The European Union (EU) is abandoning all pretense of human rights restraints in its refugee policy. A strategy paper published last week by the EU Commission outlined migration partnerships that will compensate nine states in Africa and the Middle East, both transit countries and countries of origin, for their cooperation in deterring refugees. The goal …
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Coup soldiers attacked civilians with tanks, F-16 jets and helicopters. They targeted innocent civilians deliberately. Turkish parliament and Presidential Complex were also bombed by coup plotters. However, despite this tragic event that no representatives or officials from EU have visited for condolence since failed coup in Turkey.
Ireland is expected to widen an inquiry into former Church-run homes for unmarried mothers on the orders of the country’s prime minister. Enda Kenny has described the discovery of remains of babies ranging from new-born to three-years-old at a home in Tuam, County Galway as “truly appalling”. “This is not something that happened way back …
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A racist banner against Celtic footballer Scott Sinclair has been displayed on an east Belfast bonfire. The banner was placed on a bonfire in the car park of Avoniel Leisure Centre. A message on the banner read: “Scott Sinclair loves bananas.” The loyalist bonfire site is one of four that are subject to a High …
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The former Irish president’s brother was sadistically abused for years by a disgraced priest. The former head of state has shared her feelings about the vile crimes for the first time. Victims claim that the police in Newry school were alerted to the allegations against Fr Finnegan in 1996 but failed to interview the priest.He died 2002. She …
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Police have confirmed an incident in which a group dressed up like members of the Ku Klux Klan in a Co Down town is being investigated as a hate crime. Photographs of the group outside an Islamic Centre in Newtownards emerged online over the weekend. The incident was reported to the PSNI on October 28 afternoon …
David Lawrence had just settled into Seat 22F on a Ryanair flight Thursday when he heard a commotion brewing on the other side of the plane. A few rows behind him, a gray-haired man with dark-rimmed glasses was yelling at a black woman seated along the aisle. “I heard this man shouting at this woman, …
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Liam Neeson has insisted he is not racist following an interview in The Independent in which he spoke of roaming the streets with a cosh, wanting to kill a “black bastard” after someone close to him was raped years ago. The 66 year-old actor said race had not played a part in his actions, claiming he would have reacted in …
Europol, the European police agency, issued a “Strategic Report” earlier Tuesday, saying that right-wing violence is on the rise in many EU states. The confidential report, cited by German media, says that the extremist groups seek to boost their “combat skills” by recruiting military and police members. The report noted that extremist groups are getting “increasingly popular …
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Institutional racism is prevalent in criminal justice systems across the European Union and has created a “justice gap” in such cases, a new study has found. The research, carried out by the European Network Against Racism (ENAR), has found “deeply-rooted institutional racism” affects all parts of the justice process, from the very reporting of the …
