(Local) A commission appointed by the Danish government has recommended a ban on young girls wearing the hijab or Muslim head scarf at schools. The commission argues that wearing the hijab marks our Danish Muslim girls as being different from other Danish […]
(AP) A man has gone on trial in Germany accused of firing a rocket-propelled grenade into a group of civilians in Syria eight years ago, killing at least seven people. The defendant, identified only as Mouafak Al D. for privacy reasons, appeared […]
(BBC) More than 500 migrants crossed the English Channel in small boats on Wednesday, setting a new record for the number of crossings in a month. The Ministry of Defence said 532 people made the crossing in 11 small boats, bringing the […]
(AFP) More than 2,000 Tunisian youngsters this year have made the perilous Mediterranean crossing from the North African country to Italy to seek a better life, a rights group said Wednesday. The Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights (FTDES) said the […]
(AP) Greek authorities have prevented some 25,000 people from entering the country illegally in less than a month, a government official said Wednesday, accusing neighbor and regional rival Turkey of channeling asylum-seekers toward Greece. That figure is more than three times the […]
(Local) Sweden’s prime minister has restated her determination to reduce housing segregation in the country’s cities, while underlining that this does not have to mean “forcibly moving people.” In an interview with the Dagens Nyheter newspaper, Magdalena Andersson said that her goal […]
(Middle East Eye) Muslims are five times more likely to experience police harassment because of their religion compared to those of other faiths, a study by Rice University shows. More specifically, Muslim adults who identify as black, Middle Eastern, Arab or North […]
(AP) Greece will gradually extend a fence along its land border with Turkey and increase surveillance measures following an increase in illegal immigration from its eastern neighbor, the Greek government said Tuesday. The decision was taken during a meeting, chaired by Prime […]
(ANSA) Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter on Tuesday removed a video of a Guinean asylum seeker raping a Ukrainian woman in Piacenza Monday, which had been controversially re-posted by conservative leader Giorgia Meloni in a post vowing to boost law and order in […]
(BBC) Almost 1,300 migrants crossed the English Channel in small boats on Monday, setting a new record for crossings in a single day. The Ministry of Defence said 1,295 migrants made the crossing in 27 boats, topping the previous high of 1,185 […]
(Brussels Times) Several people have been arrested in Molenbeek after consecutive days of fighting on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, reported Bruzz. The clashes seem to be the result of a dispute between two Syrian families and involved between 50 and 100 people, […]
(AP) Police in North Macedonia have detained 26 migrants thought to have entered illegally from neighboring Greece, and arrested a suspected smuggler who had been driving them in a van toward the northern border with Serbia. A police statement said the migrants […]
(AP) A Massachusetts charter school where an eighth grade student was written up for a uniform infraction for wearing a hijab says it understands its “handling of the situation came across as insensitive.” A family member of the Mystic Valley Regional Charter […]
(NL Times) As-Siddieq, the largest Islamic educational institution in Amsterdam, may face sanctions for misuse of government funds and general mismanagement. Primary and Secondary Education Minister Dennis Wiersma will decide on possible consequences for As-Siddieq, in consultation with the Education Inspectorate, according […]
(BBC) A Conservative councillor has been suspended from the group after sharing alleged Islamophobic posts on Twitter. Steve Flood, who represents the Sprites ward on Ipswich Borough Council, allegedly shared tweets that criticised Islam on his account. Ipswich Conservative Association suspended him […]
(Kathimerini) Citizens’ Protection Minister Takis Theodorikakos on Friday dismissed recent statements by a Turkish minister that Greece is a “training center for terrorists” as provocative and outright lies. Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said Greece was training members of the Kurdistan Workers’ […]
(AP) Greek authorities on Friday raised to 71 the number of migrants aboard a sailboat that reached the southern island of Kythera a day earlier, the third crammed vessel to do so in two days. The boat, a sailing catamaran, was located […]
(AFP) Police and migrants faced off Thursday as Greek authorities started evacuating one of the last refugee camps in Athens, officials said, with videos showing authorities using tear gas and a flash grenade. The attempted eviction of the Eleonas camp, which hosts […]
(BBC) The Ministry of Defence said 606 people crossed the English Channel in 12 small boats on Wednesday. It means 21,164 people have made the crossing so far this year, compared to 28,461 in the whole of 2021. The French authorities said […]
(AP) Greek authorities say another sailboat carrying dozens of migrants arrived Thursday at Kythera, the third in just under two days to make it to the southern island that isn’t on the usual route for asylum-seekers trying to reach the European Union. […]
(BBC) A Metropolitan Police firearms officer is facing a dangerous driving charge over a crash involving parked vehicles that happened as he responded to the Streatham terrorist attack in 2020. PC Paul Fisher’s unmarked police car is said to have hit three […]
(ITV) A 15-year-old boy is to go on trial in the spring accused of plotting a terror attack after allegedly researching the Isle of Wight Festival as a potential target. The teenager, from Cowes, is charged with preparation of terrorist acts under […]
(AP) Two sailboats carrying dozens of migrants arrived on a southern Greek island early Wednesday, with the first one running aground on rocks. Nobody was reported injured or missing. The coast guard said the first sailboat, which ran aground on the southern […]
(AFP) A ceremony was held in Barcelona on Wednesday in memory of 16 people killed in jihadist attacks in the Spanish city and a nearby resort exactly five years ago. Dozens of people observed a minute’s silence on the tree-lined Las Ramblas […]
(Brussels Times) Belgium hasn’t seen any major terrorist attacks since 2016 and Belgium’s Coordination Unit for Threat Analysis (CUTA) rates the actual terror threat as two out of four — far lower than previously. Yet this is not to say that the […]
(Kathimerini) A day after police said they found 38 migrants who had been reported stranded on an islet in the Evros River on the Greek-Turkish border, Greece on Tuesday accused Turkey of pushing the migrants into Greek territory. During a visit to […]
(BBC) The Royal Navy’s role in dealing with migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats is to be reviewed by the Ministry of Defence (MoD). The MoD said it would continue to support the Home Office until January 2023, when “the […]
(AP) A Pakistani doctor and former Mayo Clinic research coordinator pleaded guilty Tuesday to a terrorism charge, more than two years after he was arrested for telling paid FBI informants that he pledged his allegiance to the Islamic State group and that […]
(BBC) More than 20,000 people have crossed the English Channel in small boats this year, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed. On Saturday 607 made the crossing in 14 boats — the third time the total has exceeded 600 in 2022. There […]
(Local) Swedish police said there have been no disturbances associated with the Koran burning by Danish far-right extremist Rasmus Paludan and his party Stram Kurs (“Hard Line”) this week around Stockholm, unlike the riots seen over Easter. Paludan and his party have […]
(AFP) French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, targeted in a devastating 2015 attack over cartoons about the Prophet Mohammed considered blasphemous by many Muslims, has denounced the stabbing of Salman Rushdie. “Nothing justifies a fatwa, a death sentence,” wrote the magazine’s managing editor […]
(BBC) The Ministry of Defence said 261 people managed to cross the English Channel in seven small boats on Thursday. It means 18,998 people have made the crossing so far this year, compared to 28,396 in the whole of 2021. So far […]
(ITV) A terrorist who plotted mass murder will remain behind bars after being denied parole. Rochdale-born Rangzieb Ahmed was the first person to be convicted in the UK of directing terrorism. The 47-year-old was jailed for life with a minimum of 10 […]
(Al-Arabiya) Since the fall of Kabul over one year ago to the Taliban, Britain’s Afghan refugees are still struggling to form new lives. Most have still not settled into permanent homes and have been repeatedly moved from hotel to hotel by the […]
(BBC) A man who was alleged to be a member of an IS terror cell nicknamed the Beatles has been remanded in custody. Aine Davis is charged with offences including possession of a firearm for a purpose connected with terrorism and charges […]
(AP) A truck carrying Syrian migrants believed to have entered from neighboring Greece overturned on a road in North Macedonia, injuring 35 people, police said Thursday. A police statement said 49 people were in the heavy vehicle during the crash late Wednesday […]
(Radio France) As Paris marks the 40th anniversary of the infamous Rue des Rosiers terrorist attack in which six people lost their lives, the only suspect charged with the killings still claims he is not guilty. Was he a “militant Palestinian” or […]
(Budapest Times) A Hungarian man was charged with incitement to war for spreading Islamic State propaganda and claiming to be a supporter of the terrorist organisation, the Pest county public prosecutor said on Tuesday. A few years ago, the man developed an […]
(BBC) A convicted terrorist has been sent back to jail after keeping secret financial accounts from authorities. Kristen Brekke, 26, had been sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison for preparing terrorist acts in 2016. He was released in September 2017, and made […]
(BBC) The weekend saw 513 migrants arriving in Kent by small boat, according to the Ministry of Defence. The latest figures show 337 people in 10 boats arrived on Saturday and 176 in five boats on Sunday. It means 1,886 people crossed […]
(NL Times) Three years after the Netherlands implemented its “burqa ban,” the police have not issued a single fine for violating it, RTL Nieuws reports based on figures from the National Police. But women who wear burqas or niqabs have experienced significantly […]
(Arab News) Rashida Tlaib, who won the Democratic primary race for the US House of Representatives in Michigan’s 12th Congressional District by a landslide this week, has praised the introduction of Arabic-language ballots for elections in her district. Tlaib won her race […]
(Kathimerini) Greece rejected claims by Turkey that a new legal framework on the election of Muslim clerics (muftis) in Thrace, northeastern Greece, denies the community the right to elect their own muftis, saying it is “fully compatible with the constitution of Greece […]
(Arab News) Conservative leadership candidate Rishi Sunak has pledged to tackle the issue of Islamist ideology in British prisons by ensuring prisoners on terror charges are kept separate from other inmates. The former chancellor, whose resignation last month sparked the downfall of […]
(BBC) Almost 700 migrants crossed the English Channel in 14 small boats on Monday, a daily high for the year so far. The Ministry of Defence said 696 migrants made the crossing, topping the previous daily record of 651 in April. The […]
(AFP) Belgian prosecutors said Tuesday they would not appeal the verdicts in the cases of 14 Belgium-based suspects accused of providing support for the November 2015 jihadist attacks in Paris. The decision confirms the judgements in the Belgian trial, running in parallel […]
(BBC) An arrest warrant has been issued for the Manchester Arena bomber’s brother. Ismail Abedi, 29, was convicted in his absence in July of failing to appear at the Manchester Arena inquiry after being ordered to give evidence. Abedi, who uses the […]
(AP) Five people were arrested on a Greek island Tuesday and charged with trying to smuggle nearly a hundred migrants into Europe on an unsafe vessel last week, using what appears to be a new direct sea route from crisis-afflicted Lebanon to […]
(AP) The European Union’s top court ruled Monday that national maritime authorities cannot impound ships involved in search-and-rescue work on suspicion that they might be overloaded due to the number of migrants they plucked from the sea. The European Court of Justice […]
(BBC) The Ministry of Defence says 460 people crossed the English Channel in 12 small boats on Saturday — one of the highest number[s] in a single day so far this year. With the 247 migrants arriving on Friday, more than 1,000 […]
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