Eleven Bangladeshis have been arrested by Spanish police in a swoop on a criminal organization which charged Indians, Pakistanis, Sri Lankans, and Bangladeshis €20,000 each to be transported from the Indian subcontinent into Europe via North Africa. An official statement on the Spanish national police website said that the eleven had been arrested after a joint investigation with Europol. The gang’s... 

An 8-year-old boy has been crammed into a suitcase and smuggled across the border from North Africa, Spanish police say. The Ivory Coast boy named Abou was discovered on Thursday, when police at Ceuta, a Spanish enclave next to Morocco, put the roller luggage bag through an X-ray scanner and found the silhouette of a young boy curled up inside the suitcase. “When they put the suitcase through the... 

ISIS’ plans to conquer Europe via Libya have been revealed in letters seen by an anti-terrorism group. Owing to its perfect location on the continental doorstep, the terrorists plan to ferry fighters from North Africa across the Mediterranean. The plans, analyzed by anti-terrorism British think tank Quillum, outline a strategy to illegally ferry fighters across the sea from Libya into southern Europe,... 

Pope Satan does it AGAIN! After a series of recent evil declarations such as support for the divorce of families and homosexuality, now the Pope is calling for “old infertile” Europeans to accept their dying fate and welcome immigrants coming in mass mostly through Italy, the hell’s gate of Europe. Among these illegal immigrants there could be run away terrorists, rapists, murderers,... 

Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark has roundly condemned the atrocities carried out by Israel against the Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip. Clark made the remarks during a gathering organized by Tunisia’s Center for Strategic Studies for North Africa. The gathering was attended by international lawyers, politicians and activists, Press TV reported Wednesday. “Now we have seen... 

Italy is threatening to allow refugees currently residing within its borders to make forays into the rest of the European Union unless the EU increases assistance in managing the influx of migrants arriving via boats from North Africa. Interior Minister Angelino Alfano demanded on Tuesday that the EU step up its efforts. “The European Union has two options: either it comes to the Mediterranean to... 

2011 will be remembered as the year the US, Britain, France and Israel went into Imperial Overdrive in North Africa and the Middle East. Will 2012 be remembered as the year those same Western Allies unleashed World War III? ­It is not news anymore to say that the West will soon attack Iran, maybe Syria. They have been threatening to do that for years now, certainly ever since the failed Israeli invasion... 

US Special Forces units based at Fort Hood, Texas, have been told to prepare for deployment to Libya no later than July, according to a US military source. The Special Forces would then be followed in September or October by heavy armored units of the First Cavalry Division, currently located in Iraq and Afghanistan, along with other components of the US III Corps. This report was broadcast today... 

As many as 2,500 illegal immigrants a week are flooding into the continent from North Africa through Italy, the European Union’s border protection agency has revealed. The official figures, which came from Warsaw based Frontex, show that for the first three months of this year 33,000 people entered Europe illegally with 22,600 coming through Italy. Most of those were economic migrants from Tunisia... 

U.S. Readjusts interventionist policy in the Middle East. In a speech in the early afternoon Thursday (19th), the U.S. president, Barack Obama, announced the general policy of reprogramming that American diplomacy must employ in the Middle East. The adjustment takes place after the administration evaluated the previous policy as a failure, after the uprisings by the Arab peoples against oppressive... 

Senior heads of national team allegedly approved system to limit black players and those of north African origins. France has been plunged into a fresh race crisis after claims that football officials tried to limit black and Arab players on youth training schemes to make the French team more white. The French football federation has opened an internal investigation after website Mediapart reported... 

Marine Le Pen, far-right leader of France's National Front Party, waits with the party's Louis Aliot outside an immigrant detention center during her visit to the Italian island of Lampedusa on March 14. Refugees fleeing the upheaval in North Africa are running into a different sort of political conflict in Europe. Since mid-January, more than 10,000 refugees from countries such as Tunisia... 

A Tunisian woman crosses into Tunisia at the Ras Jdir border crossing, after fleeing unrest in Libya. Up to 1.5 million refugees from North Africa could try to flee across the Mediterranean, Italy warned on Thursday as the government begged for help from the EU in dealing with the potential exodus. Roberto Maroni, Italy’s interior minister, said the worst case scenario could see 1.5 million migrants... 

During a security meeting in the Caucasus city of Vladikavkaz, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev predicted decades of instability and strife if protesters he deemed fanatics come to power in the Middle East and North Africa. “These states are difficult, and it is quite probable that hard times are ahead, including the arrival at power of fanatics. This will mean fires for decades and the spread... 

Riots and Protests in North Africa. Prices of basic food items have rocketed in the last year, hitting the world’s least developed countries the hardest, where working people commonly spend half or more of their income on food. The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization announced in January that the food price index rose 32 percent between June and December 2010. Prices are expected...