Sikhs have gone to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg to challenge a French law banning the wearing of turbans for ID documents.
The United Sikhs organisation filed a complaint on behalf of French national Shingara Mann Singh, 52, who was refused a replacement driver’s licence.
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Sikhs fight French law on turbans
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Malta wants EU help on migrants
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Malta has urged other EU countries to take a greater share of illegal migrants - either rescued at sea or who make it to land from Africa.
It said EU policy on migrants was “a complete mess and a free for all”.
The smallest country in the EU, Malta has received at least 3,500 migrants [...]
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Suspected drug dealer busted
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A search of the apartment turned up a loaded 357 Magnum handgun, a sawed-off shotgun, bulletproof vest, crack cocaine and $3,000 in cash.
18 year old Ali Hussein was arrested without incident. He has been charged with possession of crack cocaine for the purpose of trafficking, possession of marijuana, possession of proceeds of crime under $5,000, [...]
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Israeli troops shoot Hebron family
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Jamaican workers and students are coming to Canada
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Israeli ‘holocoust tourists’ treat Poles like dirt
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The list of losses Israeli teenagers’ visits leave behind is long and costly. It begins with burned carpets in Polish hotels, and ends with Jewish teenagers’ trauma. But more and more often with local residents’ trauma too.
Roberto Lucchesini, originally from Tuscany, for several years now a resident of Krakow, hasn’t been sleeping well recently. Before [...]
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Holland: Turkish Mosque’s Chief Threatens Violent Revolt in Amsterdam
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If Amsterdam city council bars construction of the Westermoskee mosque, a great demonstration of Turks from throughout Europe will be held. The possibility of this degenerating into violence cannot be ruled out, the Turkish organisation Milli Gorus warns.
The controversial Westermoskee in Amsterdam will be built come what may, said Fatih Dag of the Turkish mosque [...]
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Vlaams Belang Scores Well in Belgian Elections
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The extreme-right Flemish party Vlaams Belang became the second political party in Flanders, the northern part of Belgium, after Sunday’s general elections.
After two four-year terms, Verhofstadt’s Flemish Liberal Democratic party trailed in third place with 18.5 percent of the vote behind the “Vlaams Belang”, or Flemish Interests party, with 19.1 percent of the vote. [...]
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The Real Race
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