Muslims in Russia Every big city is international and it is impossible to avoid that. Once a city has peopled and population limit exceeded at least several millions, a sea of immigrants in the search of work and easy money start flooding the city out and it becomes hectic and busy. As soon as such a thing has already happened, it would be hardly possible to prevent the collision of different religions... 

Somalis in Lewiston In the early evening on the first day of summer, a large group of Somali boys approached a woman on the corner of Ash and Pierce streets. According to police reports, they intimidated the woman and slapped her in the back of the head before scattering into the downtown. Five days later, shortly after midnight, a man was accosted by a group of Somali boys outside the Big Apple on... 

Bank Bailouts The Treasury may have made some silly paper “profit” on its bailout of Citigroup (C) but the taxpayer may not get much of anything. The Washington Post reports that as part of the bank’s TARP payback agreement, it’s quietly been given a $38 billion tax break by the IRS. Seriously. The Internal Revenue Service on Friday issued an exception to long-standing tax rules... 

A mysterous Muslim group with unknown sponsors has purchased a building steps away from Ground Zero. An identified group with unknown sponsors has purchased building steps away from where the WorldTrade Center once stood, to turn it into potentially one of the largest New York City mosques. At the moment the building, the old Burlington Coat Factory, already serves as a mini-mosque: an iron grill... 

Cold comfort: Charles steps from jet into snow in Copenhagen Prince Charles and Gordon Brown were accused last night of ‘green hypocrisy’ after jetting into Copenhagen to lecture the world about global warming. Charles used the £1,019-an-hour Queen’s Flight so he could deliver a keynote speech to the climate change conference, flying back after less than three hours. The Prime Minister chartered... 

Representative Luis V. Gutierrez, at a meeting in April, introduced an immigration bill Tuesday. The on-again, off-again drive to overhaul the nation’s immigration laws moved back to Congress on Tuesday with the introduction of legislation that would open a path to legal status for millions of illegal immigrants. The bill, introduced by Representative Luis V. Gutierrez, Democrat of Illinois, was... 

Russian victims of the Israeli "negligence" Israeli co-owner of club in which blast killed 117 Friday night to be charged along with three others. Russia’s Prosecutor General filed Monday an indictment against four people suspected of causing a giant explosion that killed 117 people in a nightclub late Friday night. One of the suspects possesses an Israeli passport. About 30 of the... 

A nativity scene featuring a dark-skinned Jesus, Mary and Joseph that has gone on display in a Verona courthouse has created heated debate in a city with strong links to Italy’s anti-immigration Northern League party. The nativity’s appearance coincides with the League’s controversial “White Christmas” operation, a two-month sweep ending on 25 December to ferret out foreigners... 

Rabbi Dov Gruzman (left) pictured with former Jewish US Ambassador Ronald Lauder in 2008. A Chabad rabbi was attacked after presiding over a public Chanukah menorah lighting in Vienna. The assailant who punched Rabbi Dov Gruzman and bit off part of the rabbi’s finger following the lighting Saturday night in Stephansplatz Square was Muslim, according to reports. Gruzman, principal of the Lauder... 

Quentin Patrick will spend at least the next 16 years in prison because the convicted drug dealer, paranoid of being robbed, answered a Halloween knock on his door with a barrage of bullets from an AK-47, killing a 12-year-old South Carolina boy. But the 16-year, eight-month sentence handed down Monday was just 20 months more than the minimum Patrick could have faced after pleading guilty to a federal... 

Religious scandal at Chisinau/Kishinev after a group of almost 100 devoted Orthodox Christians lead by their priest teared up a Jewish Menorah on the day of Hanukkah. The Menorah was placed right next to the Stephen III of Moldavia statue (better known as Stephen the Great) Friday on December 11 by “representatives” of the Jewish community from the Moldovan Republic for Hanukkah celebration. The... 

Israeli 'spitter' being carried away by Israeli authorities and left unpunished Father Samuel Aghoyan, a senior Armenian Orthodox cleric in Jerusalem’s Old City, says he’s been spat at by young haredi and national Orthodox Jews “about 15 to 20 times” in the past decade. The last time it happened, he said, was earlier this month. “I was walking back from the Church... 

The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund said yesterday that it would file a federal civil rights complaint accusing the Philadelphia School District of failing to address violence against Asian immigrant students at South Philadelphia High School. The complaint will claim that the district violated the students’ right to equal protection under the 14th Amendment, said Cecilia Chen,... 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that the cabinet’s approval of a plan to change Israel’s map of national priority areas to include more West Bank settlements did not signify a permanent stance on the future of these areas. “We will determine the future of settlements only within the framework of a permanent agreement [with Palestinians],” Netanyahu said, according... 

Three African-American players from the Lappeenranta-based Finnish American Football League team Rajaritarit are suspected of rape. According to the club, the players have been in police custody since Monday of last week. “The matter came to me as a total surprise. We have made an effort to provide support to our players through the entire process”, explains Rajaritarit chairman Juho Ritala. According...