Despite a government ban, pro-Palestinian demonstrators took to the streets of Paris today and clashed with police. Other anti-Israel demos and threats against Jews were reported in the Netherlands, Britain, Denmark, Canada, and various cities in the United States. There’s no word yet on whether people have rallied against Israel in Australia or New Zealand.
In other news, for the first time in history, the Iraqi city of Mosul is free of Christians. The last Christian families fled the city ahead of an ISIS deadline as the soldiers of Allah burned the seat of the Syriac Catholic archdiocese of Mosul, destroying everything inside.
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Hate Rally in Canada, Israel’s Strongest Ally
Yesterday there was a pro-Palestinian protest outside of city hall in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, the city where I come from. It has been extremely frustrating for me to see images of protests around the world and understand that open Anti-Semitism is sweeping the streets of Western nations, but this one hit especially close to home…
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Bulgaria Identifies Burgas Bomber as a Hezbollah Lebanese-French National
Reuters- Hezbollah-backed attack on Black Sea resort which killed five Israelis was undertaken by Jacques Felipe Martin aka Mohamad Hassan El Husseini.
The man who blew up a bus in a Bulgarian Black Sea resort two years ago, killing five Israeli tourists as well as himself, has been identified as a dual Lebanese-French citizen, Bulgarian authorities said on Friday…
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France: Calais Migrants: Number of Arrests Soar in 2014
More than 7,400 migrants have been arrested in the French Channel port of Calais for trying to illegally cross the Channel into Britain in the first half of 2014, more than double the figure a year ago, officials said on Friday.
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France: Gaza Demonstration in Paris in Defiance of Authorities Ban
PARIS (EJP) — Around 3,000 people demonstrated for Gaza Saturday afternoon deying a ban from French Minister of Interior Bernard Cazeneuve.
The demonstrators assembled in the largely immigrant Barbes area of Paris following a call by the extreme-left New Anti-capitalist Party.
Police prevented them marching into the city centre.
The Interior Minister had banned demonstrations in the French capital, citing the “danger to public order” and referring to on two Paris synagogues after a pro-Gaza demonstration last Sunday.
Protests were also banned in Nice in the south-east and Sarcelles, near Paris.
French President François Hollande earlier threatened that “those who want to demonstrate at any price” could be punished.
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France: Anti-Israel Protesters in Paris Defy Ban, Clash With Police
Demonstrators throw rocks and bottles, police respond with tear gas
Thousands of anti-Israel protesters gathered in Paris Saturday, defying a police ban on demonstrations that was announced Friday following a clash with riot police last weekend that trapped hundreds of Jews in two synagogues…
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France: Gaza Conflict: Clashes at Paris Pro-Palestinian Protest
Pro-Palestinian protesters in France have clashed with police at a rally against Israel’s action in Gaza.
Thousands took part in the protest in Paris, despite it being banned. Some threw stones and bottles at riot police, who responded with tear gas…
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Gaza Conflict Reaches Denmark’s Jews
Following the outbreak of war between Israel and Hamas, Denmark’s Jewish community has reported an increase in anti-semitic rhetoric and even death threats.
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Italy: Five More Arrests in Carige Fraud Probe
Ex-president Berneschi arrested in May
(ANSA) — Genoa, July 17 — Italian police issued five more arrest warrants on Thursday as part of an investigation into alleged fraud at mid-sized bank Carige.
The general director and deputy director of the bank’s trust centre were jailed along with a financial agent.
The police also issued arrest warrants to the bank’s former president, Giovanni Berneschi, and his daughter-in-law, Francesca Amisano, although they had both already been arrested previously in May. Last month police seized five million euros from accounts in the names of Berneschi, Amisano and the former chief executive officer of the Carige Vita Nuova subsidiary, Fernando Menconi.
Berneschi, who was Carige’s president until last year, was arrested in May along with Menconi and real-estate businessman Ernesto Cavallini.
Police said they believe Berneschi, 77, was the ringleader of a scam involving purchases made at inflated prices of stakes in companies headed by accomplices, which allegedly made it possible for 21 million euros to be taken out of Italy into Switzerland between 2006 and 2009.
They suspect that part of this money was used to buy properties in Switzerland in the name of senior figures at Carige, a Genoa-based lender with about 1,000 branches and two million clients.
Thursday’s operation cames after investigations led prosecutors to believe Carige manages used the trust centre to avoid monitoring of the Bank of Italy over illegal operations.
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Netherlands: Pro-Israel Christians Rally for Israel in Amsterdam
Yesterday a large group of over 1000 CIDI and Christians For Israel members held a Pro-Israel rally in Amsterdam. A Dutch-Israeli friend from my work managed to attend the rally too and took some pics, as well as a video, of the event…
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Norway: Man Jailed for Raping and Marrying Off Daughter
A fifty-year-old man living in Norway, has been sentenced to ten years in prison on Friday for raping his daughter and forcing her to marry another man.
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Rare World War I Colour Photos Mark Centenary
A German publisher has gathered hundreds of rare colour photographs of World War I to mark 100 years since the outbreak of the conflict.
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Scotland: Construction Delayed on New Aberdeen Mosque
THE construction of a new mosque in Aberdeen has been delayed until later this year, the Evening Express can reveal today.
The Alhikmah Foundation had planned to begin the transformation of the site on Nelson Street into a place of worship and a community centre this summer.
However, a spokesman for the organisation today said it is now hoped works will start in the final quarter of the year, with a start date to be confirmed once a main contractor has been appointed.
The organisation is looking to add a further £200,000 to the £1 million it has already raised to enable work to begin…
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Sweden: Youth Football Coach Held Over Stabbing
The 21-year-old coach of a boys football team competing in the Gothia Cup tournament in Gothenburg has been arrested on suspicion on suspicion of stabbing a person following a brawl with local youth.
The 2014 cup has attracted over 1,600 teams from some 80 nations.
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The Greatest Possible Problem for Europe
by Douglas Murray
There are now at least twice as many young British Muslims who have gone to Syria to fight alongside ISIS and other such groups than there are fighting for Queen and country here in the British armed forces.
The Israel-haters are no real problem for Israel, but they are the greatest possible problem for Europe.
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UK: Birmingham Council a ‘Disastrous Failure’ Over Islamism in Schools
Independent investigation sparked by ‘Trojan horse’ letter finds officials failed to act for fear of being accused of Islamophobia
Birmingham council “disastrously” failed to act when a group of Muslim men began to promote, sometimes illegally, a fundamentalist version of Islam in some schools, because officials were afraid of being accused of racism or Islamophobia, a report has found…
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UK: Christians Lie and Wives Must Have Sex or Go to Hell, Trojan Horse Pupils Told
Inquiry commissioned by Birmingham City Council reveals details of religious extremism in 13 schools
Children were taught that all Christians are liars and attempts were made to introduce Sharia law in classrooms as part of an alleged ‘Trojan Horse’ takeover plot of Birmingham schools, an inquiry has found.
The inquiry commissioned by Birmingham City Council found evidence of religious extremism in 13 schools as school governors and teachers tried to promote and enforce radical Islamic values.
Schools put up posters warning children that if they didn’t pray they would “go to hell”, Christmas was cancelled and girls were taught that women who refused to have sex with their husbands would be “punished” by angels “from dusk to dawn”…
[Reader comment by 70sgirly on 19 July 2014 — note comments at this Daily Telegraph post were closed soon after this comment was made.]
Dear DT [Daily Telegraph]
You might as well shut the comments down, so many are being removed for pointing at the elephant in the room.
This article exposes the scandal of what’s been allowed to go on in some Birmingham schools because of a spineless appeasement of extremist attitudes, and here you are doing exactly the same. You should be ashamed of yourselves.
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UK: Douglas Murray: Pro Palestinian Rally Was ‘Anti Semitic Spectacle’
Writing in the Spectator magazine today, author and political commentator Douglas Murray has revealed how the ‘pro Palestinian’ rallies in London this week have been spectacles of anti-Semitism…
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UK: London’s Anti-Israel Protesters Only Pretend to Care About Muslims
by Douglas Murray
Thousands of anti-Semites have today succeeded in bringing central London to an almost total standstill.
They marched through the centre of the city before congregating to scream outside the Israeli Embassy in Kensington. It was interesting to watch this rather non-diverse crowd pass. Most of the women seem to be wearing headscarves or the burka, while their men-folk were naturally more appropriately dressed for a sweltering summer day…
[JP note: The original headline for Murray’s post at the Spectator was “London’s pro-Palestine rally was a disgusting anti-Semitic spectacle.” See also his other post of 19 July on the same subject at Gatestone Institute: “The greatest possible problem for Europe”.]
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UK: Thousands March Through London Over Gaza Crisis
Thousands of people have marched through central London to call for an end to Israel’s ground campaign and rocket attacks on Gaza.
Protesters marched from Downing Street to the Israeli embassy in Kensington. A police blockade stopped them from gaining access. Whitehall, Trafalgar Square, Piccadilly and Hyde Park Corner were closed…
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UK: Tens of Thousands March to Israeli Embassy in Kensington for Free Palestine Protest
Thousands of protesters have gathered in London to demand “justice and freedom” for Palestine and an end to Israeli military action in Gaza. Up to 15,000 people are expected to march through the capital from Downing Street to the Israeli embassy in Kensington this afternoon…
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Egypt: Smugglers Kill Fifteen Soldiers in New Valley Shooting
Cairo — Smugglers killed 15 soldiers in an exchange of fire in New Valley’s Farafra on Saturday evening, a military source said.
Three of the smugglers were killed in the Farafra Oasis attack, the Middle East News Agency reported. The smugglers used heavy weapons and rocket-propelled grenades.
This is the second time this army unit is attacked by smugglers in less than three months, the agency added.
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Tunisia: Terrorist Attack in Chaambi — 34 Suspects Arrested in Kasserine
Tunis, — Thirty four individuals suspected to have ties with the terrorist group, who targeted the national army in Mount Chaambi, were arrested Saturday in Kasserine during a raid of the police, according to security forces sources in the region.
The security raids which started the day before include several districts in Kasserine : El Karma, Ezzouhour, Argoub Mimoun, Kodya moussa…
These intervention allowed to arrest 11 suspects including a psychiatrist who works in the Kasserine regional hospital and two women…
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Hamas Caught Funnelling Rockets Into Mosques, Deceptive Tactics Exposed
A Washington Post article addresses ongoing Israel-Hamas hostilities, including reports of Hamas funnelling weapons into a mosque in Gaza.
In paragraph 36, Washington Post reporters on site in Gaza wrote:
During the lull (5-hour humanitarian truce violated by Hamas), a group of men at a mosque in northern Gaza said they had returned to clean up the green glass from windows shattered in the previous day’s bombardment. But they could be seen moving small rockets into the mosque.
Hamas has a long track record of using holy sites, as well as schools and hospitals, for storage of its weapons…
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Israel’s UN Ambassador Says There Are More Hamas Missiles at UNRWA Facilities
A day after UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, admitted that it had discovered 20 Hamas rockets at one of its schools, Israel’s UN Ambassador said he was certain that more such facilities housed Hamas weaponry…
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‘The Israelis Don’t Care About Anybody’
The longer diplomacy stalls, the higher the chances that Israel and Hamas will be drawn into a deadly, drawn-out war, with civilians — and increasingly children — its greatest victims
In the neighbourhood, they used to call Mohammad Al-Bakr “The Prince”. The scrawny 11-year-old, the only son of Ramez and Salwa, was in line to take over the fisherman’s mantle that had passed down three generations and was now, due to his father’s chronic back problems, soon to be his…
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Bombings in Iraq’s Capital Kill at Least 27 People
BAGHDAD (AP) — A series of bombings, including three over a span of less than 10 minutes, killed at least 27 people across Baghdad on Saturday, shaking the fragile sense of security the capital has maintained despite the Sunni militant offensive raging across northern and western Iraq…
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Christians Flee Iraq’s Mosul After Islamists Tell Them “Convert, Pay or Die”
Christians were fleeing Iraq’s jihadist-held city of Mosul en masse on Friday after mosques relayed an ultimatum giving them a few hours to leave, the country’s Chaldean patriarch and witnesses said.
Iraq is home to one of the world’s most ancient Christian communities, but their numbers have plummeted as attacks against them mounted after the US-led invasion in 2003, which unleashed a wave of sectarian violence.
“Christian families are on their way to Dohuk and Arbil,” in the neighbouring autonomous region of Kurdistan, Patriarch Louis Sako told AFP. “For the first time in the history of Iraq, Mosul is now empty of Christians.”
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Iranian Nuclear Talks to be Extended Till Nov. 24
VIENNA, July 19 (Xinhua) — Iranian nuclear talks will be extended for another four months till Nov. 24, as stakeholders still have “significant gaps on core issues,” the European Union and Iran said here Saturday.
“We have made tangible progress on some of the issues,” said EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in a joint statement, but “there are still significant gaps on some core issues which will require more time and effort.”
Ashton is leading the talks on behalf of the six world powers, namely the United States, Britain, France, China, Russia, and Germany, to settle the decade-old disputes over Iran’s nuclear program…
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Iraq: Five Car Bombs in Baghdad Kill 28
BAGHDAD — Five car bombs killed at least 28 people in mostly Shi’ite Muslim neighbourhoods in Baghdad on Saturday, police and medics said.
The first explosion, a suicide car bombing, killed nine people at a police checkpoint in the Abu Dsheer district in the south of the capital, the sources said.
Four other car bombs killed a total of 19 people: one in the Bayaa district in southwestern Baghdad, one in the western district of Jihad and two in northern Baghdad’s Kadhimiya, which boasts a major Shi’ite shrine…
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Iraqi Christians Flee Mosul Under Threats by Extremist Militants
MOSUL, Iraq, July 19 (Xinhua) — Hundreds of Christian families and individuals have fled their homes in the militant-seized city of Mosul before an ultimatum to accept extremist militants’ options, a provincial security source and witnesses said on Saturday.
All of the Christian families who lived in Mosul, some 400 km north of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, have left the city by Saturday noon, a deadline declared earlier by the Islamic State ( IS) militant group for the Christians to convert to Islam, leave the city, pay tax or die, the security source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity…
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ISIS in Control of ‘35 Percent’ of Syrian Territory
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is now in control of 35 percent of the Syrian territory following a string of victories, the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Friday.
ISIS holdings include nearly all of Syria’s oil and gas fields, the monitoring group said in a statement.
One of the latest gains of the self-proclaimed “caliphate” was the seizure of the country’s biggest oil fields, in Deir el-Zour in eastern Syria, earlier in the week.
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Islamic State Kills 270 in Syrian Gas Field ‘Massacre’
Militant jihadist group kills dozens of Syrian troops and workers in its largest attack yet on the regime
Jihadists have killed 270 Syrian regime fighters, civilian security guards and employees since seizing a gas field in Homs province, a monitoring group said Friday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights described Thursday’s takeover of the Shaar field as “the biggest” anti-regime operation by the Islamic State (IS) since it emerged in the Syrian conflict last year.
The watchdog, updating an earlier toll of 115, said it had documented “the death of 270 people killed in the fighting or executed” since Thursday…
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Israel Advises Citizens to Avoid Turkey Amid Fiery Gaza Protests
Israel advised its citizens on July 19 not to travel to Turkey, citing “the public mood” after heated protests there against Israel’s ground offensive into Gaza.
The Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem said Israelis should “avoid non-essential visits” to Turkey — once Israel’s closest regional ally — or be especially vigilant and steer clear of anti-Israel demonstrations.
The travel advisory could affect commercial air connections between Tel Aviv and Istanbul, expanded in recent years as the two countries sought to rebuild relations.
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Meet This Young Doctor Who Joined ISIS and Killed 30 People in a Suicide Attack!
New Delhi: A Saudi Salafi doctor joined ISIS as a suicide bomber and killed 30 people in an attack on a checkpoint south of Kirkuk. It is not clear how Faisal bin Shaman al-Aanzi died or was killed.
According to one Twitter account, he was blown up in a car, while another account said he was killed while attending to the injured militants in an ISIS base which was shelled.
This is not the first time that Salafi Wahhabi and Deobandi have transformed into suicide bombers. The Saudi-funded Salafi and Deobandi mosques and hate preachers are slowly converting many peaceful Sunni Muslims into radical Salafi killing machines.
There are also reports that say Shaman al-Aanzi may have responded to the call issued by the ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. It might be recalled that Baghdadi said, “Those who can immigrate to the Islamic State should immigrate, as immigration to the house of Islam is a duty.”
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Mosul Christians Forced to Flee
(AGI) Vatican City, July 19 — The seat of the Syrian Catholic Archeparchy of Mosul in Iraq has been burned down by members of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, and the situation for Iraqi Christians has become dramatic, Syriac Catholic Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan told Vatican Secretary for Relations with States, Archbishop Dominique Mamberti on Saturday. The Islamist militants have threatened to kill Christians unless they convert to Islam. “It’s terrible. This is shameful for the international community,” the patriarch said.
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Muslims Attack 1800 Year Old Christian Church, And Completely Burn it Down and Destroy it
By Walid Shoebat and Theodore Shoebat
Informed sources said that the organization of the so-called Islamic State in Mosul, “Daash” had completely burned down the Syriac Catholic Diocese in Mosul, the sources said that the organization has burned the archdiocese, which lies in the area of the field and was burnt down with the full contents of its holdings.
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Qatar Hosts Gaza Ceasefire Talks With Palestinian Leader and UN Chief
Qatar will host a meeting between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday in attempt to reach a ceasefire agreement with Israel to bring an end to 12 days of warfare, a senior Qatari source told Reuters.
Due to take place in Doha, the meeting will be headed by the Gulf state’s emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, who has been acting as a “channel of communication” between Hamas and the international community, said the senior source familiar with the matter.
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Turkey: Seven Injured as Group Attacks Fast-Breaking Dinner Organized by US Consulate in Diyarbakir
A crowd protested a fast-breaking iftar meal organized in the southeastern province of Diyarbakir by the U.S. consulate in Adana on July 15, attacking the tent where the food was prepared and served.
Seven people, including a police officer, were injured during the scuffles that erupted after the group’s attack. Two of the injured people underwent surgery…
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MH17 Crash: Pressure Grows on Russia Over Crash Inquiry
Western countries have demanded that Russia put pressure on Ukrainian rebels to allow unhindered access to the site of Thursday’s Malaysia Airlines crash.
Dutch PM Mark Rutte said he had told Russian President Vladimir Putin that time was “running out” to show he could help. Most crash victims were Dutch.
The US and Britain also told Russia full access to the area was needed.
International observers have had their movements restricted by pro-Russia militiamen who control the crash site.
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Ukraine Separatists Deny Destroying Crash Evidence
(AGI) Donetsk (Ukraine), July 19 — Pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine have denied accusations of destroying evidence at the crash site of the Malaysia Airlines plane. Rebel leader Aleksander Borodai told a press conference in Donetsk that the separatists had not found the plane’s black box, adding that they were worried about the bodies beginning to decompose in the heat.
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Ukraine: Donetsk Insurgent Leader Denies Finding Mh17 Black Boxes at Crash Site
DONETSK, Ukraine, July 19 (Xinhua) — Donetsk insurgent leader Alexander Borodai denied on Saturday that black boxes of the crashed Malaysian airliner MH17 had been found.
Borodai said they had not touched the site where the passenger flight crashed but they reserved the right to begin the process of taking away the bodies since the bodies would decompose in the scorching summer heat.
“We ask the Russian Federation to help us with this problem and send their experts,” Borodai, prime minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, told a press conference…
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India: Bangalore: 17 Year Old Novice Gang Raped
Local Church reports attack to AsiaNews. The Archbishop, Msgr. Bernard Moras, expresses “deep sorrow for the inhumane act suffered by this young girl. This act is a shameful blot on the dignity of our women, society and the nation.” Three men broke into the convent and raped the girl, who has been hospitalized.
Mumbai (AsiaNews) — The Indian Church is suffering “deep sorrow and anguish” following the gang rape of a 17 year old pre-novice in Bangalore, attacked two days ago in the Institute of the Sisters of the Holy Nativity by three men.
The brutal attack was reported to AsiaNews by Msgr. Bernard Moras (see photo), Archbishop of Bangalore, according to who “this barbaric and inhumane act accomplished this on a girl, in the rooms of a convent, is to be condemned in the strongest possible terms. His violence affects each of us” . Found in a state of unconsciousness, the girl is now hospitalized at St. John’s Hospital.
The attack took place shortly after lunch time. The victim was alone in her room on the ground floor of the Institute in Hennur, when someone rang the bell. She went to open: three men sprinkled some chemical substance and she fainted. They trailed her outside, raped and then fled away, leaving her unconscious. Everything happened in 10 minutes. Yesterday, the victim filed a complaint and the police opened an investigation on the basis of sect. 376 of the Indian Penal Code (“rape” carries a minimum of seven years to life in prison).
“This crime — said Msgr. Moras — is doubly cruel because it affects a woman, and because this girl who had the desire to consecrate her life to God instead has been violated in the most brutal way possible. Last night I prayed all night, for this young girl, for her religious community, for her family, for our state and for India”.
“In our schools — said the prelate — we teach moral values to people and respect for the dignity of women. This act is a shameful blot on the dignity of our women, society and nation. I demand justice for all victims.”
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Malaysia Airlines May Need Government Rescue
It has been a tragic year for Malaysia Airlines.
Just four months after Flight 370 disappeared, a second Malaysia Airlines plane crashed Thursday over eastern Ukraine with 298 passengers and crew on board.
While details of Thursday’s tragedy are still emerging, it appears the Boeing (BA) 777 carrying Flight 17 was shot down by a surface-to-air missile.
The airline was already neck deep in financial trouble before Flight 370 disappeared on March 8. The second disaster will pile on the pressure.
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Pakistan Condemns U.S. Drone Strike in North Waziristan
ISLAMABAD, July 19 (Xinhua) — Pakistan condemned a recent American drone strike in the country’s North Waziristan tribal region which killed at least 11 persons on Saturday.
Security sources said the U.S. drone fired two missiles at a compound located in Datta Khel town of North Waziristan, a restive area at Pakistan-Afghan border, early Saturday morning…
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Kenya: Al-Shebaab Gun Attack on Bus Kills Seven People
An al-Shebaab spokesman says the Al-Qaeda-linked group is “ready to act or attack anywhere necessary” until Kenyan troops are removed from Somalia
Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shebaab have claimed responsibility for an attack on a bus and police vehicle that killed at least seven people in Kenya. The group denied involvement in a separate incident — an alleged suicide bomb attack on a militia leader in Somalia that reportedly killed six people…
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Nigeria: Boko Haram Attacks, Kills Many in Damboa
Gunmen suspected to be members of Boko Haram killed an unspecified number of people on Thursday in Damboa town of Damboa local government area of Borno State, residents and officials said yesterday. The attack, which began Thursday evening, lasting into Friday morning, saw many homes destroyed, including that of the caretaker chairman and the chief imam of the town, a local official in Damboa, who preferred anonymity, disclosed.
Dozens of insurgents with assault rifles and explosives took over the town. The source said shops, sheds, tents of traders, commercial and private vehicles and other personal properties of the residents were also vandalised by the assailants. Distraught residents believe that Boko Haram’s recent focus on Damboa is a deliberate move to completely wipe the town off the map…
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Suicide Bombing Targets Somali Politician in Kismayo
According to breaking news reports from Kismayo, a suicide bombing occurred in the city.
The explosion took place at a house in Kismayo belonging to Iftiin Hassan Baasto, a Somali politician who recently made up with Ahmed Madobe — the Leader of Interim Jubba Administration.
As confirmed, 4 of his bodyguards and a female lady were killed and 6 others were wounded, of which 4 are his children and remaining two are his bodyguards…
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Dozens Die on Migrant Boat Bound for Italy
ROME, July 19 (Xinhua) — The recovery of at least 19 dead bodies south of Italy on Saturday was the umpteenth migrant tragedy, adding more deaths to this year’s dramatic death toll in the Mediterranean sea…
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Italy: Twenty Immigrants Found Dead in Boat Off Lampedusa
(AGI) Palermo, July 19 — The crew of a merchant vessel found around 20 immigrants dead in the hold of a boat intercepted on Friday night off the coast of Lampedusa. The immigrants were probably killed by carbon monoxide fumes. Three others were in serious condition. One of them was taken to Lampedusa by the Italian coastguard, but died on the way. The other two were transported to a hospital in Palermo by helicopter. The merchant vessel has taken the remaining 600 people on board.
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More Than Half the World’s Population Lives in Cities
India will lead the way, as the country’s urban population is expected to swell by 404 million people between now and 2050. Tokyo will continue to top the mega-city list followed by Delhi, Shanghai, Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Beijing, Osaka, and Cairo. This trend will be challenge for health care, schools, food, and housing.
New York City (AsiaNews/Agencies) — More than half the world’s population lives in cities and India and China are expected to lead the future growth in urbanisation.
Therefore, the world must prepare for the challenges of ever-larger cities in terms of health, education, food and housing, this according to 2014 revision of the World Urbanisation Prospects released on Thursday.
Until now, China contributed the most to rapid urbanisation. However, India is projected to add the highest number of people to its urban population by 2050, ahead of China, with 404 million more people in its cities.
This year, Delhi (pictured) has already become the second largest city in the world — 25 million — twice what it was in 1990.
Mumbai, with 20.7 million inhabitants, is India’s other Indian mega cities among the top 10 most populous cities.
Tokyo tops the report’s list of megacities, with a population of more than 37.8 million, and should remain first until 2030. Shanghai is second at 23 million, followed by Mexico City and Sao Paulo (Brazil) with 21 million.
Beijing, New York (with Newark) Osaka and Cairo are in the top-ten list.
Over all, India, China and Nigeria will account for 37 percent of the projected growth of the urban population between now and 2050 when the world’s urban population is expected to crest at 6.3 billion.
The pace of urbanisation has been remarkably swift. In 1950, only 30 percent of the world’s people lived in cities. That has grown to 54 percent in 2014.
The overall numbers of rural inhabitants are projected to decline to 3.1 billion in 2050 from 3.4 billion today.
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> for the first time in history, the Iraqi city of Mosul is free of Christians
Not the first time in history, but certainly the first time in almost 2000 years. Christianity had a beginning.
You’re right, I should have said, “For the first time in the history of Christianity.”
I have just been reading your coverage of the “pro-palestinian” demonstrations in London and elsewhere. It is clear that, given notice, the left is capable of mobilising large numbers of supporters.
What drives me to the depths of despair is that these thousands of people and many others, who have have bought into the leftist/islamic lies propagated by the various leftist and arab media outlets, have been left so severely brainwashed both by cultural marxism and islam that they will probably never recover their sanity. It shows me what we are up against.
I knew it was never going to be easy, but this? The Morlocks are winning and I am glad I got out of Europe when I did.
@More Than Half the World’s Population Lives in Cities
These statistics are misleading as they are based on metropolitan regions beyond the city boundaries and the urban sprawl.