Snowden asks Germany for asylum
Source: The Local Fugitive Edward Snowden has applied for asylum in a number of European countries including Germany, whistle-blowing platform WikiLeaks said in a statement on their website Tuesday morning. More:
Attacks from America: NSA Spied on European Union Offices
America’s NSA intelligence service allegedly targeted the European Union with its spying activities. According to SPIEGEL information, the US placed bugs in the EU representation in Washington and infiltrated its […]
Racial profiling should be banned
Source: The Local Pressure is mounting on Germany to ban racial profiling for police checks. A report by the German Institute for Human Rights concluded a change in policy was “urgently required.” More:
Spain uncovers al Qaeda network for Syrian jihadists
Source: LUBP In raids conducted earlier today, Spanish authorities arrested eight suspected members of an al Qaeda network who are allegedly involved in training, funding, and facilitating travel for jihadist fighters to Syria. The network is based in the Spanish territory of Ceuta and in the city of Fnideq in […]
Polish driving Too many road deaths
Source: The Economist THE headline stories on one of the Polish papers on June 13th made typical reading. Four people killed when their car ploughed into a shop near Poznan; five dead after their car rolled off the tarmac and into a ditch along a rural road in the northwest. Nine […]
EU’s G8 agenda: Fairness, growth, jobs and development
Source: Devex.com The European Union, the world’s largest aid donor, will use this week’s G-8 Summit in the United Kingdom to deliver a strong message on the bloc’s goals: Fairness in trade, inclusive growth, job creation and a push for development.Despite budget constraints that have forced most member states to […]
Anti-Semitic Cartoon: Norwegian Paper (Dagbladet) Incorrectly Compares Jewish Reaction to Mohammed (saw) Cartoon Riots
Source: The Conservative Papers. The incredibly offensive cartoon published last week by Norway’s third largest newspaper, Dagbladet, generated a huge volume of emails to the editor. While we cannot vouch for the language used by all of the complainants, it is a major step to compare this form of protest to the […]
Throw out illegal immigrants
Source: The Local Germany’s interior minister called on Friday for a tougher approach towards immigrants who appear to be in Germany just for the social support system. It was time, he said, to throw people out. More:
Youth unemployment threatens Europe unity: German minister
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble has warned that Europe is in danger of being torn apart should it fail to defeat the growing unemployment among youth. “We need to be more successful in our fight against youth unemployment, otherwise we will lose the battle for Europe’s unity,” Schaeuble told a […]
Dhaka: A life=Tk 1 lakh
Source: The Daily Star By SUSHMITA S PREETHA Workers of Outwear Fashions Ltd take to the streets in Sheorapara in the capital demanding better pay and longer maternity leave. They blocked Rokeya Sarani and called on garment workers of other factories to join them. The workers of other factories, however, refused. […]
The New Face of Terror
Source: The daily Beast. A blood-splattered jihadist with a meat cleaver in one hand declaring to a bystander’s smartphone camera “Allahu Akbar” and “we will always beat you” in a pronounced south London accent? While waiting twenty minutes for the police to arrive after he’s taken part in what seemed […]
Interfaith harmony: Imams to visit Auschwitz
WARSAW: ARAB NEWS Saturday 18 May 2013 A Saudi preacher is among 14 Muslim scholars from across the globe who will visit the former Nazi Auschwitz death camp in southern Poland next week as part of a Holocaust awareness and anti-genocide program, organizers said yesterday. “This is an opportunity for […]
Blunder in Burma: Scrapping of EU Sanctions Sends Wrong Message – A Commentary by Lotte Leicht
Source: Spiegel.de Although Burma is shrugging off the burden of five decades of military dictatorship, its transition to democracy is still far from complete. Reform remains precarious, and ethnic violence […]
Serbia and Kosovo Reach Agreement on Power-Sharing
Source: NY Times: PARIS — After months of difficult negotiations, Serbia and Kosovo reached an agreement on Friday aimed at overcoming ethnic enmities in Kosovo, a former Serbian province. It is a milestone that officials hope will enhance stability in the region and clear a path for both countries to […]
Germans are losing patience with being cast as the euro zone’s scapegoats
Source: The Economist: HITLER moustaches and swastikas defiling pictures of Germany’s chancellor, Angela Merkel, have become a recurring motif in the iconography of the euro crisis, most recently in Cyprus. Scapegoating is inevitable during financial upheavals, says Marcel Fratzscher, president of DIW Berlin, a think-tank. Germany, he suggests, has […]
In an unusual move Chancellor Angela Merkel has invited him
Source: The Local: “The discussions will focus on current questions related to European policy as well as international issues such as the situation in Syria and the upcoming G8 summit under the British presidency,” the statement said. Cameron alarmed fellow EU leaders in January when he set out plans to […]
Italian man catches a thief, then gives him a job
Friday 12 April 2013 ARABNEWS ROME: The caretaker of a housing complex near Florence in Italy used a knife to scare off a thief trying to steal copper wiring and called in the police to arrest him. The next day, he offered the same man a job. “What kind of […]
France’s Muslim women fearful as govt seeks to widen hijab ban
Al Arabiya – The controversy surrounding the Islamic headscarf, or hijab, has been rekindled in France this week after the French Court of Cassation annulled the 2008 dismissal of a Muslim nurse from a private daycare center because she refused to stop wearing the hijab. The court’s decision created a […]
Margaret Thatcher, former U.K. PM, dead at 87
Source: CBC News Margaret Thatcher, one of the most important British politicians of the 20th century, has died at the age of 87. She was the first woman to become […]
Bomb from Brussel.
Source: Spiegel. Should the Cypriot bailout become a model for the future? The mere suggestion sent markets tumbling last week. But increasing numbers of European politicians would like to see bank shareholders and investors bear a greater share of crisis risk. The EU may be changing its strategy. By SPIEGEL […]