By AFP – May 14,2016 – JORDAN TIMES ISTANBUL — Resentment over the Sykes-Picot Agreement between Britain and France that carved up the Middle East from the ruins of the Ottoman Empire remains, 100 years later, a major factor in Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s foreign policy. The May […]
REUTERS Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan The conflict between Europe and Ankara over visa freedoms for Turkish citizens is escalating and Chancellor Merkel’s refugee deal is in danger of collapse. Neither side is willing to back down. By SPIEGEL Staff On Thursday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was standing on […]
BY DR. JUERGEN TODENHOEFER Dear friends, according to the US secret service, DIA, the Obama administration has known as early as August 2012 that Al Qaeda /AQI, IS, ISIS) and other extremists were heading the Syrian rebellion. As a result, the “possibility that a Salafist principality in Eastern Syria“ would […]
ASSOCIATED PRESS BERLIN AFP Photo During the height of the migrant crisis in Europe last fall, Lasse Landt came to a startling realization. Thousands of migrants were pouring into Germany every day, but the 36-year-old startup consultant from Berlin hadn’t met a single one of them. “It was all over […]
Refugee Aeham Al Ahmad, also known as “the pianist of Yarmouk” performs during a rehearsal, prior to a concert at Berlin’s Heimathafen concert hall on May 12, 2016. John MacDougall/AFP Pianist of Yarmouk plays to Germans’ hearts May 15, 2016 Updated: May 15, 2016 06:23 PM Berlin // A year […]
Firemen extinguishing a fire at a former hotel under reconstruction to become a home for asylum seekers in February in Bautzen, Eastern Germany. Photo: AFP Increase in arson at German refugee centres: police Published: 14 May 2016 16:24 GMT+02:00 German authorities on Saturday reported an increase in the number of […]
REDISTRIBUTION PROGRAMME MAY 13, 2016 – 15:32 The group is made up of asylum seekers who reached Italy via the Mediterranean (Keystone) A group of 10 asylum seekers from Italy has arrived in Switzerland under the European Union’s refugee relocation programme. They are part of a pilot group of 30 […]
Voices The Serbian Prime Ministser is saying all the right things to ease his country into the EU. But Vucic, who attended the Srebrenica memorial service last year, once said, “for every Serb killed, we will kill 100 Muslims” Robert Fisk @indyvoices Saturday 14 May 2016 31 comments Ask me […]
Source: BBC he EU naval mission to tackle people smuggling in the central Mediterranean is failing to achieve its aims, a British parliamentary committee says. In a report, the House […]
May 12,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Guy Verhofstadt Europe’s refugee crisis is far from solved, but there are signs that the agreement finalised by the European Union and Turkey on March 18 is reducing the flow of refugees and migrants from Turkey to Greece. According to Frontex, the European border-management agency, […]
Cardinal Dominik Jaruslav Duka, the Archbishop of Prague, demeans Muslims and claims the Pope’s efforts are ‘just a gesture’ Robert Fisk @indyvoices 46 comments Being a Merseyide Anglican, my Dad […]
Source: BBC A deal to allow Turks visa-free travel within Europe will collapse if Turkey does not fulfil its commitments, the European Commission president has said. Jean-Claude Juncker said changes […]
May 11, 2016 – A Bulgarian university professor who has translated the Holy Quran into Bulgarian said the translation helped him and some others in his country to find the right path and convert to Islam. AhlulBayt News Agency – A Bulgarian university professor who has translated the Holy Quran […]
Firefighters stand in the burned-out shell of the inflatable tent. Photo: DPA Published: 10 May 2016 www.thelocal.de A large temporary refugee home in western Germany was completely burned down on Monday night, but a prompt evacuation allowed all the inhabitants to escape unharmed. “We can be thankful that despite the large […]
Source: Swiss Info channel By Marta Dominguez Diaz What does London’s election of Sadiq Khan, a Muslim, and son of Pakistani migrants, as mayor mean for Europe amidst the prevailing […]
May 10,2016 – THE JORDAN TIMES – HAROLD JAMES Democracy everywhere is facing serious challenges. The United States is gripped by the most bizarre presidential primary campaign in living memory, with populist outsiders threatening to topple established party machines. Brazil is paralysed by constitutional crisis. Europeans trace their malaise to […]
May 10,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMZY BAROUD There is a witch hunt in the British Labour Party. Britain’s opposition party leader Jeremy Corbyn is being hounded for not rooting out alleged anti-Semitism in his party. Those leading the charge are pro-Israel Zionists and their supporters within the party, who are, […]
By Reuters – May 09,2016 -JORDAN TIMES Russian S-400 Triumph medium-range and long-range surface-to-air missile systems are seen during the Victory Day parade at Red Square in Moscow, Russia, on Monday (Reuters photo) MOSCOW — Russia rolled out an air defence missile system of the kind used to […]
May 09,2016 – Jordan Times – Yanis Varoufakis The financial meltdown of 2008 prompted calls for a global financial system that curtails trade imbalances, moderates speculative capital flows and prevents systemic contagion. That, of course, was the goal of the original Bretton Woods system. But such a system today would […]
Prime Minister Manuel Valls at the press conference. Photo: Eric Feferburg/AFP France unveils new €40m plan to fight radicalization Published: 09 May 2016 12:53 GMT+02:00 France will create centres in each region of the country to de-radicalize people or prevent them becoming involved in jihadist groups, the prime minister said […]