A total of 878 asylum seekers were discovered cheating the state’s welfare system in the past two years, it emerged tonight.
The Justice Department told the Public Accounts Committee that over six million euro in benefits was recouped during that period.
The department’s secretary general Sean Aylward said the €6.1m was recovered between August 2004 and May [...]

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Police in Northern Ireland spent nearly £500,000 (€746,300) on interpretation and translation services last year, it was revealed today.
The costs more than tripled as the force called in assistance to deal with 41 different languages.
As the force launched a new interpreters’ guidebook, senior officers predicted demand for the services will rise further due to a [...]

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[Lots in IT graduates from India come to the West as cheap labour, and thus put UK graduates out of work-ed]
Business leaders have warned that India’s information technology (IT) industry is heading towards a severe shortage of highly-skilled manpower.
They say India will not be able to achieve its targeted growth rates if the issue [...]

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WELLINGTON – New Zealand will offer permanent residence to Zimbabweans in the country who are HIV-positive, making an exception to its policy of barring infected applicants, Health Minister Pete Hodgson said Wednesday.
About 1 300 Zimbabweans have entered New Zealand as a result of the political and economic crisis in Zimbabwe under a special immigration category.
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The London School of Economics is embroiled in a row over academic freedom after one of its lecturers published a paper alleging that African states were poor and suffered chronic ill-health because their populations were less intelligent than people in richer countries.
Satoshi Kanazawa, an evolutionary psychologist, is now accused of reviving the politics of eugenics [...]

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Saddam Hussein has been convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to death by hanging.
The former Iraqi president was convicted by a Baghdad court for his role in the killing of 148 people in the mainly Shia town of Dujail in 1982.

His half-brother Barzan al-Tikriti was also sentenced to death, as was Iraq’s [...]

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Friday the November 3rd was the 2nd day of the trial. The prosecution presented its “evidence” against the defendants. It showed what the BBC secretly filmed and brought up its arguments.
There is no doubt that this trial is politically motivated. The people of the prosecution were kind enough to give us a written copy of [...]

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BNP (British National Party) chairman Nick Griffin and Mark Collett’s retrial began November 1st. Nick and Mark both risk up to 7 years in jail for comments they made about the Muslim religion and, in Mark’s case, Third World asylum seekers, during private meetings.
According to Nick [...]

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On Tuesday a Lutheran vicar set himself alight in the German town of Erfurt. The 73 year old Roland Weisselberg poured gasoline over himself and set fire to himself in the Erfurt monastery, where Martin Luther took his monastic vows in 1505. Bystanders rushed to extinguish the flames. The man later died of his injuries.
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