By AFP – Mar 12,2016 – JORDAN TIMES In this photo taken on Thursday, fighters fire weapons against the Daesh terror group in the Hawari area, south-west of the city of Benghazi, Libya (AP photo) WASHINGTON — In a rare public rebuke of two of Washington’s closest allies, […]
Obama said he was disappointed by the “s**t show” left in Libya by David Cameron Andrew Buncombe New York @AndrewBuncombe Friday 11 March 2016 55 comments There is a clear pattern about the entire thing. Every couple of years, a British or US leader will visit the other’s country, or […]
Ten-year-old Mahdi reunites with his mother after his family believed he was dead for over a year. Photo: DPA. Published: 07 Mar 2016 16:13 GMT+01:00 A 10-year-old boy had an emotional reunion on Monday with his family, who thought he had drowned in their voyage from Turkey to Greece a […]
ASYLUM DECISION Bunkers to be commandeered for asylum needs MAR 11, 2016 – 16:08 Civilian bunkers, like this one in canton St Gallen, have already been used for asylum seekers in Switzerland (Keystone) Federal and cantonal authorities will soon be able to force local communities to open their civilian bunkers […]
Photo: DPA No space for Allah as German unis close prayer rooms Published: 11 Mar 2016 16:35 GMT+01:00 Updated: 11 Mar 2016 16:35 GMT+01:00 Three leading German universities have closed down pray rooms used by Muslims, sparking accusations they are singling Muslims out for unfair treatment. German unis offer ‘best […]
By Alexander Smoltczyk and Maurice Weiss Maurice Weiss/ DER SPIEGEL Iman Hassen Chalghoumi at the last station on Paris’ 148 bus line: When he preaches, he has to wear a bullet-proof vest. Day after day, Paris attacker Samy Amimour drove a bus through the city’s notorious banlieues before murdering scores […]
Epigraph: “As often as we approach the Quran, it always proves repulsive anew; gradually, however, it attracts, it astonishes, and, in the end forces admiration.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Source: […]
Mar 07,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – EDITORIAL The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (UN CESCR) has started discussing the scope of socio-economic rights that migrants could be entitled to in hosting countries. It also determined that “migrants”, as distinguished from “migrant workers”, is the correct term to […]
ZURICH SALON Islamic radicalisation: what’s the cure? By Veronica DeVore MAR 7, 2016 – Adam Deen and Prem Mahadevan know what they’re talking about when it comes to jihadi terror networks. One used to be an Islamist extremist, and the other advises governments on the inner workings of groups like […]
28/01/2016 Opinion Related Articles Resistance and occupation 01/02/2016 For 70 years, Greece and Palestine have been close friends and allies. Will short-term economic interests between Greece and Israel lead Greece’s leaders to abandon us? By Nabil Sha’ath Built on common experience, long-term interests and moral principles, Palestine’s relationship with Greece goes […]
As Stalingrad-size casualties mount in civil war Syria today, it’s worth remembering how the French and British thought they could create a ‘modern’ Syria in 1941 Robert Fisk @indyvoices Sunday 6 March 2016 36 comments As General de Gaulle set out for the Middle East in April of 1941, he famously wrote that […]
Source: BBC European Union leaders are holding a key summit with Turkey in Brussels on ways of dealing with Europe’s worst refugee crisis since World War Two. The EU is pressing Turkey, through which many migrants transit, to take some back in return for $3.3bn in aid. Turkey is […]
By Imam & National President, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at, Greece Tel: +30 2112140522 | Fax: +30 2112140522 Website: http://www.alislam.org, http://www.mta.tv, http://www.loveforallhatredfornone.org “The principle to which we adhere is that we have […]
AFP Even as Chancellor Merkel continues pursuing a deal with Turkey, Austria and its Balkan neighbors to the south have taken things into their own hands. With fences going up across the region, Greece is in trouble and the EU can’t figure out what to do. By SPIEGEL Staff A […]
EU-SWITZERLAND By Urs Geiser MAR 4, 2016 – 16:14 Justice Minister Sommaruga (centre) and Economics Minister Schneider-Ammann (right) during Friday’s news conference in Bern (Keystone) The Swiss cabinet has proposed to use a unilateral safeguard clause to curb immigration if it is unable to reach agreement with the European Union […]
Source: BBC European Council President Donald Tusk is due to visit Greece and Turkey as he tries to find a common approach to Europe’s worsening migration crisis. Mr Tusk has […]
Source: BBC The European Union is preparing to spend hundreds of millions of euros on humanitarian aid, as Greece struggles to cope with an influx of migrants. Under plans to […]
Source: BBC Europe cannot allow Greece to fall into “chaos”, German Chancellor Angela Merkel says, amid sharp divisions among members over the migrant crisis. Austria and several Balkan countries have […]
Louisa GOULIAMAKIKaterina Nikolopoulou| Agence France Presse Idomeni, Greece: Stranded migrants lay with their children on rail tracks at Greece’s northern border Sunday, demanding to be allowed to continue their journey, as Athens warned the number of people “trapped” on its soil could more than triple next month. Tensions between European […]
Hysterical claims about ‘predatory male refugees invading Britain’ don’t really stack up when, in fact, 34 per cent of asylum seekers are children – and almost all contribute positively to the economy Yasmin Ahmed 8 hours ago 136 comments The new quarterly migration figures which were released by the Office for National […]