Reuters International DEC 24, 2015 – swissinfo.ch JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A record number of French Jews moved to Israel this year, an immigration official said on Thursday, citing anti-Semitic violence […]
Dec 24,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – Robert Skidelsky Donald Trump’s call to bar Muslims from the United States provoked the following exchange with two young friends of mine: “If the choice was between Muslim immigration and preserving liberal moral values,” I asked, “which would you choose?” They both denied the question’s […]
By GREGORY KATZ and SYLVIA HUI Dec. 23, 2015 11:00 AM EST LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister David Cameron’s office said Wednesday he will look into claims that U.S. officials prevented a British Muslim family of 11 from flying to Disneyland for a planned holiday. The issue is sensitive because […]
Lyse Doucet Chief international correspondent 23 December 2015 Jump media player Media player help Out of media player. Press enter to return or tab to continue. Media captionThe girls were reunited in Newcastle, as Lyse Doucet reports “Are two Malalas better than one?” I ask, only partly in jest, of two […]
By Stephen Fottrell BBC News 23 December 2015 From the sectionWorld Image copyrightAP, AFP, Getty From the devastating gun attacks in Paris and Tunisia to the crippling earthquake in Nepal and the unprecedented migrant crisis in Europe, 2015 was a year in which human stories and experiences came to the fore. […]
By Sean CoughlanEducation correspondent Out of media player. Press enter to return or tab to continue. Media captionThe ancient Koran in Birmingham is giving up some its secrets Knowledge economy Vocational education’s global gap US universities gripped by identity crisis UK student numbers surge in Netherlands Online schools ‘worse than […]
Reuters International swissinfo.ch DEC 22, 2015 – By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) – More than 1 million refugees and migrants came to the European Union this year, while almost 3,700 died or went missing in perilous journeys which reaped huge profit for smugglers, the International Organization for Migration said […]
Source: The Guardian More than a million people have now reached Europe through irregular means in 2015, the International Organisation for Migration has announced, in what constitutes the continent’s biggest […]
theguardian: by Joe Williams, Tshepo Mokoena, Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, Homa Khaleeli and Nosheen Iqbal Chi Onwurah Chi Onwurah. Photograph: James Drew Turner The MP for Newcastle upon Tyne Central joined the shadow cabinet following Jeremy Corbyn’s victory: she had nominated him for the Labour leadership, but you wouldn’t call her […]
Epigraph: “Christians and Muslims are brothers and sisters, and we must act as such.” Pope Francis Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Most […]
Source: Sputnik International 21.05.2015; it is an old news Athens plans to hold parliament voting on recognition of the State of Palestine because the new Greek government does not want […]
An Editorial by Klaus Brinkbäumer SPIEGEL.DE REUTERS A boat full of refugees on the Aegean Sea between Turkey and Greece. What would we do in their situation? The debate over refugees in Germany has grown divisive. Those in favor are unwilling to recognize the difficulties ahead while those opposed too […]
Rachid Nekkaz: on crusade for state religious ‘neutrality’. Photo: Denis Charlet/AFP Businessman vows to pay burqa ban fines Published: 11 Dec 2015 11:00 GMT+01:00 A ban on wearing niqabs or burqas in public has yet to be implemented in the canton of Ticino but an Algerian businessman is already vowing […]
Voices Meet the British physicist who ignored Taliban death threats to teach in the badlands of Pakistan David Gosling spent four years as principal of University of Peshawar – “When you have education in its totality, it enables our students to see what should be obvious: we are all one” Robert […]
Source: The Guardian By Henry Zeffman Despite rising fears of western hostility toward Muslims, new research shows British liberal views have strengthened since last month’s events in France Last month’s terrorist […]
December 18, 2015 At least 43 unaccompanied refugee children have gone missing from various asylum centers in Norway this year alone, and 25 have died since 2006. Several of those missing were as young as nine years old, and the numbers of refugee children in Norway are now increasing dramatically. Around 4,000 refugee children are […]
GERMAN PRESS AGENCY – DPA BERLIN Published December 17, 2015 Refugee children should attend school within three months of arriving in Germany in order to speed up integration efforts, a commission of experts said on Thursday. The Robert Bosch-funded commission – tasked with reviewing refugee policy – said that efforts to […]
Source: The Guardian Families who home-school their children could to come under investigation over fears the practice is used as a means of radicalisation, the government has confirmed. The education […]
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL Published December 18, 2015 Photo: Wikimedia Commons Some citizens of the small Swiss town Oberwil-Lieli have recently established a committee and named the possible arrival of six refugees “an invasion,” calling for a referendum to redeem the municipality from the obligation to admit the refugees, various Swiss […]
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL Published December 18, 2015 AFP Photo This year saw an unprecedented rise in the number of refugees fleeing conflicts and poverty, nearing above 60 million. Though the number continues to rise at an alarming rate, especially for those heading to Europe whose number approaches to 1 million […]