Credit: Spiegel-Germany. France’s new president, François Hollande, has put the German chancellor on the defensive with his growth agenda. Now Angela Merkel is planning to strike back. She is calling for structural reforms to save the euro with a six-point plan aimed at harmonizing austerity and growth in Europe once […]
PR Newswire LONDON, May 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Ahmadiyya Muslim Community unveils national Jubilee programme A British Muslim community has set out plans to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee with […]
President Barack Obama is under growing pressure to apologise to Poland after the country’s prime minister publicly rebuked him for making reference to “Polish death camps” in the Second World […]
Moscow : The full capacity launch of Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant, the first in the country, may be rescheduled to June from May, a Russian official said. “An approval […]
Forget concentration camps — they’re so 20th century! The latest craze in Vienna is for “integration camps”, which help prepare Austrian citizens for the future by requiring them to adapt […]
Source: Daily Press APPLE VALLEY • He was born into the middle of a war, with his mother hoping he’d stay in her womb as long as possible so things […]
Switzerland’s largest supermarket chain, Migros, has announced it will tell its customers if products have come from Jewish settlement areas in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Migros says it […]
Governments around the world expelled ambassadors and top Syrian diplomats Tuesday in an unusually coordinated blow to Syria’s leaders, after a particularly gruesome massacre in which the United Nations says […]
Soaring property prices have created a generation of “mummy’s boys” with a third of men in their 20s and early 30s now living with their parents, according to official figures. […]
A referendum on Britain’s relationship with the European Union would be “silly” and is only of interest to “a few extreme nationalist politicians,” Kenneth Clarke has said. The Justice Secretary […]
A survey shows that young people aspire to a good marriage – so why does the divorce rate continue to rise? By Judith Woods TELEGRAPH CO UK A well-dressed woman […]
Daily Telegraph: Over the past three months, Qatar – a state no bigger than Yorkshire – has embarked on the financial equivalent of a £7bn supermarket sweep. It has snaffled […]
RFI: In a crime which calls to mind the film “The Godfather”, a gunman penetrated a hospital bedroom in Bastia in Corsica on Monday and tried to kill restaurateur Olivier Sisti, who was lying in bed trying to recover after a previous attempt to kill him a week ago. Details: […]
Rfi: Possibly the most glamorous local railway carriages in the world started operating on Wednesday between Paris and Versailles. They may look like any old beat-up railway train on the outside but inside they are decorated with reproductions of interiors from the royal Palace of Versailles. More: http://www.english.rfi.fr/visiting-france/20120516-louis-xiv-railway-carriages-take-paris-versailles-line
Arwa Al-Rikabi ARAB NEWS “Islam and Muslims are incompatible with rationality”…Who do you think said this? It sounds like something Geert Wilders (leader of Party of Freedom-Netherlands) or Nick Griffin (chairman of British National Party) would say, but it is the French Orientalist Ernest Renan who declared this in the […]
The British state-run broadcaster BBC has been caught passing off an old photo from Iraq in 2003 for the massacre in the Syrian town of Houla. In a report published […]
EU keen on Fiji sugar 13:10 Sun May 27, 2012 Permanent Secretary for Sugar Colonel Manasa VaniqiTaken from/By: FBC News Report by: Epeli Tukuwasa There is a likelihood that the European Sugar Market will extends it preferential agreement made with ACP Countries, including Fiji. This was revealed by the Permanent Secretary for […]
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Russian TV: Moscow’s mufti Albir Krganov has appealed to the capital’s Bureau for Human Rights over nationalistic slogans and graffiti which he says insult the feelings of believers and non-Russian […]
by Armando Mombelli, swissinfo.ch Many European countries are turning away from atomic power to focus on renewable energies. Switzerland’s water reservoirs could make up for future gaps in supply. Snowy […]