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From Russia Today
Sweden to deport nearly 80,000 asylum seekers amid migrant-linked violence
Published time: 28 Jan, 2016 05:55
Sweden is planning to expel nearly 80,000 refugees and migrants who arrived in the country in 2015, Interior Minister Anders Ygeman said, adding that their applications for asylum had been rejected.
“We are talking about 60,000 people, but the number could climb to 80,000,” Swedish media quoted Ygeman as saying.
Police and local authorities have been tasked with organizing the departures by charter flights. The countries of origin of the rejected asylum seekers have not been disclosed.
Sweden, which has the population of 9.8 million people, is one of the EU countries that took in the largest share of refugees per head of population. In 2015, it accepted over 160,000 refugees and migrants.
From Russia Today
Danish police accused of manipulating rape statistics to hide ‘hundreds’ of cases
Published time: 28 Jan, 2016 16:29
Denmark`s Justice Ministry has found out that the real number of rape cases processed by police was at least three times higher than official statistics suggested, local media report. Police deny any cover-up, blaming the difference on statistical inaccuracies.
Police didn’t properly classify crimes involving rape up to 2014, with about 700 cases containing allegations of sexual abuse remaining unattributed to this category every year. The average number of rape cases annually registered by police was nearly half that figure at 395, according to the Justice Ministry’s investigation, Metroxpress reports.
The majority of unrecorded rape incidents ended up as cases with inconclusive evidence, as there were doubts whether rapes had been committed. This approach to statistics was dropped in November 2015, but still an unknown number of cases are not reflected in the data.
The Justice Ministry says the real number of rape cases totals an average of 1,100 a year.
“It is a huge number, but it doesn’t surprise me that the actual number is higher than the official one,” Hanne Baden Nielsen, director of the Center for Sexual Assault, said describing the revelations as “astonishing.” Her comments were reported by The Local.
Pernille Skipper, a Danish MP, blamed the police for mishandling sexual abuse cases.
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From Russia Today
New docs confirm CIA had rendition flight lurking in Europe to catch Snowden
Published time: 28 Jan, 2016 16:25
Former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden © Vincent Kessler / Reuters
A Danish news website has published documents backing up the allegations that in June 2013 a US plane with a connection to CIA black site programs was on call in Copenhagen ready to snatch NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden as he was stranded in Moscow.
The story of the private aircraft, a Gulfstream V with registration number N977GA, was first reported by The Register in June 2014. The plane previously used by the American intelligence to secretly transport terror subjects to clandestine detention facilities in Europe, flew from Washington, DC over Scotland to Copenhagen, the report said.
In August 2015, the Danish news website Denfri.dk filed a number of Freedom of Information requests to the government in Copenhagen, seeking the disclosure of documents concerning the alleged involvement of Denmark in a plot to arrest and extradite Snowden. On Sunday, it reported that after lengthy deliberation, it had acquired new evidence that substantiated the claim.
Among the documents published by Denfri.dk are permission for the overflight and landing of the plane, which warns that it should be operated exclusively for “state purposes of [a] non-commercial nature,” and talking points for the Transport Ministry should journalists ask about the plane.
There is also a batch of heavily redacted emails indicating communications between senior officials in Denmark’s police, Foreign Ministry and Justice Ministry, including Anders Herping Nielsen, a chief consultant of the Justice Ministry’s international office and its former deputy head, whose responsibility it is to decide on the extradition of people for trial in other countries.
The content of these emails is mostly blacked out.
“Denmark’s relationship with the USA would be damaged if the information becomes public knowledge,” the Justice Ministry wrote in its reply to Denfri.dk, commenting on reasons for the heavy redacting.
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From Russia Today
‘Waiting in the wings’: Syrian branch of Al-Qaeda is greater threat than ISIS, report claims
Published time: 27 Jan, 2016 21:13
Islamist Syrian rebel group Jabhat al-Nusra members © Hamid Khatib / Reuters
The Syrian branch of Al-Qaeda, Jabhat al-Nusra, is a greater threat to Syria and the West than Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL), according to a joint think-tank report that criticizes the Obama administration for focusing solely on IS.
The report, which was jointly published by the Institute for the Study of War and the American Enterprise Institute, states that Jabhat al-Nusra poses “one of the most significant long-term threats” of any jihadist group.
“This Al-Qaeda affiliate has established an expansive network of partnerships with local opposition groups that have grown either dependent on or fiercely loyal to the organization,” the report says.
“Its defeat and destruction must be one of the highest priorities of any strategy to defend the United States and Europe from Al-Qaeda attacks,” it states, adding that the group has “weakened the moderate opposition and penetrated other Sunni opposition groups in Syria” and is therefore “poised to benefit” from the destruction of IS and the fall or transition of the Assad government.
The report states that Jabhat al-Nusra doesn’t suffer from the same “vulnerabilities” as IS because it attempts to befriend people instead of forcing them under its rule. The document says the group supplies partners with “advanced military capabilities” in an effort to encourage attacks on Western countries.
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From Ynet News
Holocaust survivor lauds Merkel’s ‘heroic’ refugee policy
A Holocaust survivor living in the US praises the German Chancellor for keeping Germany’s doors open to thousands of war refugees.
Holocaust survivor Ruth Klueger on Wednesday lauded Germany for keeping its doors open to thousands of war refugees, calling Chancellor Angela Merkel’s “we can do it” slogan “heroic”.
“This country, which was responsible for the worst crimes of the century, has won the applause of the world today,” the 84-year-old scholar told the German parliament in an address as part of commemorations for International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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From PressTV
Iraqi forces inflict more losses on Daesh Takfiri militants
Iraqi government forces, backed by military aircraft, have launched successful clean-up operations against the Daesh terrorist group in some parts of the Arab country, dealing heavy blows to the Takfiri militants.
On Thursday evening, tens of Daesh militants were killed when Iraqi Sukhoi fighter jets carried out precision strikes against terrorists’ hideouts in Albu Dhiyab district, which lies north of Anbar’s recently-liberated capital city of Ramadi, Arabic-language al-Sumaria satellite television network reported.
Separately, fighters from Popular Mobilization Units, backed by army soldiers and military aircraft, stormed Daesh positions southeast of the town of Tharthar, situated 120 kilometers (some 75 miles) north of the capital, Baghdad, killing more than 60 terrorists.
Iraqi Federal Police Forces Commander Lieutenant General Raed Shaker Jawdat also said 24 Daesh militants were killed on Thursday in an operation in the city of Husaybah, which lies seven kilometers (4.5 miles) east of Ramadi.Four other Daesh members were killed when government forces targeted their hideout east of Ramadi.
Gruesome violence has plagued the northern and western parts of Iraq ever since Daesh Takfiri terrorists launched an offensive in June 2014, and took control of parts of Iraqi territory.
The militants have been committing vicious crimes against all ethnic and religious communities in Iraq, including Shias, Sunnis, Kurds and Christians.
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From PressTV
Yemeni army, allies capture 3 bases in southwestern Saudi Arabia
Yemeni army forces backed by fighters from allied Popular Committees have wrested control of three military bases in Saudi Arabia’s southwestern region of Jizan as Riyadh presses ahead with its military campaign against its southern neighbor.
On Thursday, Yemeni forces established control over the strategic Jabal al-Doud, al-Aril and Madba’ bases in the border region, Sky News Arabia television network reported.
The development came only hours after at least one Saudi and three Qatari troopers were killed in a retaliatory shelling attack by Yemeni army soldiers and allied forces against the al-Makhrouq military base in the kingdom’s southern region of Najran.
Yemen’s army forces, backed by Houthi Ansarullah fighters, also downed a Saudi fighter jet and destroyed a number of its gunboats.
Military sources said army brigades downed the Saudi military aircraft in Yemen’s northwestern province of Sa’ada, noting that the warplane was hit by a surface-to-air missile.
Yemeni army forces also targeted three Saudi frigates off the coast of Mokha port city, about 346 kilometers (214 miles) south of the capital, Sana’a. Two more Saudi vessels also escaped the scene after receiving partial damage.
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From PressTV
Syrian army regains control of 2 villages in Aleppo
Syrian army soldiers, backed by fighters from allied popular defense groups, have liberated two villages from the grips of foreign-backed Takfiri militants in the country’s northwestern Aleppo Province.
An unidentified military source said on Thursday that the army troops and allied forces managed to restore security and stability to Aleppo’s Balouzeh village.
The source told Syria’s news agency SANA later in the day that Ein al-Jamajmeh, another village in Aleppo Province, came under the Syrian army’s control.
Army units targeted gatherings of the Takfiri Daesh terrorists and destroyed their weapons, ammunition and machine-gun equipped vehicles during operations across Aleppo.
Elsewhere in Syria, the army inflicted heavy losses on different Takfiri terror groups, including the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front and the so-called Jund al-Aqsa terror group in the provinces of Idlib, Hama and Dara’a.
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From The Daily Mail
‘Suicide risk’ to teenagers who take antidepressants: Chance of suicidal behaviour or aggression is doubled when taking one of five common drugs
- Teenagers who take antidepressants more likely to feel suicidal, study says
- Risk of aggression or suicidal behaviour doubled taking one of five drugs
- Scientific experts accused drug firms of failing to record the risks properly
- Said it should make doctors think hard about relying on the common drugs
Research: A major study has concluded teenagers who take common antidepressants are more likely to feel suicidal and aggressive (file photo)
Teenagers who take common antidepressants are more likely to feel suicidal, researchers say.
A major study concluded children and adolescents have a doubled risk of aggression or suicidal behaviour when taking one of five common drugs to combat depression.
The experts accused drug firms of failing to record the risks properly – and warned young people’s antidepressant use should be ‘minimal’.
Experts said the ‘deeply worrying’ findings, published last night in the British Medical Journal, should make doctors think hard about whether to rely on the drugs.
Others, however, insist antidepressants are vital and effective in fighting mental illness.
Use has doubled in the past decade – to 57million prescriptions in England and Wales in 2014, according to the NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre.
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
UN recognition of Israeli NGO Zaka seen as big win for Israeli diplomacy
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The United Nations has granted official observer status to Zaka, an Israeli search-and-rescue organization that has operated around the world.
The advisory status conveyed unanimously on Tuesday by the UN Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations gives Zaka, a volunteer organization, the right to take part in official UN discussions and conferences that are open for such groups.
Israel’s U.N. ambassador, Danny Danon, called the recognition “a very significant victory for Israeli diplomacy.” The committee’s vote followed dozens of meetings between Israeli diplomats and representatives of the United Nations and the member states, according to an Israeli government statement.
The 19-member state committee includes representatives of Iran, Sudan, Venezuela, Cuba, Turkey, China, Russia, Pakistan, Uruguay, Burundi and Greece, along with the United States and Israel.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Anne Frank’s stepsister: Trump ‘acting like another Hitler’
(JTA) — The stepsister of Holocaust teen diarist Anne Frank compared Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump to Hitler.
Eva Schloss, 86, made the comparison in an essay in Newsweek magazine published Wednesday in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
“If Donald Trump become(s) the next president of the U.S., it would be a complete disaster,” she wrote. “I think he is acting like another Hitler by inciting racism.”
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Founder of ‘Birthright for Moms’: Jews should move to Israel before end of days
(JTA) — The founder of group that claims to have taken 7,300 Jewish mothers on subsidized tours of Israel has posted a video that references the end of days and urges Jews to move to Israel for safety reasons.
Lori Palatnik, founder and director of the Jewish Women’s Renaissance Project, which runs trips that some have nicknamed “Birthright for Moms” in a reference to the free Birthright Israel trips for young people, says in the video that Israel is the safest place for Jews to live.
In the video, which was posted last week, Palatnik says that after the 9/11 terror attacks, she began reading “the scary Prophets talking about the End of Days, that everything is going to come down and all the Jews are going to move to Israel.” She says she asked a “very great rabbi,” whom she does not identify, how to know when it’s time for Jews to move to Israel.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Seinfeld on ‘Daily Show’: Israelis ‘all or nothing’
(JTA) — Jerry Seinfeld told “Daily Show” host Trevor Noah that Israelis are “all or nothing.”
On the show Wednesday night, Noah opened his conversation with Seinfeld, 61, by asking about his recent trip to Israel, his first time performing there.
“The audiences were amazing,” Seinfeld said. “Israelis, everything you ask them is either ‘It’s no problem, it’s no problem’ or ‘No, it’s impossible.’ There’s nothing in between.”
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From Russia Today
Norway may ask refugees with savings to cover ‘some’ costs they incur
Published time: 28 Jan, 2016 09:40
Norwegian officials have distanced themselves from suggestions that Oslo may follow in Denmark’s footsteps and start seizing valuables from refugees. However they hinted that refugees ‘with savings’ might have to cover some of the costs.
Norway’s parliamentary leader and member of the Progress Party, Harald T. Nesvik, rejected claims that the country is considering legislation aimed at stripping refugees of their valuables, as some of his own party members earlier suggested.
However, Nesvik conceded that it would be fair for refugees to abandon a part of their assets in favor of the state if they want to be entitled to welfare benefits.
“There could be many coming to Norway with savings, so I think we should assess whether they should pay towards some of the actual costs incurred while we review their case,” Nesvik told Nettavisen newspaper.
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From Ynet News
Survivor sheds light on divisive Judenrat
Mirjam Boll, a 98-year-old Holocaust survivor who worked for the Jewish Council in Amsterdam during WWII, publishes memoir of unsent letters she wrote to her fiance.
Throughout the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam, and while incarcerated in two prison camps, Mirjam Bolle wrote letters to her fiance that she never sent but hoped to share with him after the war. Yet when the two ultimately reunited she decided to leave the past behind and stashed them away. Now, decades later, she has published them as a memoir.
The result is “Letters Never Sent,” 18 months of diary entries and observations that experts say shed new light on one of the Holocaust’s most controversial legacies – the Judenrat, or Jewish Councils – the dark bureaucracy of intermediaries responsible for implementing Nazi orders.
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