Attempts to forge common European rules on returning illegal immigrants to their points of departure have protesters petitioning to have the plans withdrawn. The draft directive is under debate in Brussels. The text goes before the European Parliament for a first reading next month, and also to the interior and justice ministers. for more click here
(STRASBOURG) - The European Union clinched an agreement Wednesday on new rules to govern the return of illegal immigrants to countries outside the EU, ending three years of wrangling over the issue.
The deal, aimed at harmonising the way third-country nationals are sent home so current legal differences between countries are not abused, was reached between the EU’s main institutions at the European Parliament. for more click here
(CNN) — A military judge’s ruling that a Pentagon lawyer improperly pressured prosecutors could hurt efforts to try top al Qaeda suspects held at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, a defense lawyer said Monday. for more click here
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Sudan arrested the head of one of the country’s largest opposition parties Monday, apparently because of his links to Darfur rebels who attacked close to the capital this week, his party and state media said. for more click here
Pakistan fell back into political turmoil yesterday when Nawaz Sharif, the former Prime Minister, said that he was pulling his party out of the country’s six-week-old coalition Government.
Mr Sharif, the head of the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), announced that all nine ministers from his party would resign today, although they would continue to support the coalition. for more click here
Leaders of right-wing nationalist parties from four EU member states have announced plans to create a European “patriotic” party that would protect the continent against immigration, “Islamization” and globalization.
The heads of Austria’s Freedom Party, France’s Nationalist Front, the Bulgarian Attaca party and Belgium’s Vlaams Belang on Friday, Jan. 25, told journalists in Vienna that they had agreed to set up a new party in order to defend Europe from numerous challenges that it faces today.for more click here
Jurors have seen a video of the likely impact of liquid explosives prosecutors say were to be used to blow up a number of transatlantic planes.
The filmed explosion used ingredients like those dumped in woodland and found in a flat used by an alleged terrorist cell, Woolwich Crown Court was told. for more click here
The US dollar rose against the Japanese yen and Swiss franc as investors snapped up riskier assets such as stocks, encouraged by a dip in oil prices and unexpectedly strong earnings from HSBC.
The slight rise in investors’ appetite for risk revived interest in carry trades, helping to lift the high-yielding euro, sterling and Australian and New Zealand dollars against the US currency. for more click here
In the summer of 2004, in an interview little noticed outside the country, the prominent academic scholar of Islam Bassam Tibi predicted a future for Germany that many decried as provocative nonsense at the time. In ten years, Tibi said, Germany will be the scene of large running battles between police and gangs of marginalized Muslim youth, bringing cities like Berlin, Cologne and Frankfurt to the brink of chaos. This will be the inevitable result, according to him, of a trend that is already visible. Muslims are not interested in integration. They are, in fact, obligated not to integrate by the radical Islamic ideology dominant in their communities, and live increasingly segregated in parallel societies. The main difference between 2004 and 2014, Tibi believed, would be that the highly marginalized Muslim population would have more than doubled to 10 million, sharia would have been gradually introduced in Germany and the Islam preached there would be even more radical and resemble Nazi totalitarianism. for more click here
The number of UK surveyors reporting falls in property prices has risen for the ninth month in a row.
In the latest survey from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics), 95.1% more surveyors saw house prices fall than rise in April. for more click here