Day: August 6, 2017

Trump’s Immigration Policy V.s. The Soul Of America

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Immigration is a personal matter for me, as it is for many Americans. Unless you are a Native American descendant of the indigenous peoples who were displaced by the settlers who first came to this country, or an African American descendant of those who were brought here in bondage as slaves, we are all immigrants or the descendants of immigrants. Because of the central role immigration has played in shaping the American experience, many families are defined by why and how their ancestors came and started their lives in this…

Tunisian fishermen vow to prevent anti-immigrant ship from docking

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Tunisian fishermen vowed Sunday to block a ship carrying far-right activists from docking at their port, dealing a fresh blow to their mission to disrupt the flow of migrant boats from north Africa to Europe. The C-Star, a boat chartered by anti-immigration group “Generation Identity”, passed through waters off Libya on Saturday. It briefly tailed the Aquarius, operated by French group SOS Mediterranee, one of several NGO boats conducting search and rescue operations in an area notorious for deadly migrant boat sinkings. Having left Cyprus on August 1, the 40-meter…

Conference on combatting electronic terrorism in Benghazi

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Delegates from over a dozen countries are meeting in Benghazi for a three-day conference on the use of the internet by terrorists. The International Conference on Combating Electronic Terrorism was opened at AGOCO’s conference hall in Benghazi by the city’s acting mayor Abdul Rahman Elabbar, who said the aim was to study the rise of cyberterrorism and its repercussions on countries around the world. It aims to analyse the nature and basics of this form of terrorism and seek ways to confront it. Attending are experts on terrorism, cyberterrorism and…

Tunisia-Tourism: 3.5 million visitors at end of July

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Nearly 3.5 million tourists visited Tunisia until July, Tourism and Handicrafts Minister Selma Elloumi Rekik said, noting that Tunisia has been able to recover traditional markets, such as the French market, which still occupies the top spot. The minister, who on Saturday paid a working visit to Mahdia, said the lifting of restrictions on travel to Tunisia decided by the United Kingdom, prompted the resumption of programming of the destination Tunisia by the British, stressing the need to open up to new markets, such as the Gulf and the Chinese…

Tunisia loses swathes of forest in fires

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Around 2,000 hectares of forest in Tunisia have gone up in flames over the past week, with some of the fires probably started deliberately, the authorities said on Saturday. Many of the blazes have been put down to a heatwave gripping the North African country, but arson has also been blamed in some cases. “Since July 29 we have experienced a wave of forest fires — 94 outbreaks across eight provinces,” emergency services spokesman Salah Korbi told a news conference. The secretary of state for agriculture, Omar al-Behi, said “around…