Seventeen Kurds have been arrested in southwestern France in an anti-terror probe into extortion rackets used to raise funds for the outlawed Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK), legal sources said Tuesday. The people arrested in the cities of Bordeaux
and Toulouse are suspected of being senior figures within the regional structure of the organisation, the sources said. The arrests came as German federal prosecutors on Tuesday pressed charges against a 46-year-old Turkish man suspected of raising money for the PKK throughout Europe.
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Scott Schmith is a patriot and a US military veteran but he is no longer a US citizen. Sick of complex tax rules ……”It was a pretty big decision and there was a bit of anxiety,” said the 50-year-old photographer who served in the 1990-91 Gulf war and has been living in Switzerland since 1993. […]
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Europe’s horse meat scandal has widened to affect several member states, with Romania emerging as the possible source. Britain first discovered the presence of horse meat in what were supposed to be beef burgers in late January, but subsequent investigations quickly found the tainted products in Ireland and now other EU countries, including France and […]
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The renowned anti-Islam journalist and scholar Lars Hedegaard reportedly survived an assassination attempt outside his home on Pelargonieviej in Frederiksberg this morning. According to Ritzau, the assailant fled when his gun jammed after firing the first shot at around 11:20. Read Article
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cphpost.dk reported that the City Council says that while it admits violating traffic rules in the death of an American tourist in August, it does not believe there are sufficient grounds for a manslaughter charge. The City Council and the driver of a runaway vehicle that killed 63-year-old Carl Robinson in August were charged in […]
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Globalpost.com reported that Spanish police on Thursday defused a nail bomb found next to a confessional in the Almudena Cathedral in the historic heart of Madrid, officials said. A priest found the bomb in a bin bag and evacuated the cathedral, a tourist attraction next to the city’s old royal palace, a spokesman for the […]
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As reported by hlaht.com, “Prosecutors in Split have filed charges against the Croatian man who allegedly murdered a Mexican tourist in the resort city last year, judicial officials said Monday. Edi Misic is accused of killing Selena Graciano Macedo last August.” Read Article
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According to guardian.co.uk a top Chinese chess player has found herself stuck between the Rock and a hard place after an airline refused to allow her to board a flight to London following a tournament in Gibraltar because she did not hold a transit visa to enter the UK. u Wenjun found herself stranded after […]
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According news.yahoo.com, “An American tourist whose body was found in the ruins of Istanbul’s old city wall was murdered by a blow to the head, the city’s police chief was quoted as saying on Sunday. The husband of Sarai Sierra, 33, from New York, identified her body late on Saturday at an Istanbul morgue, state […]
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Alitalia ATR 72- veered off runway landing Rome Fiumicino airport.16 injured. Italian air accident investigators have opened an inquiry after a passenger plane went off the runway in strong winds at Rome Leonardo da Vinci airport. Sixteen people were hurt when the Romanian Carpatair turbo propeller crashed on landing late on Saturday night and ended […]
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