East European leaders argue as migrants pour across borders
By Reuters – Sep 19,2015 – JORDAN TIMES Afghan refugees struggle to swim ashore after their dinghy with a broken engine drifted out of control off the Greek island of […]
Swiss pledge to take part in EU refugee programme
Syrian refugee crisis Swiss pledge to take part in EU refugee programme By Urs Geiser Sep 18, 2015 – 17:43 Foreign Minister Burkhalter (right) and Justice Minister Sommaruga (centre) say Switzerland is willing to cooperate with the EU to alleviate the refugee crisis (Keystone) President Simonetta Sommaruga says Switzerland will […]
Switzerland: Government braces for big refugee influx
Refugees Government braces for big refugee influx Sep 16, 2015 – 14:24 Refugees are to be distributed in centres across the country (Keystone) The cantonal authorities have been asked to gear up for a steep increase in the number of refugees expected to arrive in Switzerland. The State Secretariat for […]
Shameful face in the refugee crisis
Sep 16,2015 – JORDAN TIMES BY MICHAEL JANSEN Several European Union countries should be ashamed about the way they reacted to the rising refugee crisis caused by the wars in Syria and Iraq. The country that should be most ashamed is Hungary where, following the 1956 Soviet invasion and clampdown […]
Egypt tycoon ‘in talks to buy two islands for refugees’
By AFP – Sep 15,2015 – CAIRO — Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris, who offered to buy a Mediterranean island to help hundreds of thousands of Syrians fleeing war, said Monday he was in talks to buy two private Greek islands. The businessman announced earlier this month he was looking […]
Keleti train station as never before (in Hungary)
Keleti train station as never before Seeing at firsthand the hopelessness of refugees 11. September 2015 – by Alexander Stemp in Politics There has been much talk and media coverage about the human tides of refugees pouring into Europe this summer, with Budapest Keleti train station playing its part as […]
David Cameron’s flying visit to Lebanon was nothing more than an exercise in being seen
The Lebanese are all too familiar with PR excursions such as this. by Robert Fisk Well, PR Dave took quite a trip – all the way to Lebanon. He even discovered some refugees in the Bekaa Valley. They are the ones that aren’t swarming. Not yet anyway. But if Lebanon […]
UK: Britain plans registry of religious leaders, will require training
Source: National Post By Andrew Gilligan, The Telegraph | September 14, 2015 8:58 AM ET Imams, priests, rabbis and other religious figures in Britain will have to enrol in a […]
Swiss Council of Religions: “The relationship between Islam and Christianity is key”
Swiss Council of Religions “The relationship between Islam and Christianity is key” By Katy Romy Reuse article Print Send this article Sep 13, 2015 – 11:00 Locher says the Swiss Council of Religions needs to do a better job of communicating with the public (Sandra Dominika Sutter/SEK) It can […]
The German designer behind the Queen’s dress
Source: The Local The new portrait released to mark the day is appropriately British, featuring the Queen sitting at her desk in Buckingham Palace, opening one of her official red boxes, looking off to the side while Sir Paul McCartney’s daughter Mary McCartney snaps the photo. But aside from Her […]
Islamic centre teachers jailed for a year for beating 10-year-old
Source: The Independent Two teachers at an Islamic school in Birmingham have been jailed for 12 months for “brutally” beating a young boy with a stick. The 10-year-old victim was repeatedly beaten for offences such as “talking in class” or “failing to read the Koran accurately” at Sparkbrook Islamic Centre […]
Hyper-Polyglot, Greek Translator Speaks 32 Languages
Hyper-Polyglot, Greek Translator Speaks 32 Languages Greece native Ioannis Ikonomou learned English at age five, German at seven and Italian at barely 10. He hasn’t stopped since, and is currently mastering Albanian. Christoph B. Schiltz (2014-09-18) Share : Just a sampling of Ikonomou’s many greetings BRUSSELS — Inside a gray […]
Refugee crisis: Thank God for Germany taking responsibility – the rest of Europe appears to have forgotten the age-old lessons of history
Refugee crisis: Thank God for Germany taking responsibility – the rest of Europe appears to have forgotten the age-old lessons of history Thousands of years of our history can be traced via the movements of refugees. Often, they have been welcomed, and the societies receiving them enriched. Yet the same […]
Hungary must look to its own history for migrant guidance
By Robert Fisk, for the Independent Once, the country was quite happy to send those it disliked to Germany… Funny what a weather-vane the Second World War becomes in the hands of politicians and journalists. Europe faces the biggest refugee crisis since the 1939-1945 conflict, we are solemnly told. And […]
Asylum’s Dark Side: The Deadly Business of Human Smuggling
Asylum’s Dark Side: The Deadly Business of Human Smuggling REUTERS Every day, thousands of refugees entrust their lives to human smugglers as they make their way to Europe — and many of them die en route. The smugglers, meanwhile, are making handsome profits, and aren’t particularly concerned about safety. By […]
Russia: We’ll Keep Arming Syria
Source: The Daily Beast Russia’s foreign ministry pushed back Monday at the U.S. warning that the Kremlin was escalating the conflict in Syria, arguing that its policy to support President Bashar al-Assad’s government in the fight against extremists has been longstanding. “We have always supplied equipment to them for their […]
The price of European indifference
Sep 06,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – Bernard-Henri Lévy Europe’s migration debate has taken a disturbing turn. It began with the creation of the catch-all concept (a legal freak) of a “migrant”, which obscures the difference, central to the law, between economic and political migration, between people escaping poverty and those driven […]
Growing up on a farm provides protection against asthma and allergies
ScienceDaily — Significant insights for development of vaccine against asthma Growing up on a farm provides protection against asthma and allergies. Credit: © ambrozinio / Fotolia Researchers at VIB (a leading life sciences institute in Flanders, Belgium) and Ghent University have successfully established a causal relationship between exposure to so-called […]
Palestinian TV teen given German residency
Photo: Norddeutsche Rundfunk/Screenshot Palestinian TV teen given German residency Published: 05 Sep 2015 11:29 GMT+02:00 A Palestinian teen threatened with deportation who burst into tears during a televised debate with German Chancellor Angela Merkel has got a residency permit for “humanitarian reasons,” a statement said Friday. In the encounter last […]
Migrants stream into Austria, swept west by overwhelmed Hungary
SEP 5, 2015 – 05:00 By Krisztina Than HEGYESHALOM, Hungary (Reuters) – Hundreds of exhausted migrants streamed into Austria on Saturday, reaching the border on buses provided by an overwhelmed Hungarian government that gave up trying to hold back crowds that had set out on foot for western Europe. After […]