Troubled planemaker Airbus has announced it is to cut 10,000 jobs across Europe over the next four years.
France will be worst hit with 4,300 job losses. Germany will see 3,700 jobs go while the UK and Spain will see 1,600 and 400 jobs cut respectively.
Airbus said no compulsory redundancies would be imposed but unions [...]
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Airbus confirms 10,000 job cuts
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Immigrants blocked from getting Swedish ID
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New rules introduced in January mean immigrants with the right to live and work in Sweden are being barred from receiving Swedish ID cards. A Swedish ID is required to exercise many daily activities in Swedish society, including collecting packages from the post office, opening a bank account, seeing a doctor, or even hiring a [...]
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Racist Rabbi Compares Blacks to Monkeys
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SWEDEN: Lesbians prevented from kissing in nightclub
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A Stockholm nightclub has been asked to pay 30,000 kronor in compensation to two lesbian women who were requested by a security guard to refrain from kissing.
HomO, the Ombudsman against Discrimination on grounds of Sexual Orientation, contacted the nightclub after receiving a complaint from the two women in question. The ombudsman dismissed as implausible [...]
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U.N. calls U.S. data on Iran’s nuclear aims unreliable
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Although international concern is growing about Iran’s nuclear program and its regional ambitions, diplomats here say most U.S. intelligence shared with the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency has proved inaccurate and none has led to significant discoveries inside Iran.
The officials said the CIA and other Western spy services had provided sensitive information to the Vienna-based International [...]
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Dutch politician doubts Muslim ministers’ loyalty
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The leader of a Dutch anti-immigration party will call for a vote of no-confidence in two Muslim government ministers next week, citing their dual nationality as the issue, a newspaper reported on Saturday.
Geert Wilders said in an interview with the Dutch daily NRC Handelsblad the appointment of Moroccan-born Ahmed Aboutaleb and Turkish-born Nebahat Albayrak as [...]
Tags: Immigration
Eurotunnel wins asylum seeker ruling
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Eurotunnel, which runs the undersea rail link between Britain and France, has won a historic arbitration decision against both countries’ governments over the security breach that saw thousands of asylum seekers invade the tunnel crossing the English Channel.
The decision, which heralds the company’s first injection of public money, could be worth millions of pounds in [...]
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Men banned from watching women’s cricket
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Male spectators, except family members, will be banned when Pakistan hosts the eight-team International Cricket Council (ICC) Women’s World Cup qualifiers in November, officials said Wednesday.
However, officials have hailed the decision to stage the matches in the conservative Islamic republic as a sign that the country is becoming more moderate and is making efforts to [...]
Tags: Multiculturalism
Record immigration to Sweden in 2006
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Immigration to Sweden in 2006 reached its highest level since records began. At the same time emigration also soared to a level not seen in over 100 years, according to official figures published by Statistics Sweden.
Swedish citizenship was granted to more people than ever before in 2006, a year in which the country’s population increased [...]
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Woman gang-raped after being put in males cells
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A woman erroneously detained in a male cell at Volksrust police station was raped repeatedly by her fellow cellmates, said Mpumalanga police Captain Leonard Hlathi on Saturday.
He said police would investigate why she was placed in the cell after her arrest for being drunk in public on Friday.
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