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(RTÉ) A former Defence Forces member accused of terrorist offences has lost a challenge in court to the legality of her arrest just over two years ago. Lisa Smith has pleaded not guilty to financing terrorism and membership of the terrorist organisation […]
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(AP) A Berlin court has ordered a man who deliberately drove a car into other vehicles on a highway in the German capital in 2020 held at a psychiatric hospital, ruling that he can’t be held criminally responsible for his actions. The […]
(Swiss Info) Switzerland and Austria want to strengthen cooperation on migration and security, they said on Tuesday. This came at a meeting in Vienna between Swiss Justice Minister Karin Keller-Sutter and her new Austrian counterpart Gerhard Karner. Their talks focused on European […]
(AP) The European Union and [its] border agency Frontex have helped Cyprus streamline procedures to return migrants who have had their asylum applications rejected amid soaring numbers of arrivals, the country’s interior minister said Tuesday. The Standard Operation Procedures for Returns have […]
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(Radio France) In what’s being described as a decisive period for Islam in France, the French Council of the Muslim Faith (Cfcm) — an official interlocutor between the government and religious leaders — is to be dissolved and replaced with a grassroots-style […]
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(BBC) The second of two men arrested in Manchester as part of the investigation into the Texas synagogue siege has been released without charge. Malik Faisal Akram, 44, from Blackburn in Lancashire, was shot dead after a standoff with police on 15 […]
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(Brussels Times) About 500 people demonstrated on Saturday afternoon in Sint-Laureins, East Flanders, against a plan to set up a centre for asylum seekers in the Godshuis, a former monastery that has been empty for many years, Belga news agency reports. The […]
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(Times of Israel) A French imam known for his involvement in interfaith initiatives said he and his family have been living under threat from Islamists for years, emotionally recalling the toll the assaults and harassment have taken. In an interview with France […]
(Anadolu) The French region of Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes suspended subsidies for a street-art festival in Grenoble because of a mural of a woman wearing a hijab. The region said in a statement that the mural was “provocative” and “unacceptable.” It argued that it only […]
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(Radio France) On Friday, it was the turn of Mohammed Amri to testify before the Paris court trying himself and 19 other individuals for their alleged complicity in the November 2015 massacres which cost 131 people their lives. Amri admits that he […]
(New Arab) Sweden repatriated two women and four children from northeast Syria on Thursday, the day after the area’s Kurdish-led authorities announced the end of a deadly prison stand-off in the city of Hasakeh. The six Swedes were met at Stockholm’s Arlanda airport […]
(BBC) A British “hitman” has been found guilty of conspiring to kill a Pakistani dissident in the Netherlands. A court in London heard Muhammad Gohir Khan was offered £100,000 (about $134,000) to carry out the murder in Rotterdam last year. However, he […]
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(Kathimerini) Coast guard[s] on Kos have arrested four people — two Greeks and two non-nationals — on suspicion of smuggling migrants from the Turkish coast to the island for €4,000 a person. The arrests followed the discovery of a speedboat on January […]
(AP) A German who allegedly took her young daughter to watch a woman being stoned while in Islamic State-held territory in Syria has been charged with membership in the extremist group and other offenses, federal prosecutors said Friday. The woman, identified only […]
(Brussels Times) The deportation of a Moroccan national accused of spreading hate propaganda and being a “threat to Belgian society” is being blocked by the Council for Immigration Disputes. Analysis from OCAD (the Belgian intelligence body) and State Security describe Abdallah Ouahbour […]
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(Politico) Belgian bans on the ritual slaughter of animals practiced by Jews and Muslims risk painting these minorities as “medieval” communities with no respect for animal life, the EU’s top official tasked with fighting anti-Semitism across Europe said. Since 2019, citing concerns […]
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(National-UAE) More than €52 million ($57.96m) in European Commission money was directly or indirectly given to organisations with alleged links to the Muslim Brotherhood between 2007 and 2020, according to a new report. The lion’s share of funding from the EU’s executive […]
(BBC) One of two men arrested in Manchester as part of the investigation into the Texas synagogue siege has been released without charge, police have said. Malik Faisal Akram, 44, from Blackburn in Lancashire, was shot dead after a standoff with police […]
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(Radio France) A second of the 14 men accused of complicity in the November 2015 terrorist attacks has told the special criminal court that he will no longer make statements or answer questions. “I have already been condemned for something I did […]
(Jewish News) The Community Security Trust has reacted furiously to claims made in the findings of an investigation into the BBC’s Chanukah bus reporting, that they were responsible for confirming the slur “dirty Muslims” could be heard in video footage of the […]
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(BBC) Royal Navy vessels would be a “honeypot” for migrants crossing the English Channel as they would make the journey safer, MPs have been told. The Ministry of Defence is to begin working with the Home Office to address Channel crossings, which […]
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(Radio France) Following the second Covid-enforced adjournment of the year, the Paris attacks trial resumed on Tuesday with evidence from Muhammed Usman, one of the accused, on his religious background and his activities in the Syrian war zone. Nothing was terribly clear. […]
(Reuters) The French government said this week it was closing down an activist-run media outlet and a Muslim website deemed at odds with “national values,” the latest in a series of steps that rights groups and lawyers say infringe on democratic freedoms. […]
(RTÉ) The Special Criminal Court has been told that Lisa Smith espoused a very “politicised” and “harsh” approach to Islam and wanted a husband who would be “a shaheed,” a martyr. Carol Karimah Duffy said she knew Ms Smith and her family […]
(BBC) Two men have been arrested as part of an investigation into an attack on a Texas synagogue which saw a gunman take four people hostage. Malik Faisal Akram, 44, from Blackburn in Lancashire, was shot dead by the FBI after a […]
(AFP) Polish contractors began work on Tuesday on a 353-million-euro wall along the Belarus border aimed at deterring migrant crossings following a crisis in the area last year. The 5.5-metre-high wall will run along 186 kilometres (115 miles) of the border — […]
(GB News) In a shocking world exclusive GB News interview on Dan Wootton Tonight, ISIS runaway bride Shamima Begum speaks from a prison camp in northern Syria, saying she wants to present Prime Minister Boris Johnson with an unbelievable plan to help […]
(NL Times) Amsterdam is removing the visible security around Jewish institutions in the city, Ronny Naftaniel of the Central Jewish Consultation (CJO) confirmed to NOS after a report in De Telegraaf. The Jewish organizations in the city received a letter from the […]
(Deutsche Welle) A German woman accused of aiding and abetting crimes against humanity while a member of the extremist “Islamic State” (IS) group in Syria went on trial behind closed doors in the eastern city of Halle on Tuesday. Leonora M., who went to […]
(RTÉ) Lisa Smith had an avatar on her Facebook page which indicated she was a follower of ISIS, according to a Muslim woman who testified at the Special Criminal Court this afternoon. The 39-year-old former member of the Defence Forces pleaded not […]
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(Kathimerini) The municipal council of Orestiada in northeastern Greece is convening Tuesday to discuss controversial plans by the government to expand a migrant reception and identification center on the outskirts of the border village of Fylakio. The plan for the center is […]
(BBC) New details have emerged about the Liverpool bomber Emad Al Swealmeen’s failed asylum attempts — and the false information he used to make his cases. A previously confidential 2015 asylum judgment, released to the BBC, reveals how his claim of being […]
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