Armed gunmen attacked the Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, killing at least thirteen people, mostly airport security guards. After a five-hour gun battle with army commandos, all ten attackers were killed.
In other news, 75 people were killed in various bombings and other attacks in Iraq.
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People from ethnic minority backgrounds will make up nearly a third of the UK’s population by 2050.
A Portrait of Modern Britain reveals that the five largest distinct Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) communities could potentially double from 8 million people or 14% of the population to between 20-30% by the middle of the century. Over the past decade, the UK’s White population has remained roughly the same while the minority population has almost doubled. Black Africans and Bangladeshis are the fastest growing minority communities with ethnic minorities representing 25% of people aged under the age of five.
The handbook draws on an extensive set of survey, census, academic and polling data to build up a detailed picture of the five largest minority groups in the UK — Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Black Africans and Black Caribbeans. The paper outlines the demographics, geography, life experiences, attitudes and socioeconomic status of each of these major ethnic groups. The purpose of the research is to show that there are clear and meaningful differences between each of these communities, which need to be fully understood by policymakers and politicians.
The study also reveals that while the face of Britain has changed and is continuing to become even more multi-racial, people from ethnic minority backgrounds have a far stronger association with being British than the White population. In the 2011 Census, only 14% of Whites identified themselves as being purely British, with 64% seeing themselves as purely English. All other ethnic minority communities were over four times more likely to associate themselves with being British.. 71% of Bangladeshis and 63% of Pakistanis considered themselves purely British. A quarter of the Black Caribbean community see themselves as purely English, while just over half (55%) see themselves as just British.
Other key findings include:…
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Austrian Far-Right Leader Tells Turkish PM to Stay at Home ‘In Erdoganistan’
Austrian far-right leader Heinz-Christian Strache told Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday to “stay at home,” ahead of a controversial election rally planned in Vienna later this month.
“This is just a propaganda campaign for his Erdoganistan. I find this alarming,” Freedom Party (FPOe) leader Strache told the daily Oesterreich.
“We don’t need Erdogan in Vienna. I’ll tell him right now: ‘Erdogan, stay at home’,” he added, insisting that Erdogan was seeking to establish a “parallel society” in Austria.
Erdogan is expected to hold a rally in Vienna on June 19 in what is seen as a bid to win overseas votes ahead of presidential elections in August — although he has yet to announce his candidacy. An estimated 100,000 eligible Turkish voters live in Austria.
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Corruption ‘Deeply Rooted Evil in Italian Culture’
(AGI) Rome, June 8 — Corruption is an evil that is deeply rooted in Italian culture, said former magistrate Gherardo Colombo in a television interview with Sky Tg24. “Nothing has changed in the past seven years; that period is too short to change a culture. Twenty two years have passed since the start of ‘mani pulite’ (a judicial investigation into political corruption), and even that was not sufficient to change the habit of breaking laws instead of respecting them.” .
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Italy: Unicredit Must Hold on to Alitalia Shares, Says CEO
(AGI) Santa Margherita Ligure, June 7 — Alitalia creditor Unicredit will hold on to its shares in the Italian airline because the bank has no choice, CEO Federico Ghizzoni told a conference of young businessmen on Saturday. He explained that Etihad has made an offer on Alitalia, and that Alitalia’s creditors will be asked to write off up to 560 million euros of Alitalia’s debt. “A request for a 30 percent debt write-off has been made, a demanding request,” said the CEO of Unicredit.
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Rafael Nadal won his ninth French Open title Sunday and fifth in a row, defeating his longtime rival Novak Djokovic, 3-6, 7-5, 6-2, 6-4.
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The Desperate, Brave Faces of Europe’s Secret Crisis
by Peter Hitchens
We are ignoring a European crisis that is going to change all our lives irreversibly and for ever. It is the huge, tragic surge of African migrants across the Mediterranean. Once inside the borderless European Union, these newcomers can and will settle anywhere. There is no law or power that can stop them.
I first became aware of this when I went to Ceuta, a Spanish enclave in North Africa. I had gone to tease Spain for moaning about Gibraltar, while it had its own Gibraltar in Morocco.
But much more serious was the virtual siege of Ceuta (and its nearby twin, Melilla) by migrants, immense numbers of them, crowding up against the 20ft fences which are all that separate this little piece of Spain from Africa…
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U.S. Navy Rescues 282 People From Mediterranean
The U.S. Navy reported Saturday that two American warships had rescued nearly 300 people from boats in the Mediterranean Sea after one of the small craft began to sink.
The amphibious assault ship Bataan and guided missile frigate Elrod responded after receiving a report from an Italian military aircraft that had sighted six small vessels, the Navy said in a statement.…
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UK: ‘Trojan Horse’: Calls for Interfaith Task Force
Labour MP Liam Byrne is calling for a new interfaith task force in Birmingham to defend the rights of Muslim families following the “Trojan Horse” claims.
Ofsted has inspected 21 schools over allegations of a hardline Muslim plot to take over some schools in the city. Mr Byrne said ministers had treated Muslims as “second-class citizens” by branding those seeking education in line with religion as extreme.
The Department for Education said it would be “inappropriate to comment”…
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UK: Bid to End Suffering of Chickens Blocked After Muslims Complain …
New laws aimed at reducing the suffering of millions of chickens in abattoirs have been put on hold by the Government after Muslims complained they would undermine their rights to slaughter the birds according to Islamic rituals.
To the dismay of animal welfare groups, the laws were unexpectedly delayed just days before they were due to be implemented last month. Senior vets and campaigners said that the delay was ‘outrageous’ and some have now threatened to report ministers to the European Commission for failing to implement the EU-wide rules…
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UK: Don’t Dismiss This Tory Feud — it’s Protecting a Swamp Full of Medieval Islam Fanatics
by Toby Young
The row over the plot by Islamic extremists to take over state schools in Birmingham has forced an apology out of Education Secretary Michael Gove and led to the resignation of the Home Secretary Theresa May’s closest adviser. And it looks set to intensify even further tomorrow when Ofsted publishes its critical report into the affair…
How we tackle extremism and prevent young men from becoming radicalised is one of the most important political issues of the day and Mr Gove is one of the few front-rank politicians to have given it serious thought. He is right when he accuses the Establishment of having swept this problem under the carpet for fear of being accused of racism.
It’s time we had a proper debate about what religious practices we are prepared to tolerate in schools and other state-funded institutions — and if we need to ‘drain the swamp’ we should get on with it before the crocodile population gets out of control.
It is not ‘Islamophobic’ to want to protect young people from being brainwashed by medieval fanatics. But because of some throwaway remarks at a lunch and the Home Secretary’s absurd overreaction, this debate has been reduced to a sub-plot in Game of Thrones, with Mr Gove cast as the Imp and Mrs May doing a good impression of Daenerys Targaryen.
It’s difficult not to laugh, but the Islamist takeover of state schools is no laughing matter.
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UK: Spectacular New Mosque in Langley Green to Open Today
A MOSQUE is reopening after a transformation saw it move from a small bungalow to a three-storey building. Langley Green Mosque, on the corner of Martyrs Avenue and London Road, is opening today (Sunday) after two years of work…
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UK: Trojan Horse ‘Links to Terror’
Radical school’s parents leader has been to Syria to support rebels and helps extreme groups
A key spokesman for one of the Birmingham “Trojan Horse” schools, who is defending it against allegations of a hardline Muslim takeover, has close links to alleged terrorists, The Sunday Telegraph can disclose.
Belal Ballali is spokesman for the newly-formed Oldknow Academy Parents’ Association, which is officially endorsed by the school.
He is a mainstay of Oldknow’s efforts to rally parents and the community against a highly-critical Ofsted report being published tomorrow. He appeared last week on Sky News saying that claims of extremism at the school “beggar belief”.
However, The Sunday Telegraph can disclose that Mr Ballali has made at least one, and possibly as many as three, recent trips to Syria and fiercely supports what he calls the “heroic” British citizens, estimated to number 400, currently fighting in the country’s civil war…
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UK: Way Forward on Islam Question
WE have known since 2005 that some elements within the Home Office have got counter-extremism all wrong.
Some people in the Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism, for instance, believe that non-violent extremists are not worth challenging and that only violent terrorists deserve our attention.
Non-violent extremists have even been brought in to help tackle jihadists. If this is still the position of senior figures in Government departments, and it seems to be, we need to talk about it more…
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UKIP May Join French National Front to Gain European Power
UKIP may be forced into a U-turn and join with Marine Le Pen’s National Front party if it hopes to have any power in Europe, it emerged last night.
The claims came as it was revealed that Ukip MEP Godfrey Bloom had spoken to Le Pen and told her that in the UK “hardly anyone knows what anti-Semitic means”. Ukip last night bullishly maintained its opposition to France’s National Front, insisting that it would be able to form a bloc (which must consist of at least 25 MEPs from seven nations) without Le Pen…
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Croatia: Flowers in Ustasha U Shape Planted in Jasenovac
ZAGREB — Flowers in the colors of the Croatian “Chessboard” flag and shaped in the form of the U symbol of the Ustasha, Croatian pro-Nazi regime responsible for massive killings of Serbs, Jews and Roma in concentration camps during World War II, have been planted at the Jasenovac Memorial Site in central Croatia.
The association of libertarian activists in Croatia has demanded from competent institutions to act urgently and have the flowers removed and those in the Jasenovac Memorial Site management responsible for the provocation appropriately sanctioned, Croatian website Zpress.hr reports.
“When you see those flowers as white and red squares, arranged in the shape of the letter U, planted at the Jasenovac Memorial Site, you are not sure if you are awake or in some kind of nightmare,” the activists said in a release.
People were imprisoned, tortured and killed there “because of being of ‘wrong’ nationality, religious affiliation or worldview, and those committing the crimes were the very ones whose symbols were the letter U and the white and red squares.”
“People come to Jasenovac to pay their respects to the innocent victims, and then they see a glorification of the genocidal regime that committed crimes there in which, according to official records, over 80 thousand people were killed.
“In addition, it is important to note that because of the symbolism of Jasenovac, where people were imprisoned, tortured and killed not only in the name of the Ustasha, the Nazi ideology, but also on behalf of the Croatian government and Croatian statehood, and the purity of the Croatian nation, special care should be taken, for the sake of decency, that not even the legitimate state symbols of the Republic of Croatia, such as its flag or coat of arms, are ever placed there,” the release said.
The libertarian association pointed to the example of Germany, which never puts its national and state symbols at such sites, an additional way to express reverence for the victims of concentration camps and the remorse of the state in whose name people were imprisoned, tortured and killed.
The genocide committed by the Croatian Ustasha during World War Two claimed the lives of several hundred thousand Serbs, 80,000 Roma and 32,000 Jews and several thousand anti-fascists of other nationalities.
Most of them were murdered in concentration camps, the biggest of which was the Jasenovac death camp system, known in historical literature as the “Auschwitz of the Balkans”.
Croatia was the only Axis country that had camps for children, and around 23,000 of a total of about 33,000 children aged from a few months to 15 years old met their death in those camps.
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Croatia: Islamic Community Head, Ambassadors Visit Flooded Mosque
The head of the Islamic community in Croatia, Zagreb Mufti Aziz Hasanovic, and the ambassadors of Azerbaijan, Indonesia and Iran on Saturday visited the oldest Islamic mosque in Croatia, in Gunja, which ended up three metres under water as the Sava river flooded the area in mid-May…
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Egypt: Unlicensed Preachers Banned, Face Fines
Egypt has banned unauthorized preachers from giving sermons or teaching Islam in mosques and other public places, according to a decree on Saturday marking a further step in official efforts to curb Islamist influence…
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Israel’s Labour Presidential Candidate Withdraws
(AGI) Jerusalem, June 7 — Israel’s Labour presidential candidate, 78-year-old Benjamin Ben Eliezer, has dropped out of the running after being interrogated by the police over corruption charges. He said that an aggressive, orchestrated campaign had been launched against him to prevent him becoming president and that it was with regret that he had decided to withdraw. The charges relate to the illegal receipt of money and, according to the media, the purchase of a luxurious house in Jaffa.
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Palestinians Ask Australia to Clarify Stance on East Jerusalem
RAMALLAH, June 8 (Xinhua) — The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) has officially asked Australia on Sunday to clarify the declaration of Australia’s Attorney General that considered east Jerusalem as an “unoccupied” area.
Reyad al-Malki, the PNA minister of foreign affairs in the unity government told a news conference in Ramallah that his ministry summoned Australian ambassador to the PNA Thomas Wilson to hand him a letter of protest…
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Pope Francis Peace Plea at Israel-Palestinian Prayer Meeting
Pope Francis has urged Israeli and Palestinian leaders to show courage to seek peace in the Middle East.
The Pope was speaking after hosting joint prayers at the Vatican with Israeli President Shimon Peres and his Palestinian counterpart, Mahmoud Abbas. Mr Peres said making peace was a “holy mission”. Mr Abbas spoke of a “comprehensive and just peace”…
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Double Bombing at Party Office Kills 19 in Iraq
A double bombing at a Kurdish party office killed 19 people in a town northeast of Baghdad on Sunday, Iraqi officials said.
Police officials said the attack took place in the morning when a suicide bomber set off his explosive vest at the gate of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan office in Jalula, 125 kilometers (80 miles) northeast of Baghdad in the ethnically mixed Diyala province…
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Iraq: Death Toll in Jalawla Attack Rises to 18
(AGI) Baghdad, June 8 — The death toll from the dual attack on a Kurdish political party headquarters in Iraq on Sunday morning has risen to 18. A car bomb followed by a suicide attacker blew up the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) party offices in Jalawla, approximately 70 kilometres from the north eastern city of Baquba, in Diyala province. Security sources said at least 60 people had been injured.
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Iraq: 38 Killed in Battles With Gunmen in Iraq’s Mosul
BAGHDAD, June 8 (Xinhua) — Thirty-eight people were killed and 15 others injured in fierce battles for the third day in the Iraqi city of Mosul, the capital of Iraq’s northern province of Nineveh on Sunday, a provincial police source said.
Sporadic clashes, bomb explosions and airstrikes continued since the early hours of the day in Mosul, some 400 km north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, as Iraqi security forces are fighting insurgent groups, some believed to have linkage with the Islamic State in Iraq and Levant, an al-Qaida breakaway group in Iraq, who are seizing several neighborhoods in western part of the city, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity…
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New Zealand: Sis Agents ‘Watching Mosque’
Worshippers at the Invercargill Mosque say they’re being watched by undercover Security Intelligence Service agents.
Prime Minister John Key has confirmed mosques around the country are being monitored, after a New Zealand Muslim was killed by a US drone strike in Yemen last year…
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Saudi Arabia: Witness to a Stoning
A tipper truck dumped heaps of red sandstone for those without sin to fling at the women under their shrouds
Attending public executions, whether beheadings or stonings, is not my predilection, yet one does come across them in the course of life in Arabia and Pakistan. Beheading and stoning are the accepted penalties for a range of presumed offences in much of the Muslim world, and the all-male crowd — especially the old men — push and shove outside Riyadh’s main mosque after Friday morning prayer for a better view of offenders losing their heads by the ceremonial sword. The seeping cadavers and their heads are left on the tarmac pour encourager les autres…
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Saudi Divorces Wife for Buying Beverage Can
Husband says wife disobeyed him but she counters that he is mean
A Saudi man divorced his wife for disobeying him and buying a beverage can although she has given him four children, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
The unnamed man had repeatedly refused his wife’s request to buy her beverage on the grounds he did not want her to have such drinks. But the wife rebuffed her husband’s claims, saying he has refused to buy her beverage and many other items because he is mean…
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Syrian Army Continues Purging Terrorists From Idlib, Aleppo, Damascus, Lattakia
TEHRAN (FNA)- The Syrian Army forces continued their mop up operations against the terrorists in Idlib, Aleppo, Damascus and Lattakia regions on Saturday, four days after the war-hit nation gave President Bashar Al-Assad and his government another landslide victory.
In the last 24 hours, the Syrian army launched military operations in Aleppo countryside in a bid to open its path to the Western parts of the region.
The army units made advances in the Southern parts of the Aleppo countryside, specially after they tightened their grip on Rasam Bekro, Al-Jadideh, Al-Safireh, Haddadin, Al-Tineh Al-Madajen Hills, Al-Shahid, Azan Mountain, Hadadin, Al-Najm Castle and Rasm Al-Sheikh regions in the last four days…
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Pentagon Sends Military Advisers to Kiev
(AGI) Washington DC, June 8 — The U.S. is speeding up its military support to Ukraine. The Pentagon is about to send a small team of military advisers to Kiev, whose task will be to establish the medium and long term priorities of Ukraine’s armed forces. Pentagon spokesperson Eileen Lainez said this is “the first step toward helping to shape and establish an enduring programme for future U.S. efforts to support the Ukrainian military through training, education and assistance”.
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Gunmen Attack Karachi Airport, Killing at Least 4 Guards
Gunmen attacked a cargo and V.I.P. area of Karachi’s international airport late Sunday night, engaging in a heavy firefight with security forces and killing at least four of them, Pakistani security officials said.
The officials said that at least eight attackers were involved, and that the fighting was continuing early Monday morning.
Security forces sealed off the airport, and flights began being diverted away from Karachi within minutes of the fighting. Witnesses saw smoke rising from the airport’s old terminal, and one Pakistani news channel aired footage of at least one plane on fire nearby.
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Heavily Armed Gunmen Have Attacked Karachi International Airport in Pakistan, Killing 13 People.
An army spokesman said all 10 of the gunmen who attacked Jinnah International Airport’s old terminal had also been killed.
Army commandos were called in, and gunfire lasted for more than five hours before the airport was secured. But all operations at the terminal remain suspended and all flights are being diverted to other airports.
Staff and passengers were evacuated. At least 14 people were wounded.
Billowing smoke
The dead terminal staff were said to be mostly security guards from the Airport Security Force (ASF) but also airline workers…
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India: Rapes Happen ‘Accidentally’ — Minister
A minister from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling party has said rapes happen “accidentally” in the latest controversial remarks by a politician amid renewed anger over attacks against women.
Ramsevak Paikra, the home minister of central Chhattisgarh state who is responsible for law and order, said late on Saturday that rapes did not happen on purpose…
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MH370 Families Seek $5 Million for Investigation, ‘Whistle Blower’ Reward
(CNN) — Three months to the day after a Malaysian jetliner vanished, relatives of those aboard are set to launch an effort Sunday to raise $5 million for investigations and a “whistle blower” reward.
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared on March 8 with 239 people aboard. A multinational effort to scour the choppy waters of the southern Indian Ocean has turned up no signs of the jetliner.
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Roadside Bombings Kill 3 Afghan Soldiers, 13 Militants
KABUL, June 8 (Xinhua) — Three Afghan soldiers and 13 militants were killed in separate explosions in Afghanistan on Sunday, sources said.
The Defense Ministry said in a statement that three army soldiers were killed in Improvised Explosive Device (IED) attacks elsewhere in the country.
The Taliban insurgent group’s home-made IEDs have remained a major threat for the Afghan security forces.
On Sunday afternoon, eight Taliban fighters, including an insurgent local leader Mawlawi Zarif, were killed when an IED they were building went off prematurely in a house in Kohistanat district of northern Sari Pul province, deputy provincial police chief Sakhidad Haydari told Xinhua…
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Somalia: Al Shabaab Denies Ties With Ethiopian Rebels
Mogadishu — Al Qaeda linked Al Shabaab group has denied it maintains links with Ethiopian ONLF rebels following reports of coordinated insurgency against Ethiopian-AMISOM peacekeepers in southern Somalia, Garowe Online reports.
Speaking with Somali media, Al Shabaab operations spokesman Abdiazis Abu Muscab said the purported relations between Al Shabaab and the faction operating in Eastern Ethiopia, ONLF are nonexistent…
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Somalia: National Army Clashes Over Clan Loyalty, 8 Killed
Marka — Heavy fighting has raged between two groups within the Somali Federal Government troops in Lower Shabelle region of Southern Somalia, leaving at least eight fighters dead on Saturday according to officials, Garowe Online reports…
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Maracana Stadium Workers Stage Protest in Rio
(AGI) Rio de Janeiro, June 8 — A group of around 30 disaffected Maracana Stadium workers has gathered outside the World Cup Media Centre in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday, preventing journalists from leaving. Security staff suggested another way into the press office. The workers are thought to be protesting about late payments and promised tickets that have yet to materialise.
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Italian Navy Rescues Over 2,000 Migrants in Two Days
(AGI) Rome, June 8 — More than 2,000 migrants were rescued on Saturday and Sunday by the Italian Navy in the Strait of Sicily, and another 700 were taken on board by merchant ships and are being taken to Sicilian ports. On Sunday morning the frigate Scirocco rescued 186 migrants, including 45 women and 58 children. They had been travelling for three days, appeared dehydrated, and had minor sunburn from prolonged exposure. The frigate Bergamini picked up 554 migrants, including 34 women and 37 children.
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Italy: Taranto Prepares to Receive 1,800 Migrants
(AGI) Taranto, June 8 — Authorities in the southern Italian coastal city of Taranto said they were preparing for the arrival of at least 1,800 migrants, who were transferred from Sicily several hours after landing there. An emergency meeting was scheduled on Sunday afternoon to make arrangements for an advanced medical centre. It is the second group of migrants in a month to arrive in Taranto.
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Maltese PM Says EU Not Paying Enough Attention to Immigration
VALLETTA, June 8 (Xinhua) — Malta’s Prime Minister Joseph Muscat on Sunday blamed the Europe Union for not working enough for immigrants.
The prime minister’s remarks came after intensive operations have been taken by rescuers from Malta, Italy and the United States to save nearly 4,000 asylum seekers at sea off Italy and Malta since Friday, while a total of 137 of them were brought to Malta on Saturday…
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Sicily: Hundreds of Migrants Arrive in Ragusa
(AGI) Pozzallo, June 8 — Hundreds of migrants have arrived and continue to arrive at Pozzallo, in the province of Ragusa. Of the group of 205 migrants, three failed to survive the journey from Libya. Another two boats, carrying 422 migrants, had arrived earlier on Sunday. The first, the Jupiter Bay, with 322 people on board, was escorted into the port by two tugs. The second, the Mariana III cargo ship, flying the Singaporean flag, arrived with 100 migrants in the early hours of the morning. The port is on maximum alert and relief efforts are ongoing.
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Surge in Illegal Migrants Across the Mediterranean Now Greater Than in Arab Spring
In the first four months of this year so many illegal immigrants crossed the Mediterranean and entered one of the EU member states that the number is already close to the 2013 total and is likely to rise as summer weather brings calmer seas, officials from the European Union’s border agency Frontex told the New York Times.
The total so far for 2014 is more than the equivalent period in 2011, the year of the Arab Spring, which eventually saw 140,000 make clandestine crossings into Europe…
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Italy: More Than 200,000 at Rome’s Gay Pride March
(AGI) Rome, June 7 — Over 200,000 people turned up for the Gay Pride march in Rome on Saturday. Andrea Maccarrone, the spokesman for Roma Pride, added that there could well be twice as many participants as last year.
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In other news, 75 people were killed in various bombings and other attacks in Iraq
Almost makes you wish for the old regeime. Saddam only tortured and murdered olympic contenders and young boys… Well, his sons did catch women off the streets and rape them but, no one was blown up in a market place trying to buy food for the family.
In fact, Saddam was re-elected with 98% of the vote… He must have been a really good guy.
It was right of the US and its coalition to pull all troops out of Iraq. They can govern themselves and the west is just another imperialist entity that wished to put the thumb on Iraq. The oil!
What, wait… the US got no oil contracts out of the deal?
Never mind that. The story seems good and we are going with it…
In all seriousness, I remember mothers in burkas screaming down ventilation shafts calling for their children inprisioned by Saddam in underground prisons just after the liberation. In fact, I will never forget it.
Hey, how about the American oil intersests in the Sudan? They left their oil rigs intact and left the country. Due to human rights violations. Who is running the oil rigs now?
http://www.lesobservateurs.ch/2014/06/08/usa-ambassadeurs-bidons-ce-corruption/
Sorry the article is in French ! But just so interesting and must be translated and shared !!