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Italy approves draft law to ban veil

Italy approves draft law to ban veil

According To BBCLATESTNEWS An Italian parliamentary commission has approved a draft law banning women from wearing veils that cover their faces in public. The draft, which was passed by the constitutional affairs commission on Tuesday, would prohibit women from wearing a burqa, naqib or any other garment that covers the face in such circumstances. It [...]

News Of The World, it is claimed

Sarah Payne's mother's phone hacked by News Of The World, it is claimed

THE News of the World hacked a phone belonging to Sarah Payne’s mother – which was given to her by then editor Rebekah Brooks, it was claimed yesterday. Scotland Yard have told Sara – mother of the eight-year-old schoolgirl murdered by Roy Whiting – that the mobile may have been targeted by the newspaper. They [...]

The schoolgirl killed

. Davies bludgeoned Rebecca to death with a rock the size of a rugby ball. He later boasted to a friend and showed him the scene

According to BBC Latest News:In the months and weeks leading up to Rebecca’s murder, he would post messages on social networking sites including Facebook, MSN Messenger and Bebo, saying he wanted to kill Rebecca. His friends would respond to these  sickening threats in jest, often egging him  on in the mistaken belief that he was  [...]

Chernobyl’s Przewalski’s horses are poached for meat

Horses

A herd of Critically Endangered wild horses in the Chernobyl exclusion zone is under threat from poachers, say scientists. Researchers in Ukraine, who have been studying the population of Przewalski’s horses there, say that the population may be in decline because poachers have been removing the animals faster than they are breeding. Thirty-one horses were [...]

Two Germans arrested at Dover charged with terrorism

Breaking--News

Two German men who were arrested at the port of Dover earlier this month have been charged with terrorism offences. Christian David Erkart Heinz Emde, 28, and Robert Baum, 23, have been charged with offences under the Terrorism Act. They are accused of collecting or possessing information likely to be useful to a person committing [...]

Norway attacks: ‘Breivik acted alone’

norway

ACCORDING TO BBCLATESTNES.gence chief Janne Kristiansen has told the BBC no evidence has so far been found linking Anders Behring Breivik with far-right extremists in Norway or elsewhere. Mr Breivik admits Friday’s bomb and gun attacks that killed at least 76 people. He has said he was part of a wider movement and written about [...]

Kosovo tense after deadly clash on Serbian border

Kosovo police

International concern has been raised over a Kosovo police bid to take over two border crossings in the ethnic Serb north in which one officer was killed. Kosovo police units, who came under fire, pulled back after Serbs refusing to recognise their authority took up arms and mounted roadblocks. Nato-led peacekeepers moved into the area [...]

Mass rallies for Norway victims

Norway Long March

ACCORDING TO BBCLATEST NEWS Torchlit processions have been held in towns and cities across Norway to remember the victims of Friday’s twin attacks by Anders Behring Breivik. Crown Prince Haakon told 100,000 people gathered in Oslo that “tonight the streets are filled with love”. Earlier Mr Breivik appeared in court, accepting responsibility for the attacks [...]

MPs in Catholic Malta pass historic law on divorce

Malta

Parliament in mainly Roman Catholic Malta has passed an historic law legalising divorce which now only requires the president’s signature.   The law is due to take effect in October if, as expected, it is approved by President George Abela.   Currently, Maltese people have to travel abroad to obtain divorces.   MPs passed the [...]

Norway gunman faces court hearing

Norway Gunman

The man blamed for Friday’s twin terror attacks in Norway is due to make his first appearance in court. Anders Behring Breivik, 32, admits carrying out a massacre on an island youth camp and a bombing in the capital Oslo in which at least 93 people died. He is said to be linked to far [...]

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