Austria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Integration Sebastian Kurz announced that compulsory courses covering state of law, democracy, equality and freedom will be offered to refugees. According to the package that supports the rewarding of refugees willing to learn German and the punishment of extremism, refugees will be offered a course on European values at …
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On Monday evening, Four Corners, one of Australia’s peak investigative journalism programs, broadcast shocking footage of young detainees at the Don Dale detention centre in the Northern Territory being mistreated by staff. In one image, a young man, Dylan Voller, is strapped to a chair by his wrists and neck, and covered with a “spit …
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Quebec is moving ahead with a law to ban face coverings in the public sector in a move criticized as marginalizing Muslim women and potentially inflaming anti-immigrant tensions in the mainly French-speaking Canadian province. The proposed law prohibits anyone giving or receiving government services, such as a provincial government-issued health card, from wearing face-covering garments. …
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Poem by Yehonatan Geffen comparing Palestinian teen Ahed Tamimi to Anne Frank, Hannah Szenes and Joan of Arc infuriated Defense Minister Lieberman, who sought to then ban Geffen from all Army Radio broadcasts; AG Mandelblit said Lieberman had no legal standing to do so, an opinion Lieberman disavowed. Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman instructed Army Radio …
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Britain appointed a “minister for loneliness” on Wednesday to tackle what Prime Minister Theresa May described as “the sad reality of modern life” affecting millions of people. Tracey Crouch, a junior minister for sport and civil society, will take on the role as part of a broader strategy to combat loneliness in Britain. “For far …
It has been 11 months since unsealed federal court documents revealed that U.S. immigration officials created a fake university to lure foreign-born college students who were trying to stay in the country on student visas that might not have been legal. The University of Farmington, a fictitious school that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement marketed …
Thousands of migrants in Germany have applied for asylum multiple times and return to the country after having been deported, according to a report by German newspaper Die Welt am Sonntag published on Sunday. There are nearly 5,000 asylum-seekers who have reapplied for asylum after being deported from Germany since 2012, according to the report, which cites official government figures. …
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President Emanuel Macron of France once again will participate and speak at the annual gala organized by the Coordinating Council of Armenian Organizations in France (CCAF). Macron stated that he will always support Armenia and Armenians living in the country. “CCAF has a request to punish the rejection of Armenian claims, and a legal study …
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France’s top Roman Catholic cleric has had his conviction for covering up child sex abuse overturned. Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, archbishop of Lyon, was handed a six-month suspended prison sentence in March 2019 for failing to report a predator priest to police. A Lyon court ruled that from July 2014 to June 2015 Mr Barbarin, 69, covered …
