Tehran Times Political Desk TEHRAN – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani told Germany’s chief diplomat Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Tehran on Wednesday that terrorism poses a serious threat to all countries especially […]
Reuters International FEB 5, 2016 – 08:39 By Guy Faulconbridge LONDON – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has been holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London since 2012 to avoid a rape investigation, was detained arbitrarily in contravention of international law, a U.N. panel will rule on Friday. Assange, […]
WESTERN RULES http://tp.srgssr.ch/p/inline?urn=urn:swi:video:41927898 EMBED CODE FEB 3, 2016 – 11:00 It’s carnival season in Lucerne. The sex attacks in Cologne on New Year’s Eve have prompted the Lucerne officials to produce a leaflet informing asylum seekers about western behavioural norms. (SRF/swissinfo.ch) The Hirschpark asylum centre in Lucerne is keen on […]
Feb 04,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – GEORGE S. HISHMEH Barely were Western sanctions lifted from Iran, after it signed a nuclear deal with key Western powers, than its president, Hassan Rouhani, went shopping in Europe, namely in Italy and France, where he received red carpet treatment. This forward-looking approach should […]
An Editorial By Klaus Brinkbäumer spiegel.de DPA In addition to protesting against Muslims, Germany’s Pegida movement has also sought to discredit the media. We are living in times of growing tension and near societal hysteria in Germany in the wake of the massive influx of refugees. […]
Reuters International FEB 4, 2016 – 15:54 ROME (Reuters) – Italy will send a team specialised in treating war wounded to Iraq as it prepares to send troops to guard Mosul dam maintenance workers, Defence Minister Roberta Pinotti said on Thursday. In the wake of the deadly Islamic State attacks […]
Cameron: London donor conference raises more than $10bn PM pledges to double aid to refugees Turkish PM: Assad guilty of ethnic cleansing Plan to get 700,000 Syrian children back to school Peace talks in Geneva suspended amid Russia airstrikes Read the latest summary David Cameron doubles financial aid for Syrian […]
ANTI-PEGIDA DEMO By swissinfo.ch and agencies FEB 3, 2016 – 21:36 Police and anti-fascist demonstrators outside Basel’s cantonal parliament (Keystone) Some 350 people gathered without permission in front of Basel cantonal parliament on Wednesday to protest against Germany’s anti-Islam PEGIDA movement. A sizeable and heavily armed police presence monitored the […]
Feb 03,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – PHILIP HAMMOND Today, the UK will co-host the conference “Supporting Syria and the region 2016”, with Germany, Kuwait, Norway and the United Nations. It will take an ambitious new approach to provide longer-term support for refugees through concrete action on livelihoods and jobs, and […]
Tristan Jones From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Tristan Jones at book signing, Annapolis Sailboat Show 1987 Arthur Jones, pen name Tristan Jones (8 May 1929 – 21 June 1995) was a British mariner and author. He spent most of his life at sea, first in the British Royal Navy, and […]
Published time: 1 Feb, 2016 RT.COM British soldiers from B Company, 2 Mercian, set off on an operation in Malgir, Helmand province July 27, 2009. © Omar Sobhani / Reuters 2.3K British armed forces face a criminal investigation over 166 cases of alleged unlawful killing and maltreatment during Britain’s […]
Voices The British attitude towards language is one of the reasons we’d be hopeless at terrorism Mark Steel @mrmarksteel Thursday 21 January 2016 165 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 […]
BBC News © Getty Images A migrant child wrapped in blankets tries to keep warm near the Macedonian-Serbian border More than 10,000 migrant children may have disappeared after arriving in Europe over the past two years, the EU’s police intelligence unit says. Europol said thousands of vulnerable minors had vanished […]
By Peter Müller, Maximilian Popp and Christoph Schult AP The construction of a security wall along the border between Turkey and Syria: Increased controls mean that many trying to escape Assad’s barrel bombs are unable to get out of the country. Chancellor Angela Merkel asked Turkey to help reduce the […]
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 […]