II bomb. The device, dropped […]
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: DW Berlin’s Labor Court has ruled that the city violated a teacher’s rights by denying her a job. The woman had been told that she could not wear her […]
Source: Reuters By Philip Pullella | VATICAN CITY Pope Francis says he is at peace with himself and not taking “tranquilising pills” while dealing with corruption in the Vatican and […]
Source: The Guardian By Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent Justin Welby leads calls among religious figures following government announcement that it will no longer accept lone children Justin Welby said he […]
Source: NPR Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders tweeted an fake image this week, purporting to show a political rival demonstrating with Islamists holding signs calling for sharia law. Wilders’ party […]
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 […]
EXPLAINER By Stefania Summermatter, Marc-André Miserez FEB 9, 2017 – The construction industry is heavily reliant on foreign workers (Keystone) On February 9, 2017, a deadline expired to implement immigration quotas approved in a nationwide vote three years earlier. With a solution still a long way off, we look […]
Source: BBC The Eiffel Tower in Paris is to have a 2.5m-high (8ft) wall of reinforced glass built around it as protection against terror attacks, officials say. The Paris mayor’s […]
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: BBC By Maddy Savage Business reporter, Gothenburg Sweden has been experimenting with six-hour days, with workers getting the chance to work fewer hours on full pay, but now the […]
Source: The Guardian By Harriet Sherwood, Helen Pidd, Steven Morris, Henry McDonald and Dani Garavelli Sunday 5 February 2017 19.18 GMTLast modified on Monday 6 February 2017 09.03 GMT Jeremy Corbyn has challenged […]
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 […]