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Organisers of Berlin's New Year's Eve celebrations are to set up a "safe zone" for women for the first time. The new security measures planned for the Brandenburg Gate party come amid concerns about sexual assaults. A large number of assaults and robberies targeting women at Cologne's New Year's Eve celebrations two years ago horrified Germany. Hundreds of women reported being attacked by gangs of men with migrant backgrounds.

Ilham Ehmed, Co-chair of Syrian Democratic Council The Co-chair of the Syrian National Council, Ilham Ehmed, has said that the safe zones proposed by the new US administration will be formed in areas controlled by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG).Speaking to Firat News Agency (ANF), Ehmed said, “the most important decision taken by the new administration in Washington is planning for refugees to be placed in safe zones in the region.”According to the ANF, Ehmed was invited to the US for meetings with representatives in congress and federal commissions. “We met with...

Former Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) said that Congress is considering the creation of an autonomous region in Iraq to protect Christians and Yazidis from persecution by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and criticized the State Department's lack of involvement in the ongoing discussions. "There are discussions and there will be a resolution introduced in the House, I believe, to set up an into-the-plains, basically a protectorate, whereby Christians, Yazidis and other minorities [will be protected]," Wolf said at an event last week at the National Press Club in Washington. However, Nina Shea, director of the Hudson Institute's...

Authorities in the German city of Cologne are to set up a “safe zone” for women during the annual carnival which begins next week, to avoid a repeat of the New Year sex attacks on women. The move comes after it emerged two asylum-seekers from Algeria are being held as suspects in the sex assaults. The Cologne carnival is one of the largest street festivals in Europe, and attracts more than 1m people to its main parade each year.

I wrote a column on interesting things happening at the University of Louisville that you might want to read. I do not believe the LGBT Center and Safe Zone are a wise use of taxpayer and student funds. Here is an e-mail exchange I have had with a leader of a Gay/Lesbian/Straight student group on campus. My response includes a cite to an article that you might also find interesting. I sent a copy of my response to high-level administrators at U of L >>> "James Taylor" 11/30/2004 2:01:50 PM >>> Dear Friends, Today an editorial attacked the Safe Zone...

Armed Robbery Occurs At School Victim Had Just Come From Nearby Bank Posted: 12:37 p.m. MDT April 24, 2002 DENVER -- Deputies are searching for a suspect who held up a woman at gunpoint Tuesday afternoon while she was in a school parking lot. The woman, Elsie Lester, told Arapahoe County Sheriff's office that she drove to the bank on South Federal Boulevard and West Belleview Avenue during her lunch break. As she pulled up to the parking lot of Field Elementary School on 5402 Sherman Way, a man came up to her car and put a gun on her...