In what is commonly known as an “insider attack”, a gunman wearing an Afghan army uniform opened fire at a military training facility in Kabul, killing a major general in the United States Army. Fifteen people were wounded, including an unspecified number of NATO soldiers.
In other news, several Britons have been quarantined after returning from Ebola-stricken areas in West Africa. Meanwhile, a doctor treating African Ebola patients says the outbreak is even worse than described. Liberia and Sierra Leone have deployed troops to deal with the Ebola crisis.
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Russian Crime Ring Gains Internet Security Data on 1.2 Billion
A Russian crime ring has amassed the largest known collection of stolen Internet credentials, including 1.2 billion username and password combinations and more than 500 million email addresses, security researchers say.
The records, discovered by Hold Security, a firm in Milwaukee, include confidential material gathered from 420,000 websites, ranging from household names to small Internet sites. Hold Security has a history of uncovering significant hacks, including the theft last year of tens of millions of records from Adobe Systems.
Hold Security would not name the victims, citing nondisclosure agreements and a reluctance to name companies whose sites remained vulnerable. At the request of The New York Times, a security expert not affiliated with Hold Security analyzed the database of stolen credentials and confirmed it was authentic. Another computer crime expert who had reviewed the data, but was not allowed to discuss it publicly, said some big companies were aware that their records were among the stolen information.
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Senator Pat Roberts Beats Tea Party Challenger in Kansas
Senator Pat Roberts held off a challenge from a Tea Party-backed conservative to win the Republican primary in Kansas on Tuesday night.
Mr. Roberts, who has served in the Senate since 1997, defeated Milton Wolf, a physician, in a victory for a Republican establishment that was looking for one. Mr. Wolf criticized Mr. Roberts as an entrenched creature of Washington who spends little time in his home state.
But Mr. Wolf, a radiologist who has never sought elective office, ran into trouble after posting X-ray photos on his Facebook page of patients, including gunshot victims, with mocking commentary.
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Twenty-First Century Fox Withdraws Bid for Time Warner
Rupert Murdoch’s Twenty-First Century Fox (FOXA.O) decided to pull its $80 billion offer to buy Time Warner Inc (TWX.N) on Tuesday, abandoning plans to create one of the world’s largest media conglomerates.
Murdoch, who is Fox’s chairman and CEO, cited Time Warner’s management and its board’s refusal to engage with Fox as one reason for the stunning turnabout.
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Belgium: Museum Gunman Remanded in Custody
Brussels magistrates have decided to remand the man suspected of having carried out the shooting at the Jewish Museum in Brussels for another month. The French-Algerian is suspected of having carried out the attack on 24 May that resulted in the deaths of 4 people.
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Ebola: Several Britons Across the UK Quarantined at Home After Returning From West Africa
Doctors say the individuals are ‘voluntarily’ confined at home after returning from an Ebola infected country in West Africa
Several Britons are quarantined across the UK with suspected Ebola, public health officials admitted on Tuesday. The revelation comes as a Welsh national who fears they may have contracted the deadly Ebola virus while abroad has returned home and placed themselves in voluntary quarantine.
The potential victim is understood to be living in Cardiff and is being “closely monitored,” health officials said…
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Italy Expels Imam Accused of Violent Antisemitic Comments
(Reuters) — Italy expelled a Moroccan imam accused of making violent antisemitic comments during a sermon at a mosque near Venice, the interior ministry said on Tuesday.
Raoudi Albdelbar, an imam from San Dona di Piave near Venice, was accused of creating a serious disturbance to public order, threatening national security and promoting religious discrimination, the ministry said in a statement.
“It is unacceptable for a sermon to be delivered that is clearly antisemitic in character, with explicit incitements to violence and religious hatred,” Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said in the statement.
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The ministry gave no details of the sermon and did not quote the remarks directly.
According to Italian daily Libero, the incident occurred at the end of July. It quoted a video published by MEMRI, a Washington-based media monitoring group considered close to Israel, in which Albdelbar is reported to have said: “Oh Allah, count them one by one and kill them to the very last one.”
Italy’s Interior Ministry did not respond to telephone calls or an e-mailed request for comment…
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Norway Police Want to Carry Arms
The increased level of terror threats in Norway has made a strong case for arming the police at all times, said the leader of the Norwegian Police Federation on Monday.
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Scotland: Second Israeli-Funded Edinburgh Festival Fringe Show Cancelled
A second Edinburgh Festival Fringe show in receipt of funding from the Israeli government has been cancelled.
Student dancers from Ben Gurion University have pulled out of performances due to start this weekend.
Last week a hip-hop opera by a theatre company from Jerusalem was cancelled following pro-Palestinian protests.
Two other Israeli shows are still running at the Fringe but as they do not receive public funding from Israel they have not been hit by protests.
Pola Dance Company was due to open a short run with its show, La Karina, at the Acoustic Music Centre at St Bride’s Centre from Saturday.
However, plans for the show sparked protests over the Israeli offensive in Gaza.
A Pola spokesman said: “Clearly it was a difficult decision but in the end we will be cancelling.”
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Supo: Finnish Jihadists Come From Various Backgrounds
The people who have left Finland to participate in the ongoing Syrian civil war represent a total of 16 different ethnic groups, the Finnish Security Intelligence Service (Supo) revealed on Monday.
Of the over 40 people who are known to have left Finland for Syria, one in five are women and three in four hold Finnish citizenship. In addition, the group includes an indeterminate number of native Finns.
Jyri Rantala, the communications director at Supo, believes the diversity of the group to be an indication of an altogether new phenomenon. “Nothing like this has been seen before — that people from 16 different ethnic backgrounds leave to wage a single jihad,” he highlighted in an interview with Helsingin Sanomat.
Previously, he added, it was not uncommon for a Finn from a Kurdish background to travel to Kurdish regions or a Finn from a Somali background to travel to Somalia.
According to Rantala, most of the Finnish jihadists in Syria have joined the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and some the al-Nusra Front.
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Sweden: Politician Quits After ‘Jewish Pigs’ Slur Online
A Swedish politician is facing sharp criticism after he wrote on Facebook that “Jewish pigs” are responsible for mass murders in Gaza.
Omar Omeirat, Social Democrat candidate for the town council of Filipstad, central Sweden, gave a speech in the town on Friday evening advocating diversity and openness.
On Saturday he sang a very different tune.
“The entire Muslim world is sitting and watching while our brothers and sisters in Palestine are slaughtered by the Jewish pigs,” Omeritat wrote on his Facebook page.
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UK: Baroness Warsi Quits as Foreign Office Minister Over Gaza
Foreign Office minister Baroness Warsi has resigned from the government, saying its policy on the crisis in Gaza is “morally indefensible”.
She wrote on her Twitter feed that she was leaving with “deep regret”.
Lady Warsi, who was previously chairman of the Conservative Party, became the first female Muslim cabinet minister when David Cameron took office in 2010.
The prime minister thanked her for her “excellent work”, adding that he wanted an “unconditional ceasefire” in Gaza.
Labour backed Lady Warsi’s comments, but Chancellor George Osborne called her resignation “disappointing and frankly unnecessary”…
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UK: Baroness Warsi Was Over-Promoted, Incapable and Incompetent
by Douglas Murray
Farewell then Sayeeda, Baroness Warsi. The most over-promoted, incapable and incompetent minister of recent times has finally done the nation one service and resigned. This morning she announced on Twitter that she can ‘no longer support government policy on Gaza.’ That would be government policy that now includes reviewing all arms export licenses to Israel? Not strong enough for Sayeeda, it would seem…
[Reader comment by John Dalton on 5 August 2014.]
Thank you Douglas for once again telling it like it is! You are the only writer on this site with the courage and gumption to say what the rest of us are thinking and you do it with eloquence and passion. What a shame the rest of them can’t take a leaf out of your book and give up this pussy-footing around the truth for fear of upsetting the religion of perpetual offense.
Warsi should be a shining example to us all of what happens when you promote on tokenism. Cameron should be ashamed. The people can see right through this kind of positive discrimination — why can’t our so called leaders? No wonder the Tory party is haemorrhaging members.
People like Warsi have one primary loyalty and that is towards their religion. Everything else comes second — and loyalty to Britain comes way way down the list. All their judgements and decisions are made through the filter of their religion.
They do not share the same values as us. In many cases they harbour deep-seated resentments towards us. Everyone else can see that, why can’t those who are so desperate to promote these people to positions of power with such evangelical zeal?
There will come a time — and it’s not far off — when these people hold positions of real power in all our national institutions from local government to schools to the courts to parliament, aided and promoted every step of the way by the self-hating metropolitan hand-wringers who make up our governing and media class.
When that time comes, it will be their agenda that they put first and they will promote it with a rigour that will completely and irrevocably change our society for the worse. We’ll see then just how “moderate” they all are.
Just think about where that will leave our children and our grand-children…
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UK: Golden ‘Devil: ‘ Customized Saudi Range Rover Bedazzles London
London’s streets reached a new level of luxury as a Saudi-owned gold Range Rover, with a “666” number plate, joined other Arab supercars that continue to roam the capital’s roads, the Daily Mail reported.
The car was shipped from Saudi Arabia and has been spotted parked outside London’s pricey Wellesley Hotel in Knightsbridge.
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UK: Lady Warsi Resignation Letter — in Full
Senior Foreign Office minister Lady Warsi has tendered her resignation to prime minister David Cameron over the government’s Gaza policy. The former chairman of the Tory party described the government’s stand on the conflict as ‘morally indefensible’…
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UK: Lady Warsi’s Resignation Reveals the Emptiness of Cameron’s Diversity Drive
Warsi’s decision to stand down over Gaza comes after a fraught relationship with a leader who has failed to win over Muslim voters
Lady Warsi’s resignation over Gaza is undoubtedly one of principle. Like many of her principles, it is different from the prime minister’s — eventually that divide evidently became too much.
That’s not to say this is all there is to it, though. The topic may be high-minded but the timing is undoubtedly at a point of most pain for David Cameron and the government. As Israel withdraws its troops and talks open in Egypt, there was a real prospect of the issue cooling, in Westminster at least…
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UK: Mosque’s Assistant Teacher Jailed for Cruelty Towards Seven-Year-Old Boy
An assistant teacher at a mosque has been jailed after a judge heard he chastised a young boy over his reading leaving him with bruises.
Arfaq Hussain admitted a charge of cruelty after he used his knuckles to rap the seven-year-old around the knee…
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UK: Tory Minister: Govt ‘Failure’ On Gaza is Sowing Seeds of General Election Defeat
by Isabel Hardman
One of the risks of Sayeeda Warsi’s resignation was that it would encourage other ministers uneasy about the government’s response to the situation in Gaza to break ranks. She is certainly trying to encourage that by alleging that other Foreign Office ministers have been uneasy with the decisions being taken recently…
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UK: The Warsi Problem is of Cameron’s Making
by Paul Goodman
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He has been brought to a place to which his own decisions have taken him.
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UK: Warsi Speaks — Warns of Consequences
Warsi has spoken on camera finally: “Over the last four weeks I have done everything I can both at formal and informal meetings to try to convince my colleagues that our current policy on Gaza is morally indefensible that it is not in our interests not in British interests and that it will have consequences for us both internationally and here at home.”…
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Egypt’s President Announces Plans for New Suez Canal
In a highly symbolic gesture to the new regime’s ambitions, Egypt’s President Abdulfattah el-Sisi today announced that the country would build a second Suez Canal.
It also hopes to increase revenues from $5 billion (£3 billion) to 13.5 billion (£8 billion) by 2023, a substantial increase that would quickly recover the costs of the project, which are estimated at $4 billion (£2.4 billion).
At present, 18,000 vessels use the canal every year, passing between the Mediterranean and the oil and manufacturing centres of Asia without the need to travel round the Horn of Africa.
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Tunisia Asks US for 12 Helicopters to Fight ‘Terrorism’
Tunisia has asked the United States for a dozen American-made Sikorsky Black Hawk helicopters so its forces can “fight terrorism,” the country’s president said Tuesday.
Since its 2011 revolution, the North African country has seen the rise of a jihadist movement, with some 50 members of the military and police force killed in attacks linked to armed groups.
Meanwhile, extremist group Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb recently claimed responsibility for attacks in Tunisia, notably an assault on the family home of the country’s interior minister in May.
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Captured Hamas Combat Manual Reveals Use of Human Shields Exploiting IDF Rules of Engagement
IDF forces in the Gaza Strip found a Hamas manual on “Urban Warfare,” which belonged to the Shuja’iya Brigade of Hamas’ military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades. The manual explains how the civilian population can be used against IDF forces and reveals that Hamas knows the IDF is committed to minimizing harm to civilians.This Hamas urban warfare manual exposes two truths: (1) The terror group knows full well that the IDF will do what it can to limit civilian casualties. (2) The terror group exploits these efforts by using civilians as human shields against advancing IDF forces. The manual goes on to explain that the “presence of civilians are pockets of resistance” that cause three major problems for advancing troops:…
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40 Iraqi Children Killed After Jihadist Attack — UN
Baghdad — Forty children from northern Iraq’s Yazidi minority are reported to have died as a result of a jihadist attack on the Sinjar region, the UN Children’s Fund (Unicef) said on Tuesday.
“According to official reports received by Unicef, these children from the Yazidi minority died as a direct consequence of violence, displacement and dehydration over the past two days,” a statement said.
On Sunday, fighters from the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group that controls much of northwestern Iraq took over Sinjar, which had been under the control of Kurdish troops.
The town, near the Syrian border, is a hub for Iraq’s Yazidis, a very closed community that follows an ancient faith rooted in Zoroastrianism and referred to by jihadists as “devil worshippers”.
Sinjar was also a temporary home for thousands of displaced people from other minorities, such as Shiite Turkmen who had fled the nearby city of Tal Afar when IS launched its offensive on 9 June.
The attack on Sinjar sent thousands of people running from their homes in panic, some of them scurrying into the mountains with no supplies.
“Families who fled the area are in immediate need of urgent assistance, including up to 25 000 children who are now stranded in mountains surrounding Sinjar and are in dire need of humanitarian aid, including drinking water and sanitation services,” Unicef said.
Pictures posted on the internet by members of the Yazidi community show little clusters of people gathering on the cave-dotted flanks of a craggy canyon in the Sinjar mountains.
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Four Things I’d Do to Stop the Advance of Islamic State (If I Were in Charge)
by Col. Allen B. WEst
Everyone has left Washington D.C. while President Obama frets over who gives him birthday wishes before he heads off to Martha’s Vineyard. It’s recess for the folks supposedly running our country, but the bad guys aren’t taking the summer off — especially the Islamic State. In fact, they’re working overtime.
As reported by the Long War Journal, “The Islamic State is reported to have taken control of the city of Sinjar as well as the Mosul Dam, at least one oil field, and a handful of towns in northern Ninewa province after Kurdish forces withdrew from the area this weekend.”
This map [see URL above] provides a visual representation of the scope by which IS has advanced. The Islamic State’s takeover of Sinjar, Zumar, and the Mosul Dam constitutes the group’s first major gains after a blitzkrieg offensive launched on June 10 in conjunction with allied groups that put it in control of Mosul, Tikrit, and a number of cities and towns in Salahaddin, Ninewa, and Diyala provinces. That offensive stalled on the outskirts of Samarra, just north of Bagdad. Meanwhile, the Islamic State controls most of Anbar province and much of northern Babil province.
1. I would deploy a task organized force of USAF A-10 Warthog’s, F-16s, and Attack Helicopters to be used in close air support coordination with Kurdish Peshmerga offensive operations. 2. I would also consider Special Operations forces to work with Kurdish forces in securing key infrastructure sites such as airfields, oil fields, and the Mosul Dam — of course before any sabotage can be implemented. 3. I’m not concerned with the Iraqi government but would be totally focused on the destruction of this jihadist force — which has launched an attack east into Lebanon and seized a city there. 4. Finally, I would concede that land recovered would be the basis of a Kurdistan.
This is not about nation-building but an enemy-focused operation to find, fix, engage, destroy, and pursue IS until it is defeated in detail…
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Iraq Suffers Surge of Displaced as Tit-for-Tat Battles Rage
BAGHDAD, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) — Iraq’s Kurdish security forces repelled Sunni insurgents across the country’s northern province of Nineveh on Tuesday, retaking control of a border town near Syria, as thousands of families fled their homes near Mosul, a provincial security source said…
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Iraq’s Jihadis Have Vowed to Wipe Out the Yazidis. Who Are They?
The arrival of the self-styled “Islamic State” (IS) in the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar over the weekend sent the native religious minority fleeing. Yazidis, labeled by IS (formerly the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, ISIS) “devil worshippers,” have a long history of persecution.
Forty Yazidi children were reported killed and reports of forced conversions and murders have now emerged. A Yazidi parliamentarian fleeing northern Iraq told the Washington Post, “In our history, we have suffered 72 massacres. We are worried Sinjar could be a 73rd.”
The Sinjar area, near the border with Syria, is strategically important for IS, just 50 miles from Mosul. The United Nations has said close to 200,000 have fled the area, calling it a “humanitarian tragedy.”
Who are the Yazidis?
Yazidis (sometimes spelled Yezidis), belong to an ethno-religious group which predates Islam and has roots in Zoroastrianism, an monotheistic religion that developed in ancient Persia around 1,500 BC. Yazidis have been described as a “Kurdish heterodox group,” meaning that they’re ethnic Kurds, but outside the mainstream of the community and culture.
Over time they have incorporated aspects of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism into their beliefs. Much of the faith remains shrouded in mystery, with outsiders not allowed to convert and believers not willing to share details of their rituals…
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Vladimir Putin Signs Historic $20bn Oil Deal With Iran to Bypass Western Sanctions
Vladimir Putin has attempted to sidestep Western sanctions on Russia’s energy sector by signing a $20bn trade deal that could see his country become the largest importer of oil from Iran.
The five-year accord will see Russia help Iran organise oil sales as well as “cooperate in the oil-gas industry, construction of power plants, grids, supply of machinery, consumer goods and agriculture products”, according to a statement by the Energy Ministry in Moscow.
The deal is a win-win for both nations after they were hit with Western sanctions aimed at limiting their energy sectors.
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Afghan Soldier Attack on UK Army Camp Kills US General
A US major-general has been killed in an attack by a man in Afghan military uniform at a British-run military academy near Kabul, US officials say.
Two British soldiers were among the wounded, along with several Americans, a German general and an Afghan general…
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Afghanistan: ‘Insider Attack’ In Kabul Kills US General, Wounds 15 Others
A man wearing an Afghan army uniform opened fire on international troops, killing a U.S. general and wounding 15 other U.S.coalition troops in a machine gun attack at a military training facility in Kabul, a top Western and senior Afghan official said on Tuesday…
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Danish Milk Scanners Cleaning up Indian Dairy Industry
Engineers from the Danish company Foss — a leading provider of solutions for the production of agricultural food products — have developed a scanner which reveals milk fraud by dairy farmers in India.
The scanner, named Milkoscan, costs one tenth of previous models and can help tackle the widespread problem of diluted milk being sold by dairy farmers in India.
Diluted and even toxic milk is a massive problem in India where dairy farmers mix their milk with anything from water, sugar and vegetable oil to fertiliser and uric acid, in order to make more profits.
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U.S. General is Reportedly Killed by Afghan Soldier
A United States Army major general was killed on Tuesday by an Afghan soldier, shot at close range at a military training academy on the outskirts of Kabul, an official of the American-led coalition and Afghan media reported Tuesday. The officer was the highest-ranking member of the American military to die in hostilities in the Afghanistan war.
The coalition official, who spoke on condition of anonymity and would not release the name of the major general, said an unspecified number of other service members of the American-led coalition and Afghan soldiers, including a senior Afghan commander were also shot. Their conditions were not known.
Other details of the shooting were sketchy, and the coalition official would only confirm that “an incident” had taken place at the Afghan National Army Officer Academy.
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Ebola Outbreak Could be Much Worse Than Thought
The worst outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in history could actually be much worse than the official death toll reflects. Already, the World Health Organization says 887 people have died, but a top doctor working at the heart of the outbreak in West Africa says many cases are going unreported.
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Soldiers Deployed in Sierra Leone and Liberia to Contain Ebola Outbreak
Troops set up roadblocks to ensure that only health personnel can move in and out of the hardest-hit communities
Hundreds of soldiers have been deployed in Sierra Leone and Liberia in an attempt to quarantine the remote villages at the centre of the Ebola outbreak, as three new cases were discovered in Nigeria and authorities in Saudi Arabia said a man was being tested for suspected infection…
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South African Rallies 12000 Strong for Israel
by Phyllis Chesler
The most amazing rally for Israel just took place in South Africa. Whites and blacks, Jews, and non-Jews gathered, 12,000 strong, in the largest pro-Israel rally ever on the continent to convey a message of love and support for the beleaguered and globally denigrated Jewish state.
Waving Israeli flags, wearing Israeli flags, speaker after speaker expressed his or her love and gratitude to the soldiers and the people for being on the front lines— which means that Jews elsewhere can live in dignity. “Thank you for protecting our Holy Land,” “We owe you a great debt,” “We feel each bullet, each loss,” “Israel we are with you.” Black Africans—Ethiopians, Cameroonians, Nigerians, and South Africans said, one after the other, “We are praying for you Israel,” “Africa loves Israel,” May God bless Israel.”
One cannot view this video without feeling hope, love—and gratitude. The rally was a sea of people, an organic, living being, whose hearts beat as one. “African stands with Israel.”
Please watch this video. It will uplift and inspire you…
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African Migrants Clash in French Port of Calais
Clashes between African migrants in the French port city of Calais have left more than 50 people injured.
A fight which started on Monday evening at a food distribution centre was initially broken up by police but later continued into the night. Hundreds of migrants live in informal camps in the Calais port, trying to cross into Britain illegally…
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Denmark: The Land of No Entry (For Muslims)
Venstre’s Inger Støjberg created a national fuss and threw immigration back into the spotlight — if indeed it ever really left — with her suggestion that immigrants be treated differently based on their religion. Columnist Michael Booth points out just a few problems with her suggestion.
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France: Violence Erupts Among Migrants in Calais
Dozens were hurt on Tuesday after violent clashes broke out in Calais between hundreds of African migrants desperate to get across the Channel to the UK. It comes after extra riot police had been drafted in to boost security amid a growing crisis in the town.
The number of migrants in Calais has grown “by some 50 percent in a few months”, local authorities said.
Veronique Devise, from the Secours Catholique charity, said the situation had deteriorated and there was now “a bit of an explosive atmosphere”.
“The migrants are so desperate. Sometimes they want to take a lorry by force and head off to England,” she said.
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London’s streets reached a new level of luxury as a Saudi-owned gold Range Rover, with a “666” number plate, joined other Arab supercars that continue to roam the capital’s roads, the Daily Mail reported.
The car was shipped from Saudi Arabia and has been spotted parked outside London’s pricey Wellesley Hotel in Knightsbridge
CARBEQUE ANYONE?