Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere says that Germany has done its bit to help refugees, but needed help from the rest of the bloc to take in migrants. “We have done a lot in Europe in order to improve the refugee situation in Greece,” de Maiziere told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper, as cited by …
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The number of white nationalists and self-identified Nazi sympathisers on Twitter have multiplied more than 600 per cent in the last four years, outperforming the so-called Islamic State (Isis) in everything from follower counts to number of daily tweets, a new study found. Researchers at George Washington University’s Programme on Extremism analysed 18 accounts belonging …
Local sources reported that a russian airstrike hit and destroyed the “Shifa” hospital in Idlib province, Syria. As a result of this attack, hospital building suffered extensive damage and become dysfuctional. Russia continues to bomb schools, hospitals and bazaars under the control of opposition groups since the 30 September 2015 as beginning of Russian intervention …
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Germany’s anti-migrant AfD has trumped Chancellor Merkel’s CDU in her home state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Exit polls put the AfD on 21 percent, her CDU on 19. Premier Sellering’s SPD is back with 30.5 percent. The AfD entered Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania’s 71-seat Schwerin assembly Sunday after a campaign directed at Merkel’s decision last year not to …
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Giving comments to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, HDP Co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş said: “We do not designate PKK as a terrorist organization. However, we do define attacks targeted at civilians as terror.” As he was asked ‘why it was so difficult for HDP to keep a distance from PKK and violence’, Demirtaş responded: “It is not …
The Syrian Ministry of Tourism has released a bizarre promo video bragging about the beauty of the country showing happy, relaxed people having fun at the seaside. While the country undoubtedly boasts much natural beauty, the ongoing battle between government forces, opposition groups and DAESH has resulted in the deaths of an estimated 470,000 people, …
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French Prime Minister Manuel Valls suggested on Monday that “naked breasts” are the representation of women’s rights in France, rather than Muslim headscarves. “Marianne has a naked breast because she nourished the people. She was not veiled because she is free. That is the Republic. That is Marianne!” said the prime minister at a government …
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Srebrenica, where 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed by Serb nationalist forces seeking to carve an ethnically homogeneous state out of Bosnia, has elected its first Serbian mayor since the 1995 massacre. For relatives of the victims, the election of Mladen Grujicic, a Serbian nationalist who denies that the massacre was genocide despite international …
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A Louisiana law that went into effect on Jan.1 has made it difficult for legal immigrants to get married in the state. Marriage license laws in Louisiana prohibit anyone from obtaining a marriage license without a birth certificate or valid international ID or passport, according to WDSU. At the time the bills were proposed, they …
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On 27th October, Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank threw stones at Palestinian schoolchildren in the village of al-Tuwani. Shared video shows, the soldiers lob stones towards the children, including with a slingshot. According to the video, they are the ones who are supposed to protect the children from attacks by Israeli settlers in …
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