The 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.
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3 comments:
News post isn't coming up for me - goes to a blogger error page - code: bX-qcqoys
never seen this one before.
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.
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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
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