(AP) Polish President Andrzej Duda declared a state of emergency in areas along the border with Belarus Thursday, following a surge in illegal migration. Poland is now the third European Union member to impose a state of emergency in areas bordering Belarus […]
(CNS) Rep. Ilhan Omar (D.-Minn.) on Thursday tweeted out — and criticized — a cartoon that had been done on Wednesday by Mike Luckovich, the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The cartoon showed two Muslim women in burkas. One was […]
(CNN) US officials processing Afghan refugees abroad recently alerted the State Department to instances in which women and girls were forced into marriage or arrived with male partners posing as their husbands to be eligible for evacuation and escape the Taliban, according […]
(AP) Relatives of the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks called Thursday for the Justice Department’s inspector general to investigate the FBI’s handling of evidence from its investigation into the hijackers and their associates, saying certain records are apparently missing or lost. […]
(AFP) A former Danish immigration minister insisted she was innocent on Thursday at the opening of her impeachment trial on charges of illegally separating couples who arrived in the country to claim asylum. The 26 judges of the special court, which only […]
(iPolitics) After referring to the Taliban as “our brothers,” it looks as though Liberal incumbent Maryam Monsef won’t be representing her southern Ontario riding of Peterborough-Kawartha for a third term, according to a Mainstreet Research poll. The survey, conducted on Sept. 1, […]
(Portugal Resident) PJ police in Lisbon have arrested two young Iraqi brothers over suspected links to terrorist organisation Daesh (ISIS). The 34- and 32-year-old have been living in Portugal since 2017, say reports, and are integrated within a support programme for refugees. […]
(AP) A British national admitted Thursday evening in a federal courtroom near the nation’s capital that he played a leadership role in an Islamic State scheme to torture, hold for ransom and eventually behead American hostages. Alexanda [Amon] Kotey, 37, pleaded guilty […]
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