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Europe’s migration crisis is putting the EU at risk warns French Prime Minister Manuel Valls. The tens of thousands of migrants who continue pouring into Europe threaten the idea of a unified continent, especially when it comes to the passport-free Schengen zone, he added. Speaking to the BBC at Davos, Mr Valls said that if … Read more
Refugees in Germany are suing Dr Merkel’s government, because of the long time taken to process their asylum applications. More than 200 migrants in North Rhine-Westphalia have launched a lawsuit because they have been waiting over a year for a decision if they can stay in Germany. Interior minister Thomas de Maiziere admitted the new … Read more
India’s telecom regulator has criticised Facebook over its letter writing campaign tactics to support Free Basics internet plan in India. Free Basics plan lets people access Facebook and some other websites without any charge. According to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), the Facebook method of prompting people to support the plan was “crudely majoritarian … Read more
German transport minister Alexander Dobrindt criticised Angela Merkel and in a direct challenge to her migrants policy, said that Germany must be ready to prepare a plan B against the mass arrival of migrants and be ready to close its border. Dobrindt statement was most open criticism of Dr Merkel policy from her own coalition … Read more
Friends Reunited, one of the original social networking sites, is to close as one of the founding member Steve Pankhurst, said it is still used by some but is “no longer used for the purpose it was built for”. The site helped countless adults renew friendships and even rekindle old relationships long before Facebook arrived … Read more
Three North African teenagers have been arrested for assaulting two transgender women in the German city of Dortmund. According to Yasmine and Elisa, the three young men propose them, but after they realized that Yasmine and Elisa are transgender women, they attacked them with stones. ‘Within seconds, we were tossed around…and they took stones from … Read more
Germany’s finance minister proposes European tax on petrol to help finance the Germany’s efforts to manage the refugee crisis. Wolfgang Schaeuble a prominent member of Merkel’s conservative party told the daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung on Saturday that ‘if the funds in national budgets and the European budget aren’t enough, then let’s agree, for example, to raise … Read more
Indian Prime Minister Mr Narendra Modi today unveiled numbers of incentives to boost start-up businesses, from 3-year tax holidays, inspector raj-free regime for three years to capital gains tax exemption to liberalise patent to Rs 10,000 crore funds to support them. In addition a self-certification scheme was announced in respect of nine labour and environment laws … Read more
A German leisure centre in Bornheim town (10 km north-west of Bonn and 20 km south of Cologne) becomes the first to ban all migrants after a schoolgirl was sexually assaulted in a public swimming pool by Syrian refugees. Three Syrian boys were arrested over the attack at a leisure centre in Munich while Germany … Read more