Swissinfo. Immigrants are less healthy than the average Swiss but many do not seek proper treatment using Switzerland’s health care system, a study has found. Around 3,000 immigrants from Turkey, Portugal, Serbia, Kosovo, Somalia and Sri Lanka were interviewed about the state of their health, their need for medical care […]
If United Russia Party wins the parliamentary elections, and if opposition parties do not nominate a worthy candidate, then the country will have a new government and the new president during the upcoming six years. The intrigue with the presidential election in Russia has been unveiled. The scenarios of election […]
By RFI France on Friday introduced a ban on praying in the street forcing thousands of muslims into temporary alternative spaces for their day of prayer. Interior Minister Claude Gueant has said that praying in the street is a direct attack on the principle of secularism. In Paris, a former […]
By Tony Cross The TV debate between France’s aspiring Socialist presidential candidates may have beaten Masterchef in Thursday evening’s ratings, but the party still has its work cut out to ensure victory in the election next year. Five million viewers watched the six would-be candidates politely disagree on secondary matters […]
By RFI Nicolas Bazire, Sarkozy’s best man at his 2008 wedding to Carla Bruni, was charged with corruption on Thursday after being questioned overnight in connection with allegations of kickbacks on an arms deal with Pakistan. President Nicolas Sarkozy’s staff issued a communiqué on Thursday to distance him from […]
By RFI French police questioned President Sarkozy’s longtime friend and adviser Brice Hortefeux on Friday, in connection with the so-called Karachi affair, in which two of Sarkozy’s closest allies are already implicated. He was interviewed over a phone call he made to a suspect in the Karachi affair, to warn […]
France 24. REUTERS – The top Socialist candidates for France’s presidential election next year promised on Wednesday to bring the banking system to heel, punish tax evaders and empower the government to steer a faltering economy toward recovery. In their second televised debate ahead of a Socialist party primary next month, […]
France 24. In the first face-to-face encounter since his May 14 arrest in New York, Dominique Strauss-Kahn is Thursday set to face Tristane Banon (right), a French writer who has accused the former IMF chief of attempted rape in 2003. Details. http://www.france24.com/en/20110929-strauss-kahn-french-writer-sex-assault-accuser-tristane-banon-justice-paris-france
Statement on BBC News channel interview with trader Alessio Rastani Date: 27.09.2011 The BBC have today issued the following statement regarding an interview with trader Alessio Rastani on the BBC News channel yesterday (Monday 26 September): “We’ve carried out detailed investigations and can’t find any evidence to suggest that the […]
The future of the Miss Switzerland contest is under threat following low viewer ratings for the televised beauty pageant on Saturday. Just 25.7 per cent of Swiss television viewers tuned in to watch Alina Buchschacher win the Miss Switzerland crown on Saturday night, a ten per cent drop compared with […]
By Zubair Khalil Khan Followings are the few excerpts from the news recently appeared in media reports encompassing tense situation which unfortunately has propped up between USA and Pakistan. Few days back, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta pressurized the Pakistani government to crack down on Haqqani network, saying, “Our biggest […]
Source/Credit: Ostran.se ∫ By: Ulf Carlsson ∫Friday 23 September 2011 A fighter: Nasim Malik has been fighting for Palestine for 40 years – It’s time for a recognition of the state, he says. To recognize Palestine as a state alongside Israel is the only solution to the state of the […]
Source/Credit: European Union Reports: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2011 Many European countries have large and growing Muslim minorities. This is particularly true for the countries of Western Europe that have experienced influxes of Muslim immigrants over the last several decades from a variety of Middle Eastern, African, and Asian countries, as well as Turkey […]
Event on Extremism in the EU September marks 10 years after the horrific 911 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in America. It was a turning point in history both in terms of the reach and the sheer numbers slain by terrorists in a single incident. Sadly it was just […]
These days we have the charade of Palestine trying to become a member of the United Nations and Israel and the United States (especially) trying frantically to keep them out. The United States can do it easily with its ‘Veto power’ at the UN Security Council. Personally I do not […]
By RFI French police are trying to track down the instigator of a Facebook page that called on people to cut the throats of Muslims on the Eid Al-Adha holiday. The page has been closed down but its author is being sought for breaking anti-racist laws. More: http://www.english.rfi.fr/culture/20110909-french-police-stop-facebook-call-cut-muslims-throats
Rfi. Fr. The caretaker of the military cemetery of Saint-Michel de la ville discovered racist and Nazi slogans daubed on the gravestones when he closed up on Saturday. The graves belonged to Muslims killed fighting for France during World War I and were immediately repainted and restored. The graffiti were […]
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey. Pravda Ru. The United Nations Organization is no more or less than an umbrella for humanitarian intervention after disasters and catastrophes, a forum for discussion of issues pertaining to cultural heritage and a useful tool to channel developmental approaches. As a law-making body, the Libya Question has shown […]
by Marinella Correggia 1) Why at this time is NATO bombing Bani Walid and other sieged cities? (They have been under siege by the Abdel Jalil forces; therefore NATO should try to protect the civilians inside from the aggression of Abdel Jalil forces: INDEED, when civilians were inside Misrata and […]