Gates of Vienna News Feed 5/28/2015

The European Union says that 24,000 migrants in Italy must be relocated to other countries. It wants more than 1,300 to go to Belgium, and more than 2,000 to go to the Netherlands. It has also asked Spain to host an (unspecified) increased number, but the Spanish government is objecting. Meanwhile, more than 200 more migrants arrived in Greece.

In other news, an 11-year-old girl was rescued in Spain after being sold by her parents for marriage. Five members of her family have been arrested.

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Financial Crisis
» 29.2% of Spanish Population Now at Risk of Poverty or Social Exclusion
 
USA
» Assassin’s Veto: Washington Transit Authority Shuts Down Free Speech, Suspends All Issue-Related Ads
» BB King Honoured With Memphis Street Procession
» FIFA Scandal: ‘God Bless America, ‘ Football Fans Say
» FIFA Corruption Crisis: Sepp Blatter Denies Responsibility
» Gay Head Lighthouse in US Moves Inland to Avoid Ocean Fall
» Prophet Mohamed Adverts Submitted to Washington DC Public Transportation
» Tariq Ramadan: Following Muhammad’s Footsteps
 
Europe and the EU
» AP Interview: Foreign Minister Says Lithuania Wants a NATO Battalion as a ‘Security Guarantee’
» Britain’s Cameron Calls on FIFA Chief Blatter to Quit
» CSI Stone Age: Was 430,000-Year-Old Hominin Murdered?
» EU Referendum: David Cameron Pushes Leaders on Reforms
» Five Arrests for Vote-Buying in Sicily
» Generali Predicts Dividends Over 5 Bln Euro by End 2018
» IAC Regrets Closure of Icelandic ‘Mosque’ In Venice
» Italy: Three Anarchists Get 2 Year, 10 Mth Terms for TAV Attack
» Italy: Priest Arrested: 30 Suspects in Pedophile Probe
» Italy: Civil Service Owes 70 Bn Euros to Suppliers — BoI
» Italy: Former Rome Garbage King Gets 3 Year Term for Nepotism
» Italy: Berlusconi Says Germany Forced Higher Spreads to Damage Him
» Most-Wanted German Nazi Sommer ‘Unfit for Trial’
» Norway to Pull $900bn Oil Fund Out of Coal
» Polls Point to Tight Race in Danish Election
» Prostitution Costs France ‘€1.6 Billion Each Year’
» Spanish Police Rescue Girl Sold for Marriage by Parents
» Swedish Pensioners Evicted So as to Make Room for Asylum Seekers
» Swiss Tourist Resorts Ready for Ramadan
» UK: Twin Sisters Who Fled Manchester to Join ISIS ‘Are at Centre of Group’s Online Propaganda and Grooming of Other Girls to Travel to Syria’
» UK’s Cameron Begins Tour of EU States to Push for Reform
 
Balkans
» UN Envoy Urges Kosovo to Establish War Crime Court
 
Mediterranean Union
» Unido and UFM to Promote Inclusive and Sustainable Socio-Economic Development in the Region
 
Israel and the Palestinians
» Selling the Desert’s Water-Conservation Lessons to the Rest of the World
 
Middle East
» Global Cyber-Strategy Needed to Confront ‘IS’ And Other Terror Groups
» Syrian Islamist Rebels ‘Seize Ariha in Idlib Province’
 
Russia
» Putin Orders All Russian Military Deaths be Classified as State Secrets
 
South Asia
» India’s Heat Wave Drags on, With Sprinkles of Relief
» Indians Seek Relief as Death Toll From Heat Wave Climbs Past 1,400
» US-Trained Tajikistan Special Forces Chief Joins Islamic State, Vows Jihad Inside US
 
Far East
» China: To Please Millionaires, Beijing to Lower Taxes on Luxury Goods
 
Sub-Saharan Africa
» Kidnapped Nigerian Girls Likely Being Used by Boko Haram as Suicide Bombers, Experts Fear
» Win-Win Deal Helps Avoid War Over Ethiopia’s $5 Billion Nile Dam
 
Latin America
» China Closes Deals Worth Billions With Four South American Nations
» Foreign Investment in Latin America Falls 16% in 2014
 
Immigration
» “Belgium Should Accommodate 1,364 Refugees”
» Brussels Asks the Netherlands to Take 2,047 Refugees to Ease Pressure on South
» EU Expands Triton Mission to Help Italy
» EU Tells Spain to Take in More Asylum Seekers
» Gang Trafficking Afghans to EU Busted in Spain
» Greece: Coast Guard Picks Up 216 Migrants in Eastern Aegean
» Greece: Press; Migrants Turn Kos Island Into ‘Hellhole’
» Greek Coast Guard Picks Up 216 Migrants in Eastern Aegean
» How Many More Can Kos Take? Holidaymaker Misery as Thousands of Boat People From Syria and Afghanistan Set Up Migrant Camp to Turn Popular Greek Island Into ‘Disgusting’ Hellhole
» Italy: Mayor Warns of ‘Racism Trap’ As Two Teens Sought
» Relocate 24,000 Refugees From Italy: EU
 
Culture Wars
» Greenland Approves Same-Sex Marriage
» Northern Ireland Bakery Owners to Appeal ‘Gay Cake’ Verdict
» Swedes Want ‘Equal’ World Cup (For Women)
 
General
» 15+ Ramadan Tips for Western Muslims
 

29.2% of Spanish Population Now at Risk of Poverty or Social Exclusion

The number of people at risk of falling into poverty or social exclusion continues to rise in Spain, according to a study by the National Statistics Institute (INE). The rate stood at 29.2 percent of the population in 2014, up from 27.3 percent in 2013 and 26.1 percent in 2010. Spain has a population of around 46.5 million. Average household income also fell to €26,154 per family, down 2.3 percent from 2013.

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Assassin’s Veto: Washington Transit Authority Shuts Down Free Speech, Suspends All Issue-Related Ads

By Robert Spencer

We had submitted our winning Muhammad cartoon to run on Washington, DC buses. This was obviously not to endanger people, but to determine whether American authorities would have the will to defend free speech rights, or would surrender in the face of threats of violence. The decision has been made.

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BB King Honoured With Memphis Street Procession

Thousands have lined the streets of Memphis, Tennessee to pay tribute to blues artist BB King, who died earlier this month. At an event on Wednesday, a Dixieland jazz band walked ahead of a black hearse down Beale Street — a street synonymous with American blues music. It is where the young King was nicknamed the Beale Street Blues Boy — a moniker later shortened to BB.

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FIFA Scandal: ‘God Bless America, ‘ Football Fans Say

A bold, surprise move by the US on the world stage hasn’t always been a recipe for global applause.

By indicting 14 top Fifa officials on corruption charges on Wednesday, however, the US government currently finds itself on the right side of much of the international media.

“The parasites in Fifa who skimmed off millions — and the influence peddlers who tempted them — should be shown no mercy,” write the editors of the Times of South Africa. “The Americans will have done the world a huge favour if their actions finally force Fifa to clean up its act.”

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FIFA Corruption Crisis: Sepp Blatter Denies Responsibility

Fifa president Sepp Blatter has condemned the “action of individuals” for bringing “shame and humiliation” on football in a corruption scandal.

But he said that although many held him “ultimately responsible” for the football community, he could “not monitor everyone all of the time”.

He was speaking at the opening of Fifa’s congress, a day after seven top officials were held in a US inquiry.

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Gay Head Lighthouse in US Moves Inland to Avoid Ocean Fall

A US lighthouse will begin a journey inland on Thursday to avoid falling down an eroding cliff side. The $3m (£2m) effort will move the 400-ton (406 metric ton) Gay Head Lighthouse in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. The 160-year-old structure helped mariners navigate foggy coastlines during the peak of the whaling trade in the region in the 1800s.

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Prophet Mohamed Adverts Submitted to Washington DC Public Transportation

The same group that held the Prophet Mohamed cartoon contest that prompted an attempted attack by two Muslim extremists in Texas has submitted the winning image to run as an advertisement on public transportation in Washington DC.

The American Freedom Defence Initiative — which is listed as an anti-Muslim hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Centre — has said the First Amendment right to free speech protects the display of images of the prophet, which Muslims consider offensive.

“There is nothing about this cartoon that incites violence. It is within the established American tradition of satire. If America surrenders on this point, the freedom of speech is a relic of history,” said Pamela Geller, executive director of the AFDI, according to NBC 4.

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Tariq Ramadan: Following Muhammad’s Footsteps

Spirituality and Knowledge Are Two Main Keys

This video is part of a talk given by Dr. Tariq Ramadan at Cornell University, New York, in April 2012. The topic of the talk is about understanding the essence of Islam through reflecting on the Prophet’s life.

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AP Interview: Foreign Minister Says Lithuania Wants a NATO Battalion as a ‘Security Guarantee’

Lithuania’s foreign minister says his government wants a NATO battalion deployed permanently in the country as a “security guarantee” — not a provocation against Russia which has stepped up military action in the Baltic states.

The three Baltic States — Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia — are former Soviet republics that are now members of NATO and the EU. They have been alarmed by Moscow’s intervention in Ukraine and increasing activity by Russian forces in the Baltic Sea.

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Britain’s Cameron Calls on FIFA Chief Blatter to Quit

UEFA’s Platini ‘disgusted’ by probe, Putin suggests plot

(ANSA) — Rome, May 28 — British Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday said FIFA President Sepp Blatter should quit amid a major corruption probe that has hit world soccer’s governing body.

There have been widespread calls for Blatter to consider his position, although he is not been personally incriminated.

A spokesman for Cameron said the British premier “associated himself fully” with Culture Minister John Whittingdale’s assertion that Blatter should resign as the “deeply flawed and corrupt organisation” needed a change at the helm.

UEFA President Michel Platini said he was “disgusted” by the FBI corruption probe, which led to the arrest of seven FIFA officials in Zurich on Wednesday, pending extradition to the United States. “I’m disgusted, I can’t take any more, it’s too much…I’m an admirer of FIFA’s history, I’m disgusted,” Platini said, adding that UEFA would cast its vote for incumbent supremo Sepp Blatter’s rival Prince Ali bin al-Hussein of Jordan in Friday’s FIFA leadership vote.

Platini added that he had suggested to Blatter that he should step down, but Blatter replied “it’s too late”. The besieged FIFA boss does have supporters though.

Russian President Vladimir Putin was quoted by Tass news agency as saying that the FBI corruption probe was a clear attempt to prevent Blatter’s re-election for a fifth mandate. Putin claimed pressure had been exerted on the Swiss official to prevent the 2018 World Cup taking place in Russia as planned. Two FIFA vice-presidents are among those arrested on Wednesday. They are among 14 indicted on graft charges in relation to alleged involvement on bribes of around $100 million over two decades. Meanwhile, Swiss prosecutors announced they had launched a separate investigation into the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, with the latter allocated to Qatar.

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CSI Stone Age: Was 430,000-Year-Old Hominin Murdered?

It’s the coldest of cold cases: a forensic analysis suggests that an ancient human who lived 430,000 years ago died as the result of a deliberate attack by a right-handed assailant armed with a spear or hand axe. The crime is the earliest evidence of human-on-human violence in the fossil record — and the way the body was found strongly suggests that hominins were engaging in funerary rituals hundreds of thousands of years before our species evolved.

No fewer than 28 hominin skeletons have been recovered from the Sima de los Huesos site in the Atapuerca mountains of northern Spain. An analysis of DNA pulled from one skeleton suggests the tribe may be ancestral to both the Neanderthals and their east Eurasian contemporaries, the mysterious DenisovansMovie Camera.

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EU Referendum: David Cameron Pushes Leaders on Reforms

David Cameron has told his fellow European leaders they need to be “flexible and imaginative” as he demands reforms to the EU.

The PM was speaking alongside French President Francois Hollande during a tour of his European counterparts.

Mr Cameron wants to renegotiate the UK’s relationship with Brussels ahead of an in/out referendum by 2017.

Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said the PM would warn that the UK could exit the EU unless reforms were agreed.

The PM will hold talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Polish Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz on Friday.

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Five Arrests for Vote-Buying in Sicily

Two regional councillors among suspects

(ANSA) — Rome, May 27 — Finance police on Wednesday arrested five people on suspicion of vote-buying in Palermo municipal elections and Sicilian regional elections in 2012. The suspects, who include two Sicilian regional councillors, a former MP and a finance guardsman, are accused of receiving or promising money or jobs in exchange for votes. Also on Wednesday, finance police searched the Sicilian regional assembly and seized documents from the regional budget committee chaired by Nino Dina, a councillor for the centrist UDC party and one of the arrested suspects.

Also arrested was Giuseppe Bevilacqua, who ran unsuccessfully for office in 2012 Palermo municipal elections and subsequently “offered” the 1,000 votes — which he allegedly obtained thanks to his Mafia connections — to Roberto Clemente, a city councillor who was running in the regional elections.

Wiretaps revealed Clemente, who is also under arrest on electoral corruption charges, agreed to make sure Bevilacqua replaced him in office at the local level in exchange for the votes — a deal he later reneged on. Bevilacqua also “capitalized” on his position in a charitable foundation by selling donated food destined for the indigent.

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Generali Predicts Dividends Over 5 Bln Euro by End 2018

Expected net cashflow of over 7 billion euros

(ANSA) — London, May 27 — Assicurazioni Generali S.p.A. expects accumulated dividends worth more than five billion euros by the end of 2018, with net cashflow of over seven billion euros during the same period, the group said Wednesday, disclosing its financial targets.

Further savings on spending of half a billion euros are expected by the end of 2018 in addition to the one billion euros of savings predicted by 2016 while total investments in the group are predicted to be as much as 1.25 billion euros.

Generali distributed dividends of 930 million euros for the last financial year of 2014.

The company said it is planning a new strategy “to become the retail insurance market leader for Europe” involving a “profound transformation of the business model to increase the loyalty of clients.”

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IAC Regrets Closure of Icelandic ‘Mosque’ In Venice

Iceland’s official national contribution to the 2015 Venice Biennale, ‘The Mosque,’ initiated by artist Christoph Büchel in collaboration with the Muslim communities of Venice and Iceland and commissioned by the Icelandic Art Center (IAC), was closed by city authorities on Friday. The IAC regrets the decision.

The art installation has proven highly controversial, especially given its location inside the Church of Santa Maria della Misericordia.

“The purpose of ‘The Mosque’ is to draw attention to the political institutionalization of segregation and prejudice in society, and to catalyze reflection upon the conflicts that arise from the sorts of governmental policies on immigration that lie at the heart of global ethnic and religious conflicts today,” explained IAC chair Eiríkur Þorláksson in a statement.

“The aim of our project, a peaceful and beautiful one, is to provide a platform for dialogue about and communication between different cultural positions, and to thus make a positive contribution to this dialogue on the international stage,” he continued.

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Italy: Three Anarchists Get 2 Year, 10 Mth Terms for TAV Attack

Defence lawyers satisfied with light sentences

(ANSA) — Turin, May 27 — Three Italian anarchist militants were convicted Wednesday on charges of attacking a high-speed railway (TAV) construction site in the Alps and sentenced to prison terms of two years, 10 months and 20 days.

The Turin court ordered the trio, who had been in jail since July awaiting trial, to serve the rest of their sentences under house arrest, judicial sources said.

Prosecutors had asked for prison terms of 5 years and six months for the three for the May 14, 2013, attack on the site at Chiomonte, which ‘No TAV’ protesters for years have campaigned against for upsetting the ecological balance of Alpine valleys.

Defence lawyers said they were satisfied with the sentence which reiterated, after similar sentences for four other defendants, “the not particularly serious nature of the affair notwithstanding what the prosecutor said”.

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Italy: Priest Arrested: 30 Suspects in Pedophile Probe

Salesian posed as American businessman

(ANSA) — Milan, May 26 — A priest was one of four people arrested Tuesday in a major child porn bust that allegedly involves as many as 30 suspects and victimized at least three minors. The suspects are charged with acquiring and trafficking thousands of photos and videos, most of which investigators said involved preadolescent Asian children.

The priest, 49, was arrested in Alassio near the Liguria city of Imperia, where he was posted after spending a few years in the village of Oulx in the Val di Susa valley in the northern Piedmont region. Investigators said the priest, who belongs to the Salesian order, posed as an American executive during Internet chats with the suspects, and favored photos and videos of preadolescent children.

The other three suspects are two unemployed individuals aged 58 and 51, and an employed person aged 51. They were arrested in the Tuscan port city of Livorno, in Rome, and in Torrecuso near the Campania city of Benevento.

All four are behind bars because a judge deemed them at risk of offending again.

The suspects allegedly “met” on Russian social network Imgsrc.ru, using code to move the conversation from apparently harmless chat to the outright barter of child pornography.

Communications took place mainly in English and no money was involved, police said. Police busted the kiddy porn ring after infiltrating it by posing as fellow predators.

Investigators are now probing whether the suspects not only bartered but also produced child pornography.

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Italy: Civil Service Owes 70 Bn Euros to Suppliers — BoI

Takes 144 days to pay compared to 32-day EU average

(ANSA) — Venice, May 27 — Italian civil service debts toward private suppliers amounted to 70 billion euros as of December 31, the Bank of Italy disclosed in its 2014 Annual Report, released Tuesday.

“Excluding the roughly 10 billion euros that creditors have ceded to banks without recourse shows that our public administration still owes 60 billion euros to suppliers,” said Giuseppe Bortolussi, the secretary of CGIA of Mestre, a small business association that conducts economic research and analysis. “Despite the announcements, the promises and the 56 billion euros made available by governments made available for the 2013-2014 two-year period, the stock of debt is still very high, as our public administration continues to pay very late compared with the requirements of the European Directive introduced in 2013, which requires payment within 30-60 days,” Bortolussi said.

The Italian civil service remains the slowest to pay in Europe despite improving by an average of 21 days last year, CGIA said. The civil service in 2015 takes an average of 144 days to pay suppliers, compared to an average of 34 days across the EU. Among Italy’s major trading partners, France signs their bills after 62 days, the Netherlands in 32 days, Great Britain in 24 days and Germany in 19 days, the CGIA reported.

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Italy: Former Rome Garbage King Gets 3 Year Term for Nepotism

Three other senior managers convicted in ‘parentgate’ trial

(ANSA) — Rome, May 27 — Franco Panzironi, formerly the powerful head of the Rome city trash collection agency AMA, was convicted Wednesday of nepotism in hiring at the firm and sentenced to a 3 year, 8 month prison term, judicial sources said. Three other former senior managers from AMA were convicted on similar charges of arranging employment for family members at the agency while four others were acquitted. Panzironi was arrested previously in connection with the so-called “Capital Mafia” corruption scandal that rocked Rome earlier this year.

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Italy: Berlusconi Says Germany Forced Higher Spreads to Damage Him

Ex-premier says Bundesbank, Merkel aimed ‘to hit me politically’

(ANSA) — Genoa, May 28 — German Chancellor Angela Merkel and that country’s central bank deliberately manipulated interest rates in 2011 to widen the spread and “hit me politically,” ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi said Thursday.

In an interview with Telenord television, Berlusconi said he was forced to resign in late 2011 because of the widening rate spread that he said was due to a political conspiracy.

That also involved then-French president Nicolas Sarkozy and officials from Finland who all wanted to be rid of Berlusconi, the head of the slumping Forza Italia (FI) political party said.

Berlusconi said the Bundesbank ordered Germany’s commercial banks to sell off Italian bonds to shake up markets.

As a big investor in insurer Mediolanum, said Berlusconi, he had direct knowledge that that firm “was obliged by force” by Bundesbank to sell Italian bonds.

Spreads between Italy’s 10-year bond and its German counterpart, widely considered to be a safe investment, were as wide as 500 basis points with yields above 7% in late 2011, reflecting investors’ fears of a Greek-style meltdown at the height of the sovereign debt crisis.

The spreads opened Thursday at just under 135 basis points, suggesting investors’ fears around Italy’s economy have largely calmed. Meanwhile, Berlusconi also suggested that he had to fight hard to see European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi — former head of the Bank of Italy — promoted to the ECB position.

Berlusconi previously called for a parliamentary inquiry after a conspiracy against him was suggested in a book by former US Treasury secretary Timothy Geithner.

He wrote that at a G-20 meeting in 2011, Europeans were pushing the White House to get involved in pressuring Berlusconi out of office at the peak of the eurozone crisis.

Investor confidence in the three-time premier hit an all-time low in 2011.

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Most-Wanted German Nazi Sommer ‘Unfit for Trial’

Former SS lieutenant Gerhard Sommer, at the top of a most-wanted list of Nazis, has been declared unfit for trial by prosecutors in Germany.

They said he had severe dementia.

Sommer, 93, was one of 10 ex-Nazi officers found guilty in absentia in Italy of one of the country’s worst civilian wartime massacres.

He was convicted for his role in the murders of 560 civilians in the Tuscan village of Sant’Anna di Stazzema in August 1944.

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Norway to Pull $900bn Oil Fund Out of Coal

Norway’s parliament has unanimously agreed that the country’s $900bn oil fund should radically reduce its investments in coal producers and coal-burning utilities to help limit climate change.

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Polls Point to Tight Race in Danish Election

With Denmark’s general election now underway, there seems to be an opinion poll everywhere one looks. And although they still point to a likely victory for the opposition parties, the gap appears to be closing.

Here’s a rundown of opinion polls released from the first day of the election.

Although her coalition of left-of-centre parties has consistently trailed the opposition in the polls, PM Helle Thorning-Schmidt is gambling that she can make up the gap over an intense three-week campaign.

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Prostitution Costs France ‘€1.6 Billion Each Year’

The 37,000 prostitutes in France are costing the country €1.6 billion a year, according to a new and extensive study that examined the economic effects that the sex industry has on French society.

Prostitution in France brings in an annual turnover of €3.2 billion, a new study funded by the European Commission has found.

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Spanish Police Rescue Girl Sold for Marriage by Parents

Spain police said Wednesday they had rescued an 11-year-old girl who was repeatedly raped and beaten after she was sold by her parents for marriage for 17,000 euros ($18,500).

Police detained five people from the two families involved and charged them with human trafficking, sexual abuse, rape, abuse and labour exploitation, they said in a statement.

Police said they began their investigation after learning that in May 2014 “a minor was sold by her parents for 17,000 euros with the goal of contracting marriage at an engagement party in Romania.”

The girl, who lived with her parents in the southern city of Seville, was mistreated as soon as she arrived in Valladolid in the north to live with her husband-to-be and his family, the statement added…

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Swedish Pensioners Evicted So as to Make Room for Asylum Seekers

400 pensioners in Munkedal are being thrown out from “the Peoples House” after a so-called asylum baron decided to buy it and convert it to a home for new Swedes from the third world. Local Social-Democratic politician Åsa Karlsson looks forward to the new citizens.

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Swiss Tourist Resorts Ready for Ramadan

Halal meat served around the clock, copies of the Koran in hotel rooms: The Swiss tourist industry is rolling out the red carpet — plus prayer mats with built-in compasses — for increasing numbers of Arab tourists.

The many services compatible with Islamic customs reflect the importance of Arabs from the Gulf states, the fastest-growing source of arrivals in Switzerland in absolute terms.

People from the Gulf spent an additional 148,000 nights in Swiss hotels last year, making up almost singlehandedly for the 179,000 fewer German tourists, who still constitute the largest group of inbound visitors.

Once preferring to stay close to Geneva and other scenic locations on the Lake Geneva shore, Gulf state Arabs have been booking into hotels in Zurich and Lucerne and tourist hot spots in the Bernese Alps like Interlaken.

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UK: Twin Sisters Who Fled Manchester to Join ISIS ‘Are at Centre of Group’s Online Propaganda and Grooming of Other Girls to Travel to Syria’

The teenage ‘terror twins’ who fled Britain to join ISIS are at the centre of a online propaganda campaign to persuade other girls to join the terror group, a report has found.

Salma and Zahra Halane, 17, who left their homes in Manchester last year, are among a ‘cluster of British women’ using social media to lure young westerners to Syria for a new life as a jihadi bride.

The girls are said to have adopted an ‘essential role’ in the sickening grooming campaign which promises young girls a ‘brave and strong husband’ in an Islamic utopia.

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UK’s Cameron Begins Tour of EU States to Push for Reform

British Prime Minister David Cameron met with the leaders of the Netherlands and France on Thursday, as Cameron began a whirlwind visit to four European capitals, pressing his case that the U.K. needs to renegotiate its relationship with the European Union.

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UN Envoy Urges Kosovo to Establish War Crime Court

Suspected crimes include the killing of about 400 civilians

(ANSA/AP) — NEW YORK — The U.N. envoy for Kosovo is urging the government to move swiftly to establish a court to investigate crimes committed by ethnic Albanian rebels during the country’s 1998-88 war of independence from Serbia.

Farid Zarif told the U.N. Security Council Tuesday he underlined the expectations of the international community and possible victims of crimes “that there be no delays in the steps required from Kosovo toward the establishment of the court.” Lawmakers in Kosovo cleared the way to create a European Union-backed court in April 2014 but the required constitutional and legislative steps have not been completed.

Suspected crimes include the killing of about 400 civilians, chiefly Serbs, and allegations that a handful of victims were slain specifically to harvest their organs for sale on the black market.

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Unido and UFM to Promote Inclusive and Sustainable Socio-Economic Development in the Region

VIENNA, 22 May 2015 — The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) will work closely to identify joint opportunities to advance inclusive and sustainable development in countries of the Mediterranean region.

An agreement on this was signed in Vienna today by LI Yong, the Director General of UNIDO, and Fathallah Sijilmassi, Secretary General of the Union for the Mediterranean.

Under the new partnership, the two organizations will jointly focus on developing and implementing integrated projects and activities for business development, youth employability, women’s empowerment, energy-efficiency, water, environment and climate change. They will also provide guidance and recommendations to governments in the countries of the Mediterranean.

The two entities are already cooperating at project level on the EU-Italy funded project “Development of clusters in cultural and creative industries in the South Mediterranean region”, being implemented by UNIDO, covers seven countries of the region: Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine and Tunisia.

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Selling the Desert’s Water-Conservation Lessons to the Rest of the World

The Israeli company Netafim has developed an irrigation system that can grow plants with much less water, which has proven to be a good line of business amid increasing drought.

The company, Netafim, was founded in 1965 on a kibbutz in the Negev Desert in the south of Israel, near Beersheva, and is today based in Tel Aviv. Although the company won’t share its profit records, there’s no question that Netafim has done very well as the global demand for water has grown increasingly intense. In the last 35 years, Netafim’s revenues have climbed from $60 million to more than $750 million, and its workforce has grown from a handful of kibbutzniks to more than 4,000 people on every continent but Antarctica. With a 30 percent market share, it’s the leading drip-irrigation company in the world.

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Global Cyber-Strategy Needed to Confront ‘IS’ And Other Terror Groups

“Islamic State” is not only a threat on the battlefield, but also on the Internet, writes Kyle Matthews from the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies.

The infamous “Islamic State of Iraq and Syria” (ISIS or IS) has proven its success both on the battlefield, with its recent capture of the city of Ramadi in Iraq, and in cyberspace, due to its mastery of social media and modern digital technology.

Not only has the group made public the horrific footage of the mass executions carried out by its jihadist fighters, it has turned the Internet into a “digital battleground” where it posts propaganda to indoctrinate individuals, promote hatred, recruit new foot soldiers, fundraise and plan mass casualty attacks.

The world’s most well-known coalition of religious fanatics is using digital technology in many innovative ways.

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Syrian Islamist Rebels ‘Seize Ariha in Idlib Province’

An Islamist coalition that includes Syria’s al-Qaeda affiliate al-Nusra Front has taken over one of the last government strongholds in western Idlib province, activists say.

The Jaish al-Fateh, or Conquest Army, took control of the city of Ariha after a “lightning offensive”, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

However, the Syrian army said intense fighting was still going on there.

As well as bordering Turkey, Idlib is also next to Latakia province, a government stronghold and President Bashar al-Assad’s heartland.

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Putin Orders All Russian Military Deaths be Classified as State Secrets

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree to make losses of Russian troops in peacetime a secret. The decree published on the official government website and signed by Putin on Wednesday makes it a state secret to divulge information about peacetime losses of Russian troops in “special operations.” The decree comes as evidence of Russian involvement in the conflict in eastern Ukraine is mounting.

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India’s Heat Wave Drags on, With Sprinkles of Relief

At least 1,020 people have died in the neighboring state of Andhra Pradesh, along with 11 in Odisha, taking the national toll from this heat wave to 1,371.

The highest maximum temperature recorded on Wednesday was 47 C or 116.6 F, at Daltonganj in eastern state of Jharkhand and Titlagarh in Odisha.

Daytime temperatures were up to 7 C higher than average in coastal areas of Andhra Pradesh State, said meteorological chief B.P. Yadav. However, in coming days, temperatures in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana were expected to fall up to 2 C, he said.

Earlier this week, it got so hot in Delhi that roads started showing signs of melting.

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Indians Seek Relief as Death Toll From Heat Wave Climbs Past 1,400

Eating onions, lying in the shade and crowding into rivers, Indians were doing whatever they could Thursday to stay cool amid a brutal heat wave that has killed more than 1,400 in the past month.

Most of the 1,412 heat-related deaths so far have occurred in the southern states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, where temperatures have soared up to 117 degrees Fahrenheit, according to government figures. Among the most vulnerable were the elderly and the poor, many of whom live in slums or farm huts with no access to air conditioners or sometimes even shady trees.

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US-Trained Tajikistan Special Forces Chief Joins Islamic State, Vows Jihad Inside US

The US-trained commander of Tajikistan’s elite police force has defected to Islamic State, he said in a YouTube video, and his former unit will issue a statement condemning him, media said on Thursday.

Colonel Gulmurod Khalimov commanded the Central Asian nation’s special-purpose police known as OMON, used against criminals and militants. He disappeared in late April, prompting a search by Tajik police.

He reappeared Wednesday, vowing to bring jihad to Russia and the Unites States as he brandished a cartridge belt and sniper rifle, in a professionally made, 10-minute video clip posted in social networks.

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China: To Please Millionaires, Beijing to Lower Taxes on Luxury Goods

The government plans to lower import taxes by an average of 50 per cent in order to bolster domestic demand in high-end consumer goods like Nike sports shoes and L’Oreal cosmetics.

Beijing (AsiaNews/Agencies) — China will lower import taxes on some foreign, high-end consumer goods to bolster domestic demand and prop up a faltering economy.

The Finance Ministry announced today as of 1 June, it would lower import taxes on average by 50 per cent to satisfy strong consumer demand for certain imported products.

Companies that stand to benefit from lower import duties include US sports shoe firm Nike and cosmetics company L’Oreal, whose products are usually out of reach of the average Chinese consumer.

The decision follows a statement by China’s State Council, the country’s Cabinet, in April that it would look to reduce import tariffs on some consumer goods to stoke domestic spending.

“Expanding domestic consumer demand is an important step in creating stable growth and promoting structural reform,” the Finance Ministry said in a statement.

Chinese consumers — those who can afford it — have become an important factor in shaping demand as more of them take trips abroad.

By some estimates, the per capita spending of Chinese tourists in Europe or the United States hovers around US$ 7,500 per stay.

Once at home, they often often grumble about paying higher prices for goods than in other markets cost about 20 per cent more less, partly due to steep import taxes.

“These products are being bought in large quantities by Chinese consumers overseas and consumers have a strong desire to buy them, so lowering import taxes should have the benefit of increasing imports reasonably and help upgrade domestic consumption,” the Ministry said in its statement.

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Kidnapped Nigerian Girls Likely Being Used by Boko Haram as Suicide Bombers, Experts Fear

Fears are mounting in Nigeria that the so-called “Chibok girls” kidnapped by Boko Haram more than a year ago are being used in the Islamist terror group’s stepped-up campaign of suicide bombings.

The terrorist organization, which has aligned itself with ISIS and operates out of the African nation’s northeastern sector, has been blamed for 27 suicide bombings so far this year, more than it carried out all of last year, according to a recent UNICEF report. The agency found Nigeria has endured an especially “alarming spike” in suicide bombings carried out by girls and women.

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Win-Win Deal Helps Avoid War Over Ethiopia’s $5 Billion Nile Dam

CRISIS averted? Scientists may be on the verge of resolving a potentially war-triggering water dispute: how to share out the flow of the River Nile. A decades-long row over one of the world’s longest rivers pits downstream Egypt, whose agriculture depends on the river’s flow, against upstream Ethiopia, which is building Africa’s biggest hydroelectric dam.

There have been threats of war over the $5-billion dam, but researchers hope they have come up with the bones of a win-win deal that gives more water and electricity to both countries. They are now pressing for its inclusion in a final deal on the dam to be signed next year.

Ethiopia began construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in a gorge of the Blue Nile, the Nile’s biggest tributary, in 2011 and expects to have it up and running in 2017. The dam will be able to hold back the entire flow of the Blue Nile for more than a year, potentially cutting supplies to Egypt and Sudan.

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China Closes Deals Worth Billions With Four South American Nations

Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang wrapped up his Latin American tour on Monday with a pledge from his country to pump €229 billion in investments into the region over the next 10 years.

In Santiago, the last stop on Li’s four-nation visit, Chilean President Michelle Bachelet took part in six events and ceremonies with the Chinese prime minister — a clear sign that her country, as well as other Latin American nations, are eager to boost their business relationships with the Asian giant.

Latin American nations are eager to enhance their business partnerships with the Asian giant

Li had already signed trade agreements with Brazil, Colombia and Peru before arriving in Chile, where he also hammered out a series of similar accords at La Moneda presidential palace before attending a state dinner in his honor.

Among the agreements is one that will end double taxation on foreign businesses and another that will allow currency exchanges between the two country’s central banks.

Financial cooperation between Chile and China is a key factor in bilateral relations at this moment.

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Foreign Investment in Latin America Falls 16% in 2014

Foreign direct investment in Latin America and the Caribbean fell 16 percent in 2014, reversing a decade-long growth trend as the region’s economies slowed, a UN panel said Wednesday.

Foreign investment in the region fell to $158.8 billion last year from a record $190 billion in 2013, said the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.

It was the first drop since 2009 and a sharp reversal in a trend that saw foreign investment expand rapidly over the course of a decade, from $46.9 billion in 2003.

“Inflows were affected by the region’s economic deceleration and lower prices for its raw material exports,” the commission said in a report…

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“Belgium Should Accommodate 1,364 Refugees”

Belgium should provide shelter for 1,364 refugees from the Mediterranean in the coming two years. That’s according to plans drawn up by the European Commission for a fair spreading of the incoming people. The EU also wants Belgium to accommodate 490 people from refugee camps in the Middle East.

At present, most refugees are received by Italy and Greece, but the burden should be spread more equally, it has been argued various times. It is estimated that some 40,000 refugees will arrive in Greece and Italy in the next two years. Belgium should take 3.41 per cent of the tally: 818 refugees from Italy and 546 from Greece.

Belgium’s part was calculated taking into account population numbers, prosperity, unemployment figures and the present efforts. Germany, France and Spain would have to make the biggest effort. Britain, Ireland and Denmark have the legal right to refuse their cooperation.

The European programme focuses on refugees from Syria and Eritrea. They had a success rate of more than 75% when applying for a residence permit elsewhere.

The EU also wants Belgium to welcome people that are now living in refugee camps outside Syria. 20,000 should receive a proper home, with Belgium taking up 2.45 per cent of the burden. This equals 490 places.

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Brussels Asks the Netherlands to Take 2,047 Refugees to Ease Pressure on South

The European Commission has asked the Netherlands to accept 2,047 refugees from Syria and Eritrea to help relieve the pressure on Mediterranean countries which are coping with a surge of asylum seekers. The relocation effort is focusing on people from Eritrea and Syria because they are most likely to be entitled to refugee status because of the situation in their home countries, broadcaster Nos reports. The commission has drawn up a plan to divide 40,000 refugees between the member states, although Britain, Ireland and Denmark have said they will not take part.

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EU Expands Triton Mission to Help Italy

The EU on Tuesday said it will expand its sea rescue mission, Triton, in a direct move to help Italian authorities cope with the number of boat migrants crossing the Mediterranean.

Nearly seven months after the mission was launched by Frontex, the EU’s border control agency said Triton operations will be extended to 138 nautical miles south of Sicily.

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EU Tells Spain to Take in More Asylum Seekers

Spain will have to accept more asylum seekers under controversial quotas issued by the European Commission after its complaints over the plan were ignored.

The EU’s executive body dismissed a plea by Spain’s foreign minister that Spain’s own economic situation and battle to control illegal immigration at its own borders should be further taken into account when determining the quotas.

The quotas were announced by the European Commission in its European Agenda on Migration on Wednesday and will become mandatory once voted in by the Council of Ministers.

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Gang Trafficking Afghans to EU Busted in Spain

Police in Spain have broken up a gang that smuggled Afghans into Europe for a fee of €23,000

Police arrested 24 people in Spain and Britain in raids on a gang that made $4.25 million in six months from trafficking Afghan migrants to Europe, the Spanish government said Wednesday.

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Greece: Coast Guard Picks Up 216 Migrants in Eastern Aegean

Raising the total this week to more than 1,500

(ANSAmed) — ATHENS, MAY 28 — Greek authorities say the coast guard has picked up 216 people in the Aegean Sea who entered the country illegally by sailing from the Turkish coast to nearby islands overnight, raising the total this week to more than 1,500. The people were rescued in eight incidents near the islands of Kos, Lesbos and Chios, but it was not immediately clear where they were from, daily Kathimerini online reports quoting the coast guard as saying on Thursday.

Greece and Italy are the main points of entry into the European Union for refugees and economic migrants from the Middle East and Africa hoping to reach the more prosperous countries of the north. About 30,000 have arrived in Greece so far this year.

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Greece: Press; Migrants Turn Kos Island Into ‘Hellhole’

(ANSAmed) — ATHENS, MAY 28 — Migrants fleeing Syria and Afghanistan have turned the Aegean Island of Kos into a “disgusting hellhole,” according to Britain’s Daily Mail online edition. Known for cheap package deals, Kos has witnessed an influx of migrants reaching its shores from Turkey this year.

According to recent data released by the Hellenic Coast Guard, as Kathimerini online reports, migrants arriving at eastern Aegean Sea islands had tripled in the first quarter of 2015 compared to the same period last year.

With Greece and Italy being the first stop for migrants seeking to reach Europe, the European Commission has tabled a proposal for moving 40,000 refugees to other countries, a measure expected to spark tension among EU governments. According to the British daily, families enjoying the half term break with their children “relax on sun loungers on the beach, just a yards away scores of migrants have set up camp, sleeping on cardboard boxes with rubbish strewn everywhere.” Migrant families had taken over a derelict hotel and use water from a hose on the street, the newspaper reported. “We won’t be coming back if it’s like a refugee camp again next year,” a British couple on holiday with their grandchildren from Birmingham told the newspaper.

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Greek Coast Guard Picks Up 216 Migrants in Eastern Aegean

Greek authorities say the coast guard has picked up 216 people in the Aegean Sea who entered the country illegally by sailing from the Turkish coast to nearby islands overnight, raising the total this week to more than 1,500.

The people were rescued in eight incidents near the islands of Kos, Lesbos and Chios, but it was not immediately clear where they were from, the coast guard said Thursday.

Greece and Italy are the main points of entry into the European Union for refugees and economic migrants from the Middle East and Africa hoping to reach the more prosperous countries of the north. About 30,000 have arrived in Greece so far this year.

Financially crippled Greece has called for more help from the EU to deal with the influx.

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How Many More Can Kos Take? Holidaymaker Misery as Thousands of Boat People From Syria and Afghanistan Set Up Migrant Camp to Turn Popular Greek Island Into ‘Disgusting’ Hellhole

Boat people from Syria and Afghanistan and British holidaymakers have clashed on Kos — as migrants have turned the Greek island, popular with cheap package deals, into a ‘disgusting’ hellhole.

An Afghan immigrant sleeps on a bench outside the police station in Kos as two tourists cycle by. Straggly migrants straight from the boats have been marching through the town with backpacks on to join friends and register for their travel permits at the police station

The harbourside has become an unofficial washing line, with clothes and grubby-looking scarves laid out along the shoreline.

Young Afghan mothers in head scarves, changing their babies and washing their children’s clothes in the sea, share the promenade with tourists who sit uncomfortably on the beachfront.

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Italy: Mayor Warns of ‘Racism Trap’ As Two Teens Sought

Family of one wanted youth asks for forgiveness

(ANSA) — Rome, May 28 — Rome Mayor Ignazio Marino on Thursday warned of the danger of falling into the racism “trap” sparked by a deadly hit-and-run by Roma teens in which a woman died and eight people were injured, at least three of them critically, after a police chase Wednesday night.

“Rome won’t be dragged into base electoral exploitation,” he said. “Some — like (rightwing populist Northern League leader) Matteo Salvini and his Roman imitators — are…fomenting hatred at the risk of sparking further violence,” Marino said.

“Adding fuel to the fire is…an outright crime, one that is unforgivable on the part of anyone with local or national responsibilities,” he said.

The mayor spoke after racist stickers appeared in Rome’s Boccea neighborhood, not far from the bus stop where the fatal crash that killed a 44-year-old Filipino woman occurred.

“Thieving murdering Gypsy” said one sticker.

“Let’s run the Gypsies over” said another.

Earlier in the day the family of one of two minors being sought for the fatal crash asked for victims’ forgiveness. “We want to say to the victim’s family and all the injured that we are sorry,” they said. “If we could meet with them, we would ask for their forgiveness”.

The sister of one of the two underage Roma being sought said earlier her brother is “not answering the phone”.

“We don’t know where he is,” Claudia said. “If he shows up we’ll take him to the magistrate”.

Police in the nation’s capital have launched a massive hunt for the missing pair of Roma.

The two minors escaped on foot, but police detained a 17-year-old girl of Roma ethnicity who was in the car. The teen was probably not at the wheel but investigators still consider her in part responsible for what happened, sources said.

Police are focusing their search for the suspects — whose identities they said they know — at Roma camps in the capital, sources said.

Three of the injured are hospitalized in critical condition.

The incident sparked an outpouring of racist abuse and threats on social media, leading city authorities to increase security around the capital’s Roma camps, while Salvini repeated his previous call for them to be bulldozed in light of the incident.

“When we return to government we’ll raze all these damned Roma camps to the ground,” Salvini promised on Facebook.

The anti-immigrant, anti-euro leader has been met with resistance — including hails of eggs, bottles and tomatoes — at campaign stops throughout Italy ahead of May 31 local elections in seven regions.

In April, Facebook suspended his account for 24 hours for using derogatory language about the Roma people, after creating a furore by saying Roma camps should be demolished.

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Relocate 24,000 Refugees From Italy: EU

The EU on Wednesday announced plans to relocate 24,000 refugees from Italy to other European countries, part of wider plans to ease the migration burden currently weighing heavily on Mediterranean countries.

The new measure is intended to apply to Syrians and Eritreans who arrived in Italy after April 15th and are deemed to be in need of protection. A further 16,000 migrants who arrived in Greece from the two countries should also be relocated, the EU said.

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Greenland Approves Same-Sex Marriage

Greenland became the 21st country in the world to legalize gay marriage thanks to a unanimous vote in parliament on Wednesday.

The autonomous Arctic country of Greenland followed the lead of its former colonial master Denmark by legalizing same-sex marriage.

According to the Greenlandic Broadcasting Corporation (GBC), the vote to approve same-sex marriage went as expected and passed by a 27-0 vote.

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Northern Ireland Bakery Owners to Appeal ‘Gay Cake’ Verdict

The owners of a Northern Ireland bakery that refused to bake a cake supporting gay marriage said Thursday they would appeal their conviction for discrimination.

The Christian owners of Ashers Baking Company were convicted last week after refusing an order from gay rights activist Gareth Lee. He asked for a cake featuring Sesame Street characters Bert and Ernie and the words “Support Gay Marriage.”

Belfast judge Isobel Brownlie ruled that the bakery had discriminated against Lee on grounds of sexual orientation and political beliefs and ordered it to pay 500 pounds ($765) in damages, plus thousands in legal costs.

The judge said the bakery was a business, not a religious organization, and therefore had no legal basis to reject an order based on a customer’s sexual orientation or beliefs.

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Swedes Want ‘Equal’ World Cup (For Women)

Swedish TV channel TV4 plans to describe the upcoming global women’s football contest in Canada as the ‘World Cup’, as part of efforts to promote equality in the sport, but Fifa has said it will be in breach of contract unless it uses its full title the ‘Fifa Women’s World Cup’.

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15+ Ramadan Tips for Western Muslims

By Talaat Pasha

Most of Muslim communities in the West have their own gatherings, depending on the size of a certain ethnic population. In the relatively small-size Muslim communities, people tend to have a daily iftar in the Islamic center where each group from a certain country offers iftar for the whole community. Join these collective activities.

Invite your non-Muslim co-workers or classmates to the Center and introduce them to other Muslims.

Choose a group of young youth and start together a project to help the community at large.

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6 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 5/28/2015

  1. Swiss, and other Western kowtowing to Islam is patently ridiculous.

    At Algeria’s largest airport, there are no footbaths provided in any of the several terminal restrooms that I have visited. Bear in mind that this is a 99% Muslim country.

    I recently flew to Lyon, France and found footbaths in a couple terminal bathrooms whatever did I find, but footbaths!

    Unbelievable.

    Oh well, off to the butcher to stock up on yet more meat before they close shop during what I like to call, “the least wonderful time of the year.”

    • Was anyone listening on 9/10? Is anyone listening now? Who do we blame next time?

      • The neo-Marxists in the U.S. will always blame the U.S. no matter who attacks us because they always believe that the aggressor has “legitimate greviances” and thus the victim is always to blame.

        Never will it be considered that an enemy might just have a supremacist imperialist ideology with the goal of dominating everyone else.

  2. It wants more than 1,300 to go to Belgium, and more than 2,000 to go to the Netherlands.”

    The “cockpit” of Europe is itching for fights and corpses. The last peaceful, godless few decades are boring. Instead of Napoleon and Nazis, import muslim invaders and they will do the job.
    Old Strumpet never learns a lesson!.

  3. Just so long as they dont send them to the UK,Im sure Sweden will take them,apparently M.Ps their think the indigenous white Swedish girls enjoy being raped,especially when its a gang rape,free housing,welfare,health care and sex,and folks im angry about having to write that,rape of anyone is a disgusting act and destroys generations,especially on the scale its happening in Sweden,but all along i think this is part of the muslim brotherhoods plan to destroy us from within.Bring back the gallows,and see how many of them want to rush to our shores

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