Source: The Local The man’s son reported his death to police on October 15th, explaining that he had died several hours after the attack, police reported on Thursday.According to the son’s account, his 51-year-old father was relieving himself near the Johannes Church in Freiburg, in the southwestern state of Baden-Württemberg […]
Source: http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/10/19/louis-smith-visits-mosques-apologises-mocking-islam/ Louis Smith Visits Mosques, Apologises (Again) for Mocking ‘Religion of Peace’ Following Death Threats Louis Smith / Facebook by DONNA RACHEL EDMUNDS19 Oct 2016153 Olympic gymnast Louis Smith has missed out on celebrations being held in central London to honour Britain’s Olympic team – to visit two London mosques […]
OCT 20, 2016 A teenager in a transition center at Davos awaiting asylum earlier this year (Keystone) Some 20 youths who left their home country as political refugees without their parents gained an audience – and pushed for more latitude and rights – at the federal parliament building with […]
AGENCIES | Published — Thursday 20 October 2016 Petra Laszlo MADRID: Hungarian media said Wednesday that the camerawoman who was filmed last year kicking and trying to trip migrants near Hungary’s border with Serbia has accepted an award for a documentary. According to Hungarian media, Petra Laszlo, credited as the […]
Source: The Local Published: 19 Oct 2016 UPDATE: One of the police officers shot by a self-declared “Reichsbürger” extremist on Wednesday has since died due to his injuries, Bavarian officials […]
Across 18 countries, at least 2,800 Britons applied for citizenship in first eight months of 2016, with Denmark seeing biggest rise British expats in Berlin hold up signs calling for the UK to remain in the EU after the Brexit vote. Photograph: Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images Sophia Schirmer Wednesday 19 October […]
Source: BBC By James Reynolds “That is a possessed woman there,” says Fr Vincenzo Taraborelli as he points up to an 18th Century fresco in his Roman church. “They’re holding […]
Source: Motto By Alexandra Sifferlin The Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland have some of the most restrictive laws surrounding abortion in the world. The procedure is illegal in both […]
Source: The Local Late on Sunday, three masked men – two of whom were wearing clown masks – raided a pizza shop in Potsdam, according to a police report.One worker was tasered during the violent robbery, and had to be treated at the scene by emergency services. The men threatened other […]
Source: The Local Ursula Haverbeck-Wetzel, 87, has been sentenced by a district court in Bad Oeynhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, to 11 months imprisonment without parole, Süddeutsche Zeitung reported on Tuesday.Haverbeck-Wetzel was convicted for the crime of incitement of hatred for denying the Holocaust in a letter she sent to the Central Council […]
Source: The Local The number of crimes committed against refugee homes has increased across the country, reaching 797 cases so far this year, according to BKA figures seen by publishing group Funke Mediengruppe. The overwhelming majority of these cases – 740 – were perpetrated by “right-wing motivated offenders”, including neo-Nazis.As Germany […]
Source: The Local France on Tuesday confirmed that the French, Russian and German leaders will hold a “working meeting” on the Syrian crisis in Berlin, in addition to discussing the ongoing conflict in Ukraine with the country’s president, Petro Poroshenko. Host Chancellor Angela Merkel said the Ukraine talks would be aimed at “offering a brutally […]
OCT 18, 2016 – Asylum seekers play cards in a chalet near Villars-sur-Ollon in the Vaud Alps (Keystone) Requests for asylum in Switzerland were down by almost half in the third quarter of the year compared to the same period in 2015, the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) reported […]
Pilgrimage from China to Oerlikon By Thomas Kern, Luigi Jorio POLITICS Religion Several thousand people gathered in Zurich on October 14 to see the Dalai Lama, the highest authority in […]
Source: The Guardian By Harriet Sherwood; Religion correspondent The Church of England is considering dropping its legal requirement to hold weekly Sunday services in churches with small and declining congregations. […]
Image copyrightRUSSIA TODAYImage captionBroadcaster RT is backed by the Kremlin NatWest bank has frozen the accounts of Russia’s state-run broadcaster RT, its editor-in-chief says. Margarita Simonyan tweeted: “They’ve closed our accounts in Britain. All our accounts. ‘The decision is not subject to review.’ Praise be to freedom of speech!” RT […]
The economist exposes the flaws of the common currency, but his solutions for reform don’t convince A protester burns a euro note during a demonstration in Athens, June 2015. Photograph: Reuters John Kampfner Monday 22 August 2016 It’s two months since Britain’s worst foreign policy blunder of the modern era […]
Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad to address Parliamentarians in Canada’s capital city. On 15 October 2016, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad arrived in Canada’s capital city Ottawa. His Holiness arrived at the Baitul Naseer Mosque at 7.50pm where […]
Source: The Daily Beast In 79 C.E. Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying the nearby cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in thick layers of volcanic ash. There was no time to suffocate; most died not from the poisonous gas but were instead flash-heated into immediate rigor mortis. The eruption froze the final […]
10/14/2016 Sophia von Bonin Co-founder of Re:Start CARSTEN KOALL VIA GETTY IMAGES What if we viewed the influx of refugees into Germany as an opportunity rather than a crisis? This was the question I asked myself, together with a group of young Berliners, when over 800,000 refugees arrived in Germany last […]