Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, stoking a war of words between Rome and Paris, said on Tuesday that France did not want to bring calm to Libya because its energy interests there clashed with those of Italy. Source Channel New Asia
20 young people of Turkish origin met on Thursday evening at Reumannplatz. According to information from the “Krone”, they shouted “Allahu akbar” and, armed with pyrotechnics, headed for Viktor-Adler-Markt. Two hours later, almost 50 young people – probably the same as on Reumannplatz – entered the church on Antonsplatz, where there was another tumult. They went into the baptismal font and the confessionals. Source Krone Zeitung
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov ruled out for Russia the publication of offensive caricatures on Islam following French magazine, Charlie Hebdo’s provocation. Source Daily Sabah
Take mayor Frank Kracht for example. He would never have anticipated being treated like a terrorist or dictator. Certainly not for holding political office in the German seaside town of Sassnitz, or for being responsible for the city’s port on the Baltic Sea.
He now faces sanctions from a bipartisan coalition in the US Congress, opposed to the deepening economic ties with Russia and European dependence that the project allegedly represents. Source EuroObserver
