London, July 31 (IANS) Courtesy an unplugged loophole in the British government’s welfare shake-up, immigrants having multiple wives can claim higher benefit payments, it has emerged. Benefits potentially available to spouses in polygamous marriages include income support, jobseeker’s allowance, employment and support allowance, pension credit, housing benefit and council tax […]
Source: The New York Times Author: Sam Borden With nearly three million Muslims living in Britain, the observance of Ramadan here is not generally a notable occurrence. Shops are open, […]
Russian TV: The future of human rights and democracy in the volatile, post-Arab Spring Middle East is still murky, with daily violence continuing to threaten the lives of civilians. RT […]
……. New Film ‘Besa’ Reveals Hidden Past A new documentary traces the forgotten history of Albanian Muslims saving Jews and brings their descendants together. The still-emerging stories from shrinking circles of living Jews who survived persecution by Nazis are among the most interesting and provocative. These are not the stories […]
Hundreds of plane spotters have clogged the roads around Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport to observe the arrival of the Airbus A380, the world’s biggest passenger airplane. Many of them arrived early on Thursday morning, hours before the plane was due. It landed at the Dutch hub shortly before 10 o’clock. The […]
LIVRY GARGAN, France – The Islamic fasting month of Ramadan is underway, and in France it underscores the growing influence of Muslim shoppers. In the Paris suburb of Livry Gargan […]
Pakistan remains silent about its only Nobel Laureate Abdus Salam and his contribution to the recent discovery of the ‘God particle’ because the late scientist belonged to the ‘heretic’ Ahmadiyya […]
Swiss footballer Michel Morganella has been expelled from the London Olympics for posting a racist message on social networking website Twitter. Swiss Olympic team chief Gian Gilli said Morganella was […]
by Clare O’Dea on the Jungfraujoch, swissinfo.ch Not many records are still in place 100 years on but the Jungfraujoch railway station on the shoulder of the Jungfrau mountain in […]
Global Post: It’s the start of a usual day in a very unusual place. The sky is dark, cold and damp, the mist thick in the mountain air. Lines of […]
Prof. William Lane Craig makes good arguments for existence of God in this debate as he usually does. But, as is his style, he also makes some frivolous and weak […]
In London, international judo officials spent the weekend negotiating with the delegation from Saudi Arabia, which demands that Wojdan Ali Seraj Abdulrahim Shaherkani be allowed to wear a hijab or a head scarf during competitions. Her father told a British newspaper that his daughter, one of only two female Saudi […]
LONDON — At the start of another critical week for the euro, the head of the finance ministers that use the currency, Jean-Claude Juncker, reinforced expectations Monday of an initiative to lower Spain’s borrowing costs, which had hit alarming heights. The comments came as the U.S. Treasury secretary, Timothy F. […]
Credit: Spiegel Germany BY now, it’s an embarrassment to almost everyone in Germany that, in the grounds for one of its decisions, a regional court in Cologne almost off-handedly declared circumcision — a religious tradition dating back thousands of years — to be illegal. But the incident confirms a tendency […]
Russian TV: Radical Islamists with “British accents” are among the coalition forces looking to topple Bashar Assad, says Jeroen Oerlemans, a photographer who was held hostage in Syria for a […]
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Locog’s ‘fans in front’ policy has failed to fill venues in the first days of the Games – but it’s a perennial problem for organisers. Aside from the stunning venues, […]
Tomislav Nikolic says Serbs in Kosovo face threat of genocide and refuses to rule out partition along ethnic lines. The Serbian president has claimed Serbs in Kosovo are living under […]
By Peter Sutherland, Cecilia Malmstrom The Daily Star Lebanon Europe faces an immigration predicament. Mainstream politicians, held hostage by xenophobic parties, adopt anti-immigrant rhetoric to win over fearful publics, while the foreign-born are increasingly marginalized in schools, cities and at the workplace. Yet, despite high unemployment across much of the […]
Switzerland has pledged to assist Lebanon in housing refugees who have fled from neighbouring crisis-torn Syria. Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter met with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees […]