(AFP) The alleged accomplices in the 2016 murder of an 85-year-old French priest appeared in the dock in Paris on Monday after years of investigation into an attack that shocked a country already reeling from a spate of jihadist assaults. Father Jacques […]
(AFP) The small Mediterranean island of Cyprus has an outsized problem with irregular migration, says the interior minister of the EU member state located closest to the Middle East. “For us, this is a state of emergency,” Nicos Nouris told AFP, adding […]
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(Deutsche Welle) German authorities have pressed war crimes charges against a suspected member of the so-called “Islamic State” (IS), the federal prosecutor general in Karlsruhe announced Wednesday. What do we know so far? The German national, Jalda A., is believed to have married several members of […]
(AP) The repatriations of migrants who have had their asylum applications rejected is essential to easing overcrowding and reducing violence at a migrant reception camp, Cyprus’ interior minister said Wednesday. Minister Nicos Nouris told state broadcaster CyBC that 35 migrants suffered minor […]
(AP) Four people have been arrested on the Greek island of Lesbos after violence broke out during a protest against plans to build a new migrant camp, authorities said Tuesday. Following a peaceful march to the site in heavy rain Monday, a […]
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(AP) Hundreds of people marched through central Athens on Sunday to protest what they say are Greece’s pushbacks of migrants and refugees at the border with Turkey. The marchers carried an inflatable dinghy, like those migrants use to cross the sea from […]
(Radio France) Abdellah Chouaa is suspected of having helped with the preparation of the November 2015 Paris terrorist attacks which cost 131 people their lives. He risks 20 years in prison if convicted. On Friday he gave evidence about himself, and about […]
(AP) The French government on Saturday introduced a new body to reshape Islam in France, part of President Emmanuel Macron’s efforts to rid it of extremism. The Forum of Islam in France leadership will be made up of clergy and lay people […]
(BBC) A Danish court has found three members of an Iranian opposition group guilty of spying for Saudi Arabia. The three men were detained by police in February 2020 and are members of the Saudi-backed Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of […]
(AP) European Union interior ministers on Thursday agreed to create a new decision-making body amid efforts to beef up the 27-nation bloc’s borders, and to kick-start desperately needed reforms to the EU’s malfunctioning asylum system on a step-by-step basis. The EU has […]
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(AP) French President Emmanuel Macron is taking aim at migration — a core issue in the country’s presidential campaign — by pushing to strengthen the European Union’s external borders against people illegally entering the bloc’s passport-free area. Macron is expected to run […]
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(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 […]
(ABC) The Kansas woman who allegedly “fantasized” about committing an attack against the United States was a “highly intelligent” mom and teacher who became increasingly radicalized when she lived overseas and sowed division in her family, a former friend of hers told […]
(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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(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 […]
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(AP) Ministers from European Union nations under pressure from unauthorized border crossings asked Friday for more action to protect the bloc’s external borders as well as for rules to return migrants to their homelands or where they started their journeys. Interior ministers […]
(National-UAE) An imam suspected of being a recruiter for ISIS has been deported by Sweden after a year in detention. Ahmed Ahmed, 52, was detained last year on suspicion of being a key figure in the radicalisation and recruitment of ISIS fighters […]
(AAP) A South Australian woman jailed for taking steps to join the terror group Islamic State has not fully acknowledged her offending and remains a “vulnerable person, susceptible to adverse and destructive influences,” a court has ruled. In December, the Federal Court […]
(AP) Police in Italy, Albania and Greece on Wednesday arrested some 30 people accused of profiteering several hundred million euros to smuggle refugees and migrants into the European Union from Turkey on yachts and other leisure vessels. The coordinated action is believed […]
(NL Times) PVV leader Geert Wilders clashed with multiple parties in a parliamentary debate on Tuesday, including about VVD adviser Soumaya Sahla and a tweet in which he suggested that Dilan Yeşilgöz’s appointment as justice minister will jeopardize his security. Soumaya Sahla […]
(AP) Four people went on trial in the Swiss capital Tuesday over a protest against Turkey’s government four years ago where some demonstrators hoisted a banner showing a gun pointed at an image of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan next to the […]
(AFP) French right-wing presidential hopeful Valerie Pecresse on Saturday slammed the EU’s “sieve-like” borders for allowing migrants to enter undetected and backed calls for barbed-wire fences to prevent them crossing illegally into the bloc. Pecresse, whom polls show as President Emmanuel Macron’s […]
(AP) French presidential candidate Valerie Pecresse stressed the need for strong European borders Friday, during a visit to Greece that will also see her visit a camp for asylum seekers on an Aegean island used by migrants to enter Europe from neighboring […]
(CBC) A Canadian woman who was held for two years at an ISIS detention camp in Syria is now under investigation for terrorism offences and war crimes. However, her lawyer has suggested RCMP officers are exploiting their powers by both monitoring and investigating the […]
(NL Times) The new justice minister, Dilan Yeşilgöz, still has not received a response from PVV leader Geert Wilders, after she tried to call him about a tweet in which he critically mentioned her Turkish-Kurdish origin. “A VVD member of Turkish descent at […]
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(CNS) With effect from January, the French government will deal with Muslims through a new, government-created body, with the aim of promoting Islam not related to foreign governments or radical Islamists. The new entity, the National Council of Imams (CNI), will replace […]
(Daily Sabah) Muslims will only reach ultimate peace and harmony if they are able to establish unity and solidarity among themselves in the face of rising Islamophobia, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told a conference in the U.S. on Tuesday. Speaking in a […]
(Kathimerini) An estimated 11,900 refugees and migrants crammed onto 120 yachts or sailboats are believed to have made it from Turkey to Italy via Greece this year, as the method has been gaining popularity among migrant smuggling rackets on the other side […]
(Anadolu) Turkey attaches importance to healthy and strong relations with the Muslim community in the US, the country’s presidential spokesman said on Tuesday. Ibrahim Kalin’s remarks came at the gala dinner of the Muslim American Society and Islamic Circle of North America […]
(AP) Three people have been charged with murder in Greece following the death of 16 migrants who were killed when a boat transporting them from Turkey to Italy capsized, authorities said Monday. The suspects were among 63 people rescued following the tragedy […]
(AFP) Greek coast guards scoured for survivors in the Aegean Sea on Saturday after the latest in a series of migrant boat accidents that have killed at least 30 people in just days. Late Friday, the coastguard found 16 bodies, including those […]
(AAP) A South Australian woman convicted of taking steps to join the terror group Islamic State will be subject to an ongoing control order which limits her movements and activities. The Federal Court on Wednesday ruled an interim order previously imposed on […]
(AP) A Texas man convicted of providing material support to the Islamic State group was sentenced Wednesday to 12 years in federal prison after the government appealed his previous sentence, saying it was too lenient. U.S. District Judge Charles R. Eskridge in […]
(BBC) Four Iranian men who crossed the English Channel in small boats have had their convictions for immigration offences quashed. The Court of Appeal said it had not been proven they intended to enter the UK illegally. The men were intercepted by […]
(AFP) Poland’s Supreme Court has ruled in favour of a Moroccan man who had been acquitted of being an accomplice of the suspected mastermind of the 2015 terror attacks in Paris. Prosecutors had appealed against the acquittal and had requested a six-and-a-half-year […]
(Age) A Melbourne nurse, who was sent to prison after he helped Syrian rebels, faces a string of new federal charges, including allegations he accessed social media sites TikTok and Facebook and viewed images of guns and extreme sexual violence in breach […]
(Lexington Herald Leader) A man who came to Kentucky as a refugee has been charged with providing support to a terrorist organization. Mirsad Hariz Adem Ramic, 31, has dual U.S. and Bosnian citizenship and lived in Bowling Green, according to a news […]
(Kathimerini) The government will expand the border fence with Turkey in the country’s northeast by 26km, Civil Protection Minister Takis Theodorikakos told MPs on Friday. Addressing the Parliamentary Committee on National Defense and Foreign Affair[s], he said in addition to repairing the […]
(AP) When suicide attackers and gunmen massacred crowds flocking to Kabul’s airport, they also severed the escape route that Ali Rezaie hoped would take him to a new life abroad, far from the Taliban and their suspicions of well-educated, middle-class people who […]
(BBC) A woman convicted of travelling to Syria to join the Islamic State group says she “regrets everything” about it. Tareena Shakil, from Birmingham, was jailed in 2016 when she returned to the UK after three months with IS. The 32-year-old said […]
(Radio France) There is a problem. Now that the families of the deceased terrorists and other accused are giving evidence at the Paris attacks trial, the court is faced with the emotional dilemma of fathers, brothers, sisters who must condemn the barbarous […]
(Radio France) Wednesday’s session of the Paris terror trial was devoted to Belgian police evidence on the backgrounds of Abdellah Chouaa and Ali Oulkadi, two of the accused who are not in police custody and who sit near, but not inside, the […]
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