Credit: The Local Germany Experts at Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND) are fed up with the traffic light system in the capital and have admonished the city government for failing to get it right despite numerous attempts, local paper Tagesspiegel reported. Waiting for up to four minutes for the […]
Credit: The Local Germany Premier Victor Ponta claimed that former Soviet-era agents were operating within the German media and that they were to blame for critiques of his administration. He said agents whose loyalties lay with late Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu whose secret service, the Securitate, had hidden operatives in […]
Source: The New York Times By REUTERS ROME (Reuters) — The former archbishop of Milan and papal candidate Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini said the Roman Catholic Church was “200 years […]
PARIS — During a recent protest in Marseille, seven people were suddenly surrounded by the police, bundled into a van and brought in for questioning. Their offense was not the […]
National Front and English Defence League members praise Norwegian mass murderer as ‘inspirational’ and a ‘role model’. A number of rightwing British activists have publicly praised mass murderer Anders Behring […]
The rise of the Dutch Socialist Party could end Holland’s reputation as a Brussels-friendly member of the beleaguered Eurozone club, reports Harriet Alexander. Maastricht is a town at the heart […]
The worst wildfires in memory in the Malaga region of southern Spain were being brought under control yesterday, leaving a charred and blackened wasteland where there had been fragrant pine […]
Credit: The Local Newspaper. ‘Missing’ posters prompt Muslim anger Four Muslim groups have pulled out of an anti-extremism partnership with the government in protest at a poster campaign which they say puts all Muslims under general suspicion.The posters resemble those put up to try to find missing people and show […]
Credit: CNN (CNN) — The head of a survivors’ group Saturday dismissed an apology issued five decades later by the German manufacturer of a drug that caused thousands of babies to be born with disabilities. Pharmaceutical firm Gruenenthal apologized Friday for the first time over its drug, thalidomide, which caused […]
Source: Welt on Line via Zafarullah of Germany Cologne – In protest against a controversial poster campaign four Muslim organizations have denounced the current so-called security partnership with the German Federal Ministry of the Interior.The posters, Muslims under suspicion, created tension betweenh the associations and Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich (CSU). […]
Credit:TOI JERUSALEM: German Chancellor Angela Merkel has urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to order a military strike against Iranian nuclear sites, media here reported today. The Haaretz newspaper, citing an Israeli official on condition of anonymity, said Merkel had called Netanyahu 10 days ago amid a wave of […]
Alton Herald: ONE of Britain’s oldest Muslim communities will gather on a 210-acre site at East Worldham, near Alton, next weekend to celebrate the Jalsa Salana. Billed as Britain’s biggest […]
Switzerland’s population jumped by nearly 85,000 people in 2011, according to the Federal Statistics Office, with the majority of cantons experiencing population growth. The highest growth rates were seen in […]
Source: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung via Zafrullah Khan After the attack on a rabbi in Berlin, the Central Council of Jews in Germany has called for more involvement of Muslim organizations in the fight against anti-Semitism. The Council would appreciate it if the associations “would turn finally determined against anti-Semitism in […]
RT: The world is in the middle of a tuberculosis pandemic, scientists say. What was once a disease of undeveloped nations has raced across continents, with thousands of cases in Asia and Europe. The disease may infect up to two million people by 2015. An extensive international study published by […]
A Pakistan newspaper is claiming terror organisation Al-Qaeda recruited two young Somali students in Karachi to carry out a terrorist attack on The Hague. Independent paper The Friday Times made the claims this week saying the two men ‘were to be sent to The Hague to carry out a 26/11 type attack,’ […]
Al-Qaeda has reportedly recruited two Somali men in Pakistan to carry out a suicide attack in The Hague. According to the Pakistani weekly Friday Times, al-Qaeda has recruited two Somali students in the Pakistani city of Karachi. The terrorist organisation trained them in the use of weapons and explosives and […]
Daily Telegraph: Mr Millet, who says he has read all 1,500 pages of Breivik’s online manifesto, insists that he does not approve of the Norwegian gunman’s crimes. However, he praised Breivik’s writing and cry of hatred for social democracy, immigration and multiculturalism. “Breivik is without doubt what Norway deserves,” wrote Millet in […]
A refugee has scored top marks in her GCSE’s, after only starting at a UK school in February. Hania Saleem, 16, of Manor Green Road, Epsom, gained A* grades in […]
BERLIN — Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, on Wednesday praised the progress that Italy’s prime minister, Mario Monti, has made in revamping his country’s economy. But she also indicated there were limits to how much financial risk Germany was willing to bear in helping out its euro zone allies. After […]