Health & Medicine
Covid vaccine recommended for at-risk Muslim communities in city (LINK ONLY)
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Day: December 17, 2020
Government & Politics
Home Office to deploy ‘stealth squad’ of speedboats and jet skis to catch Channel migrants (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Senate sends bill restoring female genital mutilation law to Trump’s desk
(Detroit News) The U.S. Senate this week approved bipartisan legislation to amend the federal law prohibiting female genital cutting. The bill, which passed the House this fall, now heads to the president’s desk for his signature. The measure is in response to a 2018 […]
Children & Teens
Danish government ‘withheld security report’ on children in Syrian camps
(Local) The government is suspected — by its own political allies in parliament — of withholding a 2019 report by police intelligence agency PET on Danish children in camps in Syria. According to the report by newspaper Ekstra Bladet, PET concluded in […]
Government & Politics
Austria drops ‘political Islam’ from controversial bill Gov't replaces contentious phrase with 'religiously-motivated extremism' in revised terrorism draft law
(Anadolu) Austria’s coalition government on Wednesday revised its controversial “anti-terror” law, using the phrase “religiously motivated extremism” instead of “political Islam.” Following a cabinet meeting, Interior Minister Karl Nehammer, Justice Minister Alma Zadic and Integration Minister Susanne Raab announced a package of […]
Law Enforcement
Man shot dead by Queensland police on Logan Motorway previously investigated by counter-terrorism taskforce
(ABC-Australia) Queensland police say a man shot dead by officers on the Logan Motorway may be linked to the alleged murder of a man and woman on Brisbane’s southside on Thursday. Raghe Mohamed Abdi, 22, was previously investigated by a counter-terrorism taskforce, […]
Legal
French court jails Moroccan for life over foiled 2015 train attack
(AFP) A French court on Thursday jailed for life a Moroccan man who planned a terror attack on a Paris-bound international train in 2015 but was thwarted by passengers including off-duty US soldiers. The Paris court convicted Ayoub El Khazzani, now 31, […]
Government & Politics
Top EU court finds Hungary guilty of breaking asylum rules
(Reuters) Hungary has broken EU laws on protecting vulnerable migrants and refugees by denying them a right to apply for asylum and forcibly deporting people to the Serbian border, the Court of Justice of the European Union said on Thursday. Hungary said […]
Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
US Muslims press Organization of Islamic Cooperation on China
(AFP) US Muslim groups pleaded Thursday for the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to speak out on China’s mass incarceration of Uighurs, accusing the global body of abetting what some described as genocide. The OIC consists of 57 Muslim-majority nations and frequently takes […]
Children & Teens
Germany takes in sick kids, others from Greek migrant camps
(AP) A plane carrying 88 asylum-seekers, including 19 sick children, arrived in Germany on Thursday as part of the country’s pledge to take in migrants from camps in Greece, the Interior Ministry said. The charter flight was the last as part of […]
Animals
Flemish ban on slaughter without stunning backed by European Court
(Brussels Times) The European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Luxembourg has upheld a ban by the Flemish government on animal slaughter without prior stunning. The court was responding to a request from Belgium’s Constitutional Court for a ruling on a point of […]