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Parliament votes to declare entire EU an LGBT ‘freedom zone’

12:00 am March 12, 2021

Brussels: The European Parliament has overwhelming adopted a resolution declaring the entire 27-member European Union a “freedom zone” for LGBT people, an effort to push back on rising homophobia in Poland and elsewhere. The parliament announced Thursday that there were 492 ballots in favor of the resolution and 141 against in a vote that came after a debate in a session of parliament in Brussels on Wednesday. […]

EU commission ‘surprised’ by Belgium’s travel ban extension

10:22 pm March 8, 2021

Brussels: The European Commission expressed its astonishment on Monday following a decision by Belgian authorities to prolong a ban on all non-essential travel as part of measures to combat the coronavirus pandemic. The EU’s executive arm had previously warned six member states including Belgium that their travel-limiting measures aimed at slowing down the pace of new infections could undermine the principle […]

Flower protest in Paris for Iranian no-headscarf activist

8:00 pm March 8, 2021

Paris: Activists laid flowers near the Iranian Embassy in Paris on Monday to show support for a women’s rights campaigner sentenced to prison after handing out flowers to women on the Tehran metro while not wearing a headscarf. Monday’s protest on a square near the embassy, organized by Amnesty International, was timed to mark International Women’s Day. It was also meant to show […]

Pope visits Iraq’s war-ravaged north on last day of tour

3:10 pm March 7, 2021

Irbil (Iraq): Pope Francis arrived in northern Iraq on Sunday, where he planned to pray in the ruins of churches damaged or destroyed by Islamic State extremists and celebrate an open-air Mass on the last day of the first-ever papal visit to the country. The Vatican hopes that the landmark visit will rally the country’s […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Berlin man convicted over threat to blow up British hospital

10:45 pm February 26, 2021

Berlin: A 33-year-old Italian man was convicted Friday of attempted extortion for threatening to blow up a British National Health Service hospital unless he was paid off with 10 million pounds (USD 13.2 million) in crypto currency. Defendant Emil A, a resident of Berlin whose last name wasn’t given in line with German privacy laws, was sentenced to three years […]