Officials in Brussels are working on plans to ensure that the European Treaty is still implemented elsewhere if Ireland votes against it in the referendum. Although measures such as creating an EU president, “foreign minister” and European diplomatic service may be delayed, they are still expected to be introduced. One diplomat said a “bridging mechanism” was being... 

A court in French-Flanders annulled a marriage since the bride turned out not to be a virgin, report French newspaper Libération. The judges came to the conclusion that the bridegroom was deceived concerning an ‘essential characteristic’ of the bride, who had assured him before the wedding that she was still virgin. The judges therefore decided to apply a law which is seldom used. Both... 

Municipalities in Sweden should be required to accept refugees, a government inquiry has concluded. Next week the results of a state commission will be presented which suggest that all municipalities should be forced to take in refugees, reports the Dagens Samhälle newspaper. Last year county administrative boards took over responsibility for managing the receiving of refugees. Since then, the boards... 

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  Human rights group Amnesty International has said it is extremely alarmed by what it calls a “climate of discrimination” in Italy. The Italian section of the rights body said recent tough new immigration measures were a worrying trend. It added that politicians from both sides of the spectrum were legitimising the use of racist language. Last week, Italy’s new centre-right... 

Jannes Mulder, former internist and oncologist, writing in the Dutch medical journal Medisch Contact, says that girls are still being circumcises, even though the procedure is banned. The Dutch Council for Public Health estimates that at least 50 girls are circumcised every year, mostly in the Somali community. In his article, ‘A drop of blood’, Mulder suggests that since banning the procedure... 

  HIP HOP music is fuelling gun and knife crime in Britain, says music star Tricky. He says some parts of the United Kingdom are now worse than New York’s notorious Bronx district. “I love hip hop. But it has to take some responsibility for the gun culture we’ve got over here. We’re getting super-violent,” the Press Association reported Tricky, whose real name in... 

THE service sector is at risk of losing more than one million jobs during the next two decades as a result of big business outsourcing work overseas, a union report predicts. One in 10 service jobs could be sent offshore, the report prepared for the Service Unions of Australia reveals today. The service sector accounts for four out of five jobs and 80 per cent of economic activity in Australia and... 

HORRIFIC footage of a group of teenage girls bashing a mother at a shopping centre is being examined by police. Graphic footage of the fight, which appeared to have been filmed on a mobile phone by a teenage bystander outside of a Westfield shopping centre, has been viewed more than 140,000 times since it was uploaded onto the internet last week. Do you have information about the incident? Email us... 

Prison officers at one of Britain’s maximum security jails are losing control to Muslim gangs, according to a confidential report obtained by The Observer. An internal review of Whitemoor in Cambridgeshire warns that staff believe a ‘serious incident is imminent’ as several wings become dominated by Muslim prisoners. The report, written by the Prison Service’s Directorate of... 

War Abroad, Poverty at Home By Paul Craig Roberts The US Senate has voted $165 billion to fund Bush’s wars of aggression against Afghanistan and Iraq through next spring. As the US is broke and deep in debt, every one of the $165 billion dollars will have to be borrowed. American consumers are also broke and deep in debt. Their zero saving rate means every one of the $165 billion dollars will... 

Was World War II worth it? By Pat Buchanan In the Bush vs. Putin debate on World War II, Putin had far the more difficult assignment. Defending Russia’s record in the “Great Patriotic War,” the Russian president declared, “Our people not only defended their homeland, they liberated 11 European countries.” Those countries are, presumably: Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia,... 

A special U.N. human rights investigator will visit the United States this month to probe racism, an issue that has forced its way into the race to secure the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. The United Nations said Doudou Diene would meet federal and local officials, as well as lawmakers and judicial authorities during the May 19-June 6 visit. “The special rapporteur will…gather... 

If proof were required that the entire political system in this country is corrupt, racist and rotten, then the article below proves this. The Sons And Daughters Scheme was a scheme designed to ensure that local families who had lived in Tower Hamlets for decades were not broken up and forced to move outside the borough to get housing. It tried to ensure that families took care of their parents and... 

At least 12 people have been killed in the South African city of Johannesburg since Friday in a wave of violence directed at immigrants, police say. Police have used tear gas and rubber bullets to try to stop gangs of armed youths from attacking foreigners and looting and burning their property. Five people were killed overnight in the area of Cleveland. Two of them were burned and the others beaten...