Four French police officers were badly injured after being shot at by hooded youths on a Paris housing estate.

The attack, which happened in the high rise Grigny estate on Sunday night, was described by Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie as an “ambush”.

Police said that when the officers arrived they were confronted by “around 30 people whose faces were masked and several of whom were armed.”

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Greece’s efforts to shed its reputation as an unsafe haven for refugees suffered a major blow with the news that Norway has suspended the return of asylum-seekers to Greece on the grounds that their rights may be violated.

Based on the European Union’s Dublin II Regulation (EC 343/2003, which excludes EU member Denmark but includes Iceland and Norway), the first member state that a migrant enters is the one responsible for examining his/her asylum application. Last week, however, Norway decided it would ignore the Dublin II Regulation and examine the asylum applications of those who had initially passed through Greece.

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Rioting youths set fire to cars and trash bins and hurled rocks at police overnight as a spate of vandalism continued in Copenhagen and other Danish cities.

Nine youths were arrested in the capital after a fifth consecutive night of unrest, mostly in immigrant neighborhoods. Six of them would likely be charged with violence for throwing rocks at police officers, Copenhagen police operations chief Per Larsen said Friday. There were no reports of injuries.

Police said they were not sure what triggered the unrest last weekend. Some observers said immigrant youths were protesting against perceived police harassment, and suggested the reprinting of a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad in Danish newspapers Wednesday, may have aggravated the situation.

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All right, you know about the Government’s latest move to outlaw beggars? Do you really think it’s really about beggars? It isn’t. It’s about immigrant-beggars, who now throng our streets.

We could, of course, deal with the substantive matter, that of immigration itself, but instead we prefer to deal with its symptoms — and in the usual cowardly way in which we address anything which is a little difficult or embarrassing.

Now look: I’m not a complete fool. People don’t turn columnists to read the same stuff, day after day after day. Yet that’s what I’ve been doing, endlessly writing on this same subject.

No doubt by this time, the one reader left is some old wino sitting in a doorway in his own personal pool of warmth, scanning these few column inches in the belief that these are the greyhound results. No matter. Here I go again.

Immigration is now not merely the dominant feature of Irish life, it is the greatest threat to the existence of the Irish nation as a coherent, and cohesive whole.

No country has ever accepted, never mind assimilated, the volumes of foreigners now present in this state. We have some 400,000 legal immigrants; but everyone knows that the army of illegals, especially Africans and Chinese, is vast, and probably tops 200,000. In all, Ireland has received at least 600,000 immigrants, most of them within the past five years. It could be many more. No one has the least idea.

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Word of the German government’s slight relaxing of its asylum policy has gotten round in the Middle East. Human traffickers smuggled fivefold more Iraqis into Germany during the first six months of this year than the same period in 2006.

Takwa Ali Zuker, 19, a physics student from Baghdad, still clearly recalls her first impressions of Germany: darkness, cold and a biting wind. The young woman, with dark rings around her eyes, was hiding in a park with her parents and two brothers — without blankets or sleeping bags to ward off the mid-September chill.

It was early morning and Ali Zuker, her brothers and her parents, both teachers, were trying to buy train tickets at the station in the western German city of Trier. But their plans to travel on to Sweden, their destination of choice, fell apart when the police asked the five foreigners for identification — and promptly detained them.

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The group set up to develop a plan to tackle racism in Ireland says urgent action is needed in two key areas.

The steering group for the National Action Plan Against Racism says changes are needed in both the education and justice sectors.

It says education can help both young and old students integrate better and escape the poverty trap and new strategies are needed to ensure that happens.

It also says changes are needed in the courts and prison system to take account of the new multiculturalism in Ireland.

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ALMOST a third of those diagnosed with HIV in Ireland last year were African - with the majority of victims now identified as non-nationals.

According to the Health Protection Surveillance Centre 2007 Report of the 337 people diagnosed with HIV, almost a third of cases came from African nations, making them the second largest group after Irish sufferers. The third largest were people from EU countries.

According to the Health Protection Surveillance Centre, the foreign nationals affected did not acquire HIV in Ireland, but appear to have arrived here already infected. The report said: “A total of 337 HIV infections newly diagnosed during 2006 were reported to the Health Protection Surveillance Centre. This compares to 318 diagnosed cases in 2005 and represents a 6 per cent increase.

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Head of the Directorate of Labor Gissur Pétursson said 20 of the 29 foreign-born workers, who were in a bus accident in east Iceland on Sunday, are not legally registered in the country.

Pétursson also claimed that legally obligated tariffs had not been paid in relation to some of the workers’ salaries this year, Fréttabladid reports.

The workers in question are participating in the Kárahnjúkar dam project in the eastern highlands on behalf of the contractor company Arnarfell. They were hired through sub-contractors, the German company Hunnebeck Polska and the Icelandic companies GT-verktakar ehf. and Spöng ehf.

Pétursson said the workers who were not legally registered in the country may not be entitled to the health services they require after the accident.

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Britain’s face is changing. More than half of all babies born in London last year were the children of foreign-born mothers. Across England and Wales, the figure was approaching a quarter.

Recent polls, including the Ipsos Mori political monitor, last month, have put immigration at number one in the public’s list of concerns. This used to be a polite way for people to tell pollsters that they were racists.

Yet race is no longer the issue: not since the arrival of more than 600,000 white Eastern Europeans after the expansion of the European Union in 2004, in what has become the biggest-ever influx of foreigners to our shores.

After a decade of broadly pro-immigration policies, Labour is on the defensive. Jacqui Smith’s appointment as Home Secretary in June surprised Westminster, but she knows why Gordon Brown chose her for the job

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Halim Ibrahim and his family are among the half of all Iraqis who choose Sweden as their destination when they flee to Europe from their war-torn homeland.

“We wanted to get as far away from Iraq as possible,” said 50-year-old Halim, standing outside his ground floor flat in southern Sweden.

Last year Sweden received 8,950 asylum applications from Iraqis, nearly half of the 22,200 who came to Europe. The United Kingdom received only 1,305, according to UN statistics.

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