Hundreds of Haitians Stuck in Mexican Border City

Hundreds of Haitians Stuck in Mexican Border City

MEXICO CITY – Hundreds of Haitians hoping to cross into the United States are stuck in Tijuana, a border city in northwestern Mexico, after making the trek north from Brazil, where their dreams of a better life were dashed by an economic downturn.

Thousands of Haitians fled their homeland following the 2010 earthquake and were welcomed in Brazil, which offered them visas on humanitarian grounds.

The 2014 World Cup and this year’s Summer Olympic Games provided opportunities for the Haitians to work in construction, restaurants and the cleaning industry.

Some of the emigrants even had children in Brazil, whose economy has been battered by a deep recession, leaving them without jobs and struggling once again to survive.

The Haitians turned their sights north to the United States, but they now find themselves marooned in Tijuana, located in Mexico’s Baja California state near San Diego, California.

U.S. authorities had been allowing about 100 migrants per day to apply for entry via Tijuana, but Washington changed its policy last week.

The Obama administration said last Thursday that Haitians who crossed into the United States illegally now face deportation to their homeland.

Some 5,000 Haitians have been allowed to enter the United States via Mexico so far this year, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said.

Norwegian tourist bites chunk off man's ear in Berlin train

Published: 26 Sep 2016 12:44 GMT+02:00

Updated: 26 Sep 2016 12:47 GMT+02:00

Police arrested a Norwegian tourist after he reportedly bit off part of the ear of a man who tried to break up a fight.

Witnesses said that a 43-year-old tourist from Norway started to berate and provoke a German man on Sunday night while on a regional train, according to Berliner Zeitung.

Police reported on Monday that the man’s insults in English led to a physical confrontation between the two men.

A Berlin man, 37, stepped in to try to break up the fight, but the tourist then bit his right ear and tore off a piece measuring several centimetres long.

Other passengers managed to then restrain the Norwegian until the train stopped at Karlshorst station in eastern Berlin and police could arrest him.

Danish nationalists hand out cans of 'refugee spray'

Another woman, Charlotte Bech, was overcome by emotion and gave a tearful interview to the TV station. 

 

 

“They've been through so much and then they're told that they are so undesirable that we had to make a spray to use on them. One thing is the opinion that we don’t have the capacity [for refugees] or an opinion that some of them might not fit in to our culture. But to make a joke out of it is not okay,” Charlotte Bech of Silkeborg said.

The party said it distributed more than 100 cans of its 'refugee spray'. Photo: Daniel Carlsen/Danskernes Parti

Danish nationalists hand out cans of 'refugee spray'

Two jihadists held in Spain for plotting terrorist attacks

Spanish police have arrested two men accused of plotting to carry out an Isis-inspired attack in Europe.

Spain’s interior ministry said that had arrested two men of Moroccan origin who were working together on plans to carry out a terrorist attack.

One of the men had recently travelled to Turkey in an attempt to cross the border into Syria to join the so-called Islamic State in order to receive training before returning to Europe to carry out an attack.

“He’d made plans to secretly travel to the Syrian border, make contact with Daesh who would transfer him to a confict zone,” said the statement released by the Interior Ministry.

Animal Rights - Young calf killed in Spain (Video ) people cheer

Animal rights activists have released a disturbing video of a young calf being stabbed to death in the ring during a fiesta in Spain.

Described as one of the “cruellest” of all Spain’s many bullfighting fiestas the traditional becerradas took place in Valmojado, a town in Castilla-La Mancha.

The video shows a young animal, aged between one and two years old, and apparently not yet weened from its mother, mooing in pain as it repeatedly stabbed with darts by participants.

It is finally killed in the ring in front of spectators as part of the town’s annual summer celebrations.

Warning: The video contains graphic footage that may be upsetting to some viewers

Becerrada en Valmojado from PACMA TV on Vimeo.

Unlike fully grown fighting bulls, the young calves can inflict little harm on the ‘bullfighters’.

 The video was released on Tuesday as part of the latest campaign by Pacma, the animal welfare party, which calls for Spain to put an end to bullfighting.

"I’ve never seen such cruelty inflicted on an animal in the name of fun," said Silvia Barquero, the  president of Pacma.

"Thousands of popular taurine festivals, such as that of Valmojado, are tainting the image of Spain, converting it into a symbol of animal cruelty across Europe," Pacma said in its petition. "It’s time to end this anachronism."

Vienna -Police officer run over by prisoner on day release

Justice officials say the 29-year-old Turkish biker was nearing the end of a prison sentence at Hirtenberg jail in Lower Austria, and had been granted unsupervised day release.

A police unit tried to stop the 29-year-old at around 6pm in Floridsdorf when they noticed he was riding an unlicensed motorbike. He refused to pull over and they gave chase, calling for reinforcements.

As the biker headed towards Strebersdorf a police officer who was manning a pedestrian crossing to make sure schoolchildren could cross safely tried to flag him down and stepped into the road.

After initially slowing down, the biker then increased his speed, knocking the officer down and falling off the bike himself. The police officer was taken to hospital by helicopter and is in a critical condition. The motorcyclist was also injured and is being treated in hospital but police say they will question him on Friday.

Police spokesman Roman Hahslinger said the man was carrying his younger brother’s identity papers and was serving a six year sentence for drug and property crimes.

Brigadier Alfred Steinacher, director of Hirtenberg prison, said the man was not considered a risk to the public and had been granted day release as a reward for good behaviour. He left prison on Thursday morning and was due back on Friday morning, by 10am. Steinacher said the man had recently tested clean for drugs.