PARIS (AFP) – President Nicolas Sarkozy’s government turns its sights on the troubled suburbs this week, launching a nationwide drive for a new plan that would give immigrant youth a stake in changing France. Nearly two years after the “banlieues” exploded into rioting, Sarkozy has tasked his urban affairs minister and outspoken rights activist Fadela…
Berlin (AFP) – The threat of terrorist attacks has not diminished in Germany since three men were arrested on suspicion of plotting major bomb attacks, the interior minister said in a report to be published Sunday. “I am not calmer since the arrests,” Wolfgang Schauble told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. “The terrorist danger has not…
UTRECHT – Jan Pronk, candidate for chairmanship of the Labour PvdA, has urged for negotiation with the Afghan Taliban insurgents. Only in this way can the Dutch mission in the province of Uruzgan be successful, Pronk said at the opening of the 41st Peace Week in Utrecht on Saturday. Pronk said that the West must…
AMSTERDAM (ANP) – The monument to Theo van Gogh in the Oosterpark in Amsterdam was vandalised last week. ‘Al Qaeda’ was written on the statue in black letters, the police said on Saturday. The date ’27-11-2007′ was also written on the monument in black marker. It is still unknown who is responsible for the deed….
CAIRO – European Muslim leaders have scoffed at a bounty offered by Al-Qaeda in Iraq on the heads of a Swedish cartoonist and a reporter for publishing a cartoon lampooning Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him). “We don’t think like this at all. It is criminal to call to kill somebody,” Helena Benouda,…
