Legida protesters demonstrate against Angela Merkel refugee politics

In the eastern city of Leipzig, well over 2,000 anti-Muslim Legida protestors took to the streets on 11 January, their ranks swelled by anger over the Cologne attacks. They yelled Merkel needs to go! and one carried a sign featuring Merkel wearing a hijab and the words: Merkel take your Muslims with you and get lost. Legida is the Leipzig arm of the anti-Islam movement Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West (PEGIDA Jan 12, 2016

Hurghada: Tourist describes moment he was attacked by militants at Egyptian hotel

One of the tourists attacked by militants at the Red Seas Bella Vista hotel told reporters on 9 January, about the moment he thought he was going to die. Sam Eric Olovsson from Sweden was one of three people wounded – the other two were Austrian tourists – when armed assailants attacked the hotel in Hurghada on 8 January. Jan 9, 2016

Ted Cruz: Obamas proposal to allow Syrian refugees in the country as ‘indefensible’

Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz cited the arrest in Houston and Sacramento of two men from the Middle East as a reason to block Syrian refugees from resettling in the US. Two men who came to the United States as refugees more than three years ago were arrested on federal charges in California and Texas involving international terrorism, the US officials said on 7 January. Jan 8, 2016