Section: The United Kingdom
A UK mosque is targeted once a week – we need to deal with anti-Muslim hatred
Communities can’t just carry on as normal. Between May 2013 and June 2017, 167 mosques in the UK were targeted in anti-Muslim incidents and attacks. These incidents, reported to and confirmed by Tell MAMA, the national project tackling growing anti-Muslim hate crime which I founded, range from the distribution of anti-Muslim literature in...
Five men convicted of Nemtsov murder
Some suspects in Russian opposition leader’s death still free, family says One-Minute Read Friday, July 14, 2017 – 9:11am Five Chechen men have been found guilty of killing the Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov and handed lengthy prison sentences. Former soldier Zaur Dadayev, who investigators say acted as the gunman, was...
Juncker in Brexit PUT DOWN: ‘I’ll speak French because it’s an official EU language’
BRUSSELS boss Jean-Claude Juncker has delivered his latest put down to Britain by deciding to speak French at the EU-Ukraine summit as it’s “an official EU language”. …read more Source:...
EU’s Juncker says corruption undermining Ukraine’s progress
KIEV (Reuters) – European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker said corruption was undermining all efforts to rebuild Ukraine in line with European Union norms, as President Petro Poroshenko vowed on Thursday to pursue ever-closer integration with the bloc. …read more Source:...
Germany fears Donald Trump will divide Europe
IN THE aftermath of the G20 summit on July 7th and 8th, German politicians traded blows over who was at fault for riots by anti-globalisation activists that smashed up parts of central Hamburg. But a big global event in the heart of a city with a strong anarchist tradition was always bound to prompt protests. Officials’ deeper reasons for...
Minnesota man, 98, wanted for Nazi war crimes in Poland but son decries ‘charade’
Michael Karkoc is sought by Polish authorities over the massacre of 44 civilians in 1944, but his son Andriy tells the Guardian his father is entirely innocentAs the history of Nazi hunting approaches its inevitable end, it could seem anticlimactic that one of its final chapters concerns a 98-year-old resident of an assisted living facility in a...
Exclusive: Russia appears to deliver more turbines to Crimea – Reuters witnesses
FEODOSIA, Crimea (Reuters) – Two more gas turbines appear to have been delivered to Russian-controlled Crimea, according to two Reuters reporters who saw the equipment at the port of Feodosia, potentially deepening a row over sanctions compliance in which Germany’s Siemens has become embroiled. …read more Source:...
Siemens’ Crimea predicament tests limits of EU sanctions
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The delivery of turbines made by the German company Siemens to Crimea shows the limits of policing European Union sanctions on Russia as no EU enforcement authority exists, officials and experts said. …read more Source:...
Donald Trump Jr: How will the game of Russian roulette play out?
Credits Ethan Miller/Getty Images Alt Text trump and son His meeting with a Moscow lawyer could be a legal game-changer – or nothing at all In Depth Wednesday, July 12, 2017 – 12:41pm …read more Source: The...
Siemens sues to stop Russia using its turbines in Crimea
German group seeks to avoid violation of EU sanctions …read more Source: Financial...
