The Washington Post Hugh Naylor and Suzan Haidamous BEIRUT — Images of his countrymen streaming into Europe inspired Bassem al-Alyan to make the journey. But like many other Syrian refugees, he faces a significant obstacle. Alyan is too poor to go. Last month, he said, he paid a smuggler $1,500 […]
On the eve of Qurban Bajram (Eidul Azha) Humanity First Germany and Ahmadiyya Mission Croatia arranged slaughtering and presenting 300 kg (20 goats) of halal meat with 600 kg rice. Donation came from Humanity First Germany. Food was prepared at Zagreb Dobri Dom kitchens on ID day and almost 4000 […]
In order to spread the peaceful message of Islam, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Croatia in cooperation with Humanity First International keeps on undertaking various welfare projects. Similar project was launched on 19.09.2015 for the blood and other related tests of needy people. With kind courtesy of Mr Drazenko Pandek, the Croatian […]
By AFP – Sep 23,2015 – JORDAN TIMES Migrants and refugees arrive on Kagia beach near the village of Sykamia, west of the port of Mytilene, on the Greek island of Lesbos after crossing the Aegean Sea from Turkey on Wednesday (AFP photo) BRUSSELS — The EU’s president urged leaders […]
Source: The Local The new portrait released to mark the day is appropriately British, featuring the Queen sitting at her desk in Buckingham Palace, opening one of her official red boxes, looking off to the side while Sir Paul McCartney’s daughter Mary McCartney snaps the photo. But aside from Her […]
Sep 06,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – Bernard-Henri Lévy Europe’s migration debate has taken a disturbing turn. It began with the creation of the catch-all concept (a legal freak) of a “migrant”, which obscures the difference, central to the law, between economic and political migration, between people escaping poverty and those driven […]
SEP 5, 2015 – 05:00 By Krisztina Than HEGYESHALOM, Hungary (Reuters) – Hundreds of exhausted migrants streamed into Austria on Saturday, reaching the border on buses provided by an overwhelmed Hungarian government that gave up trying to hold back crowds that had set out on foot for western Europe. After […]
Source: Stratfor When France, West Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg signed the Schengen Agreement in 1985, they envisioned a system in which people and goods could move from one country to another without barriers. This vision was largely realized: Since its implementation in 1995, the Schengen Agreement eliminated border controls […]
Barbed wire along the Hungarian border. Barbed wire at Calais. Have we lost the one victory which we Europeans learned from the Second World War – compassion? By Robert Fisk, The Independent The Great Wall of China, the walls of Rome and every medieval city, the Siegfried Line, the Maginot […]
People light candles in front of the police station in Eisenstadt, Austria, after the bodies of more than 70 migrants were discovered in a truck. (Ronald Zak/AP) By Anthony Faiola and Griff Witte August 29 at 8:48 AM KECSKEMET, Hungary — Pressure to change Europe’s dysfunctional asylum system grew […]
Divided Europe faces mounting migrant crisis By AFP – Aug 26,2015 – JORDAN TIMES Syrian refugees cross into Hungary underneath the border fence on the Hungarian-Serbian border near Roszke, Hungary, on Tuesday (AP photo) Brussels — Faced with its worst migrant crisis since World War II, Europe has many sensible options […]
By Reuters – Aug 23,2015 – JORDAN TIMES A migrant tries to pass a fence near the town of Idomeni, on the border between former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Greece, on Saturday (AFP photo) BERLIN — Germany’s interior minister led calls on Sunday for a crackdown on right-wing militants and […]
Syrian refugee arrives in Germany (Photo: iom.int) By ANDREW RETTMAN BRUSSELS, TODAY, 09:29 EU member states with a strong Roman Catholic heritage are showing a preference for taking in Christian migrants, despite their obligations under EU law. The Slovakian government was the latest to issue a statement. Displaced people fleeing […]
By AFP – Aug 18,2015 – JORDAN TIMES Migrants queue during a food distribution organised by the local organisation ‘Kos solidarity’ outside the abandoned Captain Elias Hotel, where hundreds of migrants have found temporary shelter, on Monday (AFP photo) KOS, Greece — Five nights ago, Nada and her children braved […]
Jul 31,2015 – JORDAN TIMES RAMI G. KHOURI Events related to the Iran nuclear technology/sanctions agreement, the war in Yemen, and the battle against Daesh tend to dominate the headlines from the Middle East these days, but behind the scenes significant developments related to the Arab-Israeli conflict continue to take […]
We can’t stop the flow of migrants to Europe. Rehousing them is our only option Patrick Kingsley Europe’s population stands at 740 million, so housing an additional 1 million refugees is possible without major social impact – and it’s been done before Migrants in Calais on their way to the […]
Source: Stratfor: The key event was the Greek referendum on the European Union’s demand for further austerity in exchange for infusions of cash to save the Greek banking system. The Syriza party had called the vote to strengthen its hand in dealing with the European demands. The Greek government’s view […]
Jun 29,2015 – by Mohamed A. El-Erian Dark clouds are lowering over Europe’s economic future, as three distinct tempests gather: the Greek crisis, Russia’s incursion in Ukraine and the rise of populist political parties. Though each poses a considerable threat, Europe, aided by the recent cyclical pickup, is in a […]
JUN 26, 2015 – 03:16 By Robin Emmott and Francesco Guarascio BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Fractious European leaders argued into the early hours on Friday over how to handle over a migrant crisis in the Mediterranean, agreeing a plan to share out the care of desperate people fleeing war and poverty […]
Arab unity has been the most hopeless aspiration of the Middle East. The idea that the Arab world – the Arabic-speaking, largely Muslim land mass between the Atlantic and the […]