(BBC) Four small boats carrying 54 migrants have crossed the English Channel this week, the Home Office said. Eleven people reached the UK in one boat earlier, with 43 entering British waters in three vessels on Monday. A further 200 people were […]
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(AFP) After three years, Said El Hallaji finally got to hug his brother Lehcen as they were reunited at Arguineguin, a once-quiet Canary Islands port now overwhelmed with migrant arrivals. More than 18,000 people have landed on this Spanish archipelago over the […]
(AFP) French authorities on Tuesday ordered an investigation into the “brutal” removal by police of a camp of migrants in central Paris, as parliament gave initial approval to a new security law condemned by activists as eroding press freedom. Interior Minister Gerald […]
(Reuters) A Swiss woman grabbed a woman by the neck and wounded another in the neck with a serrated knife in a department store in the southern Swiss city of Lugano on Tuesday in what federal prosecutors called a suspected terror attack. […]
(Brussels Times) A court in Antwerp has sent a 24-year-old man back to jail for two years over a fake bomb threat sent out via Twitter last year. In October of last year, a man identified as Wildi E. sent out a […]
(DPA) The German government has stopped funding aid organisation Islamic Relief over its ties to the banned Muslim Brotherhood, the Interior Ministry said in response to a request for information from an opposition party. A spokesman for the ministry told journalists it […]
(Kathimerini) The 27-year-old from Syria who allegedly confessed to police that he was a member of ISIS will appear before an investigative magistrate after asking for a deferral on Monday. He appeared in court on Monday morning wearing a bulletproof vest and […]
(Anadolu) As racism and discrimination against Muslims in Austria soars, particularly after a terror attack on Nov. 2, clerics in the European country warn the authorities not to associate terrorism with any religion. After a hijab and face veil ban, and ban […]
(Kathimerini) A 27-year-old Syrian man suspected of being a member of the Islamic State terrorist organization is due to testify to an Athens magistrate Monday, following his arrest in the Greek capital last Thursday. The unnamed suspect entered Greece in March 2018 […]
(AFP) Police used tear gas as they dismantled a new migrant camp in the centre of Paris set up to house hundreds of refugees evacuated from makeshift suburban shelters without being relocated. Volunteers had helped set up around 500 blue tents at […]
(NL Times) The government came up with a plan of action to tackle problematic behavior caused by unwanted foreign influence on social and religious organizations in the Netherlands. The intentions and goals of people donating money to Dutch organizations will be more […]
(BBC) A man who downloaded instructions on how to carry out terror attacks, and images of beheadings, has been jailed for 32 months. Zakaria Yanaouri, 21, of Congreve Road, Worthing, was arrested in a raid on his home 24 February. He pleaded […]
(BBC) Allowing runaway Shamima Begum to return to the UK to challenge her loss of British citizenship “would create significant national security risks,” the Supreme Court has been told. Ms Begum, 21, was one of three east London schoolgirls who joined the […]
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(AP) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday that Turkey sees itself as a part of Europe, but he called on the European Union to “keep your promises” on issues such as the country’s membership bid and refugees. He spoke before an […]
(AP) Spain’s foreign minister met Sunday with Senegal’s president in the West African country’s capital Sunday to discuss the sudden increase of Senegalese migrants attempting to reach the Canary Islands by boat. Spanish Foreign Minister Arancha González Laya met with President Macky […]
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(Breitbart) The Islamic Nyans Party are looking to cause an upset in upcoming municipal elections in the notorious Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby after recruiting a popular member of the local Somali community. Nyans party leader Mikail Yüksel announced that [Mohamed] Hagi Farah, […]
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(Brussels Times) Flemish minister Zuhal Demir (N-VA) has said she is “relieved” at the arrest of a young man accused of sending her hate mail. The man, aged 24 and living in Demir’s home town of Genk in Limburg province, has admitted […]
(Deutsche Welle) In response to a parliamentary question by the Green Party, Germany’s BKA Federal Criminal Police Office revealed there are currently 124 “high risk” Islamists at large in the country. The agency also listed 151 people as posing a “moderate risk.” The BKA’s […]
(AP) One of three Americans acclaimed as heroes for tackling an alleged Islamic State gunman aboard a Paris-bound train testified Friday that he tried to kill the man who stormed into their passenger car with an arsenal of weapons. Alek Skarlatos, 28, […]
(Breitbart) In the aftermath of the Islamist murder of Samuel Paty, a teacher in the Paris no-go suburbs has claimed up to one-third of her pupils openly question freedom of expression and say it is “not normal” to criticise Islam. The teacher […]
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(AFP) Spain will set up emergency camps for up to 7,000 migrants as part of a plan to tackle the huge influx of arrivals in the Canary Islands, the government said Friday. The plan also involves reinforcing Salvamento Maritimo’s coastguard rescue teams […]
(Breitbart) The Swedish city of Gothenburg is looking to spend over a billion U.S. dollars in an effort to remove the city’s six no-go zones from a police list of vulnerable neighbourhoods. The local government has pledged to spend 11 billion Swedish […]
(AP) A 27-year-old Syrian man accused of taking part in executions carried out by the Islamic State group was arrested Thursday at a refugee camp in Greece’s capital. Authorities said the suspect was arrested at the camp in Athens early in the […]
(BBC) French President Emmanuel Macron has asked Muslim leaders to agree a “charter of republican values” as part of a broad clampdown on radical Islam. On Wednesday he gave the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) 15 days to work with […]
(Reuters) Two French citizens described to a court in Paris on Thursday how they used their bare hands to disarm and immobilise an Islamist gunman in an attack on a high-speed train in France in 2015. The testimony was given in the […]
(BBC) Sixty-nine suspected illegal immigrants and three crew members have been arrested after a fishing boat was intercepted off the coast of East Anglia, says the National Crime Agency. It has launched a people smuggling investigation after Border Force officials intercepted the […]
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(Reuters) A French court has ruled that Clint Eastwood cannot testify during the trial of a suspected Islamist gunman, whose attack on a high-speed train was thwarted by three Americans, who later played themselves in a movie by the U.S. actor and […]
(AP) Greece is abolishing the practice of holding asylum-seeker children and teenagers who arrive in the country without parents or guardians in protective police custody, the migration minister said Wednesday. The practice, which saw newly arrived unaccompanied minors held in police stations […]
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(Reuters) Greece, on the front line of migration into Europe, promised on Wednesday to build new reception centres for asylum seekers and cut the maximum stay in camps on its now-overcrowded islands. The country bore the brunt of a large influx of […]
(AP) Spain’s government is scrambling to manage the steady stream of migrants to its Canary Islands from West Africa by opening a second holding camp, officials said Wednesday, as political tensions rise in the Atlantic archipelago. The establishment of a second temporary […]
(BBC) A police counter-terrorism security adviser said prior to the Manchester bombing the risk of an attack on crowds leaving an event was not considered. Liz Forster, Greater Manchester Police’s principal adviser, told the public inquiry into the arena attack: “It’s changed […]
(Brussels Times) The Limburg prosecutor’s office has begun an investigation into an alleged email threat made against Flemish mobility minister Zuhal Demir (N-VA). The threat came in an email addressed to Demir following recent comments she made in relation to mosques connected […]
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(AP) Authorities in western Greece said Tuesday that four people were arrested after the coast guard intercepted a yacht transporting 36 migrants illegally to nearby Italy. The yacht was stopped and searched off the coast of the western Greek island of Lefkada. […]
(AP) Spanish rescue services said Tuesday they intercepted more than 320 migrants in 10 boats found off the Canary Islands archipelago. The service said the steady stream of boats were located off the island of Gran Canaria between midnight and early morning. […]
(AFP) French police on Tuesday cleared a migrant street camp outside the Stade de France stadium north of Paris where around 2,000 people, mainly Afghan and African, had been living in cramped tents. Dozens of police were deployed to carry out the […]
(BBC) The police emergency plan for Manchester Arena was nearly a year out of date when the venue was bombed, an officer has told the attack inquiry. Emergency planner PC Katrina Hughes said she had struggled to keep plans up to date […]
(Breitbart) A prosecutor in the southern multicultural Swedish city of Malmo has dropped an investigation against an anti-Islam activist after determining that burning a copy of the Islamic Qu’ran is not a crime in itself. Prosecutors launched an investigation into the actions […]
(AP) Spanish rescue services have located 1,300 migrants in four days in the Atlantic Ocean and transferred them to the southern Canary Islands, further straining local emergency response capabilities as makeshift military camps for the newcomers were being readied. The latest to […]
(El País) Up until January 2017, Cristina B. was like any other young woman in Cullera, a small town in the Spanish region of Valencia. On social media, the 24-year-old was seen dressed as a fallera, wearing an elaborate traditional dress used […]
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