ROME – Bowing to pressures from right-wing groups, Italian authorities have put off plans to build a mosque in the northern city of Bologna pending consultations with local residents. Bologna’s mayor Sergio Cofferati said local residents will be surveyed about the construction of the mosque in the San Donato neighborhood, Reuters reported. “We will take…
More than 100 students have failed to show up for school this fall, a month after the school year started. Officials fear the truant children, most of them from immigrant families, have been sent back to their parents’ homeland. Some of the truant children may be attending Koran or military schools in Pakistan or other…
Ayman al Zawahiri, the number two of the terrorist network Al Qaeda, has instigated his followers to clean the North African region of the sons of Spain and France in a video posted today.
MADRID – Spanish Prime Minister Jos_ Luis Rodr_guez Zapatero on Friday downplayed the latest threat against Spain by the terrorist organisation Al Qaeda, saying the government was working hard to prevent attacks against Spanish interests. “We’ve been receiving more or less explicit threats for a long time now (and) it’s nothing new although this time…
MADRID – Spanish police arrested two Pakistani men accused of financing terrorist groups in Spain and other countries following an investigation involving the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, authorities said on Friday. The officials said the men were taken into custody in Madrid and Barcelona. Searches of the men’s property turned up more than EUR…
