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Norway: Somalis, Afghans and Iraqis top list of new citizens

Norway: Somalis, Afghans and Iraqis top list of new citizens The original article's headline is a bit misleading, since the three groups together make up about 30% of new citizens. Via Views and News from Norway : Norway attracted 14,300 new citizens last year and around 2,100 came from Somalia, which ranked as the largest single group of immigrants taking on Norwegian nationality. More than half of all Norway�s new citizens are women.  ( source )

Bergen: Afghan suspect in knifing murder, claims he was attacked for being Christian

Bergen: Afghan suspect in knifing murder, claims he was attacked for being Christian Via Aftenposten : One man was killed and another injured following a knifing at Ny-Paradis state asylum centre in Bergen western Norway, Tuesday.  The suspect is an Afghan who made headlines last year when he was attacked with boiling water by fellow residents of his asylum center because he was a Christian convert.  A Somali man was charged for the attack, and was sentenced to five months in prison.  On appeal he was acquitted, as the court believed him it had been an accident. "He had big problems due to his Christian faith.  There are many in the asylum center who don't accept people converting from Islam to Christianity,' Issa Hammer says of the Afghan suspect.  He's a friend of the two Christian Afghans at the center and goes with them to church. Tuesday he got a desperate phone call from one of them.  "He said he'd been attacked with a knife by a Somali.  He sa...

Greece: Police clash with anti-immigrant mob

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Greece: Police clash with anti-immigrant mob Via the Telegraph : The protesters, which reportedly included members of the far-right group Golden Dawn, gathered outside an abandoned factory where homeless migrants have taken refuge. They threw stones at riot police and set fires to garbage bins in Greece's western port of Patras. A 30-year-old Patras resident was fatally stabbed outside his home on Saturday following a dispute with three men, believed to be Afghan nationals. ( source )

Serbia: One dead in Pakistani-Afghan clash

Serbia: One dead in Pakistani-Afghan clash Via B92 : A man was murdered in the early hours of Tuesday near Subotica in a fight that broke out between two groups of illegal immigrants from Afghanistan and Pakistan. (...) According to the newspaper's source with the Serbian police (MUP), both groups were hiding on a farm near the northern Serbian town when the Pakistanis attacked the Afghans. After this, the Afghans reportedly decided to retaliate, with the incident resulting in the murder. ( source )