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A desperate migrant has pleaded with Greek border guards to permit him to use their land as ‘a bridge to Europe,’ as thousands of others from the Middle East and Africa flow north from Turkey. Ankara today announced it was deploying 1,000 specialist police officers to stop the Greeks from pushing the refugees back. The … Read more
A three-year-old Syrian girl whose father taught her to laugh whenever she hears a bomb fall has safely reached Turkey. Salwa was living in Sarmada, a province in the war-ravaged city of Idlib with her parents when her story touched the hearts of thousands on social media after her father posted a video of the … Read more
Operation Stop ISIS: British troops are sent to Senegal to provide counter-terrorism training as new jihadi danger rises in West Africa British troops have been sent to Senegal as Jihadi danger rises in West Africa About 30 stationed around 80 Nigerian, Moroccan and Cameroonian soldiers Royal Marines also trained members of Nigeria’s 707 special forces … Read more
Turkey has shot down two Syrian war planes and destroyed 100 tanks as it launches a military offensive against the Moscow-backed Syrian regime after an airstrike that killed 34 of its soldiers. Turkish defence minister Hulusi Akar announced the operation – dubbed ‘Spring Shield’ – today and vowed that any attack on Turkish forces or … Read more
The bushfire season may be coming to an end, but is it safe to go to Australia? The short answer is: yes. Only three per cent of the country’s land mass has been affected by the deadly bushfires that began in earnest in November, and most tourist destinations are ‘not impacted’, according to Tourism Australia. … Read more
The EU is on ‘high alert’ after more than 30,000 migrants at Turkey’s border with Greece and Bulgaria pelted guards with stones and tried to cut through the wire fences. Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said 18,000 migrants have already crossed into Europe, with the number expected to reach 25,000 to 30,000 in the coming … Read more
Long ago, a wise teacher told me to remember these words: ‘Truth is the Daughter of Time, not of Authority.’ I had no idea how important they were. Now, after many years of experiencing official dishonesty, they are my motto. One day, a lot of other people, in the media and politics, will accept that … Read more
TENS of thousands of refugees from Syria and other countries were massing on the Turkish borders with Greece and Bulgaria last night, hurling stones at guards and trying to cut through razor wire. An estimated 30,000 migrants gathered at checkpoints after Turkey’s president claimed to have ‘opened the doors’ to allow as many as 4 … Read more
The bushfire season may be coming to an end, but is it safe to go to Australia? The short answer is: yes. Only three per cent of the country’s land mass has been affected by the deadly bushfires that began in earnest in November, and most tourist destinations are ‘not impacted’, according to Tourism Australia. … Read more
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has vowed to keep borders open for Syrian refugees headed for Europe as the first 18,000 cross the Greek border and migrants clash for the second day with guards. ‘What did we do yesterday (Friday)? We opened the doors,’ Erdogan said in Istanbul in his first comments since 33 Turkish … Read more