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Sep 12, 2018

Politician Fiddling Qualifications Again....

from Europe Calling

Two British tourists remained in a 'very serious condition' in a Paris hospital after being stabbed repeatedly by an illegal Afghan immigrant who tried to use them as human shields. Sweden is facing weeks - if not months - of political uncertainty and complex coalition talks after neither of the country's two main blocs were able to secure a majority in yesterday's general election. Several mainstream parties lost support in favour of the far-right Sweden Democrats (SD), who won 17.6 per cent of the vote ......... AN ESTIMATED one million protestors flocked to the streets of Barcelona yesterday in an attempt to reinvigorate Cataluña’s independence movement. The march coincided with ‘Diada’, the National Day of Cataluña which commemorates the anniversary of Barcelona’s fall to Spain in 1714. SPAIN’S Minister of Health, Carmen Montón has left her position following irregularities found in her Master’s degree. Montón made her resignation on Tuesday after a media storm detailed numerous irregularities in her degree in interdisciplinary gender studies from King Juan Carlos University in Madrid. The Spanish government has stated that a crisis over the construction and sale of five warships to Saudi Arabia has been “deactivated.” For a week, Madrid and Riyadh have been engaged in a flurry of diplomatic exchanges following a news report that Spain would cancel the sale of 400 laser-guided bombs to Saudi Arabia over the risk that they might be used in the ongoing conflict in Yemen. Spain’s attorney general is proposing a change to the country’s criminal code so that hate crimes committed via social networks are no longer only punishable by jail sentences. Drug gangs seek revenge after Instagram user publishes compromising photos. The authorities believe the account, which featured pictures of the traffickers’ partying and girlfriends, was set up in an act of revenge due to an apparent non- payment of jobs. A GROUP of four tourists on holiday in Tanzania died when their SUV was smashed into by a lorry on their way to a safari. Three of the victims were women from Malaga, two of whom worked as nurses at the Hospital Clinico Virgen de la Victoria. BRITSH locals and holidaymakers in Benidorm have urged Spanish police in recent years to take more action in eradicating the street con-artists responsible for ‘Benidorm’s oldest scam’. The swindlers, known as the “pea-men”........ Jeremy Corbyn's Private Secretary has been working in Parliament for nine months without the necessary security clearance, it was reported last night.

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