A missionary Catholic priest has been kidnapped in Niger, presumably by Islamic activists. The gunmen who abducted the priest are thought to have come from neighboring Burkina Faso.
In other news, Czech President Miloš Zeman says that the Czech Republic should stand up for Hungary.
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Fitch Ups GDP Growth Forecast for Poland
Fitch ratings agency has upped its forecast for the Polish economy, saying it expects Poland’s GDP to grow to 4.8 percent this year.
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“No You Can’t” — Broad Coalition Rallying Against Obama Center
Authored by Mark Glennon via WirePoints.com
Here’s something you don’t see every day: Chicago’s progressive Reader aligned with conservative Breitbart. Both had articles Wednesday slamming the Obama Center to be built in Chicago’s Jackson Park.
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Amazing! Two Mile Long Line for Trump Rally in Springfield, Missouri!
The line of Trump supporters attending the President’s rally in Springfield, Missouri, is two miles long according to a report from police and a local reporter. President Trump is scheduled to speak around 6:30 p.m. CDT at the JQH Arena located on the campus of Missouri State University. Reports state supporters started lining up early in the morning with one claiming to have been in line since Thursday night. Other reports state upwards of 20,000 people were in line for the 11,000 capacity venue.
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Cardinal Dolan ‘Impatient’ For the Pope to Open Investigation Into Abuse
New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan said Thursday he has grown “impatient” for the pope to respond to a formal request by the U.S. bishops for a thorough investigation into the decades of homosexual abuse by Cardinal Theodore McCarrick.
On August 16, the president of the U.S. Bishops Conference (USCCB), Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, requested that the Vatican initiate a full inquiry into the McCarrick case.
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PayPal Bans Alex Jones and InfoWars for “Promoting Hate”
Following in the footsteps of corporate giants Apple, Facebook, Google and Spotify, on Friday PayPal said it was is terminating its relationship with Alex Jones and his website, Infowars. In a statement, PayPal said that after an extensive review of Infowars and its related sites the company “found instances that promoted hate or discriminatory intolerance against certain communities and religions, which run counter to our core value of inclusion” although it declined to cite specific examples of Infowars’s problematic behavior.
After PayPal notified Infowars of its decision on Thursday, the site accused PayPal in a blog post of a “political ploy designed to financially sabotage an influential media outlet.” It added that PayPal had given it 10 days to find a new payment platform, after which PayPal’s services would no longer function.
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Police say three infants and two adults were stabbed at an overnight day care center in New York City. All are in critical but stable condition.
Authorities say the stabbings happened just before 4 a.m. Friday at a home in Queens.
They say a 3-day-old girl and a 1-month-old girl were stabbed in the abdomen, and a 20-day-old girl suffered cuts to her ear, chin and lip.
Police said the father of a child at the center and a woman who worked there were also stabbed.
A 52-year-old woman was found in the basement of the home in the Flushing neighborhood. Police said she had slashed her own wrist and is in custody at a hospital.
Charges are pending. Police say a butcher knife and meat cleaver were found at the scene.
A motive hasn’t been determined. It isn’t clear whether the day care center was licensed.
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Direct Democracy: Regional ‘Burqa Ban’ Up for Vote in Switzerland
A second Swiss canton will vote Sunday on whether to introduce a regional “burqa ban”, a controversial law that would prohibit all face-covering garments in public spaces.
The ballot in northeastern St. Gallen is to be held as voters across the country also determine whether a moratorium on genetically modified crops should become a full-out ban.
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‘Fake News’ Tweets Were Just 0.01 Percent of All Tweets in the French Presidential Campaign
Despite major campaigns against “fake news” across Europe, a new study has revealed that fake news tweets made up a mere 0.01 percent of the 60 million tweets during the 2017 French presidential campaign.
In 2017, researchers at the Institut des Systèmes Complexes (CNRS) and the Centre for Social Analysis and Mathematics (CNRS / EHESS) launched a project labelled “Politoscope” to analyze Twitter posts during the presidential election.
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Former Trump Advisor: UK Treated Trump’s Support for Brexit as a “Threat”
The British Ministry of Foreign Affairs thought that Donald Trump’s support for Brexit represented a “threat,” according to former Trump advisor George Papadopoulos.
Papadopoulos, who was a member of the foreign policy advisory panel to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, claims that the British and Australian governments sent intelligence agents to meet him in London in an attempt to spy on the Trump campaign.
“The day that BRITISH intelligence source, Stefan Halper, lured me to London so that the British MI6 could spy on the campaign, the British Ministry of Foreign Affairs invited me to their offices to talk about Trump and what a threat him supporting Brexit was,” Papadopoulos tweeted.
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German Coalition to Reconsider Firing and Promotion of Ex-Intelligence Chief Maassen
The heads of Germany’s ruling coalition faced uproar after firing intelligence chief Hans-Georg Maassen only to immediately promote him. The issue seems far from settled as Angela Merkel agreed to reconsider the move.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, and the head of the SPD party Andrea Nahles are set to renegotiate the fate of the sacked intelligence chief Hans-Georg Maassen, officials said on Friday.
“The chancellor believes it is right and appropriate to revalue the current issues and to find a joint, sustainable solution,” Merkel’s spokesman Steffen Seibert said on Friday…
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German Politics Fragment as Support for Big Parties Erodes
Conservatives and Social Democrats long dominated Germany’s political culture, generating broad appeal. But their ability to unite people under proverbial big tents is waning, while small parties profit from the discord.
For most of Germany’s postwar history, the conservative CDU/CSU and the Social Democrats (SPD) were the undisputed twin poles of German politics. Known as Volksparteien, literally “popular parties,” these big-tent associations of interests have led every government since 1949. They were the German equivalents of the Republicans and Democrats in the United States or Tories and Labour in the United Kingdom.
But their popularity is eroding alarmingly. In the words of venerable German political scientist Herfried Münkler, the Volksparteien look increasingly like “last year’s models.”…
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Italy: PD Treasurer Probed for Illicit Parnasi Funds
Businessman arrested in June for AS Roma stadium graft
(ANSA) — Rome, September 21 — Centre-left opposition Democratic Party (PD) treasurer Francesco Bonifazi has been placed under investigation for allegedly receiving illicit party funding from Rome businessman Luca Parnasi.
Parnasi was arrested in June in connection with alleged corruption over the construction of AS Roma’s new stadium.
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Italy in World Health-Spending Efficiency Top 4 — Report
Only Spain does better in Europe — Bloomberg study
Rome
(ANSA) — Rome, September 21 — Italy is fourth top in the world in terms of the efficiency of its health spending, according to a report released on Friday. Italy has climbed two places since last year and is now only behind Hong Kong, Singapore and Spain, according to the latest Bloomberg Health Care Efficiency report. The analysis is based on data from various international agencies, including the WHO and the IMF, for 2015 for countries where life expectancy is at least 70 that have a per capita GDP of more than $5,000 and a population of at least five million.
It uses a parameter than links health costs to life expectancy.
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Italy: No One Came to Get Me Says Pakistani Woman
Menoona Safdar back in Italy after arranged marriage foiled
(ANSA) — Milan, September 21 — A Pakistani woman whose arranged marriage in Pakistan was stopped by the Italian government said Friday she had slept in a hotel near Malpensa Airport and “no one came to get me”.
“I’m very happy to come back to Italy,” 23-year-old Menoona Safdar told ANSA.
“Last night I slept in a hotel, near Malpensa Airport. No one came to get me”.
She said “I didn’t sleep much, I was very agitated but the return trip went well.” On Friday Safdar saw her relatives but then left to go into a community home.
Safdar had appealed for help to her old school after she was forced to return to Pakistan by her father to marry a man chosen by her family.
The young woman said her father didn’t reveal to her the real reason why he had taken her back to their country of origin until they had arrived.
“Please help me, my future is in Italy”, the young woman reportedly wrote, saying her documents were confiscated by family members upon arrival. “My father forced me to leave before I could finish my fourth year” of high school and “I know one of the professors was asking where I was”.
Italian Foreign Minister Enzo Moavero Milanesi announced on Thursday that Safdar was returning to Italy.
Moavero expressed “great satisfaction” at the outcome of the case and said Safdar had already boarded a flight for Italy and was travelling back.
The Italian foreign ministry said “the positive outcome, which ended a grave violation of the fundamental rights of the young woman, was rendered possible by the personal involvement of the minister” and the “effective action of our embassy in Islamabad, in close contact with the Farnesina (the foreign ministry)”.
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Italy: Circus Worker Nabbed for Beating Co-Worker
Near Taranto
(ANSA) — Taranto, September 21 — A 39-year-old Italian circus worker was arrested Friday on suspicion of beating and critically injuring a 32-year-old Moroccan co-worker near Taranto.
The beating occurred after the assailant intervened to help the victim’s girlfriend, whom the Moroccan was attacking, local sources said.
The victim has had his spleen removed.
He has had surgery on other internal injuries too.
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The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is trying to curb your freedom of speech — yet again.
In June, the first “I 1st Islamic-European Forum for examining ways of cooperation to curb hate speech in the media,” initiated by the OIC, ironically but sadly took place at the Press Club Brussels Europe.
The director of the information department of the OIC, Maha Mustafa Aqeel, explained that the forum is part of the OIC’s media strategy to counter “Islamophobia”:
“Our strategy focuses on interacting with the media, academics, and experts on various relevant topics, in addition to engaging with Western governments to raise awareness, support the efforts of Muslim civil society bodies in the West, and engage the latter in developing plans and programs to counter Islamophobia.”
Unlike almost all other intergovernmental organizations, the OIC wields both religious and political power.
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M5S Studying Basic Income Just for Italians — Salvini
‘Intelligent’ version of measure says League leader
(ANSA) — Rome, September 20 — Interior Minister and League leader Matteo Salvini said he was “sure” Thursday that government partner the 5-Star Movement (M5S) were studying a basic income just for Italians.
“I’m sure that the 5-Star friends are studying an intelligent formula for the basic income that limits it to Italian citizens,” he said.
The basic income is the flagship M5S campaign pledge.
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Muhammad Names Are Top for Baby Boys in England and Wales Sixth Year Running
Muhammad was the most popular name for baby boys in English regions London, the West Midlands, and Yorkshire and the Humber in 2017, government statistics show, with spelling variations in the name taking it to first place across England and Wales.
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Nigel Farage Calls on Social Media Giants to Stop Censoring Conservatives Online
In Nigel Farage’s speech at the New Culture Forum last night, he called for social media giants to stop censoring conservatives online.
He shared about speaking to Facebook owner Mark Zuckerburg when he told him: “You have now become a publisher, and as a publisher, you are responsible for the content that is put out in your name. They should be given their behaviour reclassified as a publisher and held to account.”
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President Zeman: Czech Republic Should Stand Up for Hungary
The Czech Republic should stand up for Hungary in its dispute with the European Union, not only because it is a close ally, but because the Czechs themselves could one day find themselves in a similar position, President Zeman said in an interview for commercial TV Barrandov on Thursday.
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Salvini-Bannon Meetings Very Serious — EPP Chief
Dangerous extremist, wants to destroy EU
(ANSA) — Fiuggi, September 21 — Meetings between former Trump strategist and alt-right thinker Steve Bannon and League leader Matteo Salvini are “extremely serious”, the secretay-general of the European People’s Party caucus, Antonio Lopez Isturiz, said at a conference organised by European Parliament President Antonio Tajani in Fiuggi on Friday.
“Steve Bannon is a dangerous extremist, who even Trump had to get rid of because of how unpresentable he was. I read that he is meeting with Matteo Salvini: it is extremely serious news”, said Lopez Isturiz.
“I find unacceptable that this disgraced ideologue is thinking of destroying the European project: we are the founders of a united Europe and we will never accept this cheap nationalism”.
Salvini is the leader of the anti-migrant Euroskpetic League party, formerly the Northern League.
He has vowed to “change the EU dynamics from within”.
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Swedes Who Apprehend and Turn Thief Over to Police Charged With Kidnapping
Niklas Krämer spotted a thief on a surveillance camera. He and a colleague then managed to catch him. But now the two colleagues are charged with unlawful detention, Swedish newspaper Expressen reports.
25-year-old Niklas and his colleagues were robbed of diesel several times a week. Last year they managed to seize and hold down one of the thieves while waiting for the police.
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Twitter Approves Muslim Advertisement on Sickening Female Genital Mutilation of Young Girls
Twitter faces angry backlash after a Muslim group’s video promoting FGM is seen 30,000 times. “My daughters were circumcised, they’re growing up perfectly,” a woman with a headscarf says in a video.
The Muslim group, Dawoodi Bohra Women for Religious Freedom posted the promoted tweet. In their video a woman was justifying ‘khafz’, the name for female ‘circumcision’ on young girls.
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UK: Angered PM May Implies ‘No Deal’ Closer After EU Insults and Rejections
The Prime Minister has indicated the UK will accelerate ‘No Deal’ Brexit preparations after European leaders rejected on Thursday her proposals and mocked Theresa May personally on social media.
Speaking in a surprise statement from Downing Street Friday, the Prime Minister said at “this late stage” of talks it is “not acceptable” for the bloc not to present alternative proposals when they reject ideas from the UK without explanation.
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UKIP Says Anti-Extremism Manifesto is ‘Similar’ To Trump Policies
The UK Independence Party (UKIP) have launched a new interim manifesto, taking a hard line against radical Islamic terrorism, which they say has “similarities” with the policies of U.S. President Donald J. Trump.
The manifesto also proposes housing radical Islamists in separate prisons to stop them spreading extremism, and introducing special security screening for immigrants from some terror-linked states.
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UKIP Conference Cheers for Abolishing BBC License Fee
Big cheers in Birmingham at today’s UKIP Conference when Party Leader Gerard Batten revealed that the party would commit to abolishing the license fee in their manifesto.
“We would make make it into a subscription service and those who want to listen to a string of politically correct anti-Brexit bias can decide if they want to pay for it or not.”
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Question: How would you comment on today’s Guardian article claiming that “Russian diplomats held secret talks to assess whether they could help Julian Assange flee the UK”?
Answer: This publication has nothing to do with the reality. The Embassy has never engaged either with Ecuadorian colleagues, or with anyone else, in discussions on any kind of Russia’s participation in ending Mr Assange’s stay within the diplomatic mission of Ecuador. As regards the idea that “the Kremlin was willing to offer support” to a secret plan by “allowing Assange to travel to Russia”, we are puzzled by the sensational attitude of the authors. Russia is always happy to welcome international guests if they arrive in a lawful manner and with good intentions.
As recently as 18 September, the Culture Secretary, Jeremy Wright, speaking at the Royal Television Society, called for increased efforts to combat media and online disinformation. Today’s Guardian piece is a brilliant example of the kind of journalism that the British reader should be protected from.
By the way, contrary to British media standards, the authors had not asked us for a comment when preparing their article. Let us hope that the Guardian will correct the omission by publishing this reply.
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Hollande Fuels Rafale Fighter Jet Controversy in India
NEW DELHI (AFP) — Former French president Francois Hollande on Friday fuelled the controversy over India’s multi-billion dollar purchase of 36 Rafale fighter jets in 2016, reportedly saying France was given “no choice” on the Indian partner for manufacturer Dassault.
His comments stoked debate on a subject which has gained significant traction in India in recent weeks, since the opposition Congress party accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of favouring private conglomerate Reliance Group over a public company in the aircraft deal.
India’s opposition party alleges Modi gave preferential treatment to industrialist Anil Ambani, the billionaire chairman of Reliance Group, to the detriment of state-run Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL).
Officials in India and France say aircraft manufacturer Dassault had freely chosen to partner with Reliance, despite Ambani having no previous experience in the field of aeronautics…
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“Trump Won’t Back Down”: Bannon Warns Trade-War Will be “Unbearably Painful” For China
Steve Bannon — who claims to have helped President Trump draft the battle plan for the ongoing trade war, says that Trump’s strategy is to make the conflict “unprecedentedly large” and “unbearably painful” for Beijing, according to an exclusive interview with the South China Morning Post.
The ultimate goal, says Bannon — is not just to force China to give up its “unfair trade practices,” but to “re-industrialize America” since manufacturing used to be the core of the nation’s power. Bannon also criticized the “Made in China 2025” plan for Beijing to catch up with the West in 10 key tech sectors — saying that Chinese firms were relying in generous government support to reduce future technological reliance on the West.
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Leaked Memo Reveals Details of Google’s “Censored Search Engine” For Communist China
It’s now confirmed that Google’s long suspected assistance to the Communist government of China to censor and monitor its citizens’ online activity runs deeper and is more proactive that initially thought.
The Intercept published a bombshell report based on internal Google whistle-blower testimony which shows the internet giant plans to launch a search engine for China with censorship capabilities built into it, which provides a backdoor monitoring platform allowing government authorities to track users’ entire search history and even their location.
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Taiwan Police Apprehend 3-D Printed Gun Pioneer Accused of Child Sex Abuse
Update: Hours after the search began, Reuters reports that Taiwan police have apprehended Cody Wilson in Taipei after U.S. authorities annulled his passport.
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Catholic Priest Kidnapped by Presumed Islamist Militants in Niger
A missionary priest was kidnapped in Niger this week by armed gunmen presumed to be jihadists from neighboring Burkina Faso.
On Monday evening, a number of suspected Islamist militants stormed the rectory of Italian Father Pierluigi Maccalli, a missionary priest from the Society of African Missions, abducting him from the village of Bamoanga.
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Pompeo: U.S. Preparing ‘Actions’ Against Venezuela
WASHINGTON — The United States is preparing a “series of actions” in the coming days to increase pressure on the Venezuelan government, U.S. Secretary of State
Mike Pompeo told Fox News on Friday.
“You’ll see in the coming days a series of actions that continue to increase the pressure level against the Venezuelan leadership folks, who are working directly against the best interest of the Venezuelan people,” Pompeo said. “We’re determined to ensure that the Venezuelan people get their say.”
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Pope Removes Another 2 Chilean Bishops Over Abuse
Clean-up of Chile Church continues
(ANSA) — Vatican City, September 21 — Pope Francis removed another two Chilean bishops over clerical sex abuse of children on Friday as his clean-up of the Church there continued.
Francis removed the bishop of San Bartolomé de Chillan, Mscgr Carlos Eduardo Pellegrin Barrera, and the bishop of San Felipe, Msgr Cristian Enrique Contreras Molina. Both have been involved in probes into sex abuse and cover-ups.
Replacements will be announced in due course, the Vatican said.
Meanwhile caretaker apostolic adminstrators have been named.
For the diocese of San Bartolomé de Chillan, the pope has named Father Sergio Hernan Perez de Arce. For that of San Felipe, he has named Father Ortiz de Lazcano Piquer, judicial vicar of Santiago.
Mons. Pellegrin Barrera, 60, former rector of the College of the Divine Word, was probed in 2011 after an anonymous email believed to have been sent by a former student accused him of sex abuse.
The email described alcohol-fuelled sex parties with students “no older than 17”.
It further spoke of two students who committed suicide after possible abuse.
The email also described improper conduct of at least another three priests with students and workers. As for Msgr Contreras Molina, the other bishop removed Friday, he is one of seven bishops who appear in the last census of the national prosecutor for criminal action linked to suspected sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.
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Angela Merkel Wants EU Migrant Deals With North African Nations
The German chancellor views the EU-Turkey migrant deal as a model for working with North African countries. Following an informal EU summit, the bloc decided to broaden engagement with Arab states to stem migration.
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Blackmail! Macron Wants to Punish Countries That Don’t Accept Third World Migrants
French President Emmanuel Macron has criticised countries that do no not want more ‘Europe’ and who criticise the EU on migration, Europe 1 reports.
“Countries that do not want more Europe, they will no longer touch the structural funds and therefore it is necessary that next spring we have this discussion on truth,” Macron said.
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EU Migration Commissioner Announces Agreement With Italy on Strong Borders and Deportations
European Commissioner for Migration, Dimitris Avramopoulos, says that he largely agrees with the migration policies of Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini after his colleagues have repeatedly attacked the populist coalition.
“Most of Salvini’s proposals coincide with the measures I have presented in Brussels,” Mr Avramopoulos said in an interview but added that he did not think the current flow of migrants coming into Europe should be referred to as an emergency, Il Giornale reports.
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Finland Cool on Joint European Border and Coast Guard Proposal
At this week’s EU Salzburg summit, Finnish PM Juha Sipilä expressed reservations about Finland’s participation in a common European border and coast guard.
Finnish Prime Minister Juha Sipilä expressed reservations over the idea of a common European border and coastal guard at this week’s Salzburg summit, where EU heads of state and government are gathering for an informal meeting to discuss internal security, migration, and Brexit.
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France: African ‘Child Refugee’ Arrested for Series of Violent, Knifepoint Rapes
A 16-year-old Ivorian who arrived in France as an unaccompanied minor has been arrested on suspicion of committing a series of violent rapes after his DNA was identified at the scene of an attack.
The suspect, who had been living in asylum lodgings since he came to France four years ago, was arrested as he exited from his high school in Marseille last week, and has refused to speak about the case while in pre-trial detention.
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‘Go Wherever You Want, But Not to Italy’ Interior Minister Matteo Salvini Tells NGO Ship
Aid groups MSF and SOS Méditerranée have said that the migrant rescue ship Aquarius was seeking help for 11 migrants they recovered off Libya after refusing to return them to the north African country.
The vessel claimed to have saved ten men and an unaccompanied minor from a sinking boat after attempting to alert Libya’s coastguard who had requested they bring them to one of their patrol vessels.
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Google Staff Discussed Search “Tweak” To Bias Trump Travel Ban Results
The notion that Google’s search algorithm is biased (explicitly or implicitly) against conservative voices and media outlets is nothing new. President Trump slammed Google for this tendency over the summer when he tweeted a screen shot of the results from a search using the terms “Trump news”…
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Hospital Workers in Berlin Migrant Suburb Beaten, Stabbed or Threatened Almost Every Day
Two employees of Berlin’s Vivantes Urban Hospital ring the alarm bell over violent patients. In a letter on behalf of all personnel they write about the daily aggression they face, newspaper Die Welt reports.
The Vivantes Urban Hospital is located in Berlin Kreuzberg which has a large Turkish migrant population.
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Sydney has become so overcrowded from immigration-fuelled population growth families are moving in the thousands to Melbourne to escape ridiculously high house prices.
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Over 200,000 Undocumented Migrants in Germany Were ‘Born’ On January 1st
More than 200,000 asylum seekers in Germany who have come to the country since 2014 share the birthday of January 1st because they arrived without any form of identification.
As of July 31st, a total of 207,347 asylum seekers in Germany share the same birthday of January 1st, according to the German Federal Ministry of the Interior after a question was posed to them by anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany MP Anton Friesen, Berliner Zeitung reports.
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Salzburg: Macron Pushes for the EU Border Guard. Conte Brakes and Re-Launches “Flexible Solidarity”
The Salzburg summit to discuss Brexit and immigration has once again shown that a united Europe is a mirage.
At the end of the summit Emmanuel Macron has dictated his line, “ the countries that do not want to strengthen Frontex will come out of Schengen .” The reference is clearly to the Visegrad countries and Italy, skeptical about the proposal of Jean-Claude Juncker, the reinforcement of the EU Border Guard.
The text of the legislative proposal, also, to penalize countries that do not accept help from Frontex. Article 43 states, in fact, that in case of urgency, the Commission has the power to send men from the EU Border Guard in a State. Brussels may order the suspension of Schengen, the borders of the country that do not permit entry.
“The current tensions, says Macron, are caused by those (a clear reference to Italy) that do not respect humanitarian law and international law of the sea, with the rejection of the boats to dock in its ports, considered safe and closest” .
Macron is also talk of Brexit . “Exit from the EU is not so easy, but above all has consequences, such as lack of access to the EU single market for London. Or the expulsion from Schengen to Italy and cutting the structural funds for Hungary who refuses to accept refugees. “
flexible Solidarity
“Who does not want to participate in the redistribution of migrants could choose, instead, to contribute in a different way, with increased financial contributions, or by sending more men for the Frontex mission.”
Solutions that do not mind the Visegrad countries. Even the prime minister Giuseppe Conte could be the in principle agreement. Macron has hinted he would like to end the affair before the next European elections. Merkel, however, has expressed doubts, “flexible solidarity does not convince me” .
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Religious Texans Beat Back “Robot Brothel” Amid Fears it Will Become Rapist Training Ground
Texas sex doll enthusiasts may be in for a blow after a religious group mounted a vigorous petition to block a Toronto-based “robot brothel” from setting up shop in Houston, reports ABC 13.
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“Italy is fourth top in the world in terms of the efficiency of its health spending, according to a report released on Friday. It uses a parameter than links health costs to life expectancy.”
Mediterranean climate, fresh olive oil and tomatoes, and good wine have nothing to do with it.
President Zeman: Czech Republic Should Stand Up for Hungary
I don’t know if GoV covered it, but the one man party belonging to our Slovak prime minister, former communist secret service operative, and current leader in all mafia matters of the Czech Republic… voted unanimously for sanctions against Hungary.
That is a kind of treason, for publicly he says one thing, and in the background he is one with the Brussels bureaucrats. Andrej Babis, aka agent Bures, is simply not to be trusted.
You have it backwards. A member of his party voted that way, he criticised it. The notion that she was instructed to vote that way is pure speculation – unless you can provide undisputable proof material that says otherwise.
I myself don’t really trust his opinion wouldn’t change once the EU money flow is in danger, but jumping to conclusions or conspiration theories makes us the same as the lefties.
What’s happened with Sweden, do they have a government yet?
I did read something surprising a few days ago, it suggested some in the centre right party, I think it was the Moderates, were calling for talks with the Sweden Democrats with a view to seeking support support in forming a government. That would be interesting as such a union was suppose to be taboo. But an alliance that kept the SD out of cabinet, but gave voting support to a right of centre government might work, as they could say they had kept their promise not to form a coalition with the SD. It’s probably the only way to ensure the Social Democrats can not form a government.
RIP Maldives
https://maldivesindependent.com/business/ripmaldives-government-knew-about-resorts-human-form-sculptures-141401
And on and on it goes. Submission to Islam. Everywhere.
Re: Swedes Who Apprehend…
Swedish citizens are not allowed to apprehend Muslim migrant criminals, and if they do they’ll be punished.
This is what happens when leftist women control a country. Could anything be clearer signal that vigilantism is the ONLY way to get justice in Sweden?
The future practice should be: 1) pursue the criminal, 2) catch [intemperate suggestions redacted] 4) always ignore the police. Always.
Recently I wrote about halal pork released to the World Cup.
Here is one more absurd news about Islamic banking in Russia.
In Russia, the first bank card “Halal Halva” has been issued for Muslims approved by the Council of Muftis.
When testing it turned out that in retail chains on this card you can buy bacon and alcohol. And the funny thing — on the envelope in which the card is hand-painted piggy Bank.
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re: Hospital workers attacked:
I know several female nurses who have been physically and verbally attacked in hospital and at the homes of patients. The common thread? The attackers are always Muslim.
This is in a small and quiet city in ‘peaceful’ Canada.
The public has no idea of the magnitude of this problem.