Suspect ‘completely eliminated’ from inquiry as Jalalia Jamé mosque website recommends its patrons ‘wait for the facts to be established by the police’ Jay Uddin was found with serious head injuries on Thursday night and died in hospital soon afterwards. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA Nadia Khomami @nadiakhomami Saturday 20 February 2016 […]
Source: BBC Austria’s daily cap on the number of migrants and refugees allowed into the country has come into force. Just 80 asylum applications will be accepted each day at Austria’s southern border, after which it will shut. The European migration commissioner has described the measure as “plainly incompatible” with […]
18 FEB 2016 BY ROBERT CUMBER The mosque in Wellington Road South will serve free hot meals to those who need it most on the first Friday and Saturday of each month The launch of the community kitchen and food bank at Hounslow Mosque. Pictured left to right are Amin […]
By AP – Feb 16,2016 – JORDAN TIMES A Turkish Coast Guard fast rigid-hulled inflatable boat tows refugees and migrants in a dinghy in Turkish territorial waters of the north Aegean Sea, following a failed attempt at crossing to the Greek island of Lesbos, off the shores of Canakkale, […]
Ramy al-Asheq, editor-in-chief of Abwab. Photo: DPA Published: 15 Feb 2016 Abwab (Doors), Germany’s first newspaper for refugees, gives refugees an Arabic-language take on the refugee debate, as well as covering news from the Arab world in Germa Ramy al-Asheq’s laptop isn’t playing ball. He wants to show a cartoon […]
By Horand Knaup, Peter Müller, René Pfister and Christoph Schult AP Angela Merkel has held six meetings with the Turkish government in the hopes of forging a solution to the refugee crisis. But with most of the leverage in Ankara, progress has been slow. Worse yet, Berlin’s plan has split […]
German chancellor Angela Merkel will struggle to pull the deal she wants from her European partners. Photo. Roland Weihrauch/dpa Published: 14 Feb 2016 08:43 GMT+01:00 Abandoned by France, defied by eastern Europe, German Chancellor Angela Merkel cuts a lonely figure in her struggle for EU “solidarity” on the refugee crisis […]
By Reuters – Feb 13,2016 – JORDAN TIMES A man walks past the debris of a passenger minibus after it hit a mine near Marinka on Wednesday (AFP photo) MUNICH — Violence in eastern Ukraine is intensifying and Russian-backed rebels have moved heavy weaponry back to the front line, […]
The British attitude towards language is one of the reasons we’d be hopeless at terrorism Mark Steel @mrmarksteel Thursday 21 January 2016 167 comments When the Spanish come over here, they speak English with a slight Spanish accent. Is it any wonder we get annoyed with Europe? Getty At last […]
Rafael Nash | Friday, February 12, 2016 Five years of conflict have killed more than a quarter-million people, created Europe’s biggest refugee crisis since World War II and allowed the Islamic State to carve out its own territory across parts of Syria and neighboring Iraq. They will continue their […]
Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman SPA Published — Friday 12 February 2016 Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, the Second Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, on Thursday led the delegation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia taking part in the meeting of the international coalition […]
IMMIGRATION SATIRE Müslüm: Integration through comedy By swissinfo.ch http://tp.srgssr.ch/p/inline?urn=urn:swi:video:41947798 EMBED CODE FEB 10, 2016 – 11:00 Swiss-Turkish comedian Müslüm is using humour to raise awareness of the issues surrounding immigration in a new television series. (SRF/swissinfo.ch) Swiss public television, SRF1, is airing new series this spring looking at the country’s […]
Interview Conducted by Walter Mayr WWW.SPIEGEL.DE DPA/Guardia di Finanza An image provided by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza showing the rescuing of a refugee boat in the Mediterranean last April Italy is adament that the rest of the European Union must do its part to solve the […]
Getty Images The Alternative for Germany was born as an anti-euro movement. But it has since positioned itself far to the populist right. Despite its efforts at maintaining respectability, the party’s extremist flank is wide open. The settling of accounts with Frauke Petry, head of Germany’s right-wing populist Alternative for […]
Feb 09,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL As if Syrian refugees’ plight were not already unbearable, a grim dimension is added to it: the estimation that no less than 10,000 Syrian children who entered Europe are still unaccounted for, their whereabouts unknown. According to the EU criminal intelligence agency Europol, these […]
WAR CRIMES FEB 8, 2016 – 21:58 Del Ponte has formerly served on tribunals related to atrocities in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia (Keystone) Carla Del Ponte, the Swiss special prosecutor who serves on the UN commission of inquiry on Syria, has said that she generally considers Russian intervention in […]
UPSET: Hundreds of women in hijab protest in Sarajevo on Sunday. (AFP). The Muslim Times has most extensive collection on the subject of Hijab Source: Arab News and AFP SARAJEVO: […]
Feb 07,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – GORDON BROWN Buried in the declaration from the just-completed fourth United Nations’ Syria Pledging Conference in London is a little publicised but important promise: by next year, every Syrian refugee child will be offered a place in school. The world, at long last, has […]
The government’s new ‘jewellery law’ takes effect on Friday. Photo: Claus Fisker/Scanpix Published: 05 Feb 2016 Beginning Friday, Danish police now have the authority to take cash and valuables from refugees – here’s how it will work in practice. NY Times blasts ‘Denmark’s cruelty toward refugees’ (02 Feb 16) Denmark […]
French riot police at the Calais ferry terminal. Photo: Philippe Huguen/AFP Anti-Islam protestors clash with police in Calais Published: 06 Feb 2016 – http://www.thelocal.fr Around 150 protesters gathered in central Calais carrying signs such as “This is our home,” waving the French flag and singing the French national […]