Around 60 unsuccessful
Iraqi asylum applicants are forcibly and controversially deported to
Baghdad from Britain, Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands.
Amnesty International condemns the move as the deportees face violence and mutilation in that city.
(Aljazeera)
There is controversy in
Egyptian media after an Egyptian member of parliament who was on the Gaza-bound flotilla says that the flotilla participants overpowered three Israeli commandos and took their weapons from them.
(Ynetnews)
Kikaya Bin Karubi, the Congolese ambassador to the UK, says Les Resistants Combattants have said Saturday's arson attack on his
London home, which destroyed several vehicles and damaged his house, was an act of retaliation for last week's death of leading human rights activist
Floribert Chebeya.
(BBC)
The UK government brings forward new rules which make it compulsory for immigrants from outside the
European Union, particularly
South Asia, to understand the
English language.
(BBC)
The
same-sex couple, who recently came to international attention when they were convicted of
homosexuality under a British colonial law, tell
Malawi's The Nation that they have separated and that one of them now lives with a woman.
(BBC)
Dozens of workers in China are hurt during labour strikes, with at least 2,000 workers clashing with police in the city of
Kunshan.
(AFP)(Press TV)(China Daily)
A new in-depth genetic study on Jewish history is published in Nature: researchers analysed genetic samples from 14 international Jewish communities and 69 international non-Jewish communities.
(BBC)
Researchers find that many species of
snakes are in decline. The causes are unknown.
(BBC)(Biol. Lett.)
Around 60 unsuccessful
Iraqi asylum applicants are forcibly and controversially deported to
Baghdad from Britain, Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands.
Amnesty International condemns the move as the deportees face violence and mutilation in that city.
(Aljazeera)
There is controversy in
Egyptian media after an Egyptian member of parliament who was on the Gaza-bound flotilla says that the flotilla participants overpowered three Israeli commandos and took their weapons from them.
(Ynetnews)
Kikaya Bin Karubi, the Congolese ambassador to the UK, says Les Resistants Combattants have said Saturday's arson attack on his
London home, which destroyed several vehicles and damaged his house, was an act of retaliation for last week's death of leading human rights activist
Floribert Chebeya.
(BBC)
The UK government brings forward new rules which make it compulsory for immigrants from outside the
European Union, particularly
South Asia, to understand the
English language.
(BBC)
The
same-sex couple, who recently came to international attention when they were convicted of
homosexuality under a British colonial law, tell
Malawi's The Nation that they have separated and that one of them now lives with a woman.
(BBC)
Dozens of workers in China are hurt during labour strikes, with at least 2,000 workers clashing with police in the city of
Kunshan.
(AFP)(Press TV)(China Daily)
A new in-depth genetic study on Jewish history is published in Nature: researchers analysed genetic samples from 14 international Jewish communities and 69 international non-Jewish communities.
(BBC)
Researchers find that many species of
snakes are in decline. The causes are unknown.
(BBC)(Biol. Lett.)