Monday, February 14, 2011

Gates of Vienna News Feed 2/14/2011

Gates of Vienna News Feed 2/14/2011The flood of refugees crossing the Mediterranean to Italy continues. The Tunisian military is patrolling the coast to prevent the boat people from crossing, but has refused Italy’s request to allow the Italian police to help hold back the exodus. Meanwhile, the EU has agreed to meet to discuss the crisis in Italy.

In other news, a 19-year-old female Syrian blogger has been jailed for five years on charges of spying for the U.S. Embassy in Egypt.

To see the headlines and the articles, open the full news post.

Thanks to C. Cantoni, Caroline Glick, CSP, DF, Fjordman, Gaia, Insubria, KGS, Kitman, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

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3 comments:

Tuan Jim said...

News post isn't coming up for me - goes to a blogger error page - code: bX-qcqoys

never seen this one before.

Baron Bodissey said...

Works OK for me on IE8.

That message is an internal blogger error; I've seen it occasionally. I assume it meant they were having server problems at the time.

Feli said...

UK
Muslim convert wife and children ‘killed by abusive MUSLIM monster’

An “abusive MUSLIM monster” murdered his wife and their two young children before taking his own life, police believe.

The woman had converted to Islam and was an active internet campaigner on the rights of Muslims…

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/8322200/Muslim-convert-wife-and-children-killed-by-abusive-monster.html