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(Middle East Eye) Joe Biden’s campaign has watered down an anti-BDS line from his platform for Jewish-American communities, removing “racist” language that angered Palestine solidarity activists. The Biden campaign said in a statement earlier this month that his administration will “firmly reject […]
(Reuters) An Italian Senate committee on Tuesday rejected a request by magistrates to investigate Matteo Salvini, head of the rightwing League party, for refusing a migrant rescue boat permission to land last year when he was interior minister. Salvini refused to allow […]
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(Deutsche Welle) Security experts from the Council of Europe have warned that the global coronavirus outbreak may increase the use of biological weapons by terrorists in the future. “The COVID-19 pandemic has shown how vulnerable modern society is to viral infections and […]
(AP) Cyprus will deport 17 migrants who are being held on suspicion of having links to extremist groups or involved in acts of terror, the country’s interior ministry said Monday. The men are currently being held in a migrants’ detention facility and […]
(NZ Herald) Todd Muller’s Make America Great Again cap represents more than a trip to the United States and has no place being in his Parliamentary office, says a Muslim community leader. Aliya Danzeisen of the Islamic Women’s Council said she understands […]
(Deutsche Welle) Germany’s Interior Ministry said Sunday that over 100 members of the so-called “Islamic State” (IS) terrorist group have returned to the country following the jihadi [network’s] failed incursions in Iraq and Syria. “Security authorities obtained knowledge that they actively engaged […]
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(BBC) The rising number of child migrants crossing the Channel by boat risks overwhelming social services, the leader of Kent County Council has said. Roger Gough appealed to Priti Patel to “prevent a crisis escalating into something unmanageable and unsafe.” More than […]
(Reuters) Malta on Friday rescued a group of 140 migrants from a sinking dinghy but refused to bring them to land, holding them instead on a chartered tourist harbour cruise boat just outside territorial waters. The rescue was conducted by a Maltese […]
(BBC) Small boat migrant crossings are becoming “a major threat” to the UK, MPs have been told. The Home Affairs Select Committee was hearing evidence after Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage claimed French ships were “escorting” migrant boats. The Home Office said […]
(National-UAE) The British government warned it will prosecute protesters who break the law if Hezbollah flags are displayed in online demonstrations. In a change of policy in response to the coronavirus outbreak, the Home Office announced to the National that it will […]
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(Reuters) Hungary shut so-called migrant transit zones on its borders on Thursday, freeing some 300 refugees from prison-like conditions while at the same time hardening rules which will effectively bar future asylum applicants. During the peak of Europe’s 2015 migration crisis, Prime […]
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(Middle East Eye) Adverts posted by the UK government online urging British Muslims to stay home and observe the religious festival of Eid at home have been criticised as a display of “double standards” in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. With […]
(BBC) Court orders restricting the movements of suspected terrorists could be renewed indefinitely under new legislation unveiled by the government. The bill would lower the standard of proof to impose the orders, known as TPims, and remove the current two-year limit that […]
(Reuters) Hungary will not accept a ruling by the European Union’s top court that four asylum-seekers stuck in a transit zone on the Hungarian-Serbian border should be released, a security aide to Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Tuesday. The Court of […]
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(BBC) Six boats carrying 90 migrants have been intercepted off the Kent coast. The Home Office said 79 men and 11 women had crossed the Channel on Saturday, 16 May, on small boats. A spokesman said the migrants travelled from France and […]
(Brussels Times) September sees the end of an operation which brought military patrols on the streets of Belgium’s cities for more than five years, defence minister Philippe Goffin (MR) has announced. The patrols of Operation Vigilant Guardian were intended to support the […]
(National-UAE) An investigation has been launched into a UK charity that funded television channels which have been fined by the country’s media regulator. The Charity Commission is to examine the operations of the Islamic Research Foundation International, which is run by Indian-born […]
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(Reuters) The European Union’s top court ruled on Thursday that four asylum seekers stuck in a transit zone on the Hungarian-Serbian border had effectively been detained and that a local court should release them immediately. The Court of Justice of the European […]
(National-UAE) Efforts to bring Tariq Ramadan to justice over alleged rapes of women have taken another sinister twist after it emerged that his supporters engaged a rogue French intelligence expert to expose the identity of an accuser. Lawyers for the woman known […]
(Middle East Eye) A UK-based Muslim charity has called on the Charity Commission to end its statutory inquiry into the organisation after police confirmed that funds confiscated from it last year were donations and perfectly legitimate. The money was seized by UK […]
(Politico) France adopted a law against online hate speech Wednesday that will target Silicon Valley giants amid controversy surrounding the lawmaker in charge of the bill. After months of debate, the lower house of Parliament adopted the controversial legislation, which will require […]
(CBC) The local Muslim community has been granted permission by the city to broadcast the nightly sunset call to prayer from the London Muslim Mosque for the remainder of Ramadan. Muslims are unable to congregate at the mosque because of physical distancing […]
(Middle East Eye) Joe Biden has released a plan to protect the civil rights of Muslim Americans and reverse some of Donald Trump’s Islamophobic decrees if elected president. The plan, titled “Joe Biden’s agenda for Muslim-American communities,” vows to undo Trump’s Muslim ban on […]
(Reuters) Portugal is to take in 500 children from Greek refugee camps as soon as restrictions on movement imposed to contain the spread of the coronavirus outbreak are lifted, the country’s Foreign Minister Augusto Santos Silva said on Tuesday. At least 5,200 […]
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(Reuters) The coronavirus lockdown has cut the number of asylum seekers able to reach Europe, but the pandemic could trigger more arrivals in future if it worsens turmoil to the Middle East and North Africa, the European Union asylum agency said. With […]
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(BBC) Another boat carrying migrants has been intercepted by the Border Force off the Kent coast following a spike in the number of incidents in recent days. The Home Office said there were 11 men and six women on board who presented […]
(NY1) Hundreds waited in the rain in Jamaica, Queens — careful to keep an appropriate distance from each other — in a line that stretched for almost two blocks. One man picking up food was almost in tears when asked how his […]
(Reuters) Portugal is to take up to 60 unaccompanied children from Greek refugee camps, according to Socialist Party lawmaker Isabel Santos, as concern mounts over the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on the vulnerable group. The children are expected to arrive in […]
(BBC) At least 227 migrants have been intercepted in two days as they tried to cross the English Channel to reach the UK. Eight boats carrying 145 people were stopped on Friday, the Home Office confirmed — a record for a single […]
(AFP) The UN voiced alarm Friday at reports that countries are failing to help migrants in distress on the Mediterranean Sea, blocking assistance by NGOs and coordinating pushbacks of their boats. UN rights office spokesman Rupert Colville warned during a virtual press […]
(Reuters) Malta told its European Union partners on Friday it would no longer take part in a new Mediterranean mission to stop more arms reach[ing] warring factions in Libya, just four days after the naval and air operation began patrols. A Maltese […]
(Deutsche Welle) German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has accused European Union member states of not doing enough to solve the continent’s migrant dilemma. Speaking at an online conference hosted by re:publica and the Media Convention Berlin, Maas said the manner with which […]
(Anadolu) The Turkish minority in Greece is pushing for the inclusion of Turkish lessons in the curriculums of state kindergartens in regions where many Turkish Muslims live, they said in a joint statement Thursday. As the Greek Education Ministry plans to start […]
(Queens Chronicle) Only a little more than a month after Mayor de Blasio took heat from the Ozone Park community over his lack of outreach to the neighborhood’s Bangladeshi population about the COVID-19 shutdown, he is back in hot water with the […]
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