Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan continued his purge of potential enemies by firing tens of thousands of state employees, most of them in education. All 1,577 university deans were among those dismissed. It was also revealed that during the coup, anti-Christian groups or individuals took advantage of the chaotic situation to attack several major churches.
In other news, migrants at a refugee center in southern Italy staged a revolt, barricading themselves inside until the authorities met their demands, which included improved living conditions and more cell phones.
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Italy: June Lending Flat: Mortgage Rates at Historic Low
NPLs are 4.72% of overall loans says ABI
(ANSA) — Rome, July 19 — Bank loans were flat in June, the Italian Banking Association (ABI) said in its monthly report out Tuesday. Lending to families and businesses added 0.04% compared to 0.33% in May and -0.22% in June 2015. Overall lending including that to the public sector was -0.3%. Also in June, mortgage interest rates fell to a new historic low of 2.21% compared to 2.25% in May and 5.72% in 2007. Two-thirds of new mortgages have fixed rates, ABI reported. Overall mortgage loans to families added 1.5% in May over the same period the previous year. “This confirms the mortgage market is in recovery,” according to ABI. May non-performing loans (NPLs) net of devaluations already carried out by banks with the their in-house resources totalled 85 billion euros compared to 84 billion euros in April. Net NPLs made up 4.72% of total loans extended in May 2016 and 4.67% in April, compared to 4.93% at the end of 2015 and 0.86% before the economic crisis began in 2008.
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2 Injured in Crane on Tappan Zee Bridge — NY Daily News
A construction crane toppled over on the Tappan Zee Bridge Tuesday, injuring two people and creating a “traffic nightmare” over the Hudson River, officials said.
Traffic in both directions came to a halt just after noon Tuesday when a crane working to build the new Tappan Zee — due to open in 2018 and replace the current crossing — fell onto the existing bridge, according to the New York Thruway Authority.
At least two people are injured, Lohud reported. Their conditions were not immediately reported.
South Nyack-Grand View Police Chief Brent Newbury told the newspaper he expects a “traffic nightmare.” Aerial video showed parts of the crane laying across all lanes as lines of cars and trucks sat stopped…
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Mother of Six-Week-Old Baby Found in Tanger Pond Charged With Murder
A North Carolina woman has been charged with murder in connection with the drowning death of her six-week-old baby boy found in a pond near Tanger Outlets on U.S. 501. on Saturday night.
Jameish Katara Alexander, 24, of Carrboro, N.C. was arrested Monday and is charged in connection with murder, according to J. Reuben Long Jail records.
King Khalil Jair Alexander died as a result of drowning after he was found in the pond, according to Horry County Deputy Coroner Michelle McSpadden. The child was 6 weeks old and was from Chapel Hill, N.C., McSpadden said.
A security guard at the shopping center found the infant lying facedown in pond water on top of a drainage pipe, a report states. The guard went into the water and recovered the infant who was given CPR by Horry County Fire Resuce EMS, police said. Efforts to save the infant after his recovery from the pond were made but were ultimately in vain, and an autopsy later revealed drowning as his cause of death, authorities said…
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NASA’s Next Mars Rover Progresses Toward 2020 Launch
After an extensive review process and passing a major development milestone, NASA is ready to proceed with final design and construction of its next Mars rover, currently targeted to launch in the summer of 2020 and arrive on the Red Planet in February 2021.
The Mars 2020 rover will investigate a region of Mars where the ancient environment may have been favorable for microbial life, probing the Martian rocks for evidence of past life. Throughout its investigation, it will collect samples of soil and rock and cache them on the surface for potential return to Earth by a future mission.
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Public Enemy No. 1: A Visit With Fethullah Gülen, Erdogan’s Chief Adversary
In a meeting at his compound in Pennsylvania, Turkish cleric Fethullah Gülen defends himself against claims made by Turkey’s president that he was behind this weekend’s failed coup. He alleges that power has poisoned Erdogan.
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Trump Campaign Struggles to Put Plagiarism Controversy to Rest
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign struggled Tuesday to contain the fallout from revelations that portions of his wife’s Monday night speech before the Republican National Convention were lifted from an address delivered eight years earlier by Michelle Obama.
Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort began his day by defending Melania Trump while leaving plenty of questions unanswered about the origin of her speech.
“To think that she would do something like that knowing how scrutinized her speech was going to be last night is just really absurd,” Manafort told CNN.
While Trump himself did not publicly comment on the charges of plagiarism, his surrogates and supporters could not avoid the topic.
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Paul Ryan’s recent selfie with more than a hundred Capitol Hill interns has swept the internet — but not for the reason he was hoping.
The GOP speaker posted a picture on Instagram captioned: ‘I think this sets a record for the most number of interns in a single selfie.’
But the photo has sparked outrage because the House hopefuls are overwhelmingly white. In fact, just three people of color can be seen in the entire picture of more than 100 interns.
The photograph has been widely mocked online for its ‘embarrassing’ lack of diversity with commenters even comparing it to a Where’s Waldo? puzzle.
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Man Sent to Hospital After Slater Street Stabbing
Ottawa police are investigating an early Monday morning stabbing on Slater Street that sent one man to hospital.
Officers said they were called to a bar on Slater Street between Bank and O’Connor streets at 2:45 a.m.
A man was found by police with stab wounds in his stomach.
Paramedics took the victim to hospital with non-life threatening injuries and police said he is currently at home resting with “minor injuries.”
Police said no suspects have been arrested.
This was the third stabbing the city had seen in less than 30 hours. Six people were injured in two separate stabbings in the ByWard Market over the weekend.
Police were alerted to the second set of stabbings after a fight broke out at McDonald’s on George Street.
Investigators discovered a protracted dispute that spanned the ByWard Market, beginning with a verbal argument between two groups of people near Tequila Jacks on Clarence Street. A man was hit in the face before the groups went their separate ways.
They ultimately met again near William and York streets where police believe a knife fight took place. One man was stabbed and collapsed with a knife wound to the stomach. Another collapsed near the BeaverTails’ stand on the corner of William and George streets. The most seriously injured man also collapsed a short distance away. All of the victims knew each other but did not know their alleged attackers until things became heated between the two groups of partygoers.
Police have charged both Mohamed Hamed Mohamed, 26, and Ali Abbari, 21, in connection to those stabbings. They face charges of aggravated assault, assault with a weapon and failure to comply. Both are from Ottawa.
A third suspect, a female, was released without charges.
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Amsterdam, Rotterdam Police More Alert Due to Unrest in Turkey
The police in Amsterdam and Rotterdam are on high alert following a failed coup attempt in Turkey on Friday night. The mayors of the two large Dutch cities hope to prevent tensions in Turkey spilling over into their communities.
The Amsterdam municipality is consulting with various Turkish organizations in the city, a spokesperson said to AT5. He added that these talks aren’t new. “Over the past years the Mayor (Eberhard van der Laan, ed) regularly had conversations with various Turkish organizations. The starting point for these discussions is always that we import no conflict. In Amsterdam we are primarily Amsterdammers.”
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Belgium: Tile Wall Commemorates Maalbeek Victims
A new tile wall has been inaugurated at Maalbeek metro station, the scene of one of the atrocities on 22 March. Artist Benoît van Innis created the monument to commemorate the victims of the blast that devastated the metro station.
The artwork is supposed to appeal to people of all backgrounds and faiths. It includes a poem by Federico Garcia Lorca.
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Britain Selects US, French, British Teams to Study Spaceport Feasibility
The British government has awarded feasibility-study contracts to five industrial teams that want to operate orbital or suborbital launch vehicles from British territory on a commercial basis.
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Denmark: Black Lives Matter Demonstrates in Copenhagen
Several hundred people gathered at Copenhagen’s central Rådhuspladsen on Thursday to show solidarity with black victims of police shootings in the United States.
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Erdogan Supporters Told to Keep Politics Out of Austria
Austrian politicians have criticised supporters of the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who took to the streets in Austria on the weekend in support of the president following the failed coup against him.
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EU Hits Truck Firms With Record €3bn Fine
The EU’s antitrust chief handed down a record €3 billion fine on Tuesday (19 July) on truck makers in penalties for colluding in an illegal cartel for over 14 years to fix prices and passing on the costs of emission rules.
The €2.93 billion fine will hit major European truck making companies, as the EU Commission has found that MAN, Volvo/Renault, Daimler, Iveco, and DAF broke European antitrust rules.
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Explosives ‘Found at Home’ of Radicalized Paris Cab Driver
Police have arrested a Parisian cab driver after finding explosives at his home, according to reports in France.
When officers searched the man’s home, the case took a worrying turn when they reportedly found two sticks of dynamite, detonators, and detonating cables.
These devices were understood to be fully operational. They were also stored dangerously, considering the heat, meaning that they could potentially have exploded unintentionally.
Police also found a picture of an Isis flag on the man’s cell phone, as well as someone else’s identity card that is understood to have been stolen last week.
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Facebook Removes Right-Wing Dutch Group’s Account
The administrators of right-wing group Nederland mijn Vaderland — Netherlands my Fatherland in English — were surprised to find that their account was removed on Facebook on Saturday. On the social media site they were met with a red beam and the message that their page does not comply with Facebook’s guidelines, NRC reports.
With 252 thousand likes, Nederland mijn Vaderland (NmV) was the biggest Dutch “nationalist” community on Facebook. The administrators filed an objection, but according to NRC, expect little result.
Administrator Thomas van Elst thinks that anti-racist groups calling for supporters to report pages like NmV for inappropriate content may be behind the page’s removal, he said to the newspaper. Dutch moderators assess all reports of inappropriate content and then decide whether or not a post or a page needs to be removed.
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Finland’s First Summer Knit Festival Takes Place in Jyväskylä
Finland’s first-ever festival devoted to knitting takes place this weekend in the city of Jyväskylä in central Finland and is expected to attract over 1,000 excited stitchers. The country has a long tradition of knitting for practical purposes, but a new generation of knitters is now attracted by a new aspect of the hobby: the connectivity of the knitting community the world over.
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Finns Party Youth Hope Citizens’ Initiative Will Force MPs to Debate ‘Fixit’ Referendum
Citizens’ initiatives have provided ordinary people with a powerful tool for civic activism, says Turku University political science professor Maija Setälä. The Finns Party youth wing is hoping it can use the instrument to force MPs to consider an EU membership referendum, since its own MPs must abide by a government manifesto that explicitly calls for Finland to remain a member of the EU.
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Garbage and Stones Form Pile of Hatred for Nice Killer
Locals in Nice express their disgust towards the truck attacker by piling up garbage at the spot where he was killed by police.
In the midst of the flowers and candles on Nice’s Promenade des Anglais, a pile of stones and rubbish has piled up on the spot where the truck attacker’s rampage ended.
Passers-by stop to spit on the pile of garbage, adding to it with their cigarette butts and plastic bottles.
Someone has scrawled “coward!” at the spot near where Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel was shot dead by police in his truck after careering through a crowd, killing 84 people on Thursday night.
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German PEGIDA Movement Set to Start Political Party
Anti-immigration movement PEGIDA has launched the process of founding a political party, the movement’s head Lutz Bachmann said in Dresden. The new faction would act as an ally of the far-right AfD.
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German Justice Minister Wants Harsher Action Against Hate Speech Online
The German Justice Minister Heiko Maas claims that social media sites don’t do enough to combat hate speech online and has threatened sites with further European Union (EU) regulation.
In the latest attempt to crack down on what the German government defines as “hate speech” Germany’s Justice Minister Heiko Maas has made it clear that he believes social media sites like Facebook are not doing enough to combat so-called “hate posts”. …
The lack of action on the part of Facebook in regards to removing posts in a timely manner has angered the Justice Minister who said that the result could be further regulation by the EU. Hate posts are a “significant threat to social peace” he claimed, and went on to say: “The better the companies involved here assume their responsibilities, the less the need for further regulation.”
The real world result of the task force has been large-scale raids of the homes of German citizens who have posted comments online. Just last week 60 residences were raided by the German Federal police for what were termed as “xenophobic remarks.”
In April of this year a similar raid occurred in which nine suspects were arrested. The spokesman of the police in that case said the suspects may have just been “people who just once expressed their hate-opinion”, but were still arrested.
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Hate Preachers Focus of Belgian Security Policy
Belgium is taking a new initiative to combat hate preachers. A new databank will be created to identify and expel individuals who preach hatred on Belgian soil.
Until now several Belgian intelligence services have been busy tracking down such people. The issue became pressing with the appearance of the now banned Sharia4Belgium outfit. Often though information was stored at different locations and there was insufficient exchange of information.
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Human Capital is Greece’s No1 Export
Roughly 350,000 Greeks, mostly highly educated, are estimated to have moved abroad since 2008, making human capital Greece’s number one export, according to a report by Endeavor, a global non-profit organization specializing in “high-impact” entrepreneurship.
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Irish PM Opens Door to Reunification Vote
Irish prime minister Enda Kenny has raised the possibility of a vote on Irish reunification in the wake of the Brexit referendum.
The taoiseach said on Monday (18 July) that if people of Northern Ireland clearly showed the will to leave the UK and join the Republic, they should have the right to a referendum on the issue.
He also called on the EU to prepare for the scenario. The centre-right Fine Gael party leader drew a parallel to German reunification following the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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ISIS Claims Responsibility for Ax and Knife Attack on German Train That Injured 5
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility Tuesday for an ax-and-knife attack on a German train that left at least five people injured, but authorities said it appears the 17-year-old Afghan asylum seeker who was shot and killed by police as he fled the scene appears to have self-radicalized and had no direct link to the extremists.
The teenager shouted “Allahu akbar” (“God is great”) as he attacked people on the regional train near the Bavarian city of Wuerzburg Monday night, and a hand-painted flag of the Islamic State was found during a search of his room, according to state Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann.
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Italian Hotspots Struggling With ‘Too Many Tourists’
With its rich culture and outstanding beauty, Italy is unsurprisingly one of the most popular holiday destinations in the world. But mass tourism is endangering some of its most famous hotspots, and making life miserable for locals.
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Man Knifes Mother and Three Daughters at French Holiday Park
A woman and her three daughters have been attacked by a knife-wielding man at a holiday camp in the south of France, French media report.
All four were wounded, and the youngest of the victims was given emergency surgery because of her wounds.
According to authorities, the suspect in custody was of Moroccan origin and had been staying on the site with his own family next door to the victims.
Although he had been in trouble with police many years ago, reports said there was no indication of a religious link to the case.
Unconfirmed reports suggested he had objected to the light clothing worn by his victims but Mr Balland said “it’s all rumour, the man’s not said anything”.
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Man Stabs Mother: Three Daughters in French Alps
Local media says attack may be linked to clothing
(ANSA), Paris, July 19 — A 37-year-old man stabbed a woman, 46, and her three daughters aged nine to 14 in a resort village in the French Alps on Tuesday.
The victims are being treated in hospital. One of the three children is reportedly in critical condition and was transferred to hospital in nearby Grenoble by helicopter.
Police have taken the man into custody.
According to France Info, the motive for the attack near Laragne-Monteglin in the Hautes-Alpes area may have been related to the clothing the family were wearing. Prosecutor Raphael Balland dismissed these reports as rumours and said the reason for the attack was yet to be established.
Local media reported the man was staying in a house near the victims in the holiday village with his wife and two children.
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A mother and her three daughters have reportedly been stabbed by a 37-year-old man while on holiday in France because they were ‘scantily dressed’.
The family were assaulted while eating breakfast at around 10.30am in the village of Garda-Colombe near Laragne-Monteglin in the Hautes Alpes near Montpellier in the south of France.
The mother, 46, and her daughters aged eight, 12 and 14 were targeted by a knifeman who was later arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.
He was today named by police as Moroccan-born Muslim Mohamed Boufarkouch, 37, who lives in Yvelines, France.
The local mayor, Edmond Francou, told Le Parisien that the attacker was staying next door to the family in the holiday center with his own two children.
He reportedly fled after the attack, leaving behind his family and his wife who ‘was in tears’.
Boufarkouch, who is now in custody, has been known to police for at least 15 years, prosecutors confirmed.
It is believed the woman and her daughters were wearing shorts and T-shirts at the time of the stabbing. Locals reports said Boufarkouch attacked the women because they were scantily dressed’.
The mayor suggested the individual could be ‘psychologically sick’. Prosecutors confirmed he would be seen by a psychiatrist doctor this afternoon.
TV channel TF1 said he ‘may have acted out of religious motives’.
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Mum and Three Daughters Stabbed for Being ‘Scantily Dressed’ In French Holiday Resort
A YOUNG girl is fighting for her life after being knifed in a popular tourist destination for Brits because of the way she was dressed.
The eight-year-old is said to be in a critical condition after the attack in Laragne in Hautes-Alpes, in southern France.
She was air-lifted to a nearby hospital in Grenoble with a punctured lung.
According to police the knifeman fled the scene immediately after the attack, which took place on Tuesday around 10am local time.
Police confirmed a 37-year-old man — said to be of Moroccan origin — was later arrested.
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One in Three Arrested Spanish Jihadists Wanted to Attack Spain
A new report by a leading think tank about the activities of Islamic State (ISIS) in Spain shows a shift away from the “lone wolf” radicalization process to one in which relatives, friends and neighbors are playing a growing role.
Researchers at the Real Instituto Elcano also found that out of the 124 jihadists who were arrested in Spain between June 2013 and May 2016, 34.5% of them — one in three — wanted to carry out an an attack on Spanish soil, either out of hatred or a desire to earn a place in paradise.
Most Spain-based jihadists (83.1% of cases) are men aged around 30, either Moroccan or born in Spain to Muslim immigrants.
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Scotland Should Look to Ally With Nordic Nations, Not EU, Says Legal Expert
Country can succeed as an independent state outside of the UK and EU, according to woman behind new Iceland constitution
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Six Italians Confirmed Dead in Nice Attack
Five Italians were among the 84 people killed in an attack in the southern French city of Nice on Thursday night, the Foreign Ministry confirmed on Tuesday morning.
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Spain’s Congress Chooses New Speaker, But No Government in Sight
Ana Pastor of the Popular Party beat out the Socialist candidate Patxi López in a run-off vote
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Swedish Fire Chief Reveals Delay in Reaching Fatal Blaze
Emergency services were delayed to a fatal apartment blaze in Uppsala because of stone-throwing and car burning incidents in the area, a fire chief has told Swedish media.
Fire and rescue services were called out to the fire in an apartment in the Valsätra area of the Swedish university town at 2am on Saturday. But recent disturbances in the neighbourhood — including around ten cars set on fire and a molotov cocktail thrown at a bus — meant that they chose to wait for police escort.
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Swiss ‘Unprepared’ For Potential Terror Attack
Every police officer in Switzerland should receive anti-terrorism training, Geneva city councillor Pierre Maudet has said in an interview following the attack in Nice last week.
Speaking to the Schweiz am Sonntag, Maudet, responsible for security in Geneva, said the police officer who is first on the scene must be able to neutralize a terrorist immediately, without having to wait for a specially trained unit to arrive.
“We saw that in Nice. Every police officer must be able to stop a crazed killer immediately. He has to open fire before something worse happens,” he said.
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Addressing crowds at a weekly meeting of the anti-Islamist Pegida movement in Dresden Lutz Bachmann announced that the articles of incorporation formalising the party had been signed on the 13th July.
The move had been anticipated for over a year following comments by Mr. Bachmann that he intended to create a “Parliamentary arm” to the grassroots movement. Local paperSüddeutch Zeitung has reported that the party is being created in response to a possible impending ban on the movement.
But in making his announcement Mr. Bachmann has made it clear that he does not intend to challenge the centre right Alternative for Germany ( AfD ) party which is committed to curbing migration in Germany.
“We will support the AfD in the next elections and we will have direct candidates in only a few constituencies,” Mr. Bachmann said…
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‘They’ve All Got to Go’ Radio Caller Demands All Muslims be Deported From Britain
A RADIO caller’s demand that all Muslims be removed from Britain in the wake of the Germany train attack sparked a heated on air clash.
On Monday night an Afghan refugee injured at least 19 people during an axe attack on a train in Germany.
The 17-year-old — listed as an unaccompanied minor refugee by the Bavarian Interior Minister — shouted “Allahu Akbar” during his attack.
Reacting to news of the attack, and the recent atrocity in France, LBC caller Dan called for all Muslims to be deported from Britain which led to a furious response from presenter Nick Ferrari.
Dan said: “The Muslim religion has been corrupted. It is so easily misinterpreted.
“They’ve all got go.”
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Turkish Unrest Reaches Flanders
Members of Turkey’s Gülen Movement in Belgium have gone to ground after they received threats following President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s claim the movement was behind the failed coup. Police in the eastern town of Beringen that boasts a large Turkish community have put several homes under special protection.
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Turks Demonstrate in Zurich After Failed Putsch
Hundreds of Turks gathered outside the Turkish consulate in Zurich on Saturday night in support of Turkish democracy after the failed coup on Friday.
Many at the peaceful demonstration brandished the Turkish flag while some wore T-shirts featuring an image of the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, reported news agencies.
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UK: Kelvin Mackenzie’s Hijab Remarks in Sun Spark 1400 Complaints
The press regulator has received more than 1400 complaints about remarks Kelvin MacKenzie made in The Sun criticising a journalist for wearing a hijab while reporting the Nice attack.
The paper’s former editor questioned whether Fatima Manji should have been allowed to appear on Channel 4 News.
The Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso) said it would assess the complaints.
Channel 4 News said the comments were “completely unacceptable”.
The news organisation told the BBC it would be making an official complaint to Ipso over the remarks.
It is also understood Manji is considering her other legal options.
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Volcanoes on Outskirts of Rome ‘Waking Up’: Geologists
A long-dormant complex of volcanoes on Rome’s doorstep is slowly filling up with liquid magma and will erupt once more, according to scientists at Italy’s National Vulcanology and Geophysics Institute (INVG).
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What Lies Beneath: Venus Surface Revealed Through the Clouds
Using observations from ESA’s Venus Express satellite, scientists have shown for the first time how weather patterns seen in Venus’ thick cloud layers are directly linked to the topography of the surface below. Rather than acting as a barrier to our observations, Venus’ clouds may offer insight into what lies beneath.
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Pokemon Go: Bosnia Players Warned of Minefields
Bosnians playing the hit mobile game Pokemon Go are being warned to avoid straying into areas still sown with landmines from the war in the 1990s.
About 120,000 mines remain undiscovered, a Bosnian demining group estimates.
As the popularity of Pokemon Go has soared, there have been numerous incidents and accidents involving gamers.
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Ancient Logbook Documenting Great Pyramid’s Construction Unveiled
A logbook that contains records detailing the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza has been put on public display at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
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Online Photo Campaign Against Moroccan Women in Bikinis
Covert photo operation criticises and threatens women
(ANSAmed) — RABAT, JULY 18 — Moroccan police have undertaken an investigation to determine those responsible for posting photos online of Moroccan women in bikinis on beaches throughout the country.
The photos were taken secretly and posted on a Facebook profile under the false name Aicha Amal, in a campaign calling on the women to turn to religion.
The group said it has taken 10,000 photos and has threatened to publish them all online.
In captions accompanying the photos it has already published, the group wrote: “rediscover the high road and turn to God”; “this is what happens in Morocco, land of Islam, principality of believers”; and “watch out, young Moroccan women, we have eyes that are filming you on the beaches and we will show your photos to prevent the deterioration of the country”.
The photos were taken on beaches in Rabat, Salé, Kenitra, Agadir and Casablanca.
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Churches in Turkey Targeted in Coup
Two churches in cities in eastern Turkey infamous as the sites of historic killings of Christians were vandalized during the attempted coup on 15 July, reports Middle East Concern.
One of the attacks took place in the city of Malatya, where three Christians were tortured and killed in 2007, leading to a still-ongoing court case against the five suspects. Turkish Christians had hoped for a final verdict last month, but the trial was instead adjourned until September.
During the night of 15 July, unidentified assailants broke the glass panels in the door of the Malatya Protestant Church. The pastor, Tim Stone, said he thought someone with a grudge against the church had taken advantage of the general unrest.
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by Jerry Gordon
When first televised pictures burst out on July 15, 2015 on international media about an alleged coup by the Turkish Army they were peculiar. The soldiers stationed at airports, in tanks on the Bosporus Bridges looked timid and frankly lost. The flyovers and explosions by low flying Turkish Air Force jets and attack helicopters may have been threatening, but in reality they were for show. August 1st was the date for appointments to Turkey’s Supreme Military Command. What better time to unleash a long planned staged coup that unfolded on flickering TV screens across the globe. Normally, in the four prior coups by Turkish military, the President and cabinet were immediately sequestered, official media communications were seized and the reigning government toppled before Turkish citizens knew what had occurred. Not this time. Erdogan was ensconced on vacation in his resort palace in Mamaris, while military units were seizing news offices, rolling out tanks on Bosporus bridges and soldiers were blocking entrances to Istanbul International Airport. Then, as if on cue, hordes of men jammed the streets in Istanbul and Ankara. This was triggered by an Instagram video message from Erdogan that he was returning to Istanbul in his Gulfstream 5 executive aircraft. He declared that he was seizing back control and summarily ordered the arrest of members of the country’s judiciary, officers in the country’s military and then Erdogan supporters began conducting summary executions. It is alleged that the country’s military intelligence, the MIT, had fomented the “coup,” which may have a partial ring of truth, as they had executed previous false flag operations at the behest of Erdogan…
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Military Coup Was Well Planned and Very Nearly Succeeded, Say Turkish Officials
Government ministers admit they fully expected to be killed by army rebels, but plotters blundered by attacking parliament, alienating potential supporters
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Pro-Government Mobs Attack Religious Minorities in Turkey
Pro-government mob groups attack religious in the aftermath of the attempted coup in Turkey, a democratic watchdog reports.
Attacks were reported at the Catholic Church of Santa Maria in Trabzon; a second attacks was reported on a Protestant Church in Malatya.
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Report: Dutch Woman Abandoned Wounded Husband in ISIS Territory
Dutch woman Laura Hansen instructed Kurdish Peshmerga fighters to leave her injured husband behind when they helped her and her two children flee from terrorist organization ISIS last week, Kurdish general Bahram Arif Yassin told newspaper Trouw.
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Secular Turks Feel Isolated in Post-Coup Turkey
Silenced by a crackdown following the coup attempt, secular Turks feel increasingly disenfranchised and isolated. Diego Cupolo reports from Ankara.
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Turkey Purges Universities After Failed Coup
Political turmoil spreads to education sector.
More than a thousand Turkish university staff have been ordered to resign their faculty leadership positions — and others expect to be sacked — in the aftermath of the country’s failed coup on 15 July.
As president Recep Tayyip Erdogan continues to clamp down on political opposition, the Turkish Council of Higher Education (YÖK) has called for all 1,577 of the country’s university deans — the staff that head up each institution’s various academic faculties — to leave their posts.
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Turkey Coup: Purge Widens to Education Sector
More than 15,000 education staff in Turkey have been suspended after last week’s failed coup, as a purge of state officials widens still further.
The ministry of education accused them of links to Fethullah Gulen, a US-based cleric the Turkish government says was behind Friday’s uprising.
Mr Gulen denies any involvement in the coup attempt.
More than 1,500 university deans have also been ordered to resign by Turkey’s high education board.
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Turkey Fires All University Deans in Post-Coup Purge — State TV
The High Education Board ordered all deans to resign as part of a crackdown following last weekend’s failed coup. Staff from the education ministry staff and the office of the prime minister were also told to leave.
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Turkey Fires Tens of Thousands in Hunt for Plotters of Failed Coup
The Turkish government on Tuesday escalated its wide-ranging crackdown against people it claims have ties to plotters of last week’s attempted coup, firing tens of thousands of public employees across the country.
The dismissals touched every aspect of government life.
Turkish media, in rapid-fire reports, said the Ministry of Education fired 15,200 people across the country; the Interior Ministry 8,777 employees; and Turkey’s Board of Higher Education requested the resignation of 1,577 university deans — akin to dismissing them.
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Turkey Faces Its Iran 1979 Moment
Empowered by surviving a coup, Erdogan may be tempted to encourage an Islamist counterrevolution.
By Soner Cagaptay
Turkey is at a pivotal point in its history following the failed coup attempt of July 15. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, having survived the coup plot, won fresh legitimacy and gained a new ally: religious fervor in the streets. Mr. Erdogan can use this impetus either to become an executive-style president, or he can encourage the forces of religion to take over the country, crowning himself as an Islamic leader.
Though the incremental acquisition of power has been more his style in the past, the powerful eruption of Islamic support for him over the weekend may prove too tempting. This is Turkey’s Iran 1979 moment—will a brewing Islamic revolution overwhelm the forces of secularism?
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Turkish Coup Attempt Spawns Conspiracy Theories, Bolsters Erdogan’s Clout
Last week’s failed coup attempt left Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in such a strong position that many Turks and others believe he himself engineered it — or at the very least knew of it and let it play out to his advantage.
Supporters of the “staged coup” theory say there’s plenty of circumstantial evidence to support their claim, and have busily discussed and debated the topic in social media — which has a huge engagement rate in Turkey — and other platforms.
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EU Predicts Ukraine Visa-Free Travel in October
Enlargement commissioner Hahn told Ukraine’s new PM, Groysman, in Brussels Tuesday he expected Ukrainian nationals to be granted visa-free access to most EU countries from October. He noted that a recent €100mn EU grant, part of €7bn of grants and loans since 2014, could be used to “top up” civil servants’ salaries to prevent corruption. EU Commission chief Juncker said EU sanctions on Russia should stay in place for now.
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Asia Embraces Bullet Trains as Singapore-Malaysia Deal Looms
Asia is embracing bullet trains like never before.
Singapore and Malaysia signed an agreement Tuesday that will bring a high-speed rail link to Kuala Lumpur by 2026. The long-envisioned plan, six years behind an earlier target completion date, follows a $5.5 billion project already underway in Indonesia. India last year chose Japan to build a $15 billion network, its first.
Asian nations are modernizing their transport infrastructure while China has set up the world’s biggest high-speed rail network. Japan has been running bullet trains for more than five decades now. As countries embrace the latest technology, it’s also pitting Chinese and Japanese manufacturers of super-fast trains against rivals such as Siemens AG and Bombardier Inc.
“It’s a good sign because generally investors are looking to see more inter-connectivity across Southeast Asia,” said Alan Richardson, a Hong Kong-based fund manager at Samsung Asset Management.
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Bangladesh: Death Threats for Three More Hindu Priests
The letters were left in temples where they work or delivered to staff. Another assistant received verbal threats: “Prepare to die.” The police have been alerted, but the minorities live in fear.
Dhaka (AsiaNews) — In recent days, three Bangladeshi Hindu priests have received anonymous letters in which they are threatened with death. The letters were delivered to the temples where the religious serve and now even the local faithful fear for their lives, because of yet another threat against religious minorities in the country.
Bangladesh has witnessed a succession of targeted killings against members of the Christian, Hindu and Buddhist communities, as well as against those who dare to speak of a liberal and democratic society. The latest in a long series of murders took place on the morning of July 1 to the detriment of another Hindu priest, hacked to death on the same day in which the Islamic terrorists stormed a Dhaka cafe frequented by foreigners and killed 20 people.
The three threatened priests are Bijoy Chakraborty of Rangpur (in the north), Ruhidas Pal and Salil Mukherjee Sibu of Pirojpur (in the south). That have all alerted local authorities and lodged a complaint. The form of threat is similar in all cases: a letter, contained in a manila envelope, was left in the temple or delivered into the hands of an attendant.
The one delivered to the priest Ruhidas Pal, who works in the temple Palpara Durga-Kali says: “The death mission starts now. No need for you to know who we are. All Hindu priests, leaders and staff employed will be killed one by one”.
In addition to the three priests, verbal threats have reached an assistant ashram Deshbondhu Bishwakalyan Geeta, in the administrative division of Baufal. The 70-year-old man was approached by a stranger who was wearing a rain jacket, who told him: “Your days are over. Prepare to die”.
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India Tension After ‘Cow Protectors’ Assault Dalits in Gujarat
Tension has gripped parts of the Indian state of Gujarat after reports that seven men from the low-caste Dalit community had attempted suicide.
The men tried to take their own lives to protest against last week’s assault on four Dalit men allegedly by the members of a Hindu hardline group.
The Dalit men were assaulted while trying to skin a dead cow.
Many Hindus consider cows sacred and the slaughter of the animal is banned in many Indian states.
Last year, a Muslim man was lynched by a violent mob that attacked his house over allegations that his family had been storing and consuming beef at home.
There have several other attacks across India where Muslim men have been accused of eating or smuggling beef.
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Japanese Migration Theory Brought to Life
A team of 14 people aboard a pair of bulrush canoes have recreated part of a migration journey said to have taken place 30,000 years ago.
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Philippines Refuses Bilateral Talks With China Following South China Sea Ruling
Manila has said it declined talks with China on the condition they not discuss a recent ruling over territorial claims. Tensions have flared over the contested South China Sea.
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Xi Invokes Spirit of ‘New Long March’ To Reach Communist Party Goals
Visit to Red Army shrine aimed at reinforcing president’s credentials as son of revolutionary ahead of annual leaders’ retreat, analysts say
President Xi Jinping has visited a monument honouring the end of the Long March in Ningxia, making a pilgrimage to Communist Party roots ahead of a crucial leadership meeting expected next month.
The trip was seen by analysts as an attempt to bolster his image as an inheritor of the party’s legacy.
Xi carried out an inspection tour in Ningxia on Monday and visited a memorial hall where the three main Red Army forces converged in October 1936, marking the end of the Long March.
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Australia ‘Ban Muslims’ Comment Mocked on Social Media
A TV presenter who called for a ban on Muslim migration to Australia has been widely mocked on social media.
Earlier this week, Sonia Kruger had told Today that after the Nice attack she would feel safer if the borders were closed to Muslims for a while.
She later said on Twitter she was concerned “as a mother” and that there should be open discussion of the issue.
The hashtag #asamother has since been trending in Australia, with many accusing her of racism.
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Colombia and Venezuela Move Closer to Definitive Reopening of Border
Following two weeks that have seen chaotic scenes as tens of thousands of desperate Venezuelans cross into Colombia to buy food and medicine in short supply at home, the two countries have announced they are moving closer to reopening their borders indefinitely.
“We’re not going to have a repeat of the situation of the last few days,” said María Ángela Holguín, Colombia’s foreign minister, on Monday, adding: “The next opening will be for good.”
Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro unilaterally closed the 2,000-kilometer border with Colombia in August last year. But as his country’s economic crisis deepens, growing numbers of people have been making their way into Colombia to buy basic goods no longer available in Venezuela.
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Science Under Siege: How Venezuela’s Economic Crisis is Affecting Researchers
The political and economic crisis in Venezuela continues to worsen. As the price of oil — the country’s major export — has fallen, Venezuela has struggled to pay for imported goods while maintaining socialist economic policies put in place by former president Hugo Chávez.
Claudio Bifano, a chemist at the Central University of Venezuela in Caracas, continues to teach despite rolling blackouts, food lines and increasing violence. “This is not a good time for the country, but we have to keep working,” he says. “We have to keep living.”
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Asylum Seeker Arrested for Raping Teen in Denmark
A 24-year-old asylum seeker from Iran made an initial court appearance on Monday to face charges of having raped a 19-year-old woman over the weekend.
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Attack in France Fuels Anti-Immigrant Parties on Europe’s Right
The devastating attack in Nice, carried out by a Tunisian man living in France, came at a moment of political ferment in Europe and seems likely to give even more fuel to anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim movements that are challenging established parties across the region.
“This is a war,” Geert Wilders, the Dutch right-winger who is gaining in his country’s polls, said on Twitter on Friday. “And it will not stop until we close our borders for Islam and de-Islamize our societies. No more terror. No more Islam!”
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Finland: Stricter Asylum Requirements Take Effect: 77 Percent of Iraqi Applications Refused in June
Finland now judges Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia to be safe countries, and this has changed its asylum granting policy. A radical jump in the number of negative decisions was noted in June, once the new policy came into effect. Iraqi citizen Sabah Anzi heard his application was rejected three weeks ago.
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Greece: Three Afghans Arrested for the Murder of 16-Year-Old
Three Afghan men have been identified and arrested as the killers of a 16-year-old — also Afghani — during a brawl last week at the Elliniko migrant and refugee reception center in southern Athens.
The three men — aged 18, 23 and 37 respectively — are also being accused of the attempted murder of another two Afghan men, who were also involved in the brawl that erupted last Thursday.
According to investigators, the three men worked in a group and regularly harassed other migrants and refugees at the reception center, using knives, bats and other weapons.
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Greece: Fears of Upheaval as Hundreds of Migrants Camp on Thessaloniki Campuses
Police in Thessaloniki fear prompting upheaval if they intervene in an ongoing sitin at the city’s Aristotle University, organized by supporters of the No Border Camp pro-refugee movement, Kathimerini understands.
Police have briefed prosecutors about developments on the campus, where activists have occupied the philosophy and law schools and set up makeshift showers and kitchens, according to sources.
However, they are keen to avoid upheaval, especially as hundreds of migrants from reception centers have been brought onto the premises, Kathimerini understands.
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Italy Draws Up New Plan to Cope With Migrant Arrivals
Italy has drawn up a plan aimed at distributing migrants more evenly across the country as it struggles to deal with the ongoing refugee situation.
The country has struggled to find accommodation, meeting staunch opposition from some regional authorities. Its French, Swiss and Austrian neighbours have also tightened borders.
Under the new plan, the full details of which are yet to be ironed-out, each host town or city participating in the Sprar (protection for refugees and asylum seekers) programme will accommodate two or three migrants for every 1,000 residents, La Stampa reported.
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Migrants Revolt in Southern Italy, Hijack Welcome Center
Some 300 young migrants seized control of the refugee welcome center where they were guests in southern Italy on Monday, barricading themselves inside for eight hours by piling up furniture against the entrance to the building until a series of demands could be met.
The migrants issued a list of demands, including better living conditions and the ability to communicate with their families in their home countries. The real sticking point, however, is their demand to be moved elsewhere, particularly to Germany or other countries of northern Europe. …
Local assistance associations, however, have reported that supplies of food, clothing and other goods arrive regularly and the immigrants are treated very well. “The truck arrives every morning for breakfast, lunch, and dinner,” said one official. “It’s an excuse; they want to go away to Milan, Rome, to the North, and they complain about these things in order to be taken elsewhere.”
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Netherlands: Vigilante Group Boasts of Catching Refugee ‘Who Assaulted Women’
A vigilante group known as Soldiers of Odin claims to have ‘apprehended’ a young asylum seeker who was harassing women in the Groningen town of Windschoten and handed him over to the police, the Telegraaf said on Tuesday. The group says on its Facebook page that it ‘caught’ the refugee after a ‘hunt’ of one hour. Soldiers of Odin, which originated in Finland last year, says that its role is ‘protecting our citizens and defending our streets’. A police spokeswoman told the Telegraaf that while the police are happy people want to help, ‘we must beware of vigilante justice’.
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Number of Migrants Arriving Rise in Italy, Drop in Greece, Says Border Agency
The number of migrants arriving in Italy from northern Africa increased by about a quarter in June compared to May, European border agency Frontex said on Tuesday.
Some 22,500 people arrived on Italy’s shores, 24 percent more than in May, most of them coming from Nigeria, Eritrea and Sudan, Frontex said in a statement.
In the year to date, the number of arrivals on the central Mediterranean route was broadly the same as last year, the agency said.
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Serbian Police Arrest 6 People Smuggling 78 Migrants
Serbian police said Tuesday they have detained six people for smuggling 78 migrants trying to reach the European Union.
Police said they discovered the migrants in two separate incidents near the Bulgarian border — 37 migrants from Afghanistan and Pakistan were hidden in a van intercepted on a regional road, while another 41 people from Syria have been caught crossing illegally from Bulgaria.
Serbia has announced stepping up efforts to stop the migrant influx, including forming joint police and army teams that will patrol the borders with Bulgaria and Macedonia. The country wants to avoid a migrant pileup after EU member Hungary recently introduced tough anti-migrant measures.
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‘They’re Getting Ready for War’ — France on Brink of Bloody Civil Conflict, Warns Politician
FRANCE is on the verge of a civil war due to seemingly inexorable rise of extremism, a French politician has warned.
Jonathan Miller, an elected city councilor in southern France, said “the mood is turning nasty” after the country was hit by its third terror attack in 18 months.
Mr Miller said: “Normally, it takes quite a bit to excite my neighbors under the languid southern sun, but as one horror has followed another, I am no longer taking for granted that they will put up with this much longer.
“An isolated immigrant population and a strident right-wing political faction in a country awash with guns has created a toxic and explosive mixture.
RELATED ARTICLES”France, a nation long considered a beacon of liberty and stability, may be on the edge of something resembling a civil war.”
He said members at a local hunting club, who are legally entitled to carry firearms, are preparing for a bloody conflict — with membership quadrupling in recent months.
Mr Miller revealed: “I wish I could say this was just hysterical exaggeration. But the evidence does not support complacency…
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Xenophobia Running High Before Hungary’s Migrant Referendum
Laszlo, a resident of the Hungarian town of Kormend, reflects on the government’s recent decision to open a camp for migrants nearby: “Ten thousands people live here and we don’t want 300 to determine our everyday life.”
Laszlo’s daughter claims her father has become stricter with her since the facility was opened. He doesn’t let her walk alone after sunset any more.
Laszlo replies: “I’m not strict. I’m just concerned about the situation out there.”
Kormend is 10km from the Austrian border. The government built a temporary camp there that received its first residents in early May.
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Elite School’s ‘Exceptionally Racist’ Diversity Head Will Not Return
The diversity director of an elite Manhattan prep school who teaches white students as young as 6 that they’re born racist and benefit from “white privilege” will not be returning in the fall, the Bank Street School for Children confirmed.
A school spokeswoman insisted the exit of Ivy League-educated Anshu Wahi was not precipitated by last month’s Post exposé on the Upper West Side school’s radical diversity program, explaining that Wahi stepped down for personal reasons unrelated to complaints about the program.
Parents who complained to The Post aren’t buying it. They revolted after “the exceptionally racist” diversity coordinator introduced increasingly anti-white propaganda into the private school’s curriculum.
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Pentagon Manual Details Rules for Transgender Military Personnel
The Pentagon has issued a comprehensive manual detailing protocol for service members undergoing a sex-change transition that includes extended time off, getting a commander’s approval for medical treatments and a prohibition on living a “preferred gender” lifestyle on base.
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Google’s Deleted an Artist’s Blog, Along With 14 Years of His Work
Your daily reminder to back up your work.
In a stark reminder that the internet isn’t forever, artist Dennis Cooper has reported that Google has deleted his entire blog without warning — completely erasing 14 years of work in the process.
His blog was hosted by the Google-owned platform Blogger, and other than being shown a violation of terms of service statement, Google has offered no explanation for the erasure.
Worst of all, most of his work was only on his blog, with no other backups that Cooper knows of, which is pretty much every artist’s worst nightmare.
Cooper’s Gmail account was also disabled without warning, he reported on his Facebook page.
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Planet Nine May Have Tilted Entire Solar System Except the Sun
A jealous Planet Nine may have shoved its siblings for attention. If a massive ninth planet exists in our solar system, it might explain why the planets are out of line with the sun.
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” . . . demands, which included improved living conditions and more cell phones.”
Stupid refugees! Why did they forget about 4 virgins each?
A despot replicating almost exactly what Hitler and his brown shirts did in the 1930’s and we all know what that led to!
The supreme irony of the current situation though is that it is Merkel’s rudderless Germany leading the appeasement of the Turkish tyro.
When you read about the £500 million palace and £1.5k paid for “special” tea (2kilos) and wages of £42 million per year when many Turks have to survive on £3 per day why is Europe not waking up to the clear and present danger of this very dangerous individual.
Should he unleash (illegal) migration into Europe as threatened All should be intercepted and returned immediately, there is no placating dictators such as he, like all bullies he will keep coming until he gets a bloodied nose.
Turkey never stopped migration to Europe, there is nothing to unleash. Rapefugees are passing freely, Erdog only keeps those who may be useful for him like scientists or doctors.
Erdog took several billions euros from dhimmi Merkel and Rutte and did absolutely nothing in return. Migration not only didn’t stop, it even increased. Erdog is so self-confident that he told EU to shove their visa-free requirements up their butts. Of course EU dhimmies sucked it up too and agreed to his conditions.
EU doesn’t give slightest crap about his crackdown on opposition, or corruption, or genocides of minorities, or even military occupation of Cyprus. Just compare how EU constantly dumps on Putin and how they never miss the opportunity to kiss Erdog’s bottoms.
And note that Putin is a very “mild” dictator, almost a liberal when compared to Erdog.
The sole goal of EU-Turkey agreement is to open the door for 80 millions of islamic invaders.
And nothing new here, this has been going on for decades. Europe is heavily infiltrated by Turks. Millions of immigrants, who are very “patriotic” about their native country, miriads of Turkish organizations, businesses, mostly very pro-Erdogan and even politicians and parties openly acting for the interests of Turkey. All of them doing their part.
The only purpose of all those games with Turkey is to continue islamisation of Europe.
A lot of what’s going on between Europe and Turkey has to do with Europe’s energy supply and how dependent it is on Russia.
Somehow the Western Euros have been programmed to be so terrified of Putin that they will readily cuddle up with a monster like Erdogan.
This is befuddling, because at this stage of the game Russia is a far more natural ally to Europe and the US than Turkey or any of the Gulf states.
The left’s war against so called ‘right wing’ media implies that there is no ignorance in the PTBs, that they know that they are destroying civilization as we know it.
Yet what could be their motive? is there another religion behind the obvious political religion that drives them on, is this a Faustian saga being played out on a global level?
have the PTBs sold their souls to the devil?
Their main enemy is now right wing ‘populism’ and the battle lines are being drawn up; at the moment there are skirmishes throughout the internet to stop the lefty useful idiots changing sides as they realize the stark truth, that they have been grossly deceived.
“Earlier this week, Sonia Kruger had told Today that after the Nice attack she would feel safer if the borders were closed to Muslims for a while.”
She is merely saying out loud what many others are thinking.
It looks as if Mr. Erdogan is implementing a Stalinist type of purge eliminating any resistance to his Islamist regime. BTW what boggles one’s mind is that the feckless and spineless EU ‘Dictator’s Council’ is still pushing for full EU membership for Turkey.
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Twitter turns off gayikon who criticize
Islam and left feminism
https://youtu.be/0PIvuYCW4rg
Thanks for the link. I hadn’t known there was a “best of” Milo Yiannopoulos on You Tube.
What is interesting about the Twitter suspension of this flaming “gay token” on the right – who is immensely enjoying his stardom in the U.S. – is that they suspended him even though he’d sent no offensive messages, and they did so about 20 minutes before his speech to gay conservatives as part of the GOP convention
http://www.breitbart.com/milo/2016/07/19/breaking-milo-suspended-twitter-20-minutes-party/
I watched the video that is on that link and found the crowd rude. You never see them during his speech but they never ever shut up through the whole speech, as far as I could see (couldn’t bear to watch the whole thing – can’t stand to see any speaker dissed like that. I mean these twits were supposed to be his “fans”.)
Milo is a Brit who’s has made a big hit in America; I doubt he could say some of the things he says here if he were in the UK. He’s not just a pretty face who doesn’t mind hamming it up for the gay crowd. He really ‘flames’ the public; but I have a feeling his private persona is quieter – he just enjoys being flamboyant and outrageous. (I have a friend like that who’d be “on” every chance he got if they paid him for it.)
From the Breitbart story about his suspension from Twitter:
They’re right. Whoever this Leslie Jones is, she’s foul and obviously enjoys taking the low road since blacks are a protected class now, thanks to Obama.
http://www.breitbart.com/milo/2016/07/19/breaking-milo-suspended-twitter-20-minutes-party/
Meanwhile on Twitter: ISIS accounts, radical imams calling for jihad, BLM supporters celebrating cop killings – no one is suspended.
Their “abuse” criteria is a joke. Twitter is a liberal propaganda machine and their intents are obvious.
Milo is dangerous for liberals (indeed a “dangerous faggot”). A gay who walks in and destroys all liberal nonsense in a blink of an eye. And he does it with such a class that liberals are left completely naked. No wonder Twitter needed to get rid of him. Same way as you’d never expect to see conservative anti-immigration journalist on BBC or CNN.
The most hypocritical element of Milo’s suspension was their claim that his tweet of the squashed girl photo in Nice was offensive.
He easily proved that Twitter permitted several other approved outlets to post this photo.