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File photo shows far-right activists burning a Qur’an in the southern Swedish city of Malmo, sparking riots and unrest, 28 August 2020. — courtesy AP
Swedish police arrests 5 in anti-terror raids
STOCKHOLM — Police in Sweden have arrested five people suspected of conspiracy to commit terrorist offenses.Raids were carried out in the towns of Eskiltuna and Strängnäs, west of Stockholm; and Linköping, south of the capital, on Tuesday morning, with the Swedish Security Service Sapo saying they undertook an intelligence-driven investigation ahead of the arrests.Authorities say those arrested have “international links to violent extremism.”“The Security Service often needs to intervene at an early stage to avert a threat. We cannot wait for a crime to be completed before we act,” says Susanna Trehörning, Deputy Head of Counterterrorism at Sapo.“The current case is one of several that the Swedish Security Service has been working on since the protests directed at Sweden in...
April 04, 2023

Swedish police arrests 5 in anti-terror raids

Train derails in The Netherlands.
One dies, 30 injured in train derailment in the Netherlands
AMSTERDAM —Dutch investigators are focusing on maintenance work as a possible cause of a deadly rail accident near The Hague.According to rail network company Pro Rail, the passenger train struck a small crane on the track, causing three carriages to derail.One person has died and some 30 passengers have been injured, many of them seriously.The accident happened around 3:25 am on Tuesday in the town of Voorschoten, near The Hague, sending one carriage into a field next to the tracks.John Voppen, CEO of Pro Rail, called the accident “a black day for Dutch railways”.Television images showed rescue workers using makeshift bridges to cross a canal running alongside the rails to reach the stricken train in the darkness.Many windows in the train carriages were broken. It was not clear if...
April 04, 2023

One dies, 30 injured in train derailment in the Netherlands

Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni speaks to media after a EU Summit, at the EU headquarters in Brussels. — courtesy AFP
Ciao, hello, no! Italy’s govt wants to ban English words with €100,000 fines
ROME — The right-wing party led by Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has pushed forward proposed new legislation which will punish the use of English and other foreign words in official communications with fines between €5,000 and €100,000.The goal of the legislation, which has received wide condemnation in the country even by Italy’s most renowned scholars of Italian linguistics and philology, the prestigious Accademia della Crusca, is “to defend and promote the Italian language” and protect the national identity, according to Meloni’s party.The new proposal, supported by Meloni, was introduced by Fabio Rampelli, a member of Italy’s lower chamber of deputies. In a tweet pinned to his Twitter profile, the MP gives an example of the so-called “Anglomania” which...
April 04, 2023

Ciao, hello, no! Italy’s govt wants to ban English words with €100,000 fines

e-Scooters in Paris. — courtesy AFP
Parisians vote to ban electric scooters from the city’s streets
PARIS — Residents of Paris have voted overwhelmingly to ban for-hire electric scooters from the city’s streets, in what is seen as a victory for road safety campaigners.In a referendum on Sunday, 90 percent of voters backed the ban, but with less than 8 percent of those eligible placing a vote.The scooters are easy to locate and hire through a downloadable app, and can be picked up and dropped off anywhere around the city that the renters choose.But while they are a hit with tourists, many Parisians complain that the e-scooters are an eyesore and a traffic menace, with pedestrians complaining about reckless driving.Since their introduction to the city five years ago, they have been involved in hundreds of accidents, some of them fatal.“They’re dangerous, both for those who use them...
April 04, 2023

Parisians vote to ban electric scooters from the city’s streets

Marlene Schiappa is photographed for Paris Match during her trip to the UN on December 14, 2022 in New York, US.
French minister under fire for Playboy magazine cover
PARIS — French government minister Marlene Schiappa has come under fire from members of her own party after appearing on the front cover of Playboy magazine.Schiappa, who has been a government minister since 2017, appeared on the cover of the magazine to accompany a 12-page interview she did on women’s and LGBT rights. Schiappa, who is the current Minister for the Social Economy and French Associations, was photographed for the cover wearing a white dress.Schiappa has been a long-time advocate for women’s rights and was appointed as the country’s first ever Gender Equality Minister in 2017. In this role, she successfully spearheaded a new sexual harassment law which allows for on-the-spot fines to be issued to men who catcall, harass or follow women on the street.Her appearance has...
April 03, 2023

French minister under fire for Playboy magazine cover

Sanna Marin was pleased with her party's performance but it was Petteri Orpo's night
Sanna Marin defeated by Finland's conservatives in tight race
HELSINKI — Finnish conservative leader Petteri Orpo has won a nail-biting three-way election race, defeating Prime Minister Sanna Marin's center left."We got the biggest mandate," said the leader of the National Coalition Party, after a dramatic night in which the result gradually swung away from Ms Marin's Social Democrats.Orpo secured 20.8% of the vote, ahead of the right-wing populist Finns Party and the center left.The populists won a record 20.1%.It is a bitter defeat for Ms Marin, who increased her party's seats and secured 19.9% of the vote.She continues to enjoy high poll ratings and has been widely praised for steering Finland towards imminent entry into Nato and navigating her country through the Covid-19 pandemic.Shortly after the conservative leader...
April 03, 2023

Sanna Marin defeated by Finland's conservatives in tight race

Yevgeny Prigozhin uploaded a video in which he claimed to raise a Russian flag over Bakhmut's city hall
Wagner raises Russian flag in Bakhmut but Ukraine fights on
KYIV — The head of Russia's Wagner mercenary group says he has raised a Russian flag over Bakhmut's city hall in Ukraine.In a night-time video, Yevgeny Prigozhin said Bakhmut was now Russian "in a legal sense".However, he admitted Ukrainian forces were still concentrated in western districts.Ukraine has insisted its army still holds Bakhmut - an eastern city which Russia has spent months trying to capture.The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said on Sunday evening. that while Russia hadn't stopped its assault on the city, "Ukrainian defenders are courageously holding the city as they repel numerous enemy attacks".President Volodymyr Zelensky's chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, has urged people to "calmly respond to the fakes of those who...
April 03, 2023

Wagner raises Russian flag in Bakhmut but Ukraine fights on

Vladlen Tatarsky posted reports on the Telegram messaging service
Russian anti-war activist detained over killing of pro-Kremlin blogger
MOSCOW — Russian investigators have detained a woman in the hunt for the killers of a pro-war blogger Vladlen Tatarsky in a blast at a St Petersburg cafe.Darya Trepova, 26, was earlier placed on the interior ministry's wanted list and her arrest was later confirmed by Russia's Investigative Committee.Russian media reported that Tatarsky was passed a statuette shortly before the blast, and there is speculation a device could have been hidden inside.Dozens of other people were wounded.Videos posted on social media showed an explosion and people wounded on the street.Russian authorities say they are investigating the attack in the center of Russia's second biggest city as a "high-profile murder".Ms Trepova was detained hours after her mother and sister were brought in...
April 03, 2023

Russian anti-war activist detained over killing of pro-Kremlin blogger

Vladlen Tatarsky posted reports on the Telegram messaging service. — courtesy Vladlen Tatarsky/Telegram
Cafe bomb in St Petersburg kills Russian military blogger
MOSCOW — An explosion in a St Petersburg cafe has killed prominent Russian military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky, Russia’s Interior Ministry has confirmed.At least 25 people were injured in the bomb blast at Street Food Bar No 1.Videos posted on social media show an explosion and injured people on the street. It is not clear who was responsible for the blast.Vladlen Tatarsky (real name Maxim Fomin) was a vocal supporter of Russia’s war in Ukraine.He was a guest speaker at an event hosted by the cafe when the bomb went off.Unlike many other Russian military bloggers and state media journalists in Ukraine, Tatarsky took up arms in combat operations, BBC Russia analyst Olga Robinson reports.He had reported from the Ukraine front line and gained particular notoriety last year after posting a...
April 03, 2023

Cafe bomb in St Petersburg kills Russian military blogger

Pope Francis celebrates Palm Sunday
Pope Francis defends the ‘marginalized’ at Palm Sunday mass a day after hospital release
ROME — Pope Francis has presided over Palm Sunday Mass, a day after leaving hospital due to bronchitis. In his homily, he defended the “abandoned” of the world.“No one can be marginalized,” he said before thousands of faithful, with his voice still weak.On a cloudy morning, Francis wore a long, ivory-colored coat as he was driven into the square.Ahead of him, scores of prelates and priests and tens of thousands of rank-and-file faithful clutching palm or olive branches filled the square.Francis, 86, received antibiotics administered intravenously during his three-day stay in hospital.His last previous appearance in St. Peter’s Square was for his regular Wednesday public audience. He was taken to Rome’s Gemelli Policlinic that same day after feeling ill.Palm Sunday opens a...
April 03, 2023

Pope Francis defends the ‘marginalized’ at Palm Sunday mass a day after hospital release

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