Wolfgang Schäuble enters multiculturalism row, saying problems of integrating Turkish guest workers have grown with third generation. Germany’s finance minister has waded into the country’s simmering row over multiculturalism, saying it had been a mistake to bring in so many Gastarbeiter, or guest workers, from Turkey during the economic boom years of the 1960s. In an interview with the... 

The Mexican drug cartel issue is not a marginalized thing in the US, most drugs in the US come from South American drug cartels and now it’s not only the drug issue but crimes as well. More and more Americans are getting in the middle of gang conflicts, David Hartley’s case is only one example of how an innocent man can get killed just because he was at the wrong place at the wrong time,... 

Plans to exploit Iraq’s oil reserves were discussed by government ministers and the world’s largest oil companies the year before Britain took a leading role in invading Iraq, government documents show. The papers, revealed here for the first time, raise new questions over Britain’s involvement in the war, which had divided Tony Blair’s cabinet and was voted through only after... 

Assassination: Was JFK shot to stop him discovering the truth about UFOs? An uncovered letter written by John F Kennedy to the head of the CIA shows that the president demanded to be shown highly confidential documents about UFOs 10 days before his assassination. The secret memo is one of two letters written by JFK asking for information about the paranormal on November 12 1963, which have been released... 

Large numbers of north African migrants have been landing on Italian shores. Authorities in France temporarily blocked trains from Italy in an attempt to stop north African migrants from entering the country. Trains were stopped at the border for hours – prompting Italy to launch an official complaint with France. Services were later resumed. Italy has angered France by giving temporary resident... 

Last week Nigerians voted during parliamentary elections. At least two explosions have hit near one of Nigeria’s voting centers only hours before the polls open for the country’s presidential election. No casualties have been reported after the Friday and early Saturday blasts in the city of Maiduguri, AFP reported. “The attackers, who were in a moving car, threw the bomb which exploded... 

Italian foreign minister Franco Frattini on Tuesday said comments made by a fellow minister about dropping out of the European Union were made during the heat of the moment amid a spat over illegal immigration. “I don’t think he said anything about leaving Europe. He expressed strong disappointment , irritation and anger. Europe is and will be an extraordinary opportunity for us,”... 

People gather around the scene where a blast occured in Minsk, capital of Belarus, April 11, 2011. Twelve people were killed and 126 were wounded in a blast that struck a metro station in the Belarussian capital Minsk. The authorities said the blast is suspected to be a terrorist act. “126 victims were hospitalized, 22 of them – in serious condition, 30 – are moderately wounded,”... 

Olga winced as she drew back the bandage on her right breast, revealing an infected puncture wound that hadn’t healed since a man bit her in a fit of sexual rage. But the wound, for which the 19-year-old Moldovan lacked even basic medicine, is only a small part of Olga’s daily agony. For more than a year she has been held as a sex slave in this town in western Macedonia, where human trafficking... 

Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Syria on Friday and were again met by violent crackdowns from security forces, particularly in the city of Daraa where rights groups report forces opening fire into massive crowds of demonstrators. At least 37 protesters were killed nationwide, and 25 of those in Daraa alone. Several hundred others were also wounded. The toll is the one of the... 

An Israeli tank maneuvers just outside the southern Gaza Strip. Ten more Palestinians have lost their lives and dozens of others, including children, have been injured in separate Israeli attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip, reports say. On the deadliest day of the shelling of the strip on Friday since the end of the Gaza war two years ago, Israeli tanks and warplanes struck heavily on the northern... 

Previous: The pits were found in the farm hamlet of La Joya in the township of San Fernando, in the same area where the bodies of 72 migrants, most from Central America, were found murdered last August. Mexican security forces searching for abducted bus passengers in a violent northern state bordering Texas have stumbled on a collection of pits holding a total of 59 bodies. The grisly find was made... 

Ms Mussonlini's stinging comments will cause further controversy around EU immigration policy. Mussolini’s granddaughter has lashed out at France’s ‘socialist’ First Lady Carla Bruni for not doing enough for illegal immigrants. Alessandra Mussolini, an Italian MP and granddaughter of the country’s Second World War fascist leader, said Ms Bruni should welcome Africans displaced... 

Bahraini women wait outside a hospital to collect family victims of attacks by Saudi and Bahraini troops. Since the US-approved invasion of Bahrain by Saudi forces, the bodies of protesters killed in the clashes are being returned to their families, albeit with various organs missing. In an interview with Press TV, Ralph Schoenman discusses the events taking place in Bahrain, which are similar to those... 

Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever, left, speaks about illegal immigration at an event in Arizona also attended by Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu. AP An Arizona sheriff says U.S. Border Patrol officials have repeatedly told him they have been ordered to reduce – at times even stop – arrests of illegal immigrants caught trying to cross the U.S. border. Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever...