Kurdish hunger strikers stage protests seeking support against Isis jihadis
Members of the Kurdish diaspora have been staging protests and hunger strikes around the world in support of calls by Kurdish leaders in Syria for weapons to help their forces fighting Islamic State (Isis) in the besieged border town of Kobani, where they fear a massacre if support does not arrive soon. While Kurds have taken to the streets of Europ…
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Army mum's soldier sons fear being left homeless
Army mother Alison Huggan's two soldier sons fear being left homeless - thanks to the bedroom tax. The Mirror have reported how twins Aaron and Anas El Hamri are both serving in the British Army and likely to be sent away on tours of duty for six months at a time. But having two ‘spare’ bedrooms for more than 13 weeks would mean Alison is liabl…
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British doctor challenges governing parties
The National Health Action Party has endorsed a local doctor, public health expert and former navy medical officer Dr Iain Maclennan as their candidate to contest the Eastleigh by-election. Dr Maclennan, aged 54, lives in Bursledon, in the borough of Eastleigh. He has just retired from the NHS after serving as GP for some years and more recently as …
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Government to boost military spending - but cut services
Unions and anti-arms campaigners joined forces today to condemn suggestions the government intended to boost spending on military equipment - but slash public services. Senior government sources have indicated that Prime Minister David Cameron has pledged to deliver real-terms rises in equipment spending after 2015. During the Prime Minister…
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Iraq refuses back asylum seekers
The Iraqi parliament has blocked the repatriation of thousands of asylum seekers who have lost the right to remain in Britain. It has banned the forced return from Europe of tens of thousands of Iraqis and threatened to fine airlines that deliver deportees. Failed asylum seekers have already been turned back at the border, said the refugee support g…
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Iraq Militias Target Youths
The groups say militant Shia have been encouraged in the wave of attacks by the interior ministry, following a long-standing campaign of gay-bashing. A statement on its website claimed emos were "devil-worshippers". Gangs of youths have devised a particularly brutal method of killing those they regard as "emos", in the West a term for yo…
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Iraqi Christians’ Slow Decline
Iraq’s dwindling Christians, driven from their homes by attacks and intimidation, are beginning to abandon the havens they had found in the country’s north, discouraged by unemployment and a creeping fear that the violence they had fled was catching up to them. Their quiet exodus to Turkey, Jordan, Europe and the United States is the latest chapter of a se…
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Veteran sent to jail to survive cold
A court sentenced a homeless former soldier to prison to help him “get through the hardest part of winter” as magistrates felt society had “completely let him down”. Neil Carpenter, who lives in the woods, made dozens of “nuisance” phone calls to 999 – just so he could be sent to jail. Cambridge Magistrates’ Court also heard how Carpenter, 45, finds his fo…
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STARVING BRITAIN
DESPERATE families are facing a Dickensian Christmas with at least 100,000 Britons relying on food parcels because they can’t afford to eat. A new food bank is opening every week as charities struggle to cope with increasing numbers of people hit by a combination of Government cuts, rising unemployment and soaring food and fuel prices. The Sunday Express ha…
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What's Christmas without food?
A curious phenomenon occurs around this time in some of my city's poorer districts. In these places, Christmas starts earlier. Often, on a night when the rain is not merely dropping but chibbing you at an angle of 45 degrees, it's not just the orange street lights that dance in the puddles. As you look up a road lined by tenements, on either side he…
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Dont Deport Iraqi Christians!
KIDNAPPINGS and murders are rife, and the persecution that Middle East experts predicted would happen if the country was invaded is a daily reality. Now the 300-strong Iraqi Christian community in Wales is seeking support for a change in policy from the UK Government that would stop asylum seekers from their midst being sent back.Businessman Raad Halabia h…
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No justice in Iraq
THE prisoners below were paraded in Iraq yesterday and all face execution – even though they’ve not been tried.The 39 handcuffed men, in orange boiler suits, are suspected of being al-Qaeda terrorists. But they have been found guilty before facing a trial. Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani told a news conference in Baghdad: “Our demand is not to delay the c…
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Britain Failing Iraqis
A British bishop has criticized his government's policy of repatriating Iraqi Christians fleeing persecution, saying it was not true that Iraq was safe. In a special Mass at London's Westminster Cathedral Nov. 26, Auxiliary Bishop William Kenney of Birmingham, England, denounced the policy. The Mass was celebrated for the victims of the Oct. 31 mass…
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Petition to David Cameron
The charity Iraqi Christians in Need has sent us the following petition and appealed for people to support their cause. If you would like to add your name, please email petition@icin.org.uk , with your name and address, and stating 'I agree to add my name to the letter dated 12th November 2010 to Prime Minister David Cameron. Dear Prime Minister You we…
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