(AFP) Germany’s conservative election winner Friedrich Merz said on Saturday he had agreed on tough restrictions on irregular immigration in talks with his likely future governing partners. Europe’s biggest economy would reject undocumented migrants at its borders, including asylum seekers, said Merz […]
(ITV) A man has appeared in court charged with terror offences. Cameron Gloria De Almeida, 21, of Garnet Place, Beeston, Leeds, spoke to confirm his personal details when he appeared via videolink at London’s Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Saturday, 8 March. He […]
(E-Notícies) The Mossos d’Esquadra, in collaboration with the National Police and the Italian police, have managed to dismantle a terrorist organization linked to jihadist doctrine. This operation resulted in the arrest of eleven individuals, with most of the arrests made in Barcelona […]
(DPA) Fewer asylum seekers were granted protection status in Germany in January and February compared to the same period last year, according to the latest figures released by the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) on Friday. Some 19.1% of applicants […]
(Yle) The opposition Green Party has submitted a no-confidence motion in Interior Minister Mari Rantanen (Finns), following a report by the non-discrimination ombudsman regarding the ministry’s quota refugee arrangements. The Greens submitted the motion one day after the ombudsman issued a report […]
(Yle) Finland’s Interior Ministry acted in a discriminatory manner as it prepared the country’s quota refugee plan for 2025, according to a report by the non-discrimination ombudsman’s office. The office found that the ministry favoured asylum seekers from Christian-majority countries when it […]
(Arab News) MPs in the UK have proposed making it a criminal offense to possess images of Muslim women not wearing hijabs without their consent. The suggestion was made in a report by the House of Commons’ women and equalities committee, which […]
(BBC) The Home Office is launching an advertising campaign in Iraq to try to deter people from crossing the English Channel in small boats. Similar campaigns were launched in Albania and Vietnam by the previous Conservative government in 2023 and 2024. On […]
(ANSA) Jihadi terrorism has gained momentum since the start of the conflict between Hamas and Israel with terrorist organizations taking advantage of the Middle Eastern crisis to recruit new members, in particular youths, to carry out attacks which have doubled in 2024 […]
(Jerusalem Post) British-based charity Save One Life UK has been reported to counter-terror police due to concerns its aid is being redirected to Hamas, the Telegraph reported on Saturday. The charity — which has been raising funds for children in Gaza — […]
(NL Times) A 24-year-old man from Venray was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of terrorism-related offenses, including making threats involving a terrorist act and distributing incendiary materials. The suspect came to the attention of Dutch authorities earlier [last] month after Belgian police raised […]
(Yle) The number of schools with Muslim pupils is steadily increasing. As a result, some schools are taking a stance on children fasting during Ramadan which began on Friday. Ville Raatikainen, head of basic education at the city of Helsinki, told Finnish […]
(ANHA) On [Saturday], March 1, 2025, a delegation from the Austrian government, led by Günter Riesner, deputy head of the Security Affairs Department at the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Andreas Adler, an advisor in the same department, visited north and […]
(Swiss Info) The Algerian lawyer and human rights activist Rachid Mesli will not be naturalised in Switzerland. The Federal Administrative Court has rejected an appeal by Mesli against the negative decision of the State Secretariat for Migration. The authorities assume that Swiss-Algerian […]
(AFP) A public Roman university, La Sapienza, said Friday it had cancelled a pro-Palestinian student group’s event to present a book written by the slain leader of Hamas in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar. The presentation by the Palestinian Student Movement was due to […]
(DPA) Austria’s next government could ban girls up to the age of 14 from wearing headscarves, under the terms of a coalition deal reached by three centrist parties on Thursday. According to the parties’ programme, presented in Vienna, a ban is being […]
(AFP) Two Afghan men linked to the Islamic State group were jailed in Germany on Thursday for planning an attack on the Swedish parliament in retaliation for Koran burnings by protestors. The two suspects, identified as Ibrahim M. G. and Ramin N., […]
(AFP) A French court on Wednesday sentenced a Tunisian man to life in prison without parole for killing three people with a knife in a church in the southern city of Nice in 2020. Brahim Aouissaoui, 25, this week admitted he was […]
(NL Times) The National Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Security (NCTV) is aware of a report from Germany that terrorists may be targeting Festival de Liebe at Ahoy in Rotterdam on March 7 and 8. The Rotterdam authorities are also looking into it. […]
(DPA) Four suspected members of the Palestinian militant group Hamas went on trial in Berlin on Tuesday, accused of having maintained secret weapons depots for the radical Islamist organization in several European countries. “For the first time in Germany, people are facing […]
(NL Times) Students across the Netherlands are reporting bans on prayer during school hours, with some even facing punishments for attempting to pray at school. Over 180 secondary schools have been named by students who say they are not allowed to pray […]
(DPA) Islamists have used social networks to call for attacks, including during the Cologne carnival, Martin Lotz, head of the Cologne police’s carnival operations, told dpa. He said that these kinds of statement[s] also aimed at unsettling the population and that the […]
(AFP) A French court on Monday found an Algerian online influencer guilty of inciting terrorism on TikTok, sentencing him to 18 months in jail. The 25-year-old man, identified by officials as Youcef A. and known on social media as Zazou Youssef, had […]
(AP) Four people were in custody Sunday after a deadly stabbing in eastern France that authorities linked to Islamic extremism, according to the national anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office. A Portuguese man was killed in the Saturday attack in the city of Mulhouse, near […]
(DPA) The suspect in Friday’s attack at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin was motivated by anti-Semitism, German prosecutors said on Saturday, as Interior Minister Nancy Faeser called for him to be deported to Syria from prison. “According to what we know so […]
(NL Times) The court in The Hague has scrapped the Dutch government’s decision to deny entry to the Netherlands to three Islamic preachers invited to speak at the Ramadan Expo in Utrecht this week. According to the court, the government did not […]
(AFP) The daughter of [a] murdered British aid worker this week at the Paris trial of two of his presumed Islamic State group jailers recounted her anguish after her father went missing in war-torn Syria in 2013. In a Paris court on […]
(DPA) German authorities have arrested an 18-year-old man suspected of having planned a politically motivated attack on the Israeli embassy in Berlin, security sources told dpa on Friday. Security authorities assume an Islamist motive, according to information obtained by dpa. Police arrested […]
(Brussels Times) The Walloon government plans to “eventually” ban the home slaughter of pigs, goats and sheep, as it already does for cattle and horses. The aim of the measure is to enforce better compliance with food safety and animal welfare legislation, […]
(AFP) A French court on Thursday postponed a much-awaited decision on freeing pro-Palestinian Lebanese militant Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, jailed 40 years ago for the 1982 killings of two foreign diplomats. The Paris appeals court, which had been scheduled to deliver its verdict […]
(NL Times) [A] court has sentenced four men to 25 years in prison for the murder of Roshin, a 28-year-old Apeldoorn woman. The court found that the men — two brothers and two cousins of the victim — conspired to kill her […]
(Dutch News) Police in Rotterdam have arrested a 20-year-old man on suspicion of posting jihadist propaganda on social media. The man was arrested at his home where police found images of him wearing a balaclava and carrying a machete. These were confiscated […]
(ANSA) The right-wing League party has proposed banning the burqa in Venice, local dailies reported Thursday. The motion filed by council whip Alex Bazzaro envisages a DASPO city ban for those wearing the Islamic veil in public. “We ask the mayor,” Bazzaro […]
(NL Times) Three “extremist speakers” who were to be guests at an event in Utrecht this weekend will not be granted entry into the country. The minister of justice and security, David van Weel, and minister of asylum and migration, Marjolein Faber, […]
(AFP) France’s right-dominated Senate has backed a bill to ban religious symbols including the Muslim headscarf in all sport competitions, professional and amateur, sparking accusations of discrimination from the left and rights advocates. The bill still needs a majority of votes from […]
(AP) Authorities in Greece said Tuesday they detained 107 migrants in two separate operations near the island of Crete, as an official attributed an increase in people trying to cross the eastern Mediterranean to conflicts in the Middle East. A cargo ship […]
(DPA) Opposing protests took place in the southern German city of Munich on Sunday following a deadly car-ramming attack that killed two people and rekindled a debate on deportations just days before a nationwide election. On Thursday, a 24-year-old Afghan national drove […]
(DPA) Bavarian Premier Markus Söder has called for immediate negotiations with the Taliban on deportation flights to Afghanistan following a deadly attack by an Afghan national in the southern German state’s capital, Munich. “A flight is needed every week,” Söder told the […]
(ITV) More than 25,000 migrants have crossed the English Channel since Keir Starmer became prime minister, according to provisional Home Office data. A total of 25,135 migrants have crossed the Channel since July 5, 2024, including 240 people who made the journey […]
(NL Times) Rabobank used potentially discriminatory criteria to identify possible terrorist financing in customer transactions, according to an internal document from 2017 obtained by Argos. The document outlined transactions flagged for further scrutiny, including the purchase of visas for Turkey, Islamic clothing, […]
(DPA) The German government does not have imminent plans for deportation flights to Afghanistan for Afghan immigrants who have committed crimes in Germany, according to a top spokesman in Berlin on Friday. Germany has struggled to deport people to Afghanistan since the […]
(AFP) A Swedish court on Friday sentenced a man to three years in jail for joining the Islamic State (IS) group, the country’s first conviction since new legislation was introduced banning participation in a terrorist group. The 22-year-old man was convicted of […]
(AFP) An Afghan man with suspected jihadist motives goes on trial in Germany on Thursday over a knife attack that killed a policeman and wounded five others at an anti-Islam rally last year. The hearings will start less than two weeks before […]
(NL Times) The FIOD arrested a 57-year-old man from Velsen last month for banking without a permit, terrorist financing, and violating the sanctions law. According to the FIOD, the man has been involved in hawala banking since 2017, receiving and paying out […]
(BBC) An 18-year-old man has been charged with preparing terrorist acts as part of an ongoing investigation by counter-terrorism police. Muhammad Billal was arrested in Nelson, Lancashire, on Tuesday, Greater Manchester Police said. He was charged with two counts of preparation to […]
(DPA) A German court on Tuesday handed prison terms to three defendants charged with supporting Islamic State, finding them guilty of collecting donations for the terrorist group between 2020 and 2021. A 26-year-old woman holding German and Moroccan citizenship was given three […]
(WRAL) A Durham man on Tuesday pleaded guilty to aiding and attempting to join the terrorist group ISIS months earlier. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Alexander Justin White pleaded guilty to conspiring to provide and attempting material support to ISIS. White, […]
(AFP) A Swedish court on Tuesday sentenced a 52-year-old woman to 12 years in prison on genocide charges, in the country’s first court case over crimes by the Islamic State group against the Yazidi minority. Accused of keeping Yazidi women and children […]
(DPA) The first trial resulting from investigations into alleged Islamist plans for an attack on a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna last year reached its verdict on Monday. A 19-year-old Iraqi man associated with the main suspect was convicted by the Vienna […]
(AFP) Far-right Dutch leader Geert Wilders threatened on Monday to force early elections if a landmark immigration bill did not pass quickly despite the country’s top advisory body calling for an overhaul. For months the shaky coalition governing the Netherlands has been […]
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