(BBC) Eighty migrants in six boats have been intercepted by Border Force officials in the English Channel. The Home Office has confirmed that Border Force dealt with a series of incidents on Monday. Meanwhile, French authorities prevented about 50 people making the […]
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(Times of Northwest Indiana) A federal judge imprisoned an Indiana woman who helped fund a Middle East terrorist organization and put her husband on the front line of war-torn Syria. U.S. District Court Judge Philip Simon imposed a 78-month sentence on Samantha […]
(CBC) Several parents pleaded with a Quebec Superior Court judge on Monday to uphold the province’s religious symbols ban in order to shield their children from being exposed to the hijab, which they believe conveys a “pernicious” sexist message. The parents, all […]
(NY Daily News) The NYPD will no longer force religiously observant people under arrest to remove their head coverings, like hijabs — an agreement with civil rights groups that ends nearly three years of litigation. The police practice, often done to take […]
(Kathimerini) Prompted by the recent attacks in Paris and Nice, Greece and France have agreed to boost intelligence sharing on known or suspected terrorists, Kathimerini understands. According to sources, the two sides will build a task force to monitor suspected extremists from […]
(CNS) As the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) looks towards a Biden presidency, its wish list includes the scrapping not only of President Trump’s travel bans, but also of legislation, signed into law by President Obama in 2015, which created the basis […]
(AFP) Austrian police on Monday raided more than 60 addresses allegedly linked to radical Islamists and seized millions of euros in cash, with orders for 30 suspects to be questioned. The operation came a week after a convicted Islamic State group supporter […]
(Politico) European Council President Charles Michel on Monday called for the creation of a European institute to train imams as a way to curb hate speech and prevent terrorism. Speaking in Vienna, where he paid tribute to the victims of last week’s […]
(BBC) The mother of a Manchester Arena bomb victim has urged the government to move forward with its promised consultation on “Martyn’s Law.” Figen Murray, whose son Martyn Hett died in the attack, wants to bring in legislation to step up security […]
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