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BERLIN: Germany’s Interior Minister unveiled proposals Thursday to boost security after recent attacks, including making it easier to deport foreigners deemed dangerous and stripping dual nationals who fight for extremist groups of their German citizenship. Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere’s plans also include creating several thousand jobs at federal security services over the coming years and making “promoting terrorism” a criminal offense. Four attacks last month included two carried out by asylum-seekers and claimed by Daesh (ISIS). Chancellor Angela Merkel has said Germany won’t be deflected from giving shelter to people who deserve asylum, but also pledged to do “everything humanly possible” to keep the country safe. “A lot of people ... are worried about further attacks. That is understandable,” de Maiziere told reporters. “No one can guarantee absolute security, but we must do what is possible.” He said Germany will consider joining other countries in screening the public

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By Paul Craig Roberts and Michael Hudson According to various reports, the Russian government is reconsidering the neoliberal policy that has served Russia so badly since the collapse of the Soviet Union. If Russia had adopted an intelligent economic policy, Russia’s economy would be far ahead of where it stands today. It would have avoided most of the capital flight to the West by relying on self-finance. Washington, however, took advantage of a naive, gullible and demoralized Russian government which looked to Washington for guidance in the post-Soviet era. Russians thought that the rivalry between the two countries had ended with the Soviet collapse and trusted American advice to modernize the Russian economy with best-practice Western ideas. Instead, Washington abused this trust to saddle Russia with an economic policy designed to carve up Russian economic assets and transfer ownership into foreign hands. By tricking Russia into accepting foreign capital and exposing the rub

The report claims that as many as 50 children from the UK are growing up with jihad propaganda in the ‘caliphate’ The children of foreign fighters living in Isis territory in Syria and Iraq are being trained to become the “next generation” of terrorists, Europe’s law enforcement agency has warned. The terror group advertises its use of children as fighters and suicide bombers , as well as featuring children, including a four-year-old British boy, as executioners in its gory propaganda videos. There are concerns the number of young boys forced into Isis ranks will increase as young children taken to live in its territories or born to “jihadi brides” grow up. Boys have been shown shooting prisoners dead at close range and beheading them In its annual report on terrorism in the European Union, Europol said children raised under the group’s rule are of “particular concern”. “In their propaganda, Isis has often shown that they train these minors to become the next generation of foreign ter

A military aircraft is pictured on the runway at Incirlik Air Base, in the outskirts of the city of Adana, southeastern Turkey. © Stringer / AFP  7,000 armed police in heavy vehicles surrounded the Incirlik air base used by NATO forces in Adana in what a Turkish minister called a “security check.” With no official explanation, speculations have arisen about a new coup attempt or VIP visit. Hurriyet reported earlier that Adana police had been tipped off about a new coup attempt, and forces were immediately alerted. The entrance to the base was closed off. Security forces armed with rifles and armored TOMA vehicles used by Turkish riot police could be seen at the site in photos taken by witnesses. 9 h Brasco_Aad   @Brasco_Aad @ Brasco_Aad  Pro Erdogan/AKParti supporters (civilians) are trying to get near the air base, but are being held back by Military Police  Follow Brasco_Aad   @Brasco_Aad @ Brasco_Aad  These heavy dump trucks are being made ready