Reuters International FEB 1, 2016 – 16:54 HELSINKI (Reuters) – Finland plans to test drones along its frontier with Russia, an official said on Monday, as a growing number of migrants crosses that northern border of the European Union’s Schengen passport-free travel zone. Major Jussi Napola of the Finnish border […]
Voices Talk of diversity is hypocritical when Tory policies have made life worse for ethnic minorities How can releasing diversity stats solve the issue of underrepresentation when austerity has left ethnic minorities 200 per cent worse off than their white counterparts? Amit Singh @asingh11189 David Cameron Getty Images Writing in […]
SECURITY By swissinfo.ch and agencies JAN 30, 2016 – 15:23 Swiss police outside the French consulate in Geneva on December 11, when four terrorist suspects were being hunted (Keystone) Switzerland has dropped an investigation of two men of Syrian origin arrested in Geneva last month over traces of explosives found […]
By Jeannie Wurz FEB 1, 2016 – 11:00 Providing ageing immigrants with information through roundtable discussions is the goal of the project “Together into the Future”. (Keystone) They came to Switzerland as foreign labourers or refugees, and likely never thought they would spend their old age in the country. A […]
Jan 31,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – JOSCHKA FISCHER There is an alarming political shift to the right occurring on both sides of the Atlantic, linked to the growing force of openly chauvinist political parties and figures: Donald Trump in the United States, Marine Le Pen in France. Other names could […]
Jan 31,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – KLAUS SCHWAB Of the myriad challenges the world faces today, perhaps the most overwhelming is how to shape the Fourth Industrial Revolution that began at the turn of the century. New technologies and approaches are merging the physical, digital and biological worlds in ways […]
AP The New Year’s Eve attacks on women in Cologne have led to a new discussion within Germany about the treatment of women in Islamic societies. The issue has become central to the country’s heated refugee debate. By SPIEGEL Staff The Erich Gutenberg College is a trade school in Mülheim, […]
By Volker Weidermann Charlotte Schmitz/ DER SPIEGEL Orhan Pamuk, the Nobel-prize winning author, talks about the success of his latest book, “A Strangeness in My Mind,” the “crippled” state of Turkish politics and the January terrorist attack in Istanbul, which he could hear from his apartment. “This is where I sat,” […]
The Road to Germany: $2400 Each of the millions of Syrian refugees who have fled their brutalized, unrecognizable homeland did so for uniquely personal reasons — the regime bombarding cities, the Islamic State threatening a return to the dark ages, the loss of jobs in a crumbling economy. Yet their […]
Reuters International JAN 29, 2016 – 18:02 AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Move over FBI: Europe now has its own “most wanted” list, with suspects in Islamist militant attacks on Paris looming large. European police agencies on Friday introduced the list on a website hosted by Europol, as part of a push […]
Iranian officials asked that a lunch between the two countries’ presidents be Halal and alcohol-free Caroline Mortimer @cjmortimer Thursday 28 January 2016 156 comments Hollande and Rouhani were supposed to meet for lunch at an upmarket restaurant in Paris Getty Images A lunch between the French and Iranian presidents in […]
Jan 28,2016 -JORDAN TIMES – RAMI G. KHOURI How should we view and respond to the growing flow of refugees and migrants from, within and beyond the Middle East? Is this mainly a temporary humanitarian challenge? An occasional security threat? A cultural and political concern for mostly white and Christian […]
Saudi Arabia has British military advisers and continues to bomb Yemeni civilians with British weapons. Yet our government is strangely quiet about it Britain is arming and aiding a fundamentalist dictatorship that’s bombing and killing civilians. This is an incontestable fact. The Saudi tyranny – gay-hating women-oppressors who kicked off […]
FOREIGNER DEMOGRAPHICS JAN 28, 2016 – 13:33 Requests for asylum in Switzerland rose by two-thirds in 2015 (Keystone) The number of foreigners moving to Switzerland fell last year as emigration rose, bringing a second consecutive slowdown in net immigration – although asylum requests jumped by two-thirds. Government data released on […]
Jan 27,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Dominique Moisi Five years ago, when the so-called “Arab Spring” erupted, Turkey’s hour seemed to have arrived. Having been humiliated by the European Union after years of accession negotiations — talks marked by a chain of false promises from the EU — Turkey’s then-prime minister […]
Seventy-seven per cent of Brits support deporting migrants on spousal visas if they fail to learn English withinin two and a half years. Blimey Yasmin Choudhury @yasminisyasmin 26 comments British Muslims leave an East London mosque following prayers Getty Muslims this morning woke to the news that Trevor Phillips, the ex-chairman […]
Sharia banks are not permitted to do business with companies dealing in alcohol, gambling, or prostitution Eleanor Ross Monday 18 January 2016 13 comments BAWAG PSK is trying to appeal to Austria’s 600,000-strong Muslim population Reuters An Austrian bank has announced it will be piloting an Islamic current account in February, the […]
MIGRATION CRISIS Ministers discuss border controls in light of new refugee routes JAN 25, 2016 – 21:28 Refugees fleeing horrendous conditions in their home countries are being forced to try alternate routes to safety as countries in Europe close their borders (See inside the article for a large view of […]
He says it’s disrespectful to assume Muslim communities will change Mr Phillips claims Muslims ‘see the world differently from the rest of us’ Muslim Council says demanding change has promoted discrimination PM thinks integration failures have helped extremist ideas gain traction By MARK DUELL FOR MAILONLINE PUBLISHED: 05:04 GMT, 27 […]
IMMIGRANTS with many wives will actually get extra benefits under reforms to Britain’s welfare system. By CAROLINE WHEELER PUBLISHED: 04:01, Mon, Jan 25, 2016 GETTY Immigrants with many wives will get extra benefits under reforms to Britain’s welfare system Polygamous marriages, largely confined to Muslim families, are recognised in […]